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| 9:15-9:30  || Kerri Mocko||  
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| 9:15-9:30  || Kerri Mocko|| How much do plants suck? Do physiological responses to drought reflect phylogenetic history?
 
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| 9:30-9:45  ||  Laura Cisneros|| Effects of Landscape Structure on Multiple Dimensions of Bat Biodiversity
 
| 9:30-9:45  ||  Laura Cisneros|| Effects of Landscape Structure on Multiple Dimensions of Bat Biodiversity
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| 10:00-10:15  ||Bill Ryerson|| The medium matters: tongue-flicking mechanics in air and water in water snakes, ''Nerodia sipedon''  
 
| 10:00-10:15  ||Bill Ryerson|| The medium matters: tongue-flicking mechanics in air and water in water snakes, ''Nerodia sipedon''  
 
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| 10:15-10:30  || Ben Olsen  || TBA
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| 10:15-10:30  || Ben Olsen  || Murder Mystery: Identifying pupa predators of ''H. cecropia''
 
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| 11:00-11:15  ||  Jessie Rack || Tetrodotoxin: chemical defense or chemical cue?
 
| 11:00-11:15  ||  Jessie Rack || Tetrodotoxin: chemical defense or chemical cue?
 
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| 11:15-11:30  || Brigette Zacharczenko || TBA
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| 11:15-11:30  || Brigette Zacharczenko || Name that species! The guts and glory of taxonomy.
 
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| 11:30-11:45  ||Nora Mitchell & Tim Moore Pt 1 ||  
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| 11:30-11:45  ||Nora Mitchell & Tim Moore Pt 1 || Linking dimensions: functional traits and environmental variation in the Cape Floristic Region
 
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| 2:00-2:15  ||Hamid Razifard|| Advances in understanding systematics and ecology of the mysterious aquatic plants: <i>Elatine</i> L. (waterworts)
 
| 2:00-2:15  ||Hamid Razifard|| Advances in understanding systematics and ecology of the mysterious aquatic plants: <i>Elatine</i> L. (waterworts)
 
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| 2:15-2:30  || Johana Goyes V. ||  
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| 2:15-2:30  || Johana Goyes V. || Acoustic communication, mate choice and parental care: The Trilogy. Part I
 
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| 2:30-2:45  ||  Simona Augyte || Macroalgal biodiverisity hotspot; the marine intertidal of northern Califonia/southern Oregon
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| 2:30-2:45  ||  Simona Augyte || Macroalgal biodiversity hotspot; the marine intertidal of northern California/southern Oregon
 
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| 2:45-3:00 || Yingying Xie || Land surface phenology and climate variation: green-up of deciduous forest communities of northeastern North America
 
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| 3:10-3:25  || Hayley Kilroy M. || Modelling demography of a South African shrub (Protea repens) across space and time
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| 3:10-3:25  || Hayley Kilroy M. || Dimensions of space & time: Modelling demography of a South African shrub (Protea repens)
 
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| 3:25-3:40  || Ursula King ||  
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| 3:25-3:40  || Ursula King || Isolation of microsatellite loci in Najas flexilis (Hydrocharitaceae) using 454 genome sequencing.
 
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| 3:40-3:45 || Cera Fisher || TBA
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| 3:40-3:45 || Cera Fisher || Developmental evolution of the treehopper pronotum
 
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| 3:45-3:50 ||Sara Horwitz|| TBA
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| 3:45-3:50 ||Sara Horwitz|| The Kinematics of Tongue-Flicking in the Gila Monster (''Heloderma suspectum'')
 
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| 3:50-3:55  || Michael Hutson || TBA
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| 3:50-3:55  || Michael Hutson || Just when you thought it was safe... Do conditions for frequency-dependent predation exist among temporary pond zooplanktivores?
 
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| 3:55-4:00  || Photo Contest Results  ||
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| 3:55-4:00  || [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/2013_Biological_Photo_Contest Photo Contest Results] ||
 
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Latest revision as of 20:46, 7 March 2013

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Biology/Physics Building Room 130, 9:00am to ~ 4:00pm



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.

