What is the Future of Evo-Devo?
The modern field of evo-devo was founded to understand the interactions of evolution and development. In its short lifetime as a discipline, evo-devo has produced remarkable insights into the conservation of developmental programs, the mechanisms by which phentoypes respond to environments, and the genetic architecture underlying evolution.

Evo-devo has been in the vanguard characterizing non-model organisms, placing genomes in a comparative context, working across development stages, and measuring variation within and across populations. However, our ability to make robust inferences from these data is increasingly bottlenecked by our capacity to contextualize it with functional mechanisms, within physiology and environment, and across micro and macro scales.

At this symposium, the graduate students and faculty from the joint NSF IGERT program in evolution, development, and genomics invite you to imagine a not-so-distant future saturated with genomic data. What new hypotheses will emerge? What new phenomena will we discover? What is the future of evo-devo?