Brian Wisenden, Biosciences, is this year’s Dille speaker. His talk is entitled “Minnows and Cichlids and Worms! Oh My! The Behavioral ecology of predator avoidance as uncovered by undergraduate researchers”. The talk is Wednesday, Sept. 18 from 7 to 8 p.m. SL 118. The talk is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
Memo From Provost Blackhurst Please mark your calendars for Wednesday, Sept. 18 when this year’s award recipient, Dr. Brian Wisenden, will be honored and present his lecture “Minnow and Cichlids and Worms! Oh My!: Behavioral ecology of predator avoidance, as uncovered by undergraduate researchers” at a 7 p.m. event in SL 118. mnstate.edu/academicaffairs
For the second time in the same week, Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, has published another research paper. Biosciences undergraduates Randy Sutrisno and Phillip Schotte conducted a test of phylogenetic differences in predators’ ability to mask or biochemically degrade the chemical alarm cues of their prey that eke out of the predator’s digestive system.
Shireen Alemadi, Brian Wisenden and undergraduate student Andrew Nelson (all Biosciences Department) have had a paper accepted for publication in the international peer-reviewed journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. The title of the paper is “Learned recognition of novel predator odour by convict cichlid embryos.” In this study, eggs of the cichlid fish were simultaneously exposed to the odor of a […]
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, gave an invited departmental seminar to the Department of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., on March 27. The title of his talk was “Larval morphology, performance and fitness and the evolution of parental care in convict cichlids.” This talk relied upon data collected by MSUM Biosciences undergraduates Anthony Stumbo, Patrick Self, Justin Sheierl, Kurtis […]