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Dr. Sophie McCoy, UNC Chapel Hill
Ecology of Change: Species Interactions as Mechanisms of Community Response
4:00 PM | | Hosted by
Dr. Sarah McAnulty, Skype a Scientist
Dr. Sean Carroll, University of Maryland/HHMI
Butterfly Spots and Rattlesnake Tales: The Origins of Novelty
Dr. Maitreyi Das, Boston College
Design Principles of Cell Polarization
Dr. William LaCourse, University of Maryland Baltimore
Dr. Victor Ambros, UMass Medical School
Dr. Coleen Murphy, Princeton University
Adapt or Die: Transgenerational Inheritance of Pathogen Avoidance (How getting food poisoning might save your species)
Dr. Cassandra Extavour, Harvard University
Reproductive Evolution: Ovarian Construction in Drosophila and Beyond
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Dr. Minna Roh-Johnson, University of Utah
Environmental control of cell behavior
Dr. David Gems, University College London
Dr. Misha Matz, University of Texas at Austin
Genetics and Epigenetics of Coral Adaptation
Dr. André Green, University of Michigan
Dr. Julia Horfield, University of Otago, New Zealand
Getting your wires crossed: how cohesin deficiency affects cell signaling
Dr. Marlene Zuk, University of Minnesota
Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters
4:00 PM | Bondurant G100 | Hosted by
Dr. Steve Nowicki, Duke University
The Beak of the (Zebra) Finch: A Story of Perception and the Evolution of Reliable Signaling
Dr. Sara Jackrel, UCSD
Intraspecific Diversity and Host-Associated Bacteria Regulate the Carbon Cycle
Dr. Asiya Gusa, Duke University
Heat Stress Stimulates Transposon Mobility and Adaptive Genetic Changes in a Human Fungal Pathogen
Dr. Richard Lenski, Michigan State University
Dynamics and Repeatability of Evolution in a Long-Term Experiment with Bacteria
Dr. Dominique Bergmann, HHMI/Stanford University
Building Flexibility and Remembering the Past in Plant Organ Development
Dr. Kelly Monk, Vollum Institute, OHSU
Molecular and genetic mechanisms of neuron-glial interactions
Dr. Sara Brownell, Arizona State University
Factors that predict student persistence in research: From lab environment to mental health
Dr. Sweta Agrawal, University of Washington
Love and locomotion: understanding the function and evolution of sensorimotor neural circuits
Dr. Sarah Leinwand, UC Berkeley
Maturation of neural activity and associative learning
Dr. Jonathan Losos, Washington University
"Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anolis Lizards"
Dr. Celia Shiau, UNC Chapel Hill
Decoding Macrophages: Cells of Many Talents From Brain to Gut
Dr. Jason Reed, UNC Chapel Hill
Tuning plant growth and reproduction
Dr. Erica Rosenblum, Berkely
"Finding hope for biodiversity conservation in an era of rapid global change"
Dr. Gijsje Koenderink , TU Delft
The role of cytoskeletal crosstalk in cell shape control
Dr. Parul Johri, Arizona State University
The role of non-adaptive processes in shaping genomic variation
Dr. Senay Yitbarek, UNC Chapel Hill
Dr. Jill Dowen, UNC Chapel Hill
"Genome Structure and Function in Transcriptional Control of Cellular Identity"
Elucidating ecological complexity across scales
Dr. Daniel Matute, UNC Chapel Hill
Genomics and the origin of the species from the viewpoint of a geneticist
Dr. Gaby Maimon, Rockfeller University/HHMI
How brains add vectors
Dr. John Bowman, Monash University
Why all ekaryotes have homeodomain genes; a view from land plants
Dr. Gabrielle Nevitt, UC Davis
Dr. Victoria Prince, University of Chicago
Axial patterning of the zebrafish neural crest: a role for Cdx4
Dr. Auke Ijspeert, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Investigating animal locomotion using biorobots
Dr. Krystal Tsosie, Vanderbilt University
Challenging the Status Quo: the Belmont Report in Genomics, Precision Health, and the Big Data Era
Dr. Raven Baxter,
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