SBE Graduate Student Lightning Talks, featuring:
Kwaku Agyekum, Biological Sciences MS student:”Regulation of synapse formation and function in C. elegans.”
Advisor: Zhao Xuan
DeCorey Bolton, Zoology PhD Candidate:”eDNA Metabarcoding to SurveyGulf of Maine for Shellfish.”
Advisor: Erin Grey
Ben Johnson, EES/SBE PhD Candidate:”Introductions of a New Parasitoidto the State of Maine.”
Advisor: Phil Fanning
Nikhil Brocchini, CCI/SBE MS student:”Rules for Life in a World of Giants –Untangling the Top-Heavy Ecologies of the Pleistocene.”
Advisor: Jacquelyn Gill.
Cornelius Onyedikachi Nichodemus, Plant Sciences PhD student: “Assessing plant trait response to phenological changes in seasonal environment.”
Advisor: Dudu Meireles
Elissa Ballman, Biological Sciences PhD student:”Exploring sublethal effects of a potential new biocontrol agent of stable flies.”
Advisor: Allie Gardner
*All are welcome to join us one hour earlier for the SBE award presentations at 2 pm in the same location.