The Third Annual Darwinian Student Symposium
Thursday, April 27 2006
Schedule
| Time | Speaker/Event | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Coffee | |
| 9:30 | Sara Branco | Evolution of symbiotic fungi in extreme environments: local adaptation of ectomycorrhizal fungi to serpentine soils |
| 9:45 | Michael Fitzsimmons | The diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and its impact on plant coexistence |
| 10:00 | Matt Friedman | The evolutionary radiation of acanthomorph teleosts: new perspectives from old fossils |
| 10:15 | Paul Harnik | Beyond the veil: using museum collections to extend field-based estimates of species rarity |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 | Mark Novak | Estimating the strength of species interactions in omnivorous food webs |
| 11:15 | Andy Simpson | A tale of two macros: figuring out how to link macroecology and macroevolution, part II |
| 11:30 | Jake Byrnes | Detection of gene conversions between yeast duplicate gene pairs via a hidden Markov model |
| 11:45 | Surangi Punyasena | The relationship between Neotropical plant families and climate |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | Christian Kammerer | Therapsids, am I right? |
| 1:15 | Michelle Rafacz | Factors influencing the quality of maternal care in Hylobatidae |
| 1:30 | Geoffrey Morris | Adjacent gene reorganization in yeast by whole genome duplication and gene deletion |
| 1:45 | Jason Bruck | Beacon navigation in Belding's ground squirrels |
| 2:00 | Break | |
| 2:30 | Nathan Smith | Osteology of Cryolophosaurus ellioti (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and implications for early theropod evolution |
| 2:45 | Kara Nuss | Hormonal changes during pair formation in captive Goeldi's monkeys |
| 3:00 | Jennifer Dugas | Evolution in the amniote dorsal telencephalon |
| 3:15 | Wrap-Up | |
Revised: May 28, 2009