Graduate Research Symposium 2007

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Saturday March 31st

Biological Sciences and Physics Building. Room 130

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

The 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.

The submission deadlines are as follows:
Title submission deadline: Monday, March 19th


Please submit titles to: molly.letsch@uconn.edu Early submission of titles is encouraged!

Self Submission Abstract deadline: Monday, March 26th
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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

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Tsitsi McPherson

Transboundary Protected Areas: potential for the Guiana Shield Corridor


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Suegene Noh

Testing for preference of song characters in Chrysoperla lucasina


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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