SOUTHEASTERN BIOLOGY 1 (|b4x5^l) Volume 58 2011 April, Number 2 ASB ASB 72 nd Annual Meeting ASB April 13-16, 2011 ASB ASB University of Alabama, Huntsville ASB See Page 116 and Consult Website http : / /www. sebiologists . org ASB ASB Embassy Suites, Huntsville, Alabama ASB ASB The Official Publication of ASB The Association of Southeastern Biologists http : / /www. sebiologists .org SOUTHEASTERN BIOLOGY (ISSN 1533-8436) SOUTHEASTERN BIOLOGY (ISSN 1533-8436) is published online quarterly in January, April, July, and October by the Association of Southeastern Biologists, Inc., Carolina Biological Supply Co., 2700 York Road, Burlington, NC 27215. Please send address changes to the SOUTHEASTERN BIOLOG Y business manager, Tim Atkinson, Carolina Biological Supply Co., 2700 York Road, Burlington, NC 27215. All contributions, inquiries about missing back numbers and other matters should be addressed to the Journal Editor. News items should be sent to the News Editor. 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Book Rev. Assoc. Eds. ... Christopher G. Brown, Dept, of Biology, Shorter College, Rome, GA 30161 ; (706) 233-7265; cbrown@shorter.edu. Jennifer Mandel, Dept, of Plant Biology, 2502 Miller Plant Sciences Bldg., University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602; (706) 583-5510; ellis.jen@gmail.com. Meetings Coordinator Scott Jewell, P.O. Box 1088, Mebane, NC 27302; Office (336) 421-0034; Fax (336) 421-3425; Cell (336) 213-7373; a2zconvention@yahoo.com. ASB Officers President Patricia B. Cox, Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West Summit Hill Drive-WTIIC, Knoxville, TN 37902. (865) 632-3609; Fax (865) 632-4223; pbcox@tva.gov. President-Elect Donald H. Roush, Dept, of Biology, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL 35632; (256) 765-4435; Fax (256) 765-4430; dhroush@una.edu. Vice President Jennifer J. Davis, Dept, of Biology, Shorter University, Rome, GA 30161; (706) 233-7292; jdavis@shorter.edu. Past President Thomas R. Wentworth. Department of Plant Biology, Box 7612, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7612; (919) 515-2168; Fax (919) 515-3436; tom_wentworth@ncsu.edu. Secretary Conley K, McMullen, Dept, of Biology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807; (540) 568-3805; Fax (540) 568-3333; mcmullck@jmu.edu. Treasurer Tim Atkinson, Carolina Biological Supply Co., 2700 York Road, Burlington, NC 27215; (336) 538-6224; tim.atkinson@carolina.com. Membership Officer Terry D. Richardson, Department of Biology, Box 5048, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL 35632; (256) 765-4429; Cell (256) 443-9165; Fax (256) 765-4430; tdrichardson@una.edu. Database Manager Deborah Atkinson, Office of Continuing Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, CB#8165, 400 Roberson Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165; (919) 843-6892; Fax (919) 966-5692; datkinso@email.unc.edu. Archivist John Herr, Dept, of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208; (803) 777-8110; Fax (803) 777-4002; herr@biol.sc.edu. Executive Committee Members-at-Large 201 1 : Ronald V. Dimock, Jr., Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27106; (336) 758- 5567; Fax (336) 758-6008; dimock@wfu.edu. Randall L. Small, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996- 1610; (865) 974-6207: Fax (865) 974-3067; rsmall@utk.edu. 2012: George R. Cline, Biology Department, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 36265-1602; (256) 782- 5798; Fax (256) 782-5587; gcline@jsu.edu Joey Shaw, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN 37403; (423) 425-4341; Fax (423) 425-2285; Joey-Shaw@utc.edu. 2013: James T. Costa, Dept. Biol., Western Carolina U., Cullowhee, NC 28723; (828) 227-381 1 ; costa@email.wcu.edu. Ashley B. Morris, Department of Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688; (251) 460-7310; amorris@jaguar1 .usouthal.edu. Purpose The purpose of this association shall be to promote the advancement of biology as a science by encouraging research, the imparting of knowledge, the application of knowledge to the solution of biological problems, and the preservation of biological resources. The ASB has representation in Section G Committee of the AAAS. Varying types of membership are available to individuals and institutions. See inside back cover. Time and Place of Future Meetings 201 1 April 13-16: Hosted by the University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama. Meeting site is the Von Braun Convention Center adjacent to the Embassy Suites Hotel, Huntsville, Alabama 2012 April 3-7: Hosted by the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Meeting site is the Georgia Center on campus. 2013 April 10-13: Hosted by Marshall University, Huntington, WV. Meeting site is the Charleston Convention Center, Charleston, WV. April: Spartanburg, SC (TBA); 2015 April: Alabama (TBA); 2016 April: TBA; 2017 April: Spartanburg, SC (TBA). 2014 A Message from the President 105 The View from Here A Message from the President Patricia B. Cox It seems like yesterday when I wrote my very first Presidential message and I’m finding it difficult to express my thoughts and feelings. My first thought, however, is that as the first two-year President of ASB, I realized that none of my predecessors had to write this many “The View from Here” messages. All joking aside, as ASB’s 75 th Anniversary approaches, I am pleased with what we have accomplished over the past two years and encouraged that ASB will continue to thrive and grow over the next 75 years. This growth would not be possible without our affiliate societies (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists-Southeastern Division; Botanical Society of America-Southeastern Division; Ecological Society of America- Southeastern Chapter; Society of Herbarium Curators; Society of Wetland Scientists-South Atlantic Chapter; Southeastern Society of Parasitologist; Southern Appalachian Botanical Society, and Tri-Beta- Southeastern Districts I & II). We hope to continue our affiliation with each of you for many years to come. I also need to recognize another very important group that ASB is greatly indebted to, and that group is our Patron Members (Associated Microscope, Breedlove, Dennis and Associates Inc., Carolina Biological Supply Company, Marilyn Pendley, Martin Microscope Company, Southeastern Naturalist, Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning, and Tim Atkinson). THANK YOU so very much for your support. Several changes occurred this year, and before any major decisions were made by the Executive Committee, a survey was sent out to all ASB members asking for responses to several questions concerning member benefits and the future of ASB. Based on those responses, followed by a second, shorter survey, the following decisions were made: 1. Starting with the January 2011 Issue, Southeastern Biology will now be available ONLY as a quarterly online journal. It will continue to provide news and information important to the society. This was not an easy decision to make, since this journal has been published by Allen Press for the past 57 years. However, with the increased cost incurred for publishing SEB, it was becoming increasingly more expensive to produce. This action will save the Society approximately $24, 000/year. 2. The second survey also asked if the members would like the EC to pursue the possibility of having Southeastern Naturalist become the “official” hardcopy journal of ASB, and 90% of the respondents said yes. The 106 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Publication Committee and Member’s Benefit Committee along with the ASB Treasurer have been in negotiations with SEN and hopefully sometime in the near future an agreement can be reached. 3. The third question on the survey asked if the members would like the EC to pursue the possibility of creating a NEW online publication with more emphases on cell/molecular topics so as not to alienate our non-organismal (naturalists) members and 70% of those that responded said yes. The development of this journal was turned over to the Member’s Benefit Committee and President-Elect Dr. Don Roush. You will be hearing more about this in the future. In addition to those mentioned above, several additional changes will take place within the governing body of ASB. The Executive Committee has been reviewing our committee structure and it was decided that the Patrons and Exhibitor's Committee duties are being carried out by the Meetings Coordinator, Scott Jewell; therefore, since it is no longer a functioning committee, it will be eliminated. This year we have experimented with having a Program Committee that will eventually become a Standing Committee, with rotating members, instead of having the Program Committee being part of the Local Arrangements Committee. This will result in a more efficient and consistent method for submission of abstracts and development of the meeting program. Additional proposals will be presented at the executive committee meeting in April for changes to the Place of Meeting and Local Arrangement Committee's duties. All committee duties will be updated in the ASB Bylaws and Leadership Guide. I hope that all of you have made plans to attend the 72 nd Annual ASB meeting in Huntsville, April 13-16. As I write this message, I was told that the block of rooms reserved at the Embassy Suites and Holiday Inn has been sold and that we are on target for reaching our attendance goal for this meeting. While at ASB, please make every effort to attend the Plenary Session on Wednesday evening, April 13 at 7:30 pm. We are honored to have Dr. Gary E. Machlis (University of Idaho and the Science Advisor to Director of the National Park Service). The title of his address is Scenario-Building during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill This year marks the 75 th anniversary of our longtime and largest affiliate, the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society. Please join in this celebration by participating in the events that have been planned for most of the day on Friday April 15. The day starts off with the SABS breakfast, followed by a showing of the remake of ’ And Who Will Weigh the Mountains”, a video depicting the history of SABS. At this time, several Past Presidents of SABS will speak and recognition awards will be presented. Also visit the SABS booth in the Exhibit Hall to purchase 75 th Anniversary memorabilia and to view the photographic display prepared by SABS Past President, Larry Mellichamp. On Friday afternoon, plan to attend the SABS symposium entitled: “A Thread of the Past, the Present and the Future Botanical Research”. Past President, Joe Winstead is the organizer and moderator of the symposium. Following the Symposium, everyone is invited to a Mixer. In addition, there are a variety of commercial workshops and field trips scheduled. Please take advantage of these great opportunities. As I mentioned in the October 2010 issue, the Huntsville area is home to a diverse array of plants A Message from the President 107 and animals, and these field trips will be an excellent chance for you to accompany local experts to these areas. The Association of Southeastern Biologists is YOUR Society. If you have comments (Positive or Negative), please take the time to communicate those to the executive committee either in an e-mail, phone call, or grab one of us during the meeting. If you want to become more active in ASB, please consider being on a Committee or better yet, put your name in the hat to be an officer. If you are interested in being more involved in ASB, please stop by and sign your name in the Notebook that will be the ASB booth in the Exhibit area. Last but not least, I want to thank everyone that I have worked with over the past two years. ASB members are an amazing group of folks and while this job has been "trying” at times, I am very proud to have served the organization as President. I most appreciated being able to call on a number of Past Presidents for advice (John Herr, Mike Dennis, Tom Wentworth, Howie Neufeld, Ken Shull, and Bill Martin). I am also indebted to my “sisters” Kim Tolson, Pat Parr, Eloise Carter, Diane Nelson, and Bonnie Kelly for keeping me sane and I especially thank Jim Caponetti, Tim Atkinson and Scott Jewell, for all you do for ASB, and for being there for me both as advisors and friends. Sincerely Patricia B. Cox President 108 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Southern Appalachian Botanical Society 75 th Anniversary Celebration and Symposium Held in conjunction with the 72 nd annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists Meeting Site: The Von Braun Center, Huntsville, Alabama April 13-16, 2011 The Program will include the following events: A symposium with featured speakers: “A Thread of the Past, the Present, and Future Botanical Research”; A Breakfast meeting and photo-display of SABS history; A current group photograph and a display of past group photographs; Special recognitions of important contributors; An updated presentation of “And Who Will Weigh the Mountains;” 75 th anniversary commemorative memorabilia; Field trips; A special commemorative issue of Castanea. Southern Appalachian Botanical Society Publishing Castanes since 1936 Candidates for Office 109 ASB Candidates for Office-201 1 The Nominating Committee composed of Patricia B. Cox (Chair), Donald H. Roush, and Christi Magrath has selected the following slate of nominees for the ASB offices to be filled in 2011. Voting will take place at the annual business meeting on Friday morning, April 15, 2011 Additional nominations will be accepted from the floor before voting is conducted. Please plan to attend and vote. Elections can sometimes be close difference on who gets elected to office. Vice President Zack Murrell Randall Small Treasurer Tim Atkinson Executive Committee Members-at-Large Chris Gissendanner Irene Kokkala Christi Magrath Roland Roberts . Therefore, your vote could make a Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee Carolina Biological Supply Company Burlington, North Carolina University of Louisiana Monroe, Louisiana North Georgia College and State University, Dahlonega, Georgia Troy University Troy, Alabama Towson University Towson, Maryland 110 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Dr.Timothy Atkinson Candidates for Office 111 Dr. Roland Roberts 112 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Vice President Zack Murrell - Dr. Murrell is an Associate Professor at Appalachian State University, a plant systematist and a herbarium curator. Over the past 12 years he has been helping organize the herbaria of the Southeast to provide support and develop collaborations among the 225 collections in the region. In 1999 he organized a symposium entitled “Southeastern Endemics: Speciation and Biogeography." This was followed by a second symposium in 2001 entitled “The Future of Plant Collections in the Southeast” and a third symposium in 2003 entitled “The Crisis in Field Botany: Loss of People and Knowledge.” During this same time period he worked with other curators in the region to the organize The Society of Herbarium Curators, a service organization that now has a national membership. He has served as President of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society (2002-2004), was on the ASB Executive Council as Member-at-Large (2002-2005) and served as President of the Society of Herbarium Curators (2006-2008). In 2005 Zack organized a group of curators in the Southeast to submit a proposal to the National Science Foundation for a five-year project to develop a “virtual community” of curators and affiliated scientists and teachers. This project was funded as a Research Coordination Network (RCN) called SERNEC: SouthEast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections. Over the past five years this group has developed collaborative relationships to develop a federated database of specimen information and Zack is currently working with this group to help develop a “bioinformatics toolkit” for the community. He has worked to integrate the Southeastern herbarium effort with national activities and he currently serves as co-Chair of the US Virtual Herbarium effort. He has worked to develop the teaching and outreach aspects of SERNEC and to provide workshops and training sessions for this curatorial community. Recent efforts have involved expanding this bioinformatics project to an “all-taxa” effort in the Southeast. As part of this effort, he has helped organize workshops to extend the bioinformatics effort to various taxonomic groups (algae, mollusks) and has served for two years as chair of the ASB Bioinformatics Committee. In addition to these efforts, Zack is author of a plant systematics textbook entitled “Vascular Plant Taxonomy." He teaches systematics, evolution and botany classes at Appalachian State University and also a summer field botany class at Mountain Lake Biological Station. His research is focused on species and speciation and he has mentored 15 Master’s students in systematic, floristic and comparative biogeography projects. If elected to the position of Vice-President of ASB, he would work to 1) help keep ASB in sound fiscal condition by seeking ways to expand the membership and also to seek alternative funding sources for the Association, 2) explore new means of communication, augmenting the ASB website and examining new technologies to increase the flow of information among members, 3) develop the use of workshops and symposia as a means to enhance greater interaction between and among traditional groups of scientists, and 4) increase the visibility and impact of ASB nationally and internationally. Candidates for Office 113 Randall Small - Dr. Small is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Head in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. He received a B.S. in Biology from East Tennessee State University (1991) where he was a member of a M.S. in Botany from Miami University (1994), and a Ph.D. in Genetics from Iowa State University (1999). Randy has been a faculty member at the University of Tennessee since 1999, where he teaches undergraduate courses in Biodiversity and Genetics. His research focus is in the field of plant systematics, especially of the plant family. In 2004 Randy received the Raymond Holton Faculty Teaching Award from the Botany Department, and the Chancellor’s Award for Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement from the University of Tennessee. Randy joined ASB in 2000 immediately following his appointment at the University of Tennessee, attended his first ASB meeting in Chattanooga, TN in 2000, and hasn’t missed one since. Randy was co-chair (with Dr. Pat Cox) of the Local Arrangements Committee for the ASB 2006 meeting held in Gatlinburg, TN and is currently a Member at Large of the ASB Executive Committee. Treasurer Timothy A. Atkinson - Dr. Atkinson is the current ASB Treasurer and was elected to this office in 1999. He is Operations Manager at Carolina Biological Supply Company, Burlington NC. He received his AS (1971) in Physical Education and Biology from Gadsden State Junior College, Gadsden AL; BS (1974) in Biology and Physical Education, and MS (1977) in Biology from Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville AL; and studied Ecosystematics for his PhD under A. E. Radford at UNC Chapel Hill until starting at Carolina Biological (1980). He has performed contract work for the US Department of Defense, US Department of Energy, US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Bureau of Land Management, The Nature Conservancy, and many private researchers. He has published steadily for over 35 years, including books, journal/magazine/newspaper articles, videos, e-publications, and several treatments in Flora North America. Although not in a teaching position, Tim remains active in teaching through the training of teachers in Carolina Biological’s Professional Development Workshops. Tim first became involved in ASB as a student in 1974 and currently is an individual Patron Member, and an individual Life Member, as well as representing the Patron Membership of Carolina Biological Supply Company. Executive Committee Chris R. Gissendanner - Dr. Gissendanner is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He earned his B.S. in Biological Sciences from Florida State University (1993) and his M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2001) in Cellular Biology from the University of Georgia. His primary research interest is jn understanding the genetic regulation of organ development in animals using the nematode model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. He has also published papers on the evolution of ecdysone receptor signaling in nematodes and still maintains an interest in this area. Dr. Gissendanner has received several state and federal grants to support his research, including a 114 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 current AREA award from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development. Members of the Gissendanner lab have presented research at the past three ASB Annual Meetings and three students will be presenting papers or posters at the 2011 meeting. Chris has long had an interest in developing the "teacher- scholar" model through mentoring of undergraduate research. In the past year, he has published three peer-reviewed articles with undergraduate co-authors. Chris has been active in the ULM Howard Hughes Undergraduate Education Program and, along with colleague Dr. Ann Findley, secured a spot for the ULM Biology Department in the inaugural cohort of the Phage Genomics Research Initiative sponsored by the HHMI Science Education Alliance. This groundbreaking project introduces freshman biology majors to real discovery- based learning through the identification and genomic analysis of novel mycobacteriophages. Chris also serves as the faculty advisor for the Nu Gamma Chapter of Beta Beta Beta at ULM. Chris considers the ASB Annual Meetings to be an important component of the mentoring and training of his students (both graduate and undergraduate) as it provides a collegial and fun atmosphere for his students to discover the art of communicating scientific research. As a member of the ASB Executive Committee, Chris plans to be an advocate for increasing the presence of cell and molecular biology research at the ASB Annual Meetings. Irene Kokkala - Dr. Kokkala is the Director of the Center of Teaching & Learning Excellence, and Professor of Biology at North Georgia College & State University. She received her BSc in Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science with thesis in Aquaculture from the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. Dr. Kokkala also has a M.S. in Biology from Western Kentucky University, and Ph.D. in Zoology from Clemson University. Her area of expertise is Developmental biology with focus on the maternal embryonic nutrient transport in viviparous fish and the embryonic developmental of the lateral line in fish. Other areas of work include learning communities, integrating writing in science, innovative technology including the use of virtual worlds such as Second Life in education. She has served as a MERLOT reviewer for biology, in 2005 and received the award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology. Irene is a Georgia Governor's Teaching Fellow, and serves on the editorial board of Animal Science Review (Greece) and is a member of the Southeastern SoTL Colloquy Founders' Council. Dr. Kokkala has been a member of ASB since 1990 and has served on several committees including, Committee on minorities, women and the disabled (chair 2001-2004), Poster Committee 2004-2007 (chaired 2006-2007), and Education Committee 2008-2011, (co-chair 2009- 2011). Christi Magrath - Dr. Magrath is an Associate Professor of Biological and Environment Science at Troy University. She received a Ph.D. from the Tulane University in Molecular and Cellular Biology (1999) and earned a B.S. from the University of Southern Mississippi (1993). She focuses both research efforts and teaching on the field of Molecular and Cellular Biology and was awarded and NSF CAREER grant (2002) for her work on transcription termination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. She is active in Beta Beta Beta, the National Bilology Candidates for Office 115 Honor Society, as faculty advisor for the Mu Epsilon Chapter and District Director for Southeastern District II and was the Southeastern District II Advisor of the Year in 2005. Dr. Magrath was a three term President for Troy-Pike Habitat for Humanity (2004-2008), and was co-advisor for the Troy University Habitat for Humanity Camus Chapter (2003-2008). Dr. Magrath was awarded the Troy University Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award (a humanitarian award) for "ideas of heart, mind, and conduct as evince a spirit of love for and helpfulness to other men and women” (2007). After ten years as an active member of the Association of Southeaster Biologists, she has presented her research yearly and brought many students (both