Scientific Program

SESSION I

9:30 Welcome by Heather Knight, Provost of Andrews University
9:35 Introduction: "The Gull Years" – Jim Hayward
9:40 Jim Hayward, "Feathered Oscillators: Reproductive Synchrony in Glaucous-winged Gulls"
10:05 Shandelle Henson, "Parsing Environmental Stimuli: Poisson Regression and Differential Equation Models of Animal Behavior"
10:30 Karl Bailey, "The Cost of Confronting Confusion"
10:55 Charles Amlaner, "Reflections on Thirty Years of Sleep Research"

Lunch break and visiting, Biology Department Lobby (11:30 - 1:25)

SESSION II

1:30 Comments by Keith Mattingly, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
1:40 Introduction: "The Cricket Years" – Gordon Atkins
1:45 Pamela Coburn-Litvak, "It's All in Your Head! A Look at Stress from Inside the Brain"
2:15 Randy Walikonis, "Synaptic Protein Machines and Neurological Disorders"
2:45 Gordon Atkins, "Hormones, Brains, and Behavior -- Why Crickets?"
3:15 Break
3:30 Benjamin Navia. "Plasticity in the Cricket Auditory System"
4:00 Leslie Samuel, "Correlations between Behavior and AN2 Interneuron"
4:30 Dave Mbungu, "Transformational Learning and the National Science Foundation"