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Princeton Rutgers Penn Graduate Student Symposium
 

 

2006-2007  Princeton-Rutgers-Penn
 Graduate Symposium


March 31, 2007


Alampi Room, IMCS
 

Scheduled presentations

9:15 Breakfast (Bagels and hot beverage) *********************************************

9:55 Welcoming Remarks

10:00 Hanna Seidel (Princeton)
Genetic incompatibility among C. elegans wild isolates.

10:20 Megan Phifer-Rixey (UPenn)
The potential adaptive significance of shell color and body pigment polymorphisms in the intertidal snail Littorina obtusata.

10:40 Jeanmaire Molina (Rutgers)
       Phylogeny and floral biology of Leea.

11:00 Break  ******************************************************************

11:10 Maria Margarita Ramos (Princeton)
The evolution of eye size and shape differences between two closely related species of Drosophila.

11:30 Patricia Ramey (Rutgers)
Active post-settlement habitat selection, by a deposit-feeding polychaete (Polygordius jouinae) in a laboratory flume.

11:50 Jonathan Fisher (UPenn)
Parasitic worms in gastropod shells facilitate predation by alien crabs.

12:10 Lunch (Catered Sandwich, dessert, drinks) *************************************

1:10 Ryan Chisholm (Princeton)
Null-Hypothesis significance testing and the critical weight range for australian mammals.

1:30 Domenic D’Amore (Rutgers)
       Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) feeding taphonomy and its potential paleoecological significance to Mesozoic Archosauria.

1:50 Salvatore Agosta (UPenn)
       Are non-negative genetic correlations in cross-host performance being marginalized, and if so, why?




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