graduate and undergraduate) to the annual meeting and has also been a member of the Nomination Committee (2010) and served on the Microbiology Awards Committee as both a member and Chair (2008-2009). She is excited to have taken on the role of mother to Malory and Trissy (11 and 14 years old). Roland P. Roberts - Dr. Roberts received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 2002, under the direction of Dr. Lowell E. Urbatsch. He has been employed at Towson University for 7 years, having held the positions of Curator, TU Herbarium (BALT), Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University (2003-present), and member, Department's Graduate Committee (2005-2007). He has taught 7 courses, ranging from biodiversity, introductory biology for non-majors, systematic biology, and plant taxonomy. He has directed graduate students at the MS level, in systematics, floristics and phylogeography. He also coordinates the department's advising program, serves on the independent research committee, and on diversity and scholarship committees at the college and university levels. He has memberships in the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Botanical Society of America, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Association of Systematic Biology, and the Association of Southeastern Biologists. He served on the ASB poster awards committee and is currently the chair of that committee. His research interests include systematics of Asteraceae, phylogeography of Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. lyrata, and population structure of the invasive species Ailanthus altissima. He has published several research articles and taxonomic treatments, and made numerous presentations at regional and national meetings. My approach to research is collaborative. I have established collaborative projects with colleagues at Loyola University, MD and the University of the West Indies. These collaborative projects have fostered the training of both undergraduate and graduate students. Since joining the faculty at Towson University, I have trained over 25 undergraduates, including community college and high school students in my laboratory. Among these students are several from underrepresented groups in the STEM fields. As a member-at-large, my activities associated with the tasks and experiences outlined above can provide the basis for training students at all levels of the ASB organization. My belief is that we need to aggressively expand STEM education through research involvement, teaching and addressing issues that are relevant to our Society . os 116 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 University of Alabama-Huntsville is proud to host the 72 nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists April 13-16, 2011 -Huntsville, AL Embassy Suites & Von Braun Center This four-day event brings together approximately 1000 biologists from across the southeastern United States. The meeting features a distinguished plenary speaker, special symposia, field trips, oral and poster presentations, workshops, networking and social events, and more. The Annual Meeting provides you with the exclusive opportunity to showcase your products and/or services to this large and important audience of faculty, students, researchers, conservation workers, military and government personnel, and business professionals with a common interest in biological issues. Interests are diverse, and range from genetics and molecular biology, to physiology and population biology, to community and ecosystem ecology and systematics. About ASB: The Association of Southeastern Biologists (ASB) was established in 1937 by biologists concerned with the quality of biological research in the southeastern United States. Today, ASB is the largest regional biology association in the country, and is committed to the advancement of biology as a science by the promotion of science education, research, and the application of scientific knowledge to human problems. ASB Web Site: Many thanks to Dr. Ashley Morris, University of South Alabama for maintaining ASB’s web site. Please visit our new and exciting web site www.sebiologists.org. Many new features have been added, register on-line for our Annual Meeting, join or renew your membership, view photos, inquire about career opportunities and more. 2011 Meeting Information 117 University of Alabama-Huntsville The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is a public co-educational, state-supported research university within The University of Alabama System. UAHuntsville was founded as part of the University of Alabama in 1950 and became an autonomous campus within the UA System in 1969. Administration The University is governed by The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees that vests authority in the campus president to lead the university. The president is assisted by the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs; the vice president for research; the vice president for finance and administration; the vice president for university advancement; the vice president and chief of staff; and the vice president for student affairs. The vice presidents, together with the president, the executive assistant to the president/director of government relations and the director of university relations function as the university's executive committee. Student body Total enrollment is about 7400, including about 1500 graduate students; approximately 50 percent women, 50 percent men. UAHuntsville incoming freshmen score an average of 25 on the ACT examination, among the highest among Alabama's public universities. Academic offerings UAHuntsville offers 61 degree-granting programs that meet the highest standards of excellence, including 30 bachelor's degree programs, 18 Masters' degree programs, and 13 Ph.D. programs through its five colleges: Business Administration, Liberal Arts, Engineering, Nursing, and Science. Research The University received about $65 million in external funding for active research projects during 2007-2008. Research sponsors include federal and state agencies; academic institutions; industry and private foundations. Research is conducted within the individual colleges or through UAHuntsville's 17 independent research centers, laboratories and institutes. Major interdisciplinary research thrusts include: applied optics; propulsion; space plasma and aeronomics; space physics and astrophysics; earth system science; information technology; management of science and technology; microgravity and materials; modeling and simulation; rotocraft systems; systems engineering; structural biology; and automation and robotics. Accreditation UAHuntsville is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to award bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Many UAHuntsville programs are also accredited by their respective accrediting agencies, including the American Chemical Society, ABET, Inc., the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business 118 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 (AACSB), the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the Computer Sciences Accrediting Board (CSAB), Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education (ACCE), National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), and the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). Faculty UAHuntsville has more than 330 full-time faculty members; 92 percent have terminal degrees in their fields. The FTE student/faculty ratio is 16:1. Library The M. Louis Salmon Library has more than 412,000 books, along with collections of U.S. government documents, sound recordings, microform and microfiche. There are also subscriptions to 2,766 periodicals. Academic recognition U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT ranks UAHuntsville among the 150 best national doctoral universities - a distinction shared by only seven percent of the more than 2,000 four-year colleges in America. UAHuntsville's academic reputation has been consistently recognized by other respected national publications. BARRON’S PROFILES OF AMERICAN COLLEGES lists UAHuntsville as "very competitive," the only public university in Alabama to achieve this ranking. UAHuntsville also was highlighted as being among "Top Colleges for Top Students" by PETERSON'S COMPETITIVE COLLEGES. The university has been recognized by America's 100 Best College Buys for eleven consecutive years for providing students a high quality education at a competitively low cost. Location Located at the southern edge of the Appalachian Mountains, Huntsville is a national center of aerospace and high technology research and development. It is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and major U. S. Army research and development centers at Redstone Arsenal including the U. S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM), and the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). UAHuntsville is the anchor tenant in Cummings Research Park, the second largest research park in the United States and home to more than 225 high technology and research companies with more than 23,000 employees. Academic calendar UAHuntsville is on the semester system, offering a full program of undergraduate and graduate day and night classes throughout the year, including the summer. Mailing address: The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Ala. 35899. Telephone: 256.824.6120 or 1-800-UAH-CALL. You will have an unforgettable experience in Huntsville at the Annual ASB 2011 Meeting Information 119 Meeting April 1 3-16, 201 1 . Don’t miss it! 120 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 ASB Huntsville Tentative Schedule You Must Be Registered to Attend the Meeting You Must Wear Your Badge at All Functions *AII Meetings/Functions Will Be Held at the Von Braun Center Unless Indicated* When What Location Wednesday, April 13 9am-8pm Registration Open 8am-9:30pm PowerPoint and Preview Check 9am-4pm Exhibitor Move-In 12 noon-2 pm Exhibitor Pizza Party (Exhibitors Only) 1pm-6pm ASB Executive Committee Meeting 1pm-6pm SABS Executive Committee Meeting 7:30pm-9pm ASB Plenary Session: Dr. Gary Machlis, Scenario-Building during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 9pm-1 0:30pm Plenary Session Welcome Reception Thursday, April 14 7am-5pm Power Point Preview & Technology Check West Hall 7:00-8:30 am ASB Past Presidents' Breakfast North Hall, Salon 5 9am-6pm Exhibits Open (Exhibitor Coffee @ 8:00am) East Hall 7am-7pm Registration Open East Hall 7am-8am ASB Poster Session I: Setup Only Poster #'s 1 -1 28 Only East Hall 8:30am-12noon Papers-Ecosystems & Disturbance Biology North Hall, Salon 3 8:30am-12noon Papers-Evolutionary Biology North Hall, Salon la 8:30am-12noon Papers-Floristics North Hall, Salon 1b 8:30am-12noon Papers-Genetics-Cell & Molecular Biology North Hall, Salon 2 8:30am-12noon Papers-Herpetology North Hall, Salon 10 8am-4pm ASB Posters Session I: On Display East Hall 10:15am-1 0:30am Conference Break: Visit Exhibits & Posters East Hall 10:30am-1 1:20am Associated Microscope — Enhance Your Research with NIH image j and Motic Software North Hall, Salon 8 12noon-1 :30pm Lunch (Individuals & Organizations) On Your Own East Hall West Hall East Hall East Hall North Hall Salon 1A North Hall Salon IB South Hall 1 South Hall 2 2011 Meeting Information 121 12noon-1 :30pm 12noon-130pm 12noon-1 :30pm 1:15pm-4:30pm 1:30pm-4:30pm 1:30pm-4:30pm 1:30pm-pm 1:30pm-4:30pm 1:30pm-2:20pm 2:45pm-3pm 4:30pm-6pm 6pm-11pm Friday, April 15 7am-5pm 7am-8:30am 7:30am-8:45am 7am-8am 7am-8am 8:30am-1 0:30am 8:30am-9:20am Box Lunches (Pre-Sold Only, Must Have Ticket) West Hall Human Diversity Luncheon and Workshop North Hall, Salon 5 SWS South Atlantic Chapter Luncheon North Hall, Salon 4 BBB Field Trip Huntsville Botanical Gardens Spring Festival of Flowers (Must have ticket to attend) Meet in Lobby of Embassy Suites @ 1 pm Papers-Animal Behavior & Conservation North Hall, Salon 10 Papers-Community Ecology North Hall, Salon 3 Papers-Plant Systematics North Hall, Salon 1b Papers-Scholarships of Teaching & Learning North Hall, Salon la Bio-Rad Labs & Vernier Software — Enhance your Biology Labs with Bio-Rad Labs and Vernier Software North Hall, Salon 8 Conference Break: Visit Exhibits & Posters East Hall ASB Poster Session Happy Hour-Poster Session 1 Poster #’s 1-128 Only East Hall Thursday Night Social-“Sweet Home Alabama” Bring Your Ticket and Your Badge South Hall PowerPoint Preview and Technology Check West Hall SABS/SEBSA Breakfast/Business Meeting ASB Patrons and Exhibitors Breakfast