Graduate Research Symposium 2008
Saturday, March 1st 2008
The EEB Graduate Student Symposium is an all day event where graduate students present their research to other graduate students and faculty. Any EEB graduate student can present: BSMS, masters, PhD, old and new students. New graduate students usually present research ideas or preliminary data, while those more ‘seasoned’ students present their most recent results, often in preparation for upcoming spring and summer meetings.
This year we are trying out a new phenomenon, Speed Talks, in addition to our regular 15min presentations. There will be an almost unlimited number of 15min talks, and a limited number of speed talks. We would like to invite all EEB graduate students to give a 15min talk
Please submit titles to: molly.letsch@uconn.edu
Early submission of titles is encouraged!
Speed Talks:
Speed Talks have been seen at several large meetings over the last year (playing off the speed dating idea). These talks will be 3min presentation, PowerPoint optional. They are ideal for sharing side projects, amazing images or videos, great opportunities that others should take advantage of, or any other interesting things that you would like to share. Since this is new, we are going to have one small section of them in the afternoon. We envision these being given in addition to a regular 15min talk. If you are interested in participating in this section please let molly.letsch@uconn.edu know, the actual number of these talks is still flexible but we will take these on a first come basis
Schedule
Time | Speaker | Title |
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8:30-9:00 | Coffee | |
9:00-9:15 | Welcome Address | |
9:15-9:30 | Lori Benoit | A molecular genetic study of Hydrilla verticillata, an invasive aquatic weed |
9:30-9:45 | Tobias Landberg | Allometric engineering of salamanders |
9:45-10:00 | Frank Smith | A Functional Analysis of the Homeobox Protein Dll-B in the Ascidian Ciona intestinalis |
10:00-10:15 | Karolina Fucikova | Systematics of the Green Algal Genus Bracteacoccus |
10:15-10:30 | Leah Brown-Wilusz | Hatching Plasticity in Spotted Salamanders |
10:30-11:00 | Break | |
11:00-11:20 | Susan G. Letcher | Community phylogenetic structure of secondary and old-growth forests in northeastern Costa Rica |
11:20-11:45 | Adam Wilson & Natalia Norden | R Statistics: Don't be scared! |
11:45-12:00 | Kristiina Hurme | Tadpole schooling in Leptodactylus insularum |
12:00-12:15 | Katherine Shaw | Sneaky Threespines: Characterizing geographic variation of sneaking behavior in Gastrosteus aculeatus of the Pacific Northwest |
12:15-12:30 | Bryan Connolly | The interaction of deer and invasive plant species in forests of the northeast |
12:30-2:00 | Lunch | |
2:00-2:15 | Cory Merow | America's Next Top Ecological Model |
2:15-2:30 | Geert Goemans | Eel sushi, delicious or deadly? |
2:30-2:45 | Nicholas Tippery | Population genetic study of Nymphoides cordata (Menyanthaceae) in Connecticut |
2:45-3:00 | ||
3:00-3:15 | ||
3:15-3:30 | ||
3:30-4:00 | Break |