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Meetings with grad students/faculty during the day. Faculty interests are available here and grad student interests are available here.
08:00 BREAKFAST
09:20 Session I - Patrick Stephens, Chair
09:20 Doall, Michael "Talking to Fireflies"
09:40 Gray, Dennis "The Evolution of Methylbutenol Emission in Pines"
10:00 Junkins, Ruth, Jeff Levinton, Lisa Suatoni, Bill Wallace, Brendan Kelaher, Bengt Allen "Recovery from Resistance to Cadmium, Following the Cleanup of a Superfund Site"
10:20-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 Session II - Sue Natali, Chair
11:00 Jensen, Christopher, J. Gause, Luckinbill, and Veilleux "The Paramecium-Didinium system in light of Ratio-Dependent Predation Theory"
11:20 Armstrong, Rob "Ballast, iron, allometry, and the deep blue sea: quantitative ecological modeling for biogeochemistry"
11:40 Karpanty, Sarah "Ecological Impact of Diurnal Raptor Predation on the Lemur Community of Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar"
12:00 Vogel, Erin "The Effect of Ecology on Aggressive Interactions in White-faced Capuchin Monkeys, Cebus capucinus, in a Costa Rican Dry Forest"
12:20-02:00 Lunch and Tours
02:00 Session III - Kamalraj Mohanraj, Chair
02:00 Yukilevich, Roman "How Ecology Changes Additive into Epistatic Evolution: Lessons from Dispersal Evolution in Fragmented Habitats"
02:20 Rohlf, Jim "Genetic constraints and multivariate selection - another perspective"
02:40 True, John R. "Genetics of Pigmentation and Behavioral ivergence associated with sexual selection in Drosophila elegans"
03:00 Feldgarden, Michael, Evgeni Sokurenko, Daniel E. Dykhuizen "Pathoadaptive Variation in Escherichia coli: Recent, Recurrent, and Recombinant"
03:20 Coffee Break
04:00 Session IV - Shu-Dan Yeh, Chair
04:00 Waleed Gharaibeh "Correcting for Head Disorientation in Side View Images of Humans: The Head-Spinning (and Clichè-Driven) Science of Geometric Morphometrics"
04:20 Engstrom, Tag N, Philip Q. Spinks, H.Bradley Shaffer, William P. McCord "Conservation Implications of Systematics in Southeast Asian Turtles"
04:40 Noto, Christopher "Paleobiology by the Numbers: Quantifying Global Dinosaur Diversity Patterns"
05:00 Levinton, Jeff "Pop! Pop! Fizz! Fizz! Oh what a headache the Cambrian explosion is"
05:20 Entertainment, Awards
06:00 Dinner, Dancing
R. Geeta
e-mail:geeta@life.bio.sunysb.edu
Department of Ecology and Evolution
State University of New York
Stony Brook, New York 11794-5245, USA
Spring 2000 retreat.
Spring 2001 retreat.
Spring 2002 retreat.