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SCHEDULE
North American Echinoderm Conference 2025
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Monday, July 21Tuesday, July 22Wednesday, July 23Thursday, July 24Friday, July 25
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low tide 8:17 am, -3.17 ft
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9:00 AMbreakfast (included with housing)
Egan 108, 109		breakfast (included with housing)
Egan 108, 109		breakfast (included with housing)
Egan 108, 109		Whale watching with Alaska Tales<- TBD breakfast
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9:15 AMAuke Bay marina
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9:30 AM
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All talks in Egan 1129:45 AMOpening remarks, Egan 112
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Diversity and Evolution10:00 AMChris Mah
Phylogeny of the Asteroidea		Annie Mercier
Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: The unsuspected lives of sea cucumbers		Jason Hodin
Re-empower the sunflower? Efforts to restore an endangered top predator for ecosystem resilience
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10:45 AMcoffee (provided)
Egan 112		Group picture at the Whale!
coffee (provided) Egan 112
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Development11:15 AMAbigail Uehling
Uncovering hidden diversity in widespread Arabian Aquilonastra sea stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea)		Joséphine Pierrat
Spatial distribution of early recruits of the sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa in an Arctic nursery
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Ecology11:30 AMDylan Meier
Deep-sea echinoderms from sunken wood in the Monterey Canyon, California		Lok Tung Joyce Lam
Starved to harm: Dynamics between macroalgal grazing and coral bioerosion by long-spined sea urchin
Riah Evin
Effects of environmental variability on larval development in temperate echinoderm aquaculture
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Global Impacts and Trajectories11:45 AMNicole Nakata
Brittle stars in the plankton: Descriptions of larvae and developing juveniles of the northeastern Pacific Ocean and a key for their identification		Josie Wrinkle
Decoupling the classics: Pisaster ochraceus post sea star wasting disease
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Functional Morphology12:00 PMlunch (provided)
Egan 108, 109		lunch (provided)
Egan 108, 109
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12:45 PMBut
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1:00 PMlunch (provided)
Egan 108, 109
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1:15 PMSarah Traiger
Are we there yet? Sea star assemblage recovery from sea star wasting in the Gulf of Alaska
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Special session: Echinoids Through Time1:30 PMHarilaos Lessios
Introgression of the gamete recognition molecule, bindin, in the western Pacific sea urchin Diadema		Maya Munstermann
Food limitation erodes the thermal tolerance of larvae in the purple sea urchin (S. purpuratus)
Vince Christian
Sunflower Star Laboratory: A community-based approach to conserving sunflower stars
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Special session: Pycnopodia Ecology and Conservation1:45 PMGustav Paulay
A reassessment of the evolution of Dendrochirotida based on phylogenomic data		CJ Brothers
Underwater islands: Effects of dropstones on benthic diversity off the Western Antarctic Peninsula
Melanie Prentice
Challenge experiments and field samples reveal the causative agent of sea star wasting disease
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2:00 PMcoffee (provided)
Egan 112		coffee (provided)
Egan 112		Michal Kowalewski
Echinoids as prey through evolutionary time: A paleontological
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2:30 PMAmy Tan
Microbial communities in early development shape the host molecular landscape and pathogen response		Posters
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2:45 PMAlexander Ziegler
Comparative study reveals unexpected morphological and ultrastructural diversity in sea urchin sperm		Michal Kowalewski
Geochemical signatures and nanomechanical properties of echinoid tests		coffee (provided)
Egan 112
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3:00 PMSoji Ademiluyi
Differential expression of Myc during post-traumatic regeneration in Ophioderma brevispina		Cameron Mauldin
Potential of ossicle microstructures in Apostichopus californicus for aging and environmental insight		Pamod Heshan Liyanagedara
Comparative morphometrics of Encope species: A preliminary study using Atlantic coast echinoids
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3:15 PMGary Wessel
The spikes of spikey skinned animals		Daniel Janies
Discovery of candidate molecular regulators of mutable collagenous tissue in Ophiuroids		Luis Torres
Taphonomic patterns of dense and biodiverse mellitid populations in the northern Gulf of Mexico
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3:30 PMTest tomorrow's slidesTest tomorrow's slidesWorkshop to make NAEC non-profitCamilla Souto
Dead clade still walking: observations of a living “cassiduloid” echinoid, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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3:45 PMTest tomorrow's slidesJih-Pai Lin
Ancestral range of sand dollars from Taiwan
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4:00 PMJulia Velasco
Evolutionary history, ecology and morphological diversity of Acrosaleniidae: Past and present
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5:00 PMIcebreaker
Forbidden Peak		Banquet
Noyes Pavilion
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