Early Career Scientists Symposium: Using Phylogenies in Ecology
The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology sponsored the fifth annual U-M Early Career Scientists Symposium on Saturday, March 14, 2009. Nine outstanding scientists presented on the topic of using phylogenies in ecology.

The speakers traveled from as far away as the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in Kunming, China and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. The others were from U.S. institutions including Harvard, Brown, and the University of Oregon. The keynote speaker, Jeannine Cavender-Bares hails from the University of Minnesota. Over 130 individuals registered for the event, including about 25 percent from other institutions, both in and out of state and including Canada.

A student poster session and panel discussion rounded out the day along with a casual lunch in the Chemistry Building atrium and dinner reception at the Exhibit Museum of Natural History on campus.

Among the photographs below is a group shot of this year's speakers from left to right: (back row) Rose Carlson, Steve Kembel, Nathan Swenson, Enrico Rezende, Matthew Helmus (front row) Erika Edwards, Liliana Dávalos-Álvarez, John Paul, Jeannine Cavender-Bares.