Wednesday July 13, 2022 Day 1
5:00 PM Registration & Ice Breaker, Geronimo Event Center (GEC). Appetizers & Refreshments provided by Chiricahua Desert Museum.
Poster set up: Chiricahua Desert Museum
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Thursday July 14, 2022 Day 2
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Moderator morning session: Dr. Wolfgang Wüster
7:30 AM Refreshments & Continental Breakfast Provided at the Geronimo Event Center
8:15 AM Opening Remarks. Bob Ashley and Dr. Gordon W. Schuett
8:20 AM Keynote Address. Dr. Anita Malhotra. Title: An integrative taxonomic approach to determining species boundaries in Asian pitvipers
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9:20 AM Dr. Stephen P. Mackessy. Title: Venom expression in rattlesnakes – mechanisms of regulation of activity and control of venom synthesis
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9:40 AM Dr. Drew R. Schield. Title: The roles of balancing selection and recombination in shaping rattlesnake venom evolution
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10:00 AM Break (20 minutes). Refreshments Provided at the Geronimo Event Center
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10:20 AM Jessica Hill. Title: Determining the potential for geographic range expansion of pitvipers at northern latitudes in the context of climate change
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10:40 AM Dr. Edward A. Myers. Title: Gonna need more genomes: Genomic implications of introgression in rattlesnakes
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11:00 AM Dylan Maag. Title: Rattlesnake hunting behavior: a case study across a hybrid zone
11:20 AM Jade Mellor. Title: Give and take: testing for exchange of crotoxin in rock rattlesnakes (Crotalus lepidus) within and between species
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11:40 AM Dr. Emily N. Taylor. Title: Introducing Project RattleCam, a Community Science Project on Denning Rattlesnakes
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12:00 PM Dr. Scott Boback. Title: Project RattleCam: What Have we Learned So Far by Spying on Rattlesnakes?
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12:20 PM Lunch on Your Own. See List of Restaurants in Back of Program. Sack lunches with a drink available at the GEC for $10 .
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Moderator afternoon session: Dr. Christopher L. Parkinson
2:20 PM Honored Guest. Dr. William S. Brown. Title: Timber Rattlesnakes: After 40 years, what have we learned?
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3:20 PM Dr. Sasha Tetzlaff. Title: Fission-fusion dynamics in the social networks of a North American pitviper
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3:40 PM Break (20 minutes). Refreshments Provided at the Geronimo Event Center
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4:00 PM Anna F. Tipton. Title: Integrating radio-telemetry and accelerometry to provide a more robust evaluation of snake movement behavior: a case study with Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) in central Georgia
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4:20 PM Dr. Joseph Agugliaro. Title: Factors impacting metabolic rate and water loss in pitvipers
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4:40 PM Invited Speaker. Dr. Terence M. Farrell. Title: Technology aided natural history: Insights on snake behavior from field videos
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5:20 PM Dinner On Your Own. See List of Restaurants in Back of Program.
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7:30 PM Invited Speaker. Dr. Harry W. Greene. Geronimo Event Center. Title: Rewilding the Earth, rewilding our lives
Friday July 15, 2022 Day 3
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Moderator morning session: Dr. Rulon W. Clark
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7:30 AM Refreshments & Continental Breakfast Provided at the Geronimo Event Center
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8:00 AM Invited Speaker. Dr. Christopher Parkinson. Title: The genomic landscape and the evolution of New World pitvipers
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8:40 AM Rhett M. Rautsaw. Title: Never underestimate the power of phylogenetics: Macroevolution of New World pitviper venom
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9:00 AM Ramses Rosales-Garcia. Title: Up the mountain: Venom evolution in montane pitvipers (Cerrophidion)
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9:20 AM Chelsea Martin. Title: Social security? Evidence of stress reduction through social buffering in rattlesnakes
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9:40 AM Dr. Craig M. Lind. Title: Understanding the sublethal consequences of ophidiomycosis: lessons from pygmy rattlesnakes
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10:00 AM Break (20 minutes). Refreshments Provided at the Geronimo Event Center
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10:20 AM Jenna Palmisano. Title: The potential impact of an invasive pentastome parasite (Raillietiella orientalis) on North American pitvipers
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10:40 AM Dr. Karl W. Larsen. Title: Complicated conservation for a far-northern rattlesnake: ecological diversity over a small peripheral range
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11:00 AM Chloe R. Howarth. Title: Understanding inter- and intra-population variation in Western Rattlesnake migratory tactics in British Columbia
