For directions see the map 1 or map 2.
Meetings with grad students/faculty during the day. Faculty interests are posted on the department web site, grad student interests at http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/~dstoebel/retreat02/student_interests.html
5:00 pizza and beer with grad students
7:30 public lecture by Doug Futuyma on "Why we need to teach evolution". This is part of "The Living World" series. See http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/futuyma.html for more information.
9:00 reception at Dan Dykhuizen's house
8:00 Breakfast
Session I. 9:20 - 10:20 Populations
9:20 Dianna K. Padilla. Larval transport and metapopulations of zebra mussels in large rivers
9:40 Janos G. Hajagos. Incorporating uncertainty into a time series of abundances
10:00 Michael A. Bell, Windsor E. Aguirre, and Nathaniel J. Buck. Twelve
years of rapid evolution in a threespine sticklebak population
10:20 Coffee
Session II. 11:00 - 12:20 methods and concepts
11:00 Lev Ginzburg. Rules of thumb for judging ecological theories
11:20 Timothy H. Keitt. Serial autocorrelation and the detection of synchrony and compensation in community time series
11:40 Geeta Bharathan. Homology
12:00 F. James Rohlf. Consistency, bias and error in estimates of mean shape.
12:20 - 2:00 Lunch
Session III 2:00 - 3:20 Species interactions
2:00 Sarah Karpanty. Raptor predation in madagascar: a lemur's perspective
2:20 Nina Brown. The dilemma of attrating pollinators and avoiding herbivores in dioecious Cirsium arvense
2:40 Fredric V. Vencl. Tortoise beetle shield dfenses and the evolution of dietary specialization
3:00 Aaron Gassmann. How natural enemies increase the cost of resistance to herbicides
3:20 Coffee
Session IV 4:00 - 5:20 Selection and evolution
4:00 Bengt J. Allen and Jeffrey S. Levinton. Fiddler crab fitness: exercise and the cost of sex
4:20 John True. What's black and white and evolving all over?
4:40 Andre Levy. Pupal color polymorphisms in Pieris rapae
5:00 Matthew P. Travis. Natural selection in fossil stickleback
5:20 - 5:50 Entertainment
5:50 - 6:10 Awards
6:20 Dinner
Michael A. Bell
Department of Ecology and Evolution
State University of New York
Stony Brook, New York 11794-5245, USA
Phone: (631) 632-8574 (lab)
(631) 632-8600 (dept.)
Fax: (631) 689-6682