BBB Poster Setup ASB Posters Session 2: Setup Only Poster #'s 129-191 SABS 75 th Celebration: Video Showing “And Who Will Weigh the Mountains”, Special Recognition and Remarks, Group Photos (All attendees and Past Presidents) Biopac Systems-Budget Beating Physiology Teaching Lab Solutions Embassy Suites (Room TBA) North Hall, Salon 5 East Hall East Hall North Hall, Salon 3 North Hall, Salon 8 122 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 9am-6pm Exhibits Open East Hall 8:30am-12noon Papers-Aquatic Ecology & Invasive Species North Hall, Salon 1b 8:30am-12noon Papers-Community & Population Ecology North Hall, Salon 10 8:30am-12noon Papers-Herpetology North Hall, Salon la 8:30am-12noon Papers-Microbiology North Hall, Salon 4 8:30am-12noon Papers-Plant Sciences North Hall, Salon 2 8am-4:45pm BBB Officers & Judges Meeting North Hall, Salon 7 9am-4:30pm ASB Poster Session II: On Exhibit East Hall 9:30am-1 0:30am BBB Business Meeting North Hall, Salon 6 (6a & 6b) 10am-12noon BBB Poster Presentations East Hall 1 0am-1 1 am SHC Executive Board Meeting Embassy Suites (Room TBA) 10am-10:15am Conference Break: Visit Exhibits & Posters East Hall 11:30am-12noon ASB Business Meeting North Hall, Salon 3 1 2noon-1 :30pm Lunch (Individuals & Organizations) On Your Own 12noon-1 :30pm Box Lunches (Pre-Sold Only, Must Have Ticket) West Hall 12noon-1 :25pm Education Committee Luncheon & Workshop Embassy Suites (Room TBA) 12noon-1 :25pm ESA/SE Luncheon Embassy Suites (Room TBA) 1pm-4:45pm BBB Papers North Hall, Salon 5 1pm-4:45pm BBB Papers North Hall, Salon 6a 1pm-4:45pm BBB Papers North Hall, Salon 6b 1 :30pm-4:30pm Symposium-“A Thread of the Past, the Present and the Future Botanical Research” Joe Winstead, Moderator-“SABS and 75 Years of Plant Biology in the Southern Appalachians” North Hall, Salon 3 1:30pm-4:30pm Papers-Animal Ecology North Hall, Salon la 1 :30pm-4:30pm Papers-Genetics-Cell & Molecular Biology North Hall, Salon 1b 1:30pm-4:30pm Papers-Scholarships of Teaching & Learning North Hall, Salon 4 1:30pm-5:30pm Professional Development Workshops North Hall, Salon 8 6pm-9pm Exhibitor Move-Out East Hall 2:45pm-3:00pm Conference Break: Visit Exhibits & Posters East Hall 2011 Meeting Information 123 4:30pm-5:30pm SABS 75th Anniversary Botany Students Reception & Mixer/Sponsored by SABS 4:30pm-6pm ASB Poster Session Happy Hour-Poster Session 2 Poster #’s 129-191 (Posters removed @ 6pm) 5pm-6pm SHC Business Meeting 6pm-7pm Awards Banquet Reception 7pm-9:30pm Awards' Banquet: Presentation and Announcement of Awards North Hall, Salon 2 East Hall Embassy Suites (Room TBA) South Hall Pre- Function Area South Hall Saturday, April 16 7:30am-1 1:30am ASB Executive Committee Breakfast Meeting North Hall Salon 5 8am-5pm SERNEC Workshop North Hall Salon 3 *Please check the program for the various start times for the Saturday Field Trips. Please note: You must attend and present your paper/poster to be published in the July issue of SEB. 124 SE Biology , Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Plenary Speaker Dr. Gary E. Machlis Canon Professor of Conservation, Department of Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units Network, University of Idaho, and Science Advisor to the Director, National Park Service, Washington, DC. Scenario-Building during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill In September 2009, Gary was appointed the first Science Advisor to the Director for the National Park Service. He is playing a key role in advancing science within the NPS, advising the NPS director on science policy and programs, and working with the Department of the Interior leadership, NPS managers and stakeholders as well as the scientific community. Machlis received his B.S. and M.S. in forestry at the University of Washington, and his Ph.D. in human ecology at Yale University. He is Professor of Conservation at the University of Idaho, where he has taught courses in protected area management, human ecology, and science policy since 1979. From 1995-2003 he served as the NPS Visiting Chief Social Scientist, and from 1998-2006 as the National Coordinator of the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Network. He also helped establish and lead the National Parks Science Scholars Program, with over $9 million in scholarships to doctoral students in North, Central, and South America. In addition to research on national parks, he has worked internationally on a range of ecological issues — including giant panda conservation in China, wildlife management in Kenya, tourism impacts in the Galapagos archipelago and the ecology of warfare. His recent research has been published in journals as varied as Science , Climatic Change, Society and Natural Resources , BioScience, and Conservation Biology. He has written several books on conservation, and his next book. The Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems, will be published by Yale University Press. He is the lead scientist for the Department of Interior’s Strategic Sciences Working Group, which has developed scenarios for response and recovery for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and leads an international effort on rebuilding Haiti’s science and science education capacity. Gary is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a member of its National Committee on Opportunities for Women and Minorities in Science. We welcome Dr. Machlis to the 72 nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. 2011 Meeting Information 125 Dr. Gary E. Machlis 126 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 ASB POSTER AND PAPER SESSIONS Please Note: BBB presentations are being scheduled separated and are not included below. Questions about oral or poster presentations should be directed to Nicole Welch (nwelch@as.muw.edu). ASB Tentative Sessions Schedule Program Overview Thursday, April 14, 2011 Oral Presentations 8:30 AM Ecosystem & Disturbance Ecology 8:30 AM Evolutionary Biology 8:30 AM Floristics 8:30 AM Genetics - Cell & Molecular Biology 8:30 AM Herpetology 1:30 PM Animal Behavior & Conservation 1:30 PM Community Ecology 1:30 PM Plant Systematics 1:30 PM Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Poster Presentations 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Animal Behavior 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Plant Sciences 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Developmental Biology 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Ecology 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Entomology 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Evolutionary Biology 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Floristics 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Genetics - Cell & Molecular Biology 2011 Meeting Information 127 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Herpetology 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Invertebrates 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Microbiology 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Parasitology 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Friday, April 15, 2011 Oral Presentations 8:30 AM Aquatic Ecology & Invasive Species 8:30 AM Community & Population Ecology 8:30 AM Herpetology 8:30 AM Microbiology 8:30 AM Plant Sciences 1:30 PM Animal Ecology 1:30 PM Genetics - Cell & Molecular Biology 1:30 PM Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 1:30 PM SABS Symposium Poster Presentations 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Ecology 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Genetics - Cell & Molecular Biology 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Herpetology 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Invertebrates 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Microbiology 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Tri-Beta Posters 128 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Ecosystem & Disturbance Ecology ORAL PRESENTATIONS Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 12:00 PM Time Presenter Title 8:30 AM Whitby, Timothy G Carbon loss from soils from multiple elevation gradients under simulated climate change 8:45 AM Ojha, Santosh K The effects of partial harvest on growth, biomass and carbon stocks of hardwood forests in southern Cumberland Plateau: a synthesis 9:00 AM Furniss, John W Atmospheric pollution and tree core chemistry in high-elevation forests of Great Smoky Mountains National Park 9:15 AM Major, Clinton S Effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance and oil spill contaminant exposure on aquatic plant communities of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta 9:30 AM Douglas, Daniel A Land snail species diversity and composition among different forest disturbance regimes in central and eastern Kentucky forests 9:45 AM MacTavish, Rachel Interactive effects of grazing and nutrient enrichment on seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) condition 10:00 AM Meadows, Benjamin Changes in deer browsing pressure on understory plants at Oak Mountain State Park 10:30 AM Dimov, Luben D Effect of silvicultural treatments on the ground layer vegetation in pine-hardwood stands in North Alabama 10:45 AM Williams, Jeanette R Effect of high-intensity directed fire in different seasons on survival of three invasive species: Paulownia tomentosa (royal paulownia), Ligustrum sinense (Chinese privet), and Lonicera spp (honeysuckle) 11:00 AM Campbell, Angelia R Nickel hyperaccumulation in Psychotria grandis (Rubiaceae) from serpentine soils in Puerto Rico 11:15 AM Padgett-Vasquez, Steve Characterization of tick-borne disease risk in Alabama using NASA earth observation Paper Sessions 129 systems 130 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 11:30 AM Callihan, Alexia L Biodiversity surrogacy: employing vascular plants as indicators for bryophyte richness at different spatial scales in Spaws Creek Gorge, Menifee County, Kentucky 1 1 :45 AM Ensign, William E Ordination offish communities using ibi metrics Evolutionary Biology ORAL PRESENTATIONS Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 12:00 PM Time Presenter Title 8:30 AM Gibbons, John G Evidence for structure and variable recombination rates among populations of the opportunistic human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus 8:45 AM Mukherjee, Dipaloke Natural selection in protein-coding genes common to species of mycoplasmatales 9:00 AM Cobbs, Cassidy Characterization of the primary symbiont in hoplopleura (anoplura: hoplopleuridae): support for polyphyletic origins 9:15 AM Newell, Darah Clonal structure in lllicium parviflorum as detected by issr markers 9:30 AM Salichos, Leonidas A genome scale comparison of 4 graph-based ortholog prediction algorithms in a yeast model clade 9:45 AM Lawson, Sarah P Social immunity and the effects of conflict in a eusocial community 10:00 AM Krosnick, Shawn E What is a nectary? Passiflora as a model system for studying nectary evolution 10:30 AM Pan, Jia W Phylogeography of the land snail genus anguispira 10:45 AM Mandel, Jennifer R Genetic diversity of the cultivated sunflower germplasm 11:00 AM Abulfaraj, Aala A Use of allozyme markers to detect genetic heterogeneity in sauger populations Paper Sessions 131 T T 11:30 AM Terry, Randall G Phylogenetic relationships among the new world cypresses (hesperocyparis: cupressaceae): evidence from chloroplast dna sequences 1 1 :45 AM Triplett, Jimmy K Hybridization, polyploidy, and taxonomic confusion: lessons from the temperate bamboos Unknown Deleted: The population history and conservation genetics of pediomelum pariense, ^ a rare plant endemic to Utah (leguminosae) Unknown Deleted: 1 1:15AM J Unknown 1 Deleted: Egan, Ashley N J Floristics ORAL PRESENTATIONS Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM -11:45 AM Time Presenter Title 8:30 AM Bruton, Matt S The vascular flora of the Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge, Marshall, Mccracken, and Graves counties, Kentucky 8:45 AM Gorman, Courtney E The status of Elaeagnus multiflora (elaeagnaceae), a potentially invasive asiatic shrub, in Tennessee 9:00 AM Tripp, Erin A How known is well-known? Progress in lichenology in Great Smoky Mountains National Park 9:15 AM Moosbrugger, Joseph C An annotated flora of crane hollow preserve, Hocking County, Ohio 9:30 AM Estes, L. D Recent additions and noteworthy vascular plant records from Tennessee 9:45 AM Blyveis, Emily R The vascular flora of the Tennessee River Gorge, Hamilton and Marion counties, Tennessee 10:00 AM Jenkins, Andrew P Vascular flora of three top mountain