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Students/faculty attend conference, one wins award
Faculty and students from the Department of Biological Sciences at Tarleton State University attended the 26th Annual Meeting of the Texas Society of Mammalogists at Junction, Texas on February 22-24.
Two graduate students, Sam Kieschnick and Terry Johnson gave oral presentations at the meeting. Sam’s paper entitled “Assessing population genetic structure of Baird’s pockect gopher with AFLP was coauthored by Dr. Russell Pfau and Dr. Philip Sudman from Tarleton.
Terry’s presentation entitled “Population genetics of the Texas mouse” was coauthored by Dr. Russell Pfau from Tarleton and Dr. Gregory M. Wilson from the University of Central Oklahoma. Four undergraduate students also made presentations at the meeting.
Cassie Cox presented “Influence of woody vegetation on small mammals in shortgrass prairie” coauthored with Dr. Raymond Matlack from West Texas A&M University. Cassie won the Rollin H. Baker Award for her presentation. This award is presented for the best overall oral presentation by an undergraduate student. [Way to go Cassie!]
Elizabeth Watson presented a poster entitled “An analysis of the ecological preferences of the Texas kangaroo rat”. Coauthors for this poster included Tarleton undergraduate Mark Nelson, graduate student Danielle Breed, Dr. Jim Goetze from Laredo Community College, and Dr.
Allan Nelson from Tarleton.
Faculty and students from the Department of Biological Sciences at Tarleton State University attended the 26th Annual Meeting of the Texas Society of Mammalogists at Junction, Texas on February 22-24.
Two graduate students, Sam Kieschnick and Terry Johnson gave oral presentations at the meeting. Sam’s paper entitled “Assessing population genetic structure of Baird’s pockect gopher with AFLP was coauthored by Dr. Russell Pfau and Dr. Philip Sudman from Tarleton.
Terry’s presentation entitled “Population genetics of the Texas mouse” was coauthored by Dr. Russell Pfau from Tarleton and Dr. Gregory M. Wilson from the University of Central Oklahoma. Four undergraduate students also made presentations at the meeting.
Cassie Cox presented “Influence of woody vegetation on small mammals in shortgrass prairie” coauthored with Dr. Raymond Matlack from West Texas A&M University. Cassie won the Rollin H. Baker Award for her presentation. This award is presented for the best overall oral presentation by an undergraduate student. [Way to go Cassie!]
Elizabeth Watson presented a poster entitled “An analysis of the ecological preferences of the Texas kangaroo rat”. Coauthors for this poster included Tarleton undergraduate Mark Nelson, graduate student Danielle Breed, Dr. Jim Goetze from Laredo Community College, and Dr.
Allan Nelson from Tarleton.