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11:20 AM Jade Spruyt. Title: Effectiveness of road mortality mitigation for Western Rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus) in Canada
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11:40 AM Matt MacPherson. Title: Anthropogenic activity as an evolutionary driver of phenotypic variation in western rattlesnake behaviour
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12:00 PM Dr. Harry Ridgway. Title: Synthesis and in-silico modeling of novel bisphenyltetrazole drugs for inactivation of rattlesnake venom components
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12:20 PM Lunch on your own. See List of Restaurants in Back of Program. Sack lunches with a drink available at the Geronimo Event Center for $10
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Moderator afternoon session: Dr. Emily N. Taylor
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2:20 PM Kaleb Hill. Title: Auto-resistance toward snake venom metalloproteases in North American pitvipers
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2:40 PM Invited Speaker. Dr. Allyson Modra Fenwick. Title: Changes in pitviper taxonomy and systematics since Biology of Pitvipers 2
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3:20 PM Honored Guest. Dr. Richard C. Straight. Title: North American pitviper antivenom: selected venom proteins, fab and affinity pure: past, present, future (1973-2003), and (2003-2023)
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4:20 PM Refreshments Provided at the Geronimo Event Center
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5:00 PM Group Photo. Meet Outside in Front of the Geronimo Event Center & Apache Museum
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6:00 PM Pulled Pork BBQ Dinner at the Geronimo Event Center. Compliments of Chiricahua Desert Museum
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6:00 - 8:30 PM Coexisting with Pitvipers Symposium
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Saturday July 16, 2022 Day 4
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Moderator for morning session: Dr. Warren Booth
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7:30 AM Refreshments and Continental Breakfast Provided at the Geronimo Event Center
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8:00 AM Plenary Speaker. Dr. Juan Calvete. Title: Quo vadis venomics?
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8:40 AM Dominic L. DeSantis. Title: Integrating radio telemetry and accelerometry to monitor the spatial and temporal movement patterns of snakes
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9:00 AM Cara F. Smith. Title: Patterns and drivers of venom variation in the Western Rattlesnake complex (Crotalus viridis/oreganus)
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9:20 AM Anthony Pawlicki. Title: Long-term comparison of diets in three syntopic rattlesnake species
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9:40 AM Henderson C. Gull. Title: Evidence of non-strike induced chemosensory searching by eastern copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) during cicada predation
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10:00 AM Break (20 minutes). Refreshments Provided at the Geronimo Event Center
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10:20 AM Invited Speaker. Dr. Mark Allen Davis. Title: Old wine in new bottles: Viewing modern pitviper conservation through the lens of legacy data
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11:00 AM Dr. Michael J. Dreslik. Title: Demographic forecasting of Sistrurus rattlesnakes using Integral Projection Modeling
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11:20 AM María Elena Barragán-Paladines. Title: Notes on reproductive behavior and birth of captive Two-Striped Forest Vipers (Bothrops bilineatus) from Ecuador
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11:40 AM Dr. Matt Goode. Title: Tiger Rattlesnake population demography based on 20 years of capture-recapture data
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12:00 PM Ryan Hanscom. Title: Rattlesnake feeding ecology: using high frequency accelerometry to capture feeding events across Crotalus
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12:20 PM Lunch on Your Own. See List of Restaurants in Back of Program. Sack lunches with a drink available at the Geronimo Event Center for $10
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Moderator for afternoon session: Dr. Stephen P. Mackessy
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2:20 PM Invited Speaker. Dr. Darin R. Rokyta. Title: The genomics of venom ontogeny in rattlesnakes
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3:00 PM Dr. William K. Hayes. Title: It's complicated! Ontogenetic variation in venom composition of rattlesnakes
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3:20 PM Michael P. Hogan. Title: The genetics of sensory perception in the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
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3:40 PM Dr. Rulon W. Clark. Title: Lessons learned from 20 years of rattlesnake field studies: a perspective on why studying animals in nature is critical for understanding biological systems
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4:00 PM FORMAL POSTER SESSION. CHIRICAHUA DESERT MUSEUM
Refreshments Provided at the Geronimo Event Center
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6:30 PM Banquet Dinner. Silent and Live Auctions
Banquet Speaker. Dr. Joseph R. Mendelson III. Title: Sidewinders vs. robots: How a herpetologist learned to love physics