game land preserve, Ashe County, North Carolina 10:30 AM Clark, Rachel K Vascular flora of Kitty Hawk Woods (Dare County, North Carolina) 10:45 AM Hines, Kelly M Manual of the vascular flora of Howell Woods 132 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 11:00 AM Hart, Sunny An in-progress floristic survey of the Ocoee River Gorge, Polk Co., TN 11:15 AM Noble, Sarah M Initial floristic survey of bryophytes found in and around the mouths of limestone caves in south Alabama 11:30 AM Sorrie, Bruce A Realignments in amsonia of the southeastern United States Genetics - Cell & Molecular Biology ORAL PRESENTATIONS Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 12:00 PM Time Presenter Title 8:30 AM Nash, Jessica E Bacterial diversity of an Indian Creek sample as revealed through 16s rrna sequencing 8:45 AM Kemp, Sharen C Analysis of genetic polymorphisms in the vitamin-d receptor gene in persons with disc herniation in the Caucasian population 9:00 AM AN, T'shura S The anti-cancerous effects of reishi mushroom on lung cancer proliferation in the female cell line hi 793 ▼ ▼ 9:30 AM Talley, Jennell M The est3 subunit of yeast telomerase interacts directly with the catalytic subunit and stimulates telomerase activity in vitro 9:45 AM Penland, Kelsey S Per mediated, site-directed mutagenesis of the fmn riboswitch of Photorhabdus luminescens and the effect on symbiosis with Caenorhabditis elegans 10:00 AM Gardner, Courtney M Evaluation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci for paternity analysis in Passiflora incarnata 10:30 AM Cseke, Leland J Educational outreach for the molecular identification of invasive plants 10:45 AM Lemon, Laramie Characterization of chromosome fragile sites in yeast Unknown Deleted: Nanosecond pulsed electric fields induce apoptosis in jurkat cells through the v intrinsic pathway Unknown Deleted: 9 :15AM J 1 Unknown ^ Deleted: Ren, Wei J Paper Sessions 133 11:00 AM Yu, Liang Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons induced lipid peroxidation in relation to lipid alterations in human vascular cells 11:15 AM Dey, Indrani Induction of filamentous growth in yeast deletion strains 134 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 11:30 AM Gillespie, Emily L Chimeric g-protein coupled receptors: probing the structural-functional relationships of signaling pathways 1 1 :45 AM Schroeder, Wanda T Transglutaminase 1 and involucrin are expressed in mouse vaginal epithelial cells in response to estrogen Herpetology ORAL PRESENTATIONS Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 12:00 PM Time Presenter Title Effects of flow regulation on anuran 8:30 AM Eskew, Evan A occupancy and abundance in riparian zones 8:45 AM Cantrell, Andrew W Oak-regenerating silvicultural treatments impact on herpetofauna on the mid- Cumberland Plateau of southern Tennessee 9:00 AM Cusaac, Patrick W Effects of maternally transferred methylmercury chloride on stress induced corticosterone levels in Nerodia sipedon neonates 9:1 5 AM Pauley, Thomas K Forty-four years of herping in West Virginia Iron deposition in first-generation teeth of 9:30 AM Anderson, Michael A the streamside salamander, Ambystoma barbouri 9:45 AM Macek, Brett A Preliminary analysis of call activity at an ephemeral pond in ne Alabama 10:15 AM Simpson, III, Joseph F Assessment of an amphibian community from a fragmented landscape: prospects for the future 10:30 AM Foley, Shawna M Nest-site selection and nest depredation of semi-aquatic turtles on golf courses JSouth Carolina Unknown Deleted: Population status of diamondback terrapins (malaclemys terrapin) in north inlet- winyah bay nerr, Unknown Deleted: 1 0:45 AM r Unknown 1 Deleted: King, Peter ] Paper Sessions 135 1 1 :00 AM Shepard, Nathan A Survivorship of lungless salamanders in association with edge effects from linear fragmentation 11:15 AM Shipman, Jerrod D Thermal ecology of hibernation in Nerodia sipedon 1 1 :30 AM Stanton, Howard J Examining the evolutionary influence of male-male competition on testes size in salamanders 1 1 :45 AM Seddon, Ryan The effects of acute stress on corticosterone, leukocytes, and testosterone in male southeastern five-lined skinks (Plestiodon inexpectatus) Animal Behavior & Conservation ORAL PRESENTATIONS Thursday, April 14 01:30 PM -04:15 PM Time Presenter Title 1:30 PM Barrios, Nicole L A test of parental preferences for offspring sex and ornamentation in eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis) 1 :45 PM White, Shannon L Brook trout use individual recognition and transitive inference to determine social rank 2:00 PM Laughlin, Andrew J Individual and roost movement of non- breeding tree swallows in an agricultural habitat 2:15 PM Brotherton, Lindsay The value of small forest openings to foraging bats 2:30 PM Wright, Daniel Population status of bachman’s sparrow in the Coleman Lake region of the Talladega National Forest, AL V V 3:15 PM Bryan, Keri L Effect of exurban development on land snail diversity and abundance in Sewanee, Tennessee 3:30 PM Loughman, Zachary West Virginia crayfishes: results to date from the second statewide census Unknown Deleted: Survey of lepidoptera and odonata in three piedmont parks in sc and nc Unknown Deleted: 3 :00 PM J f Unknown 1 Deleted: Culin, Joseph D J 136 SE Biology , Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 3:45 PM Nelson, Diane R Swarming, diel movements, feeding, and cleaning behavior of juvenile venomous eeltail catfishes, Plotosus lineatus and Plotosus japonicus (siluriformes: plotosidae) 4:00 PM Weinkam, Todd J Winter weather influences foraging behaviors and habitat use of eastern bluebird Community Ecology ORAL PRESENTATIONS Thursday, April 14 01 :30 PM - 04:30 PM Time Presenter Title 1:30 PM Israel, Kimberly A Vegetation change in a North Carolina deciduous forest, 1977-2010 1:45 PM Sigmon, Lora L Composition and structure of mature second growth riparian forests along the Haw River in central North Carolina 2:00 PM Barker, Julie E Water hyacinth roots: who’s hanging out in them and why? 2:15 PM Walker, Gary L A biological survey of the bull bluff cliff system at Oak Ridge, Tennessee 2:30 PM Duberstein, Jamie A Freshwater tidal swamp communities of the southeastern United States 3:00 PM Witcher, Todd P Great Smoky Mountains All Taxa Biodiversity inventory 3:15 PM Daniel, Nathan A American chestnut restoration in eastern hemlock-dominated forests of southeast Ohio 3:30 PM Fotis, Alex T Living on the edge: trees promoting optimal conditions for woody seedling performance 3:45 PM Blunck, Conrad K Slope-dependent longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) mortality during the reintroduction of fire in a montane ecosystem 4:00 PM Gilland, Keith E Effects of microsite and distance to forest edge on initial colonization of reclaimed mine lands in eastern Ohio Paper Sessions 137 The effects of slope aspect on the spatial 4:15 PM Murphy, Stephen J patterning of a mixed mesophytic old-growth forest Plant Systematics ORAL PRESENTATIONS Thursday, April 14 01 :30 PM - 04:15 PM Time Presenter Title 1:30 PM Lavezzi, Tracey S Widespread ornamental cultivar reverts to one of the world’s worst weeds: the reversion of Japanese blood grass to cogongrass 1 :45 PM Estes, L. D Systematics of sophronanthe (plantaginaceae; tribe gratioleae) 2:00 PM Mellichamp, T. L The Sarracenia rubra complex - biological and taxonomic lessons 2:15 PM Stutzman, Julia K Update on a taxonomic revision of the endemic members of cordia 1. (boraginaceae) in the Galapagos Islands 2:30 PM Flagg, Raymond O Considerations on sessile to shortly pedicellate Mexican Zephyranthes (Amaryllidaceae) taxa with diverging anthers 3:00 PM Krings, Alexander Taxonomy of Cephalanthus (Rubiaceae) in North America 3:15 PM Krings, Alexander Revision of Gonolobus and Matelea s.l. (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae, Gonolobinae) in the West Indies 3:30 PM Roberts, Roland P The position and relationships of Lorandersonia within Solidagininae 3:45 PM Schuettpelz, Eric Biogeographic analyses reveal low levels of intercontinental dispersal in xeric-adapted ferns 4:00 PM Gillespie, Emily L An updated phylogeny and biogeographic analysis of the North American blueberries (Vaccinium, Ericaceae) 138 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning ORAL PRESENTATIONS Thursday, April 14 01 :30 PM - 03:45 PM Time Presenter Title 1:30 PM Neufeld, Howard S Myths surrounding Darwinian evolution and the creation/evolution debates: using history to improve our understanding of evolution 1:45 PM Eakin, David A Advantages of reversing information flow in biology labs and lectures 2:00 PM Sauterer, Roger A Integration of astrobiology concepts across the life sciences curriculum 2:15 PM Rodney, Beasley W An experimental exercise used to determine if Mississippi’s science framework is adequately preparing high school graduates to make informed decisions about ground water 2:30 PM Welch, Nicole T Faculty comments on using diagnostic assessment and active teaching to transform biology courses 3:00 PM McLaughlin, Ellen W Nature education for adults: role of biology departments and university continuing education programs 3:15 PM Davis, Jennifer J A general biology class project: costs and consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster (1 986) and the Gulf BP oil spill (201 0) 3:30 PM Catley, Kefyn M College student challenges in acquiring ‘tree- thinking’ skills Poster Presentations Animal Behavior POSTER SESSION Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Number Presenter Title 1 Bolvard Kimberlv J R e P r °ductive behavior of the Potomac sculpin y ’ y (Cottus girardi) Paper/Poster Sessions 139 2 Cheatham, Amber M Ubiquitin proteasome system negatively and positively affects memory and learning in mice 3 Good, Leah M Response to alarm and non-alarm calls by tufted titmice (Baeolophus bicolor) and Carolina chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) in northwest Tennessee 4 Mills, Edward D The impact of noise on the frequency alteration of growl calls (courtship) in blue-breasted quail (Coturnix chinensis) 5 Zenzal, Theodore J The effect of radio telemetry devices on the flight behavior of ruby-throated hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris): a pilot study 6 Albecker, Molly A Prey risk assessment and behavioral choices in larval anurans 7 Cupp, Jr., Paul V Responses of ground skinks, Scincella lateralis, and green anoles, Anolis carolinensis, to chemical deposits of eastern milk snakes, Lampropeltis triangulum Plant Sciences POSTER SESSION Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 8 Machen, Shannon M Molecular investigation of salt stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotiana tobacum callus tissues 9 Clifford, Julie A Adaptive variation in floral morphology within a distylous plant complex: Piriqueta cistoides caroliniana 10 Lickey, Edgar B Non-coding chloroplast DNA sequences indicate limited gene flow between baldcypress and pondcypress 11 Lickey, Edgar B Elucidating the Omphalina sphagnicola (berk.) m.m. moser species complex in Newfoundland 12 Sasek, Thomas W Cyberflora Louisiana: building a virtual herbarium for the state 140 SE Biology , Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 13 Woods, Michael 14 Floden, Aaron J The genus Baptisia (Fabaceae) in Alabama Trautvetteria sp nov. - an endemic to northeast Tennessee Poster Sessions Developmental Biology POSTER SESSION 141 Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 15 Davis, Erica M The effect of ibuprofen on medaka (Oryzias latipes) embryos 16 Waymer, Paige J DNA fingerprinting using a single cell by in situ per 17 Miles, Keila N Effects of household laundry chemicals, dtergents, and fabric softeners on Xenopus laevis development 18 Blackburn, Brandon Does olive pumice extract affect the developmental toxicity of acrylamide to embryos of Xenopus laevis? 19 Jones, Sunde M The preliminary effects of coumadin and caffeine mixtures on Xenopus laevis embryos: should they be used together? 