2025

Fall 2025

Lab meetings

Thursdays 2:00pm, Harvill 320 or Zoom

Date of Lab Meeting	Led by	Activity
August 5th, 2025	Kristen, Kiran, Ian, Cristian	Informal discussion
August 12th, 2025	Kristen, Kiran, Ian	Check-in
August 19th, 2025	TBD	TBD
August 26th, 2025	Cristian Román-Palacios	Intro Meeting to Fall Semester
September 4th, 2025	Kristen Martinet	SSARP suggestions
September 11th, 2025	Group led	Discussion on current tasks
September 18th, 2025	Michael Nafis	Pratice talk
September 25th, 2025	Delaney Scott-Martin	TBD
October 2nd, 2025	Ian Estacio	TBD
October 9th, 2025	Lab members (Point of contact: Kristen)	TBD
October 16th, 2025	Cristian Román-Palacios	General meeting
October 23rd, 2025	Kiran Basava	TBD
October 30th, 2025	Cristian Román-Palacios	TBD
November 6th, 2025	Kristen Martinet	TBD
November 13th, 2025	Kennedy Gezella	TBD
November 20th, 2025	Michael Nafis	TBD
December 4th, 2025	Ian Estacio	TBD
December 11th, 2025	lab retreat V2 (discussion)	TBD
December 18th, 2025	Cristian Román-Palacios	TBD

Journal club

Second Thursday of the month, 3:30 pm

Date of Lab Meeting	Led by	Paper
September	Delaney Scott-Martin (LIFE) + Kiran Basava (Mistakes)	LIFE: A metric for mapping the impact of land-cover change on global extinctions AND Common mistakes in ecological niche models
October	Ian Estacio	Land use change and pollinator extinction debt in exurban landscapes
November	Kristen Martinet	Coextinctions dominate future vertebrate losses from climate and land use change
December	Cristian Román	The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly

Professional development

Third Thursday of the month, 3:30 pm

Date of Lab Meeting	Activity	Led by
September	Publication workshop	Kristen Martinet
October	Application materials	Cristian
November	Grants	Ian Estacio
December	Book chapter	Kiran Basava

Misc (hikes, general activities)

Date of Lab Meeting	Activity	Led by
September	Hike at Mt Lemmon	Cristian
September	Front door	Kennedy
October	Parker Canyon Lake	Kiran
November	Biosphere2 visit	Cristian

Lab Writing Retreat

14th and 15th of October, 2025, from 9:30 am - 4:00 pm

Discussion: Given a community in which one or more species went extinct, why did other species in the community not go extinct? How did land coverage change in this area? What are the environmental factors that led to the extinction or survival of the species?

Schedule Day One:

Intro – Project description, questions, goals
Data collection (species lists, shape files)

Group into partners based on dataset

Lunch
Check in: how things are going with data collection, what we might need to change
Run the analysis (create a model that incorporates the data we collected, determine which variables are most important in a given species’ extinction)
Write Methods (if there is time)

Day Two:

Recap of Day One (what we got done, what we still need to do)
Finish Methods
Write Results

Team up to write results for different parts of the analysis
Figure drafts

Lunch
Check in: how things are going with writing, address any snags
Write Discussion

Spring 2025

Lab meetings

Wednesdays time TBD, Harvill 320 or Zoom

Date of Lab Meeting	Led by	Activity
January 15th, 2025	Cristian Roman	Intro meeting
January 22nd, 2025	Kristen Martinet	Intro to SSARP and feedback on vignettes
January 29th, 2025	Michael Nafis	Practice presentation on BUSCO
February 5th, 2025	Kiran Basava	Current progress on the Animal Culture Database
February 12th, 2025	Ian Estacio	Agent-based simulations for MAB 2025
February 19th, 2025	Yichao Zeng	Case study for ABC-based framework on co-phylogenetic systems
February 26th, 2025	Cristian Román Palacios	Lab discussion on current projects
March 5th, 2025	Paige Cherry & Kennedy Gezella	Island radiations approached from testudinids & A summary of professional goals
March 19th, 2025	Kristen Martinet	SSARP
March 26th, 2025	Delaney Scott-Martin	Historic climatic conditions between recently extinct species and their sister taxa
April 2nd, 2025	Paige Cherry	Progress on capstone project – tortoises (website + GitHub repo)
April 9th, 2025	Kristen Martinet	Session to update websites
April 16th, 2025	Cristian Roman	Session to discuss current work (proposals, manuscripts, etc)
April 23rd, 2025	TBD	No meeting/informal meeting
April 30th, 2025	Sarah, Andrea, and Jinyu (3 pm)	Science of Science and recent research in InfoSci
May 7th, 2025	CAMBIUM Meeting	Research discussion: https://cambium.arizona.edu/events/cambium-research-discussion-series-1
May 7th, 2025	CAMBIUM discussion, Saturday hike, and summer work	Cristian, group discussion

Journal club

Second Thursday of the month, 4 pm

Date of Lab Meeting	Led by	Paper
January	Discussion on the sequence	TBD
February	Yichao Zeng	Biogeography confounds the signal of cospeciation in Batesian mimicry
March	Kiran Basava	Science of science: A multidisciplinary field studying science or 2
April	Paige Cherry/Kristen Martinet	Ecological erosion and expanding extinction risk of sharks and rays (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn1477)
May*	TBD	TBD

*Need to review notes from initial meeting.

Professional development

Third Thursday of the month, 3 pm

Date of Lab Meeting	Activity	Led by
January	Collaborative workshop, CVs, research statements	Danielle Van Boxel
February	Miller Vick – Chapters 3–5	Kristen Martinet
March	Invited speaker 2: Daniel Portik (10 mins), Miller Vick – Chapters 6–8	Ian Estacio
April	Invited speaker 3: Heidi Steiner (10 mins), Linder – Chapters 1–4	Kiran Basava
May	Invited speaker 3: TBD (10 mins), Linder – Chapters 5–7	Cristian Roman

Misc (hikes, general activities)

Date of Lab Meeting	Activity	Led by
January	320D collab art session	Ellie and Isabella
February	320 door art session	Kiran and Paige
March	Hike	Yichao
April	Biosphere2 visit	Cristian
May 7th	iShowcase 12-2 pm	Paige and Eleanor
May 10th	DDL Hike	Cristian