SMBE2026 Symposium 9 | New frontiers in sex evolution: evolutionary patterns and innovations

📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts

📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme

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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Lotta people ask me for tips on how to talk about complicated ideas to the Public. First, there’s no such thing as the Public. Second, just talk the way you would at drinks at the conference. Peers you like and respect who are in different fields but so what. And they’re hot.

Belonocnema gall harvest this week at #RiceUniversity! @maryamrfaghihi.bsky.social
#biodiversity

The talented Devon Henderson just posted a new cartoon for Euderus set, see the original here:

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Lab members @maryamrfaghihi.bsky.social and Skylar Godwin participated in the Rice Natural Sciences Scientific Image contest.

At our recent BioSciences Department retreat, Egan lab PhD student @maryamrfaghihi.bsky.social was recognized as one of the best TAs over the last academic year! Congratulations, Maryam! And congrats to all our EEB program grad student awardees! #RiceEEB #SpaceCityEEB

Rice University gall crew - Fall 2024!

Great presentations by Egan lab PhD students Amanda Potts and Maryam Faghihi and all of our #RiceEEB graduate students at our annual Science Day presentations!

Egan Lab @RiceUniversity c.2024

The Egan lab at #RiceUniversity is presenting work at @evolmtg.bsky.social! Come see Maryam Faghihi give a talk on resource variation & sexual size dimorphism in wasps today at 11am and Michaela Butler give a poster tomorrow on how oak hybridization influences soil microbial communities! #Evol2025

Excited to join the team @jevbio.bsky.social!!!
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#editorbio @scottpegan.bsky.social joined #teamJEB this year - a broadly trained evolutionary biologist that specialises in the study of speciation, the evolution of ecological specialisation, and eco-evolutionary dynamics of plant-insect interactions at the population scale

On the hunt for galls! PhD student Maryam Faghihi & #NSF post-bacc Skyler Godwin are collecting galled oak tissue for a RNAseq project at #RiceUniversity!

And this is just the start of our vision for a fleet of field vehicles at #RiceUniversity to support discovery, exploration, experiential learning, field research and teaching!

Looking for the next donor interested in continuing our momentum!

#EganLab at Rice University — Summer 2025 cartoon version!

Congratulations to #EganLab Ph.D. students Amanda Potts & Maryam Faghihi for each winning recent awards! Amanda received a research grant from Field Inclusive. Maryam received the Joe Davis Prize for Outstanding Service as a TA! Congrats Team! #RiceUniversity #RiceEEB 🎉

The #EganLab at #RiceUniversity - summer 2025! We celebrated the end of the spring semester & a great year for our undergrad & grad students, post-baccs, & collaborators! Maryam & Amanda passed quals; Michaela starts a PhD at #TulaneEEBiology! Go Team! 🥳