NESCent: The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

NESCent supports 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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NAME	YEAR AWARDED	PROJECT TITLE
Catalysis Meeting
Richard Moore (Miami University-Oxford) Tia-Lynn Ashman (University of Pittsburgh)	2010	Emergence of gender and sex chromosomes: evolutionary insights from a diversity of taxa
James H Hunt (North Carolina State University)	2010	Evolution of Insect Sociality: An Integrative Modeling Approach
Greger Larson (Durham University) Dolores Piperno (National Museum of Natural History) Dorian Fuller (University College-London) Michael Purugganan (New York University) Robin Allaby (University of Warwick)	2010	Domestication as an Evolutionary Phenomenon: Expanding the Synthesis
Sarah Reece (Institutes of Evolution, Immunology and Infection Research) Andrew Read (Pennsylvania State University) Nick Savill (University of Edinburgh) Nicole Mideo (University of Edinburgh)	2010	Evolution of Infectious Diseases: Integrating Empirical and Modelling Approaches
Graduate Fellow
Bret Moore (Purdue University)	2010	Do retinal specializations reflect ecology? An evolutionary perspective.
Paul Durst (Duke University)	2010	Evaluating Patterns and Trends in Insular Body Size Evolution
Sarah Seiter (UNC Chapel Hill)	2010	Distinguishing Trait Value and Trait Plasticity in the Evolution of Reaction Norms
Nimrod D Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv University (ISRAEL))	2010	Detection of clade-specific accelerations and decelerations in gene evolutionary rates
Long-term Sabbatical
James H Hunt (North Carolina State University)	2010	The Origins of Arthropod Sociality
Armin Moczek (Indiana University-Bloomington)	2010	THE NATURE OF NURTURE: HOW ENVIRONMENTAL AND GENETIC INFORMATION INTERACT TO SHAPE DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION
Dorothee Huchon (Tel-Aviv University)	2010	Current view of rodent phylogenetic relationships
Tal Pupko (Tel-Aviv University)	2010	Evolutionary models accounting for multi-layer selection pressures
Postdoctoral Fellow
Peter Unmack	2010	A GIS based approach to a priori prediction in aquatic biogeography.
Jenny L McGuire	2010	Examining Paleontological Extinction Patterns to Predict Modern Extinction Vulnerability
Jennifer Verdolin	2010	Integrating behavioral syndromes into social networks: Optimal distribution of phenotypes and group stability.
Clinton Francis	2010	Acoustic signal space conservatism: a framework for signal flexibility in noise
Rafael F Rubio de Casas	2010	Dispersal Evolution in the Angiosperms: the Origin of Heterocarpy
Short-term Visitor
Vincent Moulton (University of East Anglia (UNITED KINGDOM))	2010	New Applications of Phylogenetic Combinatorics
Katharina Huber (University of East Anglia)	2010	New Applications of Phylogenetic Combinatorics
Matina Kalcounis-Rüppell (UNC Greensboro)	2010	POTENTIAL FOR PERIPHERAL POPULATIONS TO MITIGATE CORE EXTINCTIONS: BATS AND WHITE NOSE SYNDROME.
Roi Dor (Cornell University (Ithaca,NY))	2010	Applying New Phylogenetic Comparative Methods to Analyze Character Evolution in Swallows
Working Group
David Wilson (Binghamton University) John Gowdy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)	2010	Integrating Evolutionary Theory with Behavioral Economics

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