20 Clemmons, Jacqueline 1 Mapping the protein-protein interaction of the dynactin shoulder/sidearm 21 Sehgal, Ritika ECR and USP mediated programmed cell death in drosophila melanogaster 22 Wang, Zixing Signaling involving baboon receptor and its ligand myoglianin is required for the programmed death of peptidergic neurons during metamorphosis Ecology POSTER SESSION Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 23 Perry, T ravis Puma (puma concolor) and mesocarnivore associations and distributions in New Mexico 24 Perry, T ravis Puma (puma concolor) predation rates and prey selection in riparian and piedmont 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Wallston, Margot A Damron, Michael Connor, Kristina F Makowske, J. E Martin, Elizabeth O'Boyle, Meghan L Smith, Nora L Perry, T ravis Perry, T ravis Keen, Karissa D Virone, Dana Hurd, Caitlin E Francis, Jacob S Ward, Rufina N SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 habitats in New Mexico Habitat attributes of Virginia spiraea (Spiraea virginiana britton) along the Cheoah River, North Carolina Diversity and biotic integrity of stream fish communities in the Chestatee River headwaters Experiments with pitcher plant seeds Investigating large animal herbivory on Scutellaria montana in the Tennessee army national guard volunteer training site, Catoosa County, GA Discoverability of biodiversity information & resources The biological potential of the feral pig (Sus scrofa) in Louisiana Morphometric analysis of select cranial measurements taken from Louisiana wild canids Resident puma (puma concolor) populations in narrow riparian habitats in New Mexico Habitat selection of puma (puma concolor) and their principle prey species elk (Cervus elaphus) and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in Southcentral New Mexico Effects of environmental factors and genetics on the production of bioactive chemicals in Panax quinquefolius Relationship between invasive plants and forest communities on reclaimed surface mines of the southern Cumberland Plateau Microhabitat use by seed-eating animals in a recently restored wetland Using dendroecology to determine the effect of Celastrus orbiculatus on Liriodendron tulipifera growth Forest management practices in bankhead national forest:: impact on benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages Poster Sessions 143 39 Stringer, Brandie K Forest disturbance and songbird reproductive success: temporal response 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 Rayfield, Megan Pitman, Megan E Seals, David Wichmann, Wichmann L Becker, Kathryn E Huyler, Ann Lemke, Dawn Reid, Matthew L Kloeppel, Brian D Nammour, Colette Vidd, Danielle N Roberson, Jacob Boatwright, Jon L Sheehy, Amanda M Nowell, Melissa C SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Genetic and demographic diversity of American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) in western North Carolina Developing a management tool to estimate unmarked puma populations with a remote camera array A noninvasive method for monitoring American black bear activity on the talladega national forest in northeast Alabama Digitization and mobilization of natural history collections: challenges of and approaches to a multi-disciplined project Effects of Florida flatwoods ecosystem restoration and management on carbon stock Potential drivers for soil carbon pools in residential areas in Auburn, Alabama Ensemble modeling of tallowtree in forest of the southern USA Effects of levee on flood-induced mortality of trees and saplings in a bottomland hardwood restoration area Analysis of secondary forest succession using lidar analysis in the southern Appalachians The impact of local bank erosion on water quality parameters in Shades Creek, Homewood, AL The effects of aqueous copper and zinc on the reproduction and survivability of daphnia magna A survey of ethinyl estradiol contamination in water systems surrounding Reinhardt University Effect of local bank erosion on macroinvertebrate assemblages in Shades Creek in Homewood, AL, USA Abundance and size frequency distributions of Leptoxis praerosa in different microhabitats Photosynthetic costs and benefits of light attenuation by anthocyanins in red-leafed evergreen species during winter Poster Sessions 145 55 Sapp, Sarah G Phenology of foliar calcium accretion and sequestration in Cornus florida 1 56 Hughes, Keaton E Determining the s h ad e-tole ranee of Castanea dentata, Castanea mollissima, and their hybrids 57 Mooney, Amber N The influence of leaf litter composition on total body calcium of earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris 1.) 58 Stone, Catherine O Hyperaccumulation of manganese in Phytolacca americana from manganiferous soils in South Carolina 59 Moore, Casey Photosynthetic performance of 8 native Costa Rican tree species in a reforestation experiment 132 Mowry, Christopher Coyote (Canis latrans) diets in Yellowstone National Park Entomology POSTER SESSION Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 60 Ward, Rufina N Distribution of major pest and beneficial insects on bionergy crops under evaluation in North Alabama 61 West, Brian D A preliminary investigation on the influence of galls on reproductive effort in goldenrods 62 Carey, Vanessa R Biogeographical survey of arachnid species in subterranean environments 63 Holt, Brian D A preliminary checklist of the cerambycidae of Alabama 64 Van Zandt, Peter A Preliminary survey of the moths of the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge, Bibb Co., Alabama 146 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Evolutionary Biology POSTER SESSION Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 65 White, Raley C Testing the effects of glaciation on allelic richness in lungless salamanders (family plethodontidae) 66 Pearl, Stephanie A Using Carthamus tinctorius 1. (safflower) as a model for genome and trait evolution in the asteraceae 67 Piotrowski, Krystal T Floral morphometric analysis of Viola tracheliifolia Floristics POSTER SESSION Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 68 Hansen, Curtis J A preliminary checklist of the vascular flora of the auburn university solon dixon forestry education center in south Alabama 69 Morris, Michael W New reports of Stenanthium leimanthoides (A. Gray) Zomlefer & Judd and Nestronia umbellula rafinesque in Alabama 70 Casey, Matney N Evaluation and digitization of the University of North Carolina Wilmington Herbarium (WNC): plants endemic to the Carolina coastal plain 71 Krings, Alexander Hosts and potential hosts of citrus pests and disease in the United States: a new online diagnostic resource 72 Morris, Michael W The genus platanthera 1. C. Richard in Mississippi 73 Barger, Wayne An overview of the vascular floras conducted on Alabama’s forever wild tracts Poster Sessions 147 Seaweed biodiversity in the Gulf of Mexico: 74 Luker, Jessica C collections of the university of North Carolina Wwilmington Herbarium (WNC) Genetics - Cell & Molecular Biology POSTER SESSION Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 75 Asamoa, Joshua J Replication of a gene-smoking interactions on sarcoidosis susceptibility 76 Barton, David B Induction of gene expression continues after transcription factor degradation 77 Campbell, George E Investigating cpg island methylation, microsatellite polymorphisms, and gene expression in colon cancer 78 Daugherty, Rachel Metabolic engineering of oil biosynthesis in Jatropha curcas for improved biodiesel 79 Eakes, Thomas C Binding of small molecule inhibitor analogs to c-myc oncoprotein 80 Goines, Jillian C Chemopreventative properties of Ganoderma lucidum extract in a male lung cancer cell line h2342 81 Heck, Kimberly Multilocus sequence typing and analysis of natural cave isolates of Ensifer adhaerens 82 Killion, Elizabeth A Understanding adiponectin expression: sequencing the adipoq gene in European Americans 83 Lee, Paul S Binding of aryl hydrocarbon receptor and its repressor to DNA sequences 84 Nair, Sudershana Regulation of pigment dispersing factor in drosophila melanogaster 85 Rushing, Lori Mechanism for the regulation of barrier-to- autointegration factor (baf) function during nuclear assembly 148 SE Biology , Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 86 Santoro, Irma M Using a mutagenicity assay and Saccharomyces cerevisiae to assess the mutagenic potential of aquatic pollutants 87 Sovyanhadi, Yoedono In-vitro study on the effect of water extract of bitter melon capsules (Momordica charantia) on the insulin production of hit-tl 5 pancreatic beta cells 88 Sovyanhadi, Yoedono In-vitro study on the potency of vitamin c, vitamin e and peptide-yy as growth inhibitors in hep-2 human larynx cancer cells 89 Wilson, La'Tisha lgf-1 stimulates melanoma cell proliferation 90 Cephas, Ryan O Aspartate binding and inhibition in Clostridum perfringens pepca Herpetology POSTER SESSION Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 91 Akin, Jonathan A Factors affecting hatching success of spotted salamanders in vernal pools 92 Bozzell, Derek A The effect of auditory call playback on anuran detectability, catch probability and visual encounter survey efficiency 93 Moffitt, Desiree J The influence of elevation on salamander assemblage composition on grandfather mountain 94 Napier, Zachery L The amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in north central Alabama 95 O'Bryan, Christopher J A cold-blooded killer, presence of ranavirus in syntopic amphibian larvae in west Tennessee, USA 96 Paluso, Keith Preliminary results of amphibian and reptile surveys at two national wildlife refuges in northwest Tennessee 97 Brown, Lisa D Herpetofaunal survey of Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge in northern Louisiana Poster Sessions 149 98 Fi . PricHiia n Monitoring amphibian use of constructed ’ wildlife pools in the Shenandoah Valley 150 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 99 Guidugli, Michelle L Pattern of reproductive and post-metamorphic movements in relation to meteorological factors for two ephemeral pond-breeding amphibians (Ambystoma jeffersonianum and A. maculatum) 100 Huang, Ryan M Detecting the presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in amphibians in Piedmont vs Blue Ridge habitats in northern Georgia 101 Jones, Scott P Incorporating field techniques and arcgis to assess trends in reptile and amphibian diversity across varying levels of urbanization 102 Yeiser, John M Salamanders are useful bioindicators of water quality and watershed health in eastern Kentucky 103 Rigsby, Courtney E Terrestrial habitat environmental influence on amphibian larvae and metamorphs within temporary wetlands 104 Hunt, Stephanie D Assessing detectability of herpetofauna using active search-based methods Invertebrates POSTER SESSION Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 105 Loughman, Zachary J Ecology of cambarus (j ) dubius in north-central West Virginia 106 Foltz II, David Baited lines, a novel approach to collecting burrowing crayfishes 107 Taylor, Nate Conservation of West Virginia's Kanawha River bottomland burrowing crayfishes: species relationship to soil composition and compaction with an emphasis on Fallicambarus fodiens 108 Harding, Lauren L Creepy cave invertebrates and their attraction to different types of leaves Poster Sessions Microbiology POSTER SESSION 151 Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 109 Blankinship, Lisa A The effects of emu oil on E. coli, P. aeruginosa, and S. aureus 110 Burnes, Brian S Identifying sources of pathogen contamination in the Upper Fish River, Alabama 111 Burnes, Brian S Antibiotic resistance patterns of Escherichia coli from the gastrointestinal tracts of humans, cattle, and deer 112 Carlisle, Kristen T Discovering mycobacteriophage cryptkeeper 113 Kennard, Jennifer Antibiotic resistance among escherichia coli from human, bovine, and equine samples 115 Reedus, Jasmine Characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus drug resistance and virulence factors 116 Riley, Zachary L Isolation of Kurthia gibsonii from bottom of shoe 191 Moore, Clea J Characterizing viral genomes in North American bats Parasitology POSTER SESSION Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title Examining the cost of resistance and 117 Watson, Natassia P tolerance through doses response and resource restriction 118 Trematode community of aquatic snails in Black Bayou Lake NWR in northeast Louisiana Childress, Lindsey 152 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 119 Davis, Katie Parasites, host life-history, and rostrum characteristics of the grass shrimp Palaemonetes kadiakensis 120 Garbarino, Valentina R A survey of ectoparasites across twelve waterfowl species 121 Henderson, Erica A continuing study of the prevalence of the causative agent of rocky mountain spotted fever (Rickettsia rickettsii) in field-collected Dermacentor variabilis from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, NC Scholarship of Teaching & Learning POSTER SESSION Thursday, April 14 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 122 Baker, Crystie A mixed methods proposal to measure the effectiveness of environmental education efforts 123 Manis, Chris Developing an environmental awareness program: the Mill Creek project 124 Reynolds, Bradley R Factors leading to the selection of an undergraduate environmental science major 125 Songer, Stephanie R Online instruction in undergraduate microbiology: a comparison of hybrid vs. fully online courses Friday, April 15, 2011 Aquatic Ecology & Invasive Species ORAL PRESENTATIONS Friday, April 15 08:30 AM - 11 :1 5 AM Time Presenter Title 8:30 AM Meyer, Harry A New species of water bear (Phylum tardigrada) from the gulf coast states Poster Sessions 153 8:45 AM Sewell, Susan M Metabolic rates of an aquatic tardigrade, Dactylobiotus parthenogeneticus 154 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 9:00 AM Kellmann, Cailin R The effect of diet and temperature on growth and development of the springsnail Floridobia floridana .