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2024 HCCE Symposium at Lake Tahoe

The Hitchcock Center for Chemical-Ecology at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) was founded in 2011 with a specific focus on investigating how organisms interact with their surroundings. This includes studying the chemical signals and cues that are essential in these interactions. The center organizes a symposium at Lake Tahoe that brings together professionals and interested parties in the field of chemical-ecology to exchange ideas on relevant current and future research topics in this field and other related areas.

Coming Soon

The schedule will be published soon. 

May 28th, 2024-May 31st, 2024

Thursday, June 8th, 2023

10am

Arrive and Check-in UNR @ Tahoe

11:00am-12:15pm

Lunch

12:20pm-12:45pm

Opening Remarks

State of the Hitchcock Center for Chemical Ecology

Christopher S. Jeffrey, Department of Chemistry, Director of the HCCE

12:50pm-1:40pm

Keynote Talk

"Chemical Ecology of Plant Defense and Multi-trophic interactions: Bad Bugs, Pungent Parasites and Toxic Travelers"

Jared Ali, Penn. State University, Director, Center for Chemical Ecology and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Endowed Chair of Chemical Ecology

1:50pm-2:05pm

Short Format Talk

Chasing Variation: Ecological Approaches to Natural Product Discovery

Casey Philbin, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Hitchcock Center for Chemical-Ecology

2:08pm-2:23pm

Short Format Talk

Skin anti-microbial peptide profiles and seasonal disease dynamics in frog populations

Carolina Lambertini, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Nevada—Reno

2:26pm-2:41pm

Short Format Talk

How intra-population chemical diversity shapes specialist herbivore communities

Devon Picklum, Ph.D. candidate, Ecology Evolution and Conservation Biology Program, University of Nevada—Reno

2:45pm-2:55pm

Break

2:55pm-3:10pm

Short Format Talk

Herbivores disrupt clinal variation in plant phytochemical responses to water limitation

Aramee Diethelem, Ph.D. candidate, Ecology Evolution and Conservation Biology Program, University of Nevada—Reno

3:13pm-3:28pm

Short Format Talk

Phytochemical disturbances during a spongy moth outbreak

Celso Ricardo de Oliveira Júnior, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin—Madison

3:30pm-3:45pm

Short Format Talk

Redox behavior and detailed structural analysis of cyanobacterial pigment scytonemin: Implications in ultraviolet screening action

Tanzil Mahmud, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada—Reno

3:48pm-4:10pm

Short Format Talk

Toxic nectar and bee kombucha: chemistry mediates plant and pollinator interactions with microbes

Rachel Lee Vanette, Associate Professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis

4:15pm-5:05pm

Keynote Talk

"From paracaseolide to ottelione A to the HDDA reaction. Subtitle: On the value of persistence, details, and 'the little things'"

Thomas R. Hoye, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

5:15pm-6:45pm

Reception and Dynamic Poster Session

Sponsored by Pacific Pharmaceutical Services

7:00pm

Dinner and Awards

Friday, June 9th, 2023

8:30am-10:00am

Breakfast and Closing Remarks

Lora A. Richards (UNR Biology), Lee A. Dyer (UNR Biology), Matthew J. Tucker (UNR Chemistry)

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