Hello All,
The Annual Graduate Student Symposium will be held on Saturday, February 13th, 2016 and will run from 8:15am – 4:15pm followed by a reception/ poster session at Array Cafe from 4:15 – 6:30pm!
Presenting author and titles are listed below for both the talk and poster sessions. To see the entire program CLICK HERE
Talk Session (8:15-4:15 in B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab B.):
Poster Session (4:30-6:30 in the Concourse Cafe space on the first floor of IGB):
Jaime Coon: Grassland bird community response to an invasive grass and management using herbicde
Joshua Gibson: Comparative functional morphology and kinematics of miniature trap-jaw ant (Strumigenys spp.) mandible strikes
Katie Heineman: The importance of wood nutrient storage in tropical forest nutrient cycles: insights from a sapling defoliation experiment in Panama
Janice Kelly: Density dependent effects on conspecific cue use for habitat selection and reproductive success in yellow warblers (Setophaga petechia)
Nicholas LaRacuente: Timescale separation and functional response in consumer-resource dynamics
Kelsey Low: Thermal challenges of overwintering eastern box turtles (Terrapene c. carolina) in eastern Illinois
Bailey Morrison: The post-glacial species velocity of Picea glauca following the last glacial maximum in Alaska
Scott Nelson: A systematic review of the impacts of invasive plants on avian ecology
Tolulope Perrin-Stowe: The evolution and phylogeography of African elephant mitochondrial genomes
Christina Vercillo: Effects of prairie management on soil characteristics and bees