By: Sam Benshoof, INFORUM FARGO – Just because we’re thousands of miles away from the nearest ocean, doesn’t mean those of us in the Red River Valley can’t celebrate Shark Week with a splash. The annual event, which kicked off Sunday night on the Discovery Channel, is celebrating its 25th year of weeklong, shark-themed programming. For longer than that, though […]
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences, gave the 200th presentation of his career when he delivered an invited keynote address to the Society of Experimental Biology, in Salzburg, Austria on June 30, 2012. His talk was entitled “Behavioural responses of aquatic organisms to chemical information about predation risk.” Almost all of the research presented in the talk was conducted by undergraduates.
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences, had an article accepted for publication by the peer-reviewed journal Functional Ecology. The title of the article is “Cognitive dysfunction and risk assessment by prey: predictable changes in global climate have unpredictable effects.”
Bioscience graduates Cory Sailer and Sonny Radenic, both 2011, and Bioscience student Randy Sutrisno received final acceptance for publication for their research paper entitled “Maternal effects and exploratory-boldness behavioural syndrome in zebrafish.” The research was supervised by Brian Wisenden. Thus far, 62 undergraduates have co-authored peer-reviewed research papers with Wisenden.
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences, gave an invited talk at the 2011-2012 Colloquium Series of the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on Oct. 13. The title of his lecture was “Co-evolution of parental care and anti-predator competence of the young in a biparental cichlid fish.”