Presentations
I have presented at academic conferences both locally, nationally and internationally since 2007.
2022
TE Jamboree Weekly Meeting, April
Invited Presentation Title: “What’s in a name? TE Nomenclature”
2021
1st Franco-Latinoamerican Workshop in Omics and Bioinformatics: Transposable Elements, November
Invited Presentation Title: “TE Hub: A community-oriented space for sharing and connecting tools, data, resources, and methods for TE annotation”
Uppsala Transposon Symposium, October
Poster Title: “TE Hub: A community-oriented space for sharing and connecting tools, data, resources, and methods for TE annotation”
2020
Uppsala Transposon Symposium, September
Presentation Title: “TE Hub: A community-driven wiki for TE resources”
2018
Regional Meeting on Mobile Genetic Elements, November
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Poster Title “RepeatFUnL: Developing a comprehensive, integrative repeat database for the broad scientific community”
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Annual Meeting, July
University of Guelph
Presentation Title “TEDB: Accessible and integrative transposon information.”
2017
International Barcode of Life Conference, November
Kruger National Park, South Africa
Presentation Title: “The potential for rapid, local DNA barcoding using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION to expedite the processing of wildlife forensic samples and the prosecution of perpetrators”
2015
Regional Meeting on Mobile Genetic Elements, September
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Poster Title: “Improving our knowledge of transposable element content and the future of TE research”
2014
Biodiversity Institute of Ontario Seminar Series, Fall
University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
Presentation Title: “Transposable Elements and Biodiversity”
Genomes to Biomes: 1st Joint Conference of CSEE, CSZ, CSL, May
Montreal, Canada
Presentation Title: “Transposable element richness in sequenced eukaryotes”
Distinguished Student Speaker Award Seminar, April
University of Guelph
Presentation Title: “The Jungle in the Genome: Conceptual Issues in Transposon Biology”
2013
Regional Meeting on Mobile Genetic Elements, October
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
Presentation title: “Transposable element diversity and genome size in sequenced eukaryotes”
Philosophy of Science in Practice, June
Victoria College, University of Toronto
Presentation title: “Reviving an old approach to eukaryotic transposable element evolution”
Canadian Society of Zoologists Annual Meeting, May
University of Guelph
Presentation title: “Appeal for a shift in the way we study transposable element evolution”
2012
1st Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, July
Ottawa Convention Centre
Presentation Title: “Proposing a new approach to eukaryotic transposable element evolution”
2011
College of Biological Science Graduate Student Symposium, Spring
University of Guelph
Presentation Title: “Transposable elements and intra-genomic selection: Pokey as a case study”
2010
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Meeting, July
Lyon, France
Poster Title: “The Daphnia DNA transposon Pokey: activity and insertion site selection of a highly site-specific DNA transposon”
College of Biological Science Graduate Student Symposium, Spring
University of Guelph
Presentation Title: “The Daphnia DNA transposon Pokey: activity and insertion site selection of a highly site-specific DNA transposon using a yeast excision assay”
2009
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Meeting, June
University of Iowa
Poster Title: “Exaptation or exploitation? Interpreting transposable element-host interactions”
College of Biological Science Graduate Student Symposium, Spring
University of Guelph
Presentation Title: “Characterizing the activity of the Daphnia DNA transposon Pokey”