2025

  • Invited oral presentation at Animal Behavior Graduate Seminar University of California Davis, USA. Tadpole fight club: mechanisms of juvenile aggression. – Fang, Y., Acosta, M., Justen, H.
  • Poster presentation at Gordon Research Conference Neuroethology: Behavior, Evolution and Neurobiology, Italy. Why do juveniles fight? Exploring the neural and genomic basis of juvenile aggression across timescales. – Justen, H., Acosta, M., Fischer, EK.
  • Invited oral presentation at Texas Biomedical Research Institute, USA. Using natural hybrid zones to study barriers to gene flow. – Justen, H.
  • Invited oral presentation Center for Population Biology at the University of California Davis, USA. The genetic basis of behavioral variation and its evolutionary consequences. – Justen, H.
  • Poster presentation at Gordon Research Conference on Speciation, USA. The genetics of extrinsic postzygotic selection in a migratory divide between songbirds. – Justen, H., Blain, S., Delmore, K.  

2024

  • Invited talk at Institute for Bird Research Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Seasonal migration as an extrinsic postzygotic barrier. – Justen, H.
  • Oral presentation 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Canada. Loci connected to seasonal migration are under viability selection in hybrids. – Justen, H., Blain, S., Delmore, K.
  • Invited oral presentation at Animal Behavior for undergraduates at Texas A&M University, USA. Migratory behavior of Swainson’s thrushes and its relevance for speciation. – Justen, H.

2023

  • Poster presentation at Gordon Research Conference on Speciation, Tuscany, Italy. Using juvenile songbirds to study the genetic basis of the migratory syndrome – Justen, H., Easton, W., Delmore, K.
  • Poster presentation at Life of dynamic planet symposium, Texas A&M University, USA. Using juvenile songbirds to study the genetic basis of the migratory syndrome – Justen, H., Easton, W., Delmore, K.

2022

  • Poster presentation at Congress of European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) in Prague, Czech Republic. Using juvenile songbirds to study the genetic basis of the migratory syndrome – Justen, H., Easton, W., Delmore, K.

2021

  • Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the American Ornithological Society. (virtual) Reduced habitat suitability and landscape connectivity in a songbird divide. – Justen, H., Lee-Yaw J., Delmore, K.
  • Oral presentation at annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society. (virtual) Migratory behavior of juvenile songbirds and it’s genetic basis. – Justen, H., Easton, W., Delmore, K.
  • Oral presentation Schubot seminar series at Texas A&M University, USA. Migratory behavior of juvenile Swainson’s thrush hybrids. – Justen, H., Delmore, K.

2019

  • Oral presentation Student research week and Ecological Impact symposium at Texas A&M University, USA Evidence of extrinsic postzygotic isolation in a North American songbird. – Justen, H., Lee-Yaw J., Delmore K.
  • Poster presentation at Gordon Research Conference on Speciation in Ventura, USA Ecological models provide the first evidence of increased costs for hybrids in a migratory divide. – Justen, H., Lee-Yaw J., Delmore K.

2017/18

  • Poster presentation at meeting of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN150) in Pacific Grove, USA and Poster for “Genetics of migration” symposium at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany – Characterization of Clock gene polymorphism across populations and migratory phenotypes of Stonechats. – Justen, H., Hasselmann, T., Illera, JC., Delmore, K., Senyaki, M., Kawamura, K., Helm, B., Liedvogel, M