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Sunwood, March 8, 2003

Ecology & Evolution Spring Retreat

Friday

Meetings with grad students/faculty during the day. Faculty interests are available here and grad student interests are available here.

Saturday

Program

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

For more information, contact:

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


Scenes from the retreat


Spring 2000 retreat.
Spring 2001 retreat.
Spring 2002 retreat.


Updated March 10, 2003 by F. James Rohlf.