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Revision as of 19:34, 23 March 2007
Biological Sciences and Physics Building. Room 130
9:00 AM - 4:00 PMThe EEB Spring Symposium will be on Saturday, March 31st. This is an all day event where graduate students get a chance to present their research to other graduates and faculty in the department. Regardless of your research level, this symposium provides an opportunity to present project ideas and/or results in a low-stress atmosphere, and obtain valuable feedback from grads and faculty. Because this is an all day event, lunch and snacks will be provided by funds requested from the GSS by our graduate student GSS senators. Grads, please consider giving a talk.
Please submit titles to: molly.letsch@uconn.edu
Early submission of titles is encouraged!
- 8:15-9:00 Breakfast
- 9:00-9:15 Tsitsi McPherson
- Transboundary Protected Areas: potential for the Guiana Shield Corridor
- 9:15-9:30 Suegene Noh
- Testing for preference of song characters in Chrysoperla lucasina
- 9:30-9:45 Kristiina Hurme
- Tadpole schooling and parental care in an aquatic-breeding tropical frog, Leptodactylus insularum
- 9:45-10:00 Nicholas Tippery
- Expanding the phylogenetic utility of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region using predicted secondary structure.
- 10:15-10:30 Beth Jacobsen
- Introgression between two NZ cicada species and how are periodical cicadas periodical
- 10:30-11:00 Break
- 11:00-11:15 Molly Letsch
- The Zoochlorella Symbiont of Anthopleura Form a Distinct Monophyletic Taxon in Trebouxiophyceae.
- 11:15-11:30 Susan Z. Herrick
- Spatial Interactions of Breeding Male Green Frogs (Rana clamitans) and Bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana)
- 11:30-11:45 Krissa Skogen
- Does atmospheric nitrogen deposition contribute to the decline of a native nitrogen-fixing species, Desmodium cuspidatum?
- 11:45-12:00 Jang K. Kim
- Are Intertidal Seaweeds More Efficient at Nutrient Absorption?
- 12:00-12:15 Adam Wilson
- The Fire-Weather relationship in the South African Fynbos: Implications under Climate Change
- 12:15-12:30 Roberta Engel
- Origins of pseudoscorpion lineages endemic to the outcrops of southwestern Australia
- 12:30-1:45 Lunch
- 1:45-2:00 Susan Letcher
- Methods for evaluating ecological similarity in large multivariate data sets: an example using forest succession data from northeastern Costa Rica
- 2:00-2:15 Carrie Fyler
- Erection of a new genus: A total evidence approach to tapeworm Systematics
- 2:15-2:30 Karolina Fucikova
- New Algal Species Records for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.
- 2:30-2:45 Juan Carlos Villarreal
- Toward a phylogeny of the Nothoceros/Megaceros alliance and the origin of the North American Endemic M. aenigmaticus
- 2:45-3:00 Diego Sustaita
- Prey processing in predatory birds: food for thought
Tsitsi McPherson
Transboundary Protected Areas: potential for the Guiana Shield Corridor
Enter Abstract Here
Suegene Noh
Testing for preference of song characters in Chrysoperla lucasina
Enter Abstract Here
Kristiina Hurme
Tadpole schooling and parental care in an aquatic-breeding tropical frog, Leptodactylus insularum
Enter Abstract Here
Nicholas Tippery
Expanding the phylogenetic utility of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region using predicted secondary structure.
Enter Abstract Here
Beth Jacobsen
Introgression between two NZ cicada species and how are periodical cicadas periodical
Enter Abstract Here
Molly Letsch
The Zoochlorella Symbiont of Anthopleura Form a Distinct Monophyletic Taxon in Trebouxiophyceae.
Enter Abstract Here
Susan Z. Herrick
Spatial Interactions of Breeding Male Green Frogs (Rana clamitans) and Bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana)
Enter Abstract Here
Krissa Skogen
Does atmospheric nitrogen deposition contribute to the decline of a native nitrogen-fixing species, Desmodium cuspidatum?
Enter Abstract Here
Jang K. Kim
Are Intertidal Seaweeds More Efficient at Nutrient Absorption?
Enter Abstract Here
Adam Wilson
The Fire-Weather relationship in the South African Fynbos: Implications under Climate Change
Enter Abstract Here
Roberta Engel
Origins of pseudoscorpion lineages endemic to the outcrops of southwestern Australia
Enter Abstract Here
Susan Letcher
Methods for evaluating ecological similarity in large multivariate data sets: an example using forest succession data from northeastern Costa Rica
Enter Abstract Here
Carrie Fyler
Erection of a new genus: A total evidence approach to tapeworm Systematics
Enter Abstract Here
Karolina Fucikova
New Algal Species Records for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park harbors a remarkable biodiversity. Within the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), a project that has been in progress in the park since 1997, 976 algal taxa have been reported to this day. This number includes a few old historical records from the 1940s, as well as hundreds of taxa reported by the algal Taxonomic Working Group (TWiG) of the ATBI. From the total of 976 taxa, 392 have been added since the last published species record list (2004). Ranges of several algal taxa have been extended as a result of this work. In addition, some new species of diatoms (Bacillariophyta), blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria), green algae (Chlorophyta), and conjugating green algae (Charophyta) have been described. Even more taxa, ca. 50, have not been identified to species level with certainty, and are therefore putative new species as well.
Juan Carlos Villarreal
Toward a phylogeny of the Nothoceros/Megaceros alliance and the origin of the North American Endemic M. aenigmaticus
Enter Abstract Here
Diego Sustaita
Prey processing in predatory birds: food for thought
Enter Abstract Here