10:30 - Coffee

Session I

11:00 - Amanda Szucsik
Constraint of skeletal muscle plasticity in Varanus exanthematicus

11:15 - Steven Lockton
The contribution of transposable elements to expressed coding sequence in Arabidopsis thaliana

11:30 - Jason Schlumbohm
Fitness tradeoffs of Escherichia coli after adaptation to cold

11:45 - Leah DeRose-Wilson
Divergence in non-coding regions between two Arabidopsis species

12:00 - Sarah Kimball
Mechanisms defining ecological range limits in a natural plant hybrid zone

12:15 - Lunch - Sandwiches provided by Posh Productions

Session II

1:15 - John Eme
Growth and exercise endurance of American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) with and without cardiac shunt

1:30 - Marianne Porter
Structural properties of shark cartilage: the contribution of the mineral fraction

1:45 - Leah Goldstein
Does resource competition determine invasion success into a coastal sage scrub community?

2:00 - Jennie Beltràn
The effect of size and amino acid composition on the mechanical properties of dragline silk

2:15 - Break

Session III

2:30 - Heather McGray
The contribution of phenotypic plasticity and genotypic diveristy in exotic species invasions

2:45 - Justin Schaefer
Bending Segmented Beams: dynamic mechanics of elasmobranch vertebral columns

3:00 - Jesse Hollister
Relating population, genomic, and phylogenetic data in a recently expanded group of nonautonomous helitrons in Arabidopsis

3:15 - Matthew Whiteside
Nanotechnological tools reveal contributions of fungi to terrestrial N-cycle

3:30 - Break

Session IV

3:45 - Will Van Trump
The sensory basis of rheotaxis in Cymatogaster aggregata

4:00 - Jonathan Gruber
How repeatable are associations between polymorphisms in achaete-scute and bristle number variation in Drosophila?

4:15 - Melissa Albers
The evolution of saline-tolerance in mosquito larvae

4:30 - Heidy Contreras
Temperature and respiratory patterns in the hissing cockroach

6:00 - Dinner at Becky and Brandon Gaut's house - Mexican food from El Ranchito

Directions:
- From Peltason, turn into University Hills on Los Trancos
- At the second stop sign, turn left on Harvey
- Bear right at the fork
- The house is about 3/4 of the way around the circle
- Note that parking is only allowed on the outer side of the circle

Map:
Link to Google Maps

If you have any questions regarding the Graduate Student Symposium please contact either:

Kristin Young - youngkc@uci.edu - cell: (949)307-2184
or
Steve Lockton - slockton@uci.edu - cell: (858)336-9090