▼ 9:30 AM Teasley, Erica R Pharmaceuticals from wastewater in streams draining a forested watershed on the Cumberland Plateau 9:45 AM Tolley-Jordan, Lori R Zoogeography of the invasive snail, Melanoides tuberculata (Muller, 1774) and its concomitant trematode pathogen, Centrocestus formosanus (nishigori, 1924) 10:15 AM Estes, L. D The distribution, abundance, and habitat colonization of the invasive submersed macrophyte, Hydrilla verticillata, in a high- gradient riverine system 10:30 AM Salpeter, Kara E Evidence for biotic resistance to invasion across spatial scales in riparian forest vegetation 10:45 AM Lemke, Dawn Application of adaptive sampling with a generalized random tessellation stratified design: a case study of invasive plants at reclaimed mines on the southern Cumberland Plateau 11:00 AM Stapleton, Elizabeth L Edges and exotic plant distribution in a suburban forest fragment Unknown Deleted: Assessing the influence of hemlock mortality on streams due to hemlock woolly ^ adelgid infestation Unknown Deleted: 9 :15AM J f Unknown 1 Deleted: CHE, Celestine A Community & Population Ecology ORAL PRESENTATIONS Friday, April 15 08:30 AM - 10:45 AM Time Presenter Title Dendrochronological analysis of white oak 8:30 AM Anning, Alexander K growth patterns across a topographic moisture gradient in southern Ohio Effect of experimental shading on a 8:45 AM Matson, Stephanie wintergreen plant: the crane-fly orchid (tipularia discolor) Paper Sessions 155 9:00 AM Zaczek, Nick Impact of balsam fir Abies balsamea on soil, herbaceous plants, and regeneration in northern Wisconsin forest types 9:15 AM McGhee, Adam C The effects of canopy cover, plant composition and riparian proximity on insect diversity 9:30 AM Jolls, Claudia L Persistence of cirsium pitcher, pitcher’s thistle, rare sand dune endemic of the upper great lakes 9:45 AM Patterson, Clint T Effect of overstory density and fertilizer supplement on American chestnut seedlings 10:15 AM Neal, Diana M Growth responses and biomass allocation of rivercane (Arundinaria gigantea) across a gradient of light conditions 10:30 AM Kile, H M The effects of canopy thinning and burning on transplantation of federally threatened Scutellaria montana chapm. (lamiaceae, large-flowered skullcap) in a southeastern deciduous forest Herpetology ORAL PRESENTATIONS Friday, April 1 5 08:30 AM - 1 1 :30 AM Time Presenter Title 8:30 AM Aall, Nathalie C Influence of abiotic and biotic factors on movement and microhabitat selection in terrapene C. Carolina (eastern box turtle) 8:45 AM Forman, Nicholas S A survey of salamnder populations and their micro and macro habitat affinities in urban piedmont North Carolina 9:00 AM Akin, Jonathan A Effect of caudal automy on locomotor performance in the ground skink 9:15 AM Armstrong, Daniel S Population genetics of an isolated spotted salamander population in southeastern Tennessee 9:30 AM Diggs, Elliott Examining population structure in two species of Australian freshwater turtles in the north Johnstone River, Queensland 156 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 9:45 AM Baldwin, Timothy E Survivorship and the influence of varying spatial environmental factors on spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum, egg masses in northern Alabama 10:15 AM Klukowski, Matthew - Influence of reproductive state on plasma corticosterone levels in free-living female fence lizards (Sceloporus undulatus) 10:30 AM Marvin, Glenn A Critical tail autotomy for reduction of maximal swimming performance in a desmognathine salamander 10:45 AM Rayburn, James R Reduction of acrylamide induced developmental toxicity to Xenopus laevis embryos by selected antioxidants 1 1 :00 AM Minton, Lindsey M Does natural pine leachate cause feminization in frogs?: evaluation of aqueous extract of Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana) by examining time to metamorphosis, and gross & histological gonadal structure of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) 11:15 AM Wilson, Thomas P Analysis of greeninfrastructure for use in regional planning of metacommunities with applications for the conservation of amphibians and reptiles Microbiology ORAL PRESENTATIONS Friday, April 15 08:30 AM - 11 :1 5 AM Time Presenter Title 8:30 AM Arighi, Jessica L Finding momo and flo: the isolation and characterization of mycobacteriophage 8:45 AM Mojib, Nazia : evidence for the role of purple violet pigment in ultraviolet (uv) radiation resistance in janthinobacterium sp. ant5-2 from east Antarctica 9:00 AM Huang, Jonathan P Microbial diversity in calcified mats from a perennially ice covered Lake Joyce in McMurdo Dry Valley, Antarctica 9:15 AM McCauley, Steve Impact of a poultry processing plant on the concentration of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Paper Sessions 157 a stream in northwestern South Carolina 9:30 AM Watkins, Richard The link between cry26 and the exosporium enclosed inclusion of Bacillus thuringiensis 9:45 AM Pham, Quyen T Histopathological changes due to dssential oils, antifungal agents, against Aspergillus flavus in peanuts 10:15 AM Dischler, Carl Staphyloccus aures incidence in a college locker room setting 10:30 AM Scocco, Erika A Puccinia pelargonii-zonalis urediniospore production and dispersal within a greenhouse 10:45 AM Purcell, Matthew T Can bacterial community structures act as indicators of environmental differentiation? 11:00 AM Bodri, Michael S Fungal endophyte diversity in sarracenia Plant Sciences ORAL PRESENTATIONS Friday, April 1 5 08:30 AM - 1 1 :30 AM Time Presenter Title 8:30 AM Lamont, Eric E Historical and extant rare, protected, and noteworthy plants of Plum Island, New York 8:45 AM Jones, Ronald L Woody plant survey along the main trail in a small nature sanctuary in southern Costa Rica 9:00 AM Jones, Ronald L A survey of the available resources for woody plant identification in Costa Rica 9:15 AM Risk, Allen C A ground-based, preliminary inventory of the ferns of los Cusingos Bird Sanctuary, Costa Rica 9:30 AM Harris, Amelia Harris P A floral survey and Castanea dentata (fagaceae, American chestnut) census at bendabout farm, Bradley County, Tennessee 9:45 AM Zomlefer, Wendy B Genetic diversity of isolated populations of Veratrum woodii (liliales: melanthiaceae) in Georgia and Florida: a preliminary study with aflp fingerprint data 158 SE Biology , Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 10:15 AM DNA evidence for the recognition of several Cameron, Kree species of cudweeds (Gamochaeta, Compositae) in the eastern United States Paper Sessions 159 10:30 AM Boyd, Jennifer Successful relocation of federally threatened Scutellaria montana (Lamiaceae, large- flowered skullcap) 10:45 AM Leverett, Lindsay D Initial investigations of Packera tomentosa (Asteraceae) seed ecology: mass variation and heteromorphism 11:00 AM Murphy, Alexander D Germination biology of P. tomentosa seeds 11:15 AM Kennell, Timothy A reversible smoke-induced secondary dormancy in venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) seed Animal Ecology ORAL PRESENTATIONS Friday, April 15 01:30 PM - 04:00 PM Time Presenter Title 1:30 PM Shirey, Kristin D Preliminary comparison of the developmental toxicity of venom from two tarantula species, Grammostola rosea and Haplopelma lividium, using embryos of Xenopus laevis: Old World vs. New World 1:45 PM Engelthaler, Matthew B Fish survey and bioassessment of Cox Creek in Lauderdale County, Alabama 2:00 PM Blanchard, Tom Initial response of a fish assemblage to stream restoration efforts along crooked creek, a tributary of the south fork Obion River 2:15 PM Gardner, Lisa M Stopover ecology of migrating songbirds at an inland site in northeastern Alabama 2:30 PM Browning, Jeremy S Exuviotrophic apostome ciliates from freshwater decapods in southern Alabama 3:00 PM Daniel, Erickson M The potential influence of ant Formica obscuripes on the protective mutualism between bacteria Hamiltonella defensa and aphids 3:15 PM Kelly, Lisa Solenopsis invicta (red imported fire ant): colony density and distribution in clay-based Carolina bays 160 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 3:30 PM Ghazal, J. J Meiofauna community structure in the northern Gulf of Mexico 3:45 PM Presley, Daniel R A genetic assessment of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) stranded on Alabama and Mississippi beaches prior to the deepwater horizon oil spill Genetics - Cell & Molecular Biology ORAL PRESENTATIONS Friday, April 15 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM Time Presenter Title 1:30 PM Sweat, Jaylen B Isolation of protoplasts from nepenthes 1:45 PM Dubose, Christopher A combinatorial mai-based screen to identify genes that genetically interact with the nr4a nuclear receptor gene nhr-6 in Caenorhabditis elegans 2:00 PM Rangaraj, Vittobai R In vivo determination of nr4a nuclear receptor target genes in Caenorhabditis elegans 2:15 PM Daily, Christiana M Isolation of the chorionic gonadotropin beta subunit gene promoter in the owl monkey, Aotus nancymaae 2:30 PM Krai, Leos G Isolation and characterization of the Etheostoma tallapoosae cenp-a gene 3:00 PM Darousse, Jaouhar Preliminary phylogenic analysis of mitochondrial cytochrome ’c’oxidase subunit 1 gene (col), nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2 (its2) regions and 18srdna regions of 3 tardigrade species 3:15 PM Kitazono, Ana Regulation of the cin5 transcription factor by the stress response in yeast 3:30 PM Hamissou, Mijitaba An investigation of some biologically active compounds in pokeweed, Phytolacca americana, extracts and their effects on prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells 3:45 PM Holifield, Joshua M The role of leptin in the metastasis of melanoma 4:00 PM Balogh, Erika Differential distribution of sodium, potassium and chloride ions in tissues of high-salinity Paper Sessions 161 and low salinity of Arundo donax using environmental scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy 4:15 PM Milleville, Lauren Characterization of the dead elvis (del) mutation in zebrafish Scholarship of Teaching and Learning ORAL PRESENTATIONS Friday, April 15 01:30 PM - 03:45 PM Time Presenter Title 1:30 PM Weaver, Debora J Teaching cross-cultural awareness in tanzanian health-care settings 1:45 PM Havran, J. C Hawaiian natural history and ethnoecology T I 2:15 PM Jeschofnig, Linda Teaching lab science courses online - resources for best practices, tools & technology 2:30 PM Murdock, Chris Bacteriophage genomics as a research model in introductory biology labs 3:00 PM Fincher, Rita M USDA forest inventory and analysis in the undergraduate ecology curriculum 3:15 PM Spratt, Henry G Development of bioremediation laboratory exercises for an upper-level environmental science course 3:30 PM Ray, Darrell L Spreadsheets in the biology classroom: leveraging common technology to teach biological Unknown Deleted: Save your science department money with innovative lab solutions Unknown Deleted: 2:00 PM J f Unknown 1 Deleted: Algya, Rachel K J SABS Symposium ORAL PRESENTATIONS Friday, April 15 01:30 PM - 04:10 PM Time Presenter Title 162 SE Biology , Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 1:30 PM 1 :40 PM Winstead, Joe E The southern appalachian botanical society and 75 years of plant biology We've come a long way! -- eight decades of Weakley, Alan progress in understanding the southeastern flora 163 2:00 PM Murrell, Zack E Where do we go from here? -- challenges and opportunities in understanding the southeastern flora 2:20 PM Renzaglia, Karen S The hidden life of bryophytes and pteridophytes in the southern Appalachians 2:50 PM Risk, Allen C Cryptogamic discoveries in the southern Appalachians: progress in floristics and ecology 3:10 PM Wentworth, Thomas R