[Info] January 2011 Events at NCEAS

[Ginger Gillquist]

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Events for January 
2011

Current information also available on the internet at 
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu.

Current NCEAS Residents:

Postdoctoral Fellows: Carol Adair, Jennifer Balch, Julia Baum, Jarrett 
Byrnes, Liza Comita, Darren Johnson, Lesley Lancaster, Katie Longo, 
Jennifer O’Leary, John Parker, Stephanie Pau, Simon Queenborough, 
Josephine Rodriguez, Sadie Ryan, Lindsay Scheef, Carly Strasser, 
Jennifer Williams

Sabbatical Fellows: Ruth Gates, Kay Gross, David Marsh, Gary Mittelbach, 
Max Moritz, Joshua Tewksbury

Center Associates: Sandy Andelman, Juliann Aukema, Nancy Baron, Amber 
Budden, Steven Courtney, Ben Halpern, Carrie Kappel, Jai Ranganathan, 
Kim Selkoe, Alisa Wade
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Upcoming Working Group Projects, January 2011:
For information about a group project, please contact the Group Leader 
directly.

January 10-14, 2011
Title: Comparative ecology of cities: What makes an urban biota “urban?”
Leader(s): Myla Aronson, Madhusudan Katti, Paige Warren, Charles Nilon
Email(s): myla.f.aronson at hofstra.edu, mkatti at csufresno.edu, 
pswarren at eco.umass.edu, nilonc at missouri.edu
Participants: Mark Goddard, Frank La Sorte, John Marzluff, Dave Oleyar, 
Nicholas Williams

January 10-14, 2011
Title: Evaluating and improving open source software for nonlinear 
statistical modeling in ecology
Leader(s): Mark Maunder, Beth Gardner, Ben Bolker
Email(s): mmaunder at iattc.org, bgardner at usgs.gov, bolker at math.mcmaster.ca
Participants: Liza Comita, Sarah Cubaynes, Olivier Gimenez, Marc Kery, 
Eun Jung Kim, Cleridy Lennert-Cody, Arni Magnusson, Mihoko Minami, John 
Nash, Anders Nielsen, Jim Regetz, Hans Skaug, Casper Willestofte Berg, 
Elise Zipkin

January 21-23, 2011
Title: A graduate seminar network to facilitate synthetic research on 
context-dependency in the mycorrhizal symbiosis
Leader(s): Jason Hoeksema, James Bever
Email(s): hoeksema at olemiss.edu, jbever at bio.indiana.edu
Participants: Chris Allen, Brady Allred, Anita Antoninka, Wes Beaulieu, 
Bala Chaudhary, Anjel Craig, Christopher Fernandez, Catherine Gehring, 
Mitchell Greer, Miranda Hart, Kristopher Hennig, Nicole Hergott, Nancy 
Johnson, David Johnson, Wittaya Kaonongbua, John Klironomos, Alexander 
Koch, Roger Koide, Jamie Lamit, James Meadow, Brook Milligan, Brian 
Ohsowski, Thomas Pendergast, Gregory Penn, Krittika Petprakob, Bridget 
Piculell, Blake Ramsby

January 24-28, 2011
Title: Climate change and invasive species: are non-natives poised for 
greater success in future climatic conditions?
Leader(s): Cascade Sorte, Jeffrey Dukes, Joshua Lawler
Email(s): cjsorte at ucdavis.edu, jsdukes at purdue.edu, jlawler at u.washington.edu
Participants: Dana Blumenthal, Bethany Bradley, Carla D'Antonio, Jeffrey 
Diez, Regan Early, Edwin Grosholz, Ines Ibanez, Sierra Jones, Luke 
Miller, Julian Olden, Wilfried Thuiller

January 24-28, 2011
Title: Parasites and food webs - the ultimate missing links
Leader(s): Kevin Lafferty, Andrew Dobson, Mercedes Pascual
Email(s): lafferty at lifesci.ucsb.edu, dobber at princeton.edu, pascual at umich.edu
Participants: Cheryl Briggs, Giulio De Leo, Thilo Gross

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Ginger Gillquist
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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