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Schedule

Time Speaker Title
8:30-9:00 Coffee, oh do we need coffee.
9:00-9:15 Dr. Sandra Chafouleas, Associate Dean of the Graduate School Welcome Address
9:15-9:30 Kerri Mocko How much do plants suck? Do physiological responses to drought reflect phylogenetic history?
9:30-9:45 Laura Cisneros Effects of Landscape Structure on Multiple Dimensions of Bat Biodiversity
9:45-10:00 Kasey Pregler Using occupancy models to evaluate gear bias: detection probabilities of bridle shiner using seines and electrofishing gear
10:00-10:15 Bill Ryerson The medium matters: tongue-flicking mechanics in air and water in water snakes, Nerodia sipedon
10:15-10:30 Ben Olsen Murder Mystery: Identifying pupa predators of H. cecropia
10:30-11:00 Morning Break
11:00-11:15 Jessie Rack Tetrodotoxin: chemical defense or chemical cue?
11:15-11:30 Brigette Zacharczenko Name that species! The guts and glory of taxonomy.
11:30-11:45 Nora Mitchell & Tim Moore Pt 1 Linking dimensions: functional traits and environmental variation in the Cape Floristic Region
11:45-12:00 Nora Mitchell & Tim Moore Pt 2 Linking dimensions: functional traits and environmental variation in the Cape Floristic Region
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 Dr. Thomas Philbrick, Western Connecticut State University Keynote Address - 20+ years after EEB: a funky life in academics
2:00-2:15 Hamid Razifard Advances in understanding systematics and ecology of the mysterious aquatic plants: Elatine L. (waterworts)
2:15-2:30 Johana Goyes V. Acoustic communication, mate choice and parental care: The Trilogy. Part I
2:30-2:45 Simona Augyte Macroalgal biodiversity hotspot; the marine intertidal of northern California/southern Oregon
2:45-3:00 Yingying Xie Land surface phenology and climate variation: green-up of deciduous forest communities of northeastern North America
3:00-3:10 Afternoon Break
3:10-3:25 Hayley Kilroy M. Dimensions of space & time: Modelling demography of a South African shrub (Protea repens)
3:25-3:40 Ursula King Isolation of microsatellite loci in Najas flexilis (Hydrocharitaceae) using 454 genome sequencing.
3:40-4:00 Speed Talks and Photo Contest
3:40-3:45 Cera Fisher Developmental evolution of the treehopper pronotum
3:45-3:50 Sara Horwitz The Kinematics of Tongue-Flicking in the Gila Monster (Heloderma suspectum)
3:50-3:55 Michael Hutson Just when you thought it was safe... Do conditions for frequency-dependent predation exist among temporary pond zooplanktivores?
3:55-4:00 Photo Contest Results
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Abstracts

Presenter's name: Hamid Razifard
Title: Advances in understanding systematics and ecology of the mysterious aquatic plants: Elatine L. (waterworts)

Elatine L. (Elatinaceae Dumortier; waterworts) is a cosmopolitan genus of about 25 aquatic plant species in the order Malpighiales. The genus is interesting taxonomically for two main reasons. First, no systematic studies have been made on the genus using recently available molecular techniques. Second, two species from this genus (E. triandra Schkhuhr and E. ambigua Wight) have been reported as invasive in recent decades. There, also, are indications of polyploidy in the invasive species, which make the genus particularly interesting from both ecological and systematic standpoints. Botanists disagree on the delimitation of several Elatine species. For example, descriptions provided for E. americana and E. minima in various floras often can be applied to either species. This problem results in a high degree of overlap for morphological characters used in such regional floristic treatments. In order to better distinguish each Elatine species, we assembled a data matrix of 37 morphological characters scored from more than 10 specimens per species. We analyzed the data using phenetic techniques (such as neighbor-joining) to search for potential discontinuities among taxa. In addition, we obtained new morphological characters using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to examine the fine structure of Elatine seeds. Seed analysis using SEM indicated that several differences in seed surface morphology were potentially useful taxonomically, i.e.: length to width ratio, degree of seed curvature, and number of seed surface pits. These characters are promising for clarifying the taxonomy and systematic relationships of the genus at or above the species level.






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