Dr. Robert (Bort) Edwards, postdoctoral associate at the University of Rochester, is presenting a talk titled “Biogeography of the Australian monsoon tropics”. Bort did his doctoral work at the University of Queensland studying Australian monsoon biogeography and the systematics of broad leaved paperback trees. He is currently a postdoctoral associate with Dr. Daven Presgraves studying hybrid incompatibilities on the X chromosomes of Drosophila mauritiana and Drosophila simulans.