Summer 2009 |
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Sarah Cobey
Advisor: Professor Mercedes Pascual
"Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of influenza viruses" |
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Akane Uesugi
Advisor: Professor Beverly Rathcke
"Tri-trophic investigation of the evolution of host plant use in a insect herbivore; a case study with a leafminer (Amauromyza flavifrons)" |
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Spring 2009 |
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Tim Connallon
Advisor: Professor L. Lacey Knowles
"Evolutionary consequences of sex linkage and sex-specific selection" |
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Diego Ruiz-Moreno
Advisor: Professor Mercedes Pascual
"The role of primary and secondary transmission on the dynamics of cholera in endemic areas"
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Shalene Jha
Advisor: Professor John Vandermeer
"Movement in the matrix: pollination and dispersal processes in a tropical coffee and forest landscape mosaic" |
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Winter 2009 |
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Matt Chatfield
Advisor: Professor Priscilla Tucker
"Evolutionary dynamics among salamanders in the genus Plethodon" |
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Eladio Marquez
Advisor: Professor Phil Myers
"Peeking into the black box: inferring developmental causes of modularity and their evolutionary role" |
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Zach Miller
Advisor: Professor John Vandermeer
"Plant pathogens and the maintenance of plant species diversity: sledgehammers and small axes"
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Bret Weinstein
Advisor: Professor Robyn Burnham and Professor Emeritus Richard Alexander
"Evolutionary trade-offs: in time, across space, and between the two" |
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Fall 2008 |
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Elen Oneal
Advisor: Professor L. Lacey Knowles
"Biogeographic and evolutionary mechanisms promoting divergence in Caribbean crickets (genus Amphiacusta)" |
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Bin Wang
Advisor: Professor Yin-Long Qiu
"Origin and Evolution of Mycorrhizal Symbioses in Land Plants" |
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M. Jahi Chappell
Advisor: Professor John Vandermeer
“From food security to farm to Formicidae: Belo Horizonte, Brazil's Secretaria Municipal de Abastecimento and biodiversity in the fragmented Atlantic rainforest" |
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Summer 2008 |
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Nicole Maturen
Advisors: Professor George Estabrook and Professor Emeritus Michael Frohlich
"Genetic Analysis of the Evolution of Petaloid Bracts in Dogwoods" |
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Spring 2008 |
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Andrea Walther
Advisor: Professor Diarmaid Ó Foighil
"A systematic study of North American freshwater limpets (Gastropoda: Hygrophila: Ancylidae)" |
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Ben-Yang Liao
Advisor: Professor Jianzhi (George) Zhang
"Expression evolution of mammalian genes" |
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Winter 2008 |
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Jim Crants
Advisor: Professor Beverly Rathcke
"Pollination and pollen limitation in mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum L.), a deceit-pollinated spring ephemeral" |
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Wendy Grus
Advisor: Professor Jianzhi (George) Zhang
"Evolution of the vomeronasal system viewed through specific genes." |
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Javier Ruiz
Advisor: Professor John Vandermeer
"Plant dispersal, seedling recruitment and insect herbivory: evidence from the Dipteryx oleifera system" |
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Luis Fernando Chaves
Advisors: Professors Mercedes Pascual and Mark Wilson
"Ecological dynamics of vector-borne diseases in changing environments" |
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Fall 2007 |
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Ondrej Podlaha
Advisor: Professor Jianzhi (George) Zhang
“Evolution of genes involved in mammalian reproduction and sex determination”
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Corinne L. Richards
Advisors: Professors L. Lacey Knowles and Ronald A. Nussbaum
“Ecological and evolutionary implications for the conservation of Panamanian golden frogs” |
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