Saturday, February 7, 2026
Currituck-Hatteras Ballroom, 3rd floor, Talley Student Union

NOTE: The Krispy Kreme Challenge is scheduled to start at 8am so Hillsborough st. and other roads around the Memorial Belltower will be closed. We suggest you enter campus from Western blvd. in the morning. See the Travel information page for more information.

8:30am	–	9:00am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am	–	9:15am	Welcome and Logistics
9:15am	–	9:30am	“Does Cognitive Touchscreen Research Affect Welfare? A Preliminary Study in Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia spp.)”     Raymond Vagell, Ashley N. Edes, Jill D. Pruetz
9:30am	–	9:45am	“(Meta)genomic Analyses of Diet and Relatedness in White-Handed Gibbons (Hylobates lar)”   Halle E. Hangen, Lydia E. O. Light, Jessica Roseberry
9:45am	–	10:00am	“Genomics of Brazilian howler monkeys reveals cryptic population structure and adaptation to folivory”   Katherine McVay, Erick Figueroa-Ildefonso, Jeferson Freitas, Luana Portela, Victor Y. Guimarães, Ligia S. L. Silveira da Mota, Cauê Monticelli, João Valsecchi, Fernando A. Perini, Alcides Pissinatti, Patricia Domingues de Freitas, Amy Goldberg
10:00am	–	10:15am	Q&A for oral presentations
10:15am	–	10:30am	Break
10:30am	–	11:15am	Poster Session 1 – See program for poster titles and abstracts
11:15am	–	12:30pm	Keynote Presentation: “Our Quinquennium in Review” by Dr. Rachel Watkins
12:30pm	–	1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	–	1:45pm	“Inflammation, gut function, and early growth tradeoffs among high altitude Peruvians “   Morgan K. Hoke, Clare E. Super, Katey E. Mari, & Kim M. McCabe
1:45pm	–	2:00pm	“Hookworm parasitism shapes nutritional status and cardiovascular disease risk in northeast Madagascar”   Lev Kolinski, Georgia Titcomb, Kayla Kauffman, Jean Yves Rabezara, Prisca Rahary, Michelle Pender, Alma Solis, Camille M.M. DeSisto, Voahangy Soarimalala, Randall A. Kramer, James M. Moody, Charles L. Nunn
2:00pm	–	2:15pm	“Discovery of a novel anatomical microstructure – “barbs” – on Strepshirhine (Order: Primates) hair”   Vi Greene, Andrew Green, Sydney Gardner, Jackson Parrish, Josie Braddy, Karina Martin, Lavanya Lama, Kali Long, Jaden Wilson, Elizabeth Weatherstone, Shriya Balu, Adam Hartstone-Rose, Lisa Paciulli
2:15pm	–	2:30pm	Q&A for oral presentations
2:30pm	–	2:45pm	Break
2:45pm	–	3:30pm	Poster Session 2 – See program for poster titles and abstracts
3:30pm	–	4:00pm	Panel Discussion: Social and Biological Determinants of Health and their role in Evolutionary Medicine
4:00pm	–	4:30pm	Business Meeting

You can access the full meeting program with presentation titles and abstracts at the link below.