Schedule

102B CLSL

9:15-9:30 - coffee and cookies in outer hall

9:30-9:45 - opening remarks - B. Fuller

9:45-10:05 - Chris Cheng - "Evolution of Anti-Freeze in Antarctic Fish"

10:05-10:25 - Greg Sass - "Setting Fisheries Management Objectives for the Upper Mississippi River System"

10:25-10:45 - Art Devries - "Antarctic Notothenioid fishes:  A marine flock adapted for life at freezing temperatures"

10:40-10:55 - coffee break

10:55-11:15 - Mike Retzer - "Taxonomy and biogeography of the African catfish genus, Auchenoglanis"

11:15-11:30 - Richard Kollmar - "Sparc protein is required for normal growth of zebrafish otoliths"

11:30-11:45 - Tom Bland - "Phenotypic variation in Orangespotted Sunfish"

11:45-12:05 - Alison Bell - "Behavioral Syndromes in Three-Spined Sticklebacks"

12:05-1:30 - Lunch in Room C120; Pizza, salad, and drinks provided.

1:30-2:00 - Dave Wahl, Mike Carey, Matt Diana, and Mike Nannini

                        Overview of research in fisheries ecology and management

                        Fish diversity as a determinant of ecosystem properties in aquatic food webs

                        Factors determining recruitment and stocking success in largemouth bass

                        Behavioral syndromes in largemouth bass

 

2:00-2:20 - John Epifanio - "Familial Relationships among Nesting Males Bluegill Colonies -

                                            Where is W.D. Hamilton when you need him?"

 

2:20-2:40 - Marlis Douglas & Mike Douglas -

                    "Conservation genetics and molecular ecology of desert fishes"

 

2:40-2:50 - short break

 

2:50-3:05 - graduate student presentation - "Effects of moving water on morphometrics in blackstripe

                                            topminnows, Fundulus notatus.

3:05-3:25 - Dave Phillip - "Evolutionary Impacts of Angling on Bass Populations"

3:25-3:45 - Cory Suski - "Linking stress in fish with management and conservation"

3:45-4:00 - Becky Fuller - "Evolution of Color Pattern and Color Vision in killifish"

                       

4:05 - drinks at the Bread Company