On Saturday March 15, 2008, the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Michigan will sponsor the fourth annual U-M Early Career Scientists Symposium. This one-day symposium is focused on the topic of networks in ecology and evolution. Eight outstanding early career scientists were chosen from an international pool of applicants. They will present current research that investigates how the consideration of network structures can improve our understanding of evolutionary and ecological processes.
The symposium will also include keynote talks by Dr. Andreas Wagner (University of Zurich) and Dr. Jordi Bascompte (Biological Station of Doñana, Spanish Research Council).
LOCATION: East Hall Auditorium # 1324, University of Michigan Central Campus, Ann Arbor.
Organizers:
Trisha Wittkopp wittkopp@umich.edu
Annette Ostling aostling@umich.edu
Wenfeng Qian wfqian@umich.edu
Susanna Messinger susmess@umich.edu
Gail Kuhnlein kuhnlein@umich.edu
David Bay, production/photography dbay@umich.edu
Speakers | Poster Titles and Abstracts
| Stefano Allesina | National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California Postdoctoral Associate |
| Paulo Guimarães | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Postdoctoral Associate |
| Christian Landry | University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry |
| Sasha Levy | New York University, New York Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Emily Stuart Minor | University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, Maryland National Parks Ecological Research Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Kristi Montooth | Indiana University, Bloomington Assistant Professor, Department of Biology |
| Samraat Pawar | University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. candidate, Section of Integrative Biology |
| Steve Proulx | Iowa State University, Ames Assistant Professor, Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology |
| Keynote Speakers | |
| Jordi Bascompte | Biological Station of Doñana, Spanish Research Council, Sevilla, Spain Associate Professor of Research, Integrative Ecology Group |
| Andreas Wagner | University of Zurich, Switzerland Professor, Department of Biochemistry |
