II Symposium of Graduate Research
Integrating Scales in
Biology: A Holistic Approach
March 18-19, 2005
Amphitheater 142
Department of Biology
University of Puerto
Rico – Rio Piedras Campus
FREE ATTENDANCE AND REGISTRATION
The Association of Graduate Students in Biology, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras campus, invites all interested professors, graduate students and undergraduate students from all areas in Biology to the
II Symposium of Graduate
Research entitled Integrating Scales in Biology: A Holistic Approach.
The goal of this
symposium is to present current graduate research and to encourage a Holistic
Approach in biology by integrating multidisciplinary investigations across
scales that go from the cell to the landscape.
In addition, this symposium seeks new areas that are forefront in
biology and that lead to future projects.
Simultaneously
with the symposium, there will be an Open House in the Biology and Chemistry Graduate Program that wants
to present the graduate programs to undergraduate students interested in pursuing
graduate studies.
For the symposium, there will be five invited keynote
speakers who represent the main areas of research in our program: neurobiology, molecular
biology, ecology and ecological genetics.
The keynote speakers are:
|
Keynote
speaker |
Research
area |
Web
page address |
|
Dr. Christopher Brochu Phylogenetic approaches toward crocodilian history |
Evolution - Paleontology |
http://www.uiowa.edu/~geology/people/faculty/brochu/ |
|
Dr. Pablo
Marquet Facing the challenge of ecological complexity |
Macroecology |
http://www.bio.puc.cl/profs/marquet/ |
|
Dr. Kausik Si Molecular mechanisms of persistence of memory |
Neurobiology |
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/faculty-data/eric-kandel/faculty.html |
|
Dr. José Cibelli Relationship between Stem Cell and Nuclear Transfer-cloning |
Cell and Molecular Biology |
http://www.canr.msu.edu/dept/ans/community/people/cibelli_jose.html |
|
Dr. Bryan Epperson Population genetics of pine species at different
spatial scales |
Ecological genetics |
http://forestry.msu.edu/faculty/fmembers/epperson.htm |
Mrs. Millie Viera Tel: (787) 764-0000 x.2572 Fax: (787)
764-2610
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