2009 Graduate Student Syposium

The annual graduate student symposium will be held on Saturday, January 24th from 9:30 am to 3:30pm in Natural Sciences 1 room 1140. Please plan to attend to learn more about what the graduate students are doing and to help give the graduate students the valuable experience of giving a presentation in front of a full house.

9:30 coffee

9:45 Erin Paig Bottles in a flume: How does this relate to sharks and rays?

10:00 Heidy Contreras Do insects hold their breath when cold or dry?

10:15 Wenwen Wang 15N Nitrogen enrichment in plant foliage in the Los Angeles urban region

10:30 Diane Livio The strength of sexual imprinting effects in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata): findings and a new direction

10:45 break

11:00 Karla Feitl Larval zebrafish sense predators by detecting rapid water flow.

11:15 Stephanie Crofts Ventilation Mechanics in the Sliming Sea Star (Pteraster tesselaatus)

11:30 Ashley Vorhees How will organisms respond to a warmer world? A physiological view of climate change.

11:45 Riley Pratt A test of home turf advantage: comparing resident versus translocated mycorrhizal fungi on seedling establishment.

noon lunch

1:00 Andrew Clark Sausages with sharp teeth and strong muscles: jawless feeding in hagfish.

1:15 China Hanson Biogeography of Marine Viruses

1:30 Mason Dean Does the left know what the right is doing? Pairwise modulation of jaw muscle activity in two species of elasmobranch fishes.

2:00 Arnaud Martin Evolution and Development of Proximal and Central elements inlepidopteran wings.

2:15 break

2:30 Heather McGray Effect of genetic diversity on Invasive Population Success.

2:45 James Strother Hydrodynamics of ventilation in a bony fish.

3:00 Marko Spasojevic Trait based approaches to understanding alpine plant community structure.

3:15 Leah Goldstein The effect of rainfall event size and frequency on invasion success in California shurblands.