EBIO Spring Symposium 2008

"Fractal Worlds"

April 11, 2008
Abstract Deadline: April 4, 2008

EBIO Spring Symposium is a graduate student-run symposium that provides an opportunity for undergraduate, graduate and post doc students doing research in ecology to present their work and interact in a friendly and supportive peer environment. The event includes a keynote speaker and a full day of student oral presentations.

Refreshments will be provided throughout the day and we will close the event with a dinner to thank all of our presenters, promote student interaction and enjoy academic life with peers and faculty.

Guidelines for Presenters

Oral presentations are limited to 15 minutes. We recommend a presentation length of 12-13 minutes, allowing for questions. The preferred format is Microsoft PowerPoint, however overhead or slide projectors are available upon request (please contact us at least a week prior to the symposium at ebiosymposium@colorado.edu)

The abstract submission deadline is Tuesday, April 4, 2008. It will be a first come, first serve policy so hurry up if you want to get in! Final schedule and program of activities will be determined and posted by April 4, 2008.

Submit your abstract as a Word file attachment to ebiosymposium@colorado.edu by April 1st. In your file please include your name, last name, institution, title of your talk and the abstract. Abstracts should be not longer than 250 words.

Submit an electronic copy of your PowerPoint presentation no later than April 9th, 2008 to: ebiosymposium@colorado.edu. However, in addition, bring an extra copy of your presentation with you to the symposium as a back-up, preferably burned on a CD to avoid problems with incompatible flash drives. 

Click here to access Full Program (PDF)  

Friday April 11, 2008

(All events will be held on 2nd floor of Ramaley N240 except where noted)

Reception and Continental Breakfast
9:30 – 10:00 am: Outside N240

Time	Speaker	Title	Room
10:00 - 10:15	Kendra Morliengo-Bredlau	The effects of compounded disturbances on nitrogen cycling in Routt National Forest	N240
10:15 - 10:30	William Wieder	Climate change in tropical forests	N240
10:30 - 10:45	Toby Gass	Two approaches for understanding controls on water use and gross primary production in forest stands	N240

Refreshments
10:45 – 11:15 am: Outside N240

Time	Speaker	Title	Room
11:15 - 11:30	Andrew King	Unexpectedly High Levels of Microbial Biomass and Activity in Unvegetated Tropical and Temperate Alpine Soils	N240
11:30 - 11:45	Cesar Nufio	The effects of climate change on the grasshoppers of the southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado	N240
11:45 - 12:00	Natalie Robinson	The Effects of Habitat Type and Quality on Butterfly Communities	N240

Lunch Break
12:00 – 1:00 pm: Outside N240

Time	Speaker	Title	Room
1:00 - 1:15	Jessie Dulberger	The effect of chronic wasting disease on mule deer fawn recruitment	N240
1:15 - 1:30	Brent Hawkins	A Preliminary Investigation into the Evolution of Development of Catfish Barbels	N240
1:30 - 1:45	Evan Lampert	Tritrophic effects of xanthotoxin on the polyembryonic parasitoid Copidosoma sosares (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)	N240
1:45 - 2:00	Susan Whitehead	Methyl-jasmonate mediated plant defenses affect fruit chemistry and maturation rate in Hamelia patens (Rubiaceae)	N240

Break and Refreshments
2:00 – 4:00 pm: Outside N240

Oral Presentation - Keynote Speaker

Time	Speaker	Title	Room
4:00 - 5:00	Claire Horner-Devine	The distribution and assembly of microbial communities	N1B23

Dinner and Prizes
5:00– 8:00 pm: N240

EBIO Spring Symposium 2008 - Sponsors

Financial support was provided by:

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Community sponsors (food donations):