NESCent funds sabbatical scholars, post-doctoral fellows, working groups and catalysis meetings. The abstract from each proposal can be found by clicking on the project title. For more information about when groups are meeting, see the Calendar.
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New Funded Projects
| NAME | YEAR AWARDED | PROJECT TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| Catalysis Meeting | ||
| Cynthia Beall (Case Western Reserve University) Peter Robbins (Oxford University) |
2008 | Human evolution and adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia |
| Erika Edwards (Brown University) Caroline Stromberg (University of Washington-Seattle Campus) Colin Osborne (University of Sheffield) |
2008 | Toward A New Synthesis of the Evolutionary History and Ecology of C4 Grasses |
| Long-term Sabbatical | ||
| Michael Antolin (Colorado State University) | 2008 | Sabbatical book project: Genetics of small populations |
| Stephen d'Orgeix (Virginia State University) | 2008 | Evolution courses, mountaintop lizards and a view toward the future research |
| Elizabeth Lacey (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) | 2008 | Temperature and the evolution of floral design |
| Robert T. Pennock (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) | 2008 | Darwinian design: From artificial life to evolving intelligence |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | ||
| Josh Auld | 2009 | Evaluating the effects of inbreeding on dispersal |
| Carlos A. Botero | 2009 | Evolution of conventional signals: From individuals to populations and back |
| Marc Lajeunesse | 2008 | Meta-analysis and the comparative phylogenetic method |
| Trina Roberts | 2008 | Sticky tips and misplaced roots: Is there a bias in intraspecific phylogenetics? |
| Stephen Smith | 2008 | Integrating species distribution modeling and phylogenetics |
| Short-term Visitor | ||
| Daniel Taub (Southwestern University) | 2009 | Toward A General Theory of Biological Invasions |
| Inderjit Singh (University of Delhi) | 2009 | Toward a general theory of biological invasions |
| Gordon A Fox (University of South Florida) | 2009 | Toward a general theory of biological invasions |
| Glenda M Wardle (The University of Sydney) | 2009 | Toward A General Theory of Biological Invasions |
| Working Group | ||
| David Pfennig (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Armin Moczek (Indiana University-Bloomington) |
2008 | Evolution and Development of Polyphenisms: Pathways to Innovation and Diversification |
| Christine Wall (Duke University) Chris Vinyard (Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine) Rebecca German (Johns Hopkins University) Susan Williams (Ohio State University-Main Campus) |
2008 | Analysis and Synthesis of Physiologic Data from the Mammalian Feeding Apparatus |
