MBL | Biological Discovery in Woods Hole Contact UsDirectionsText SizeSmallMediumLarge
HomeAbout the MBLEducationResearchSupport
About the MBL
Visit
Join
events

Young Scientist Symposium

Thursday, August 15, 2008
Speck Auditorium

A members of the Woods Hole community are invited to attend this year's Young Scientist Symposium on Friday, August 15 in Speck Auditorium. Please come out and support our young scientists. A tentative schedule of presentations is below:

9:00 AM Amoebae and human pathogens in Mt. Hope Bay
Elizabeth Halliday and Rebecca Gast

10:00 Qi Zhang, Y. L. Li, Y. Q. Cao and R. W. Tsien
"Dynamics of dual fusion modes revealed by single quantum dot imaging"

10:15 Yuko Hasegawa, Jessica Mark Welch, Alex Valm, Christopher Rieken, Mitchell Sogin and Gary Borisy
"A novel approach to visualize microbial diversity: Combinatorial Labeling and Spectral Imaging-Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization"

10:30 Christopher W. Rieken, Jessica Mark Welch, Alex M. Valm, Yuko Hasegawa, Rudolf Oldenbourg and Gary G. Borisy
"Visualizing microbial diversity using spectral microscopy"

10:45 Wesley T. Beaulieu, C. M. Regula, S. P. Colin and J. H. Costello
"Predator-prey interactions of the hydromedusa Aequorea victoria"

11:00 Charlotte Regula, Sean P. Colin, John H. Costello, Heather Kordula
"Mechanisms of prey selection in ambushing hydromedusae"

11:15 Shahla Farzan, Michael Brosnahan, Donald Anderson
"Gamete formation in the sexual cycle of Alexandrium tamarense"

11:30 Jennifer Cutler, Elizabeth Halliday, Rebecca Gast
"Indicator bacteria and pathogenic bacteria in Avalon Bay"

11:45 Ashley Hellman, Bill Mebane, Nick Warren
"Sustainable aquaculture: How to grow fish food for developing nations"

12:00 PM Break

1:30 Emily Olesin, Erin Kinney, Ivan Valiela
"
5 N profiles in experimental salt marsh plots: Evidence of sources and microbial transformations"

1:45 Laura Grieneisen, D. S. Johnson and L. A. Deegan
"The effects of herbivory in a nitrogen-enriched salt marsh"

2:00 Travis Richards, C. Kennedy, L. Grieneisen and L. Deegan
"Population and growth response of Fundulus heteroclitus to whole ecosystem nutrient enrichment"

2:15 Albert Decatur and Colin Polsky
"Sub-meter object-oriented land-cover classification of north-eastern Massachusetts"