Graduate Student Symposium 2020
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Saturday, February 8, 2020
Biology/Physics Building Room 131, 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: BS/MS, 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.
Schedule
Time | Speaker | Title |
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8:30-9:00 | Coffee and potluck breakfast. | |
9:00-9:15 | Dr. Lisa Park Boush, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs | Welcome Address |
9:15-9:30 | Christian Polania | Six sick stickleback facts (Exploring host-parasite co-evolution) |
9:30-9:45 | Annette Evans | Cool coloration: incubatin conditions affect coloration of a polymorphic salamander |
9:45-10:00 | Dipanjana Dalui | We live in a (in)deterministic world |
10:00-10:15 | Lisa Terlova | How I am using metabolomics to study algae desiccation tolerance |
10:15-10:20 | Liz Clifton | Termite weapons and defenses |
10:20-10:30 | Announcements | |
10:30-10:50 | Morning Break | |
10:50-11:05 | Katie Kyle, MCB | Chemical cues of infection in a fungus-growing ant system |
11:05-11:20 | Valerie Milici | Can fungal pathogens explain the tropical precipitation - diversity relationship? |
11:20-11:35 | Susan McEvoy | Maples: assembly, annotation, and comparative genomics |
11:35-11:50 | Eliza Grames | The EntoGEM project |
11:50-12:05 | Grace Vaziri | Winter woes and frozen frogs |
12:00-1:20 | Lunch and Announcements | |
1:30-2:00 | Dr. Norman Wickett | Keynote Address |
2:00-2:15 | Christina Balentine | Population history of ancient Fuegian-Patagonians |
2:15-2:30 | Alex Trouern-Trend | Comparative genomics of the walnuts |
2:30-2:45 | Doug Stephan | Rewards from scouring the world for cownose ray tapeworms |
2:45-3:00 | Michael LaScaleia | Ideas: do caterpillars drive temperate tree diversity, or do wasps prevent them? |
3:00-3:05 | Andrew Stillman | Where do all the woodpeckers go? |
4:00-4:05 | Photo Contest Results |