Classification and environmental relationships of plant communities in the southern Appalachian mountains of North and South Carolina 3:30 PM Held, Michael E The blue ash - oak savanna - woodland of the bluegrass region of Kentucky: the ecological history of an extinct ecosystem Ecology POSTER SESSION Friday, April 15 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Presenter Title 126 Buckles, Christy Paleoecology of a 64 cm peat core from Okefenokee Swamp 127 Barone, John A Evaluation of prairie restoration techniques in Blackbelt Prairies of Mississippi 128 Seim, Kathryn R Assessment of browsing of the federally- threatened Virginia spiraea (Spiraea virginiana) by beaver along the Cheoah River, North Carolina 129 Avakian, Megan A Effects of elevation and genotype on aphid infestation of Solidago altissima 130 Simmons, Laura E The influence of management history and interspecific interactions on ant assembly at topographically similar locations within the tugaloo basin 131 Stone, William E Discovering the diets of bats through analysis of guano in northern Alabama 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 SE Biology , Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Fields II, Szymanski A Hopkins II, Robert L Roush, Jordan C Bakkegard, Kristin A Ojard, Connor A Whitaker, Stephanie A Howell, Heather Ouy, Leslie Kendricks, Dalisa Stanton, Lee Landers, Stephen C Canady, Candice S Cranston, Sarah Lidar and color infrared imagery to measure forest characteristics in the William B. Bankhead Forest, Alabama Niche conservatism or niche evolution? the use of broad scale climate data to infer factors regulating species distributions and niche diversification Effects of surface mining on freshwater fish distributions: a case study of contrasting life histories Nephila clavipes (arachnida: araneae): a model organism for monitoring climate change in the southeastern United States A novel method for evaluating local sediment deposition in a third-order urban stream in the southeastern United States Evaluating hydrologic response to urbanization in the flint river watershed, north Alabama using remote sensing and gis technologies Aquatic community responses to urbanization in the flint river watershed: correlation between in- stream habitat characteristics and macro invertebrate assemblages Interaction of biotic and abiotic factors influencing the distribution of bronze frog tadpoles along a water depth gradient The relationship of water quality to the taxa richness of aquatic macroinvertebrates in the Flint River, Alabama Measuring marsh plant productivity and micro-, meio-, and macrofaunal abundance and diversity in response to oiling in a northern Gulf of Mexico Salt Marsh Analysis of the bp deepwater horizon oil spill impact using meiofauna Replicating surprisingly cool coral geochemistry- based paleotemperatures in the Caribbean at the end of the little ice age Leaf carbon:nitrogen ratios and chemical defense in plants Poster Sessions 165 146 O'Boyle, Lois A Evaluating thermal ecology of dusky pipefish and gulf pipefish 147 Anoruo, Florence C Nitrogen availability and the rate of nitrogen fixation by Frankia 148 Boyce, Richard L Impact of the invasive amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) on stand transpiration in a wetland forest 149 Peterson, Caitlin A Ecotypic variation in stomatal characteristics of Eriophorum vaginatum 150 Carey, Alison N Effects of food deprivation on plasma corticosterone and nutrient metabolite levels in water snakes, Nerodia sipedon 151 Baldwin, Timothy E Use of various life stages of mole salamanders, Ambystoma talpoideum, to assess local and landscape influences on reproductive fitness in northern Alabama Genetics - Cell & Molecular Biology POSTER SESSION Friday, April 15 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 152 Mann, Steven A Leptin's effect on the survival of melanoma cells 153 Sovyanhadi, Yoedono Preliminary study on anti-radio-resistance potency of peptide-yy, vitamin c and vitamin e using hep-2 human larynx cancer cells 154 Sreedasyam, Avinash Defense and stress response regulation during Populus tremuloides - laccaria bicolor ectomycorrhization 155 Mikelson, Colleen Oxidative stress patterns of ald3 and ald4 knockouts of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and possible abatement by caffeine 156 Curran, Jennifer Identification of Arabidopsis thaliana genes involved in stress tolerance by heterologous expression and complementation in yeast ugal mutant 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 Trivedi, Geetika Burnett, Valarie A Bolus, William R Connerand, W C Dixon, Brandon J Praslicka, Brandon Satre, Danielle Mitchell, Chase M Morris, Shaina S Roberts, Timothy M Branon, Tess Estes II, Norman R Wayman, Joseph SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Transcriptome analysis of Populus tremuloides x laccaria bicolor ectomycorrhiza to understand metabolic re-programming during ectomycorrhizal symbiosis An immunohistochemical study of gaba+ cells in rat perirhinal cortex and neuronal loss following li-pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus The function of peripheral myelin protein 22 (pmp22) in the context of tissue development and cellular differentiation Corazonin neuropeptide gene from the house fly, Musca domestica (diptera: muscidae) Ros scavengers blocks hypoxia-induced decrease of pkcs expression in h9c2 cells Investigation of the role of sumoylation in the regulation of nhr-6, the C. elegans ortholog of the nr4a nuclear receptor Androgen receptor location in the dark-eyed junco using a probe for in situ hybridization histochemistry generated from zebra finch cdna Organization of the chorionic gonadotropin beta subunit gene in the owl monkey, Aotus nancymaae Is didymium pertusum a "good" species of myxomyete? Genetic differentiation in populations of the florida springsnail Floridobia floridana Interactions between chemotaxis-like signal transduction pathways in Azospirillum brasilense Effect of light wavelength on growth and lipid synthesis in the green algae Chlorella vulgaris Genotyping technology for the mikania species complex Poster Sessions 167 Herpetology POSTER SESSION Friday, April 15 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 170 Koester, Benjamin O Winter environmental conditions and their influence on eastern box turtle (Terrapene Carolina Carolina) overwintering behavior in central Virginia 171 Welsh, Kyle Digitization of the university of North Carolina Wilmington's Herpetological collection: snakes of southeastern North Carolina 172 Peters, Danielle E Morphometric differentiation between aquatic adult and terrestrial eft stages in West Virginia populations of eastern red spotted newts (notophthalmus v. viridescens) 173 Hardman, Rebecca H Predicting occurrence of the green salamander, Aneides aeneus, in western North Carolina 174 Felix, Zach 1 Taxonomic affinities of yellow-spotted isolates of the wehrle's salamander (Plethodon wehrlei): preliminary data 175 Lawson, Gavin R Hybridization among the subspecies of eastern newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) in South Carolina 176 Seymour, Zackary L Morphological divergence in an isolated, peripheral population of black-bellied salamander, Desmognathus quadramaculatus, in northern Georgia 177 DeLancey, Ben Changes in microhabitat selection and head dimensions between three different age classes of Desmognathus quadramaculatus 178 Hieb, Elizabeth E A population genetic analysis of the Alabama red-bellied turtle 179 Cline, George R Societal impact of amphibians and reptiles and their economic value 168 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 180 Armstrong, Daniel S Conservation genetics of a spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw 1802), ambystomatidae) population in Hamilton County, Tennessee Invertebrates POSTER SESSION Friday, April 15 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title Creation of reach-scale habitat models to 181 Kangisser, Tricia determine crayfish abundance in central Appalachia A technique for the detection of borrelia 182 Ayres, Bryan burgdorferi Amblyomma americanum and Ixodes scapularis in Calhoun County, Alabama 183 McGill, Kyle Molecular systematics of Cambarus carinirostris and cambarus b. bartonii Microbiology POSTER SESSION Friday, April 15 08:30 AM - 06:00 PM Poster Number Presenter Title 114 Mitchell, Alicia The presence and frequency of escherichia coli in beverages sold to the local public 184 Sharpe, Michka G Rhodiola rosea extracts enhance infectious bronchitis virus infection in vitro 185 Youssef, Mina A Plant based essential oils as antifungal agents against A. flavus and A. parasiticus in peanuts 186 Biebinger, Barbara Determining antibiotic resistance in wastewater exposed Saccharomyces Poster Sessions 169 cerevisiae 187 Chanza, Tamanda Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus mechanisms of inducing cell death via er signaling 188 Engstrom, April L College friends you do not want: the prevalence of mrsa in High Point University students 189 Radmard, Sara The effects of quorum sensing on nodule- expressed (nex) genes in Sinorhizobium meliloti 190 Wood, Zachary H Can Caenorhabditis elegans acquire antibiotic resistance by ingestion of resistant Escherichia coli? 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Tri-Beta Posters 170 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 ASB 2011 Field Trips 1. Botanize at the Walls of Jericho in Jackson County, AL. Trip Leader: Todd Crabtree (Todd Crabtree (Todd.Crabtree@tn.gov) phone: 615-532- 1378, Forrest Evans, and the Tennessee Native Plant Society. A combination field trip for TN Natural Areas, TNPS and the Association of Southeastern Biologists annual meeting. The geological features here are very dramatic but the variety and rarity of the plant life can be just as engaging. Spring ephemeral wildflowers are abundant along Turkey Creek and Mill Creek. In the dry calcareous forest above the creeks are rare plants that are found only in this corner of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. We will see Viburnum bracteatum and other inhabitants associated with limestone outcrops. The eponymous walls are more appropriately labeled as canyons. These limestone canyons were set aside as special protected areas when logging operations were active here and as a result old, possibly ancient, Juniperus virginiana trees survive at the edges. We will plan to have lunch in the middle of the impressive walls of Turkey Creek canyon. Sat. April 16, 2011; 10:00 am Central Time; Meeting Place: Alabama Trailhead for Walls of Jericho. Directions: * From Huntsville, Ala., go North on Highway 72. Take a left on Highway 79 to the Skyline/Hytop community. The Walls of Jericho tract is just north of Hytop; Highway 79 goes through the tract. The Alabama trailhead is on Highway 79 about 9.1 miles North of the Highway 146 intersection. * From Nashville, Tenn., take 1-24 east toward Chattanooga. Take Exit 127 on Highway 64 and turn toward Winchester. Stay on Highway 64 for about 15 miles and turn south on Highway 16. Just after crossing into Alabama, look on the right for a gravel parking area with a yellow gate and an information kiosk. Park there and follow directions on the map at the trailhead. Coordinates: 34.976714, -86.080982 Walking: 6-7 miles round trip, 900 ft elevation change, strenuous, slick rocks. Facilities: none Lunch: Bring lunch and plenty of water. No cost associated. 2. Botany and Bugs Hike, Forever Wild Land Tracts/Monte Sano State Park Huntsville, AL. Saturday, April 16th, 8:00AM - 12:30PM. Trip Leaders: Wayne Barger (Wavne.Baraer@dcnr.alabama.aov) and Brian Holt ("Holt, Brian" Brian.Holt@dcnr.alabama.aov ). AL-DCNR, Natural Heritage Section. This semi-strenuous four mile hike along Arrowhead Trail through the forested limestone hills/bluffs will offer many spring ephemerals, botanical gems, butterflies and interesting bugs. Slick rocks, mud and hills will be encountered, so pack accordingly for this four-hour foray. The hike will depart from the toll booth parking lot (N34. 74225, W86.51608) immediately to the right upon entering *MONTE SANO STATE* park. Field Trips 171 3. Birds and Butterflies at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge. Trip Leaders: Dr. David Aborn (David-Aborn@utc.edu) from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Vitaly Charny (vcharnv@aol.com) . Mid-April will be close to the peak of spring bird migration (butterflies should be plentiful too) and Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge is a prime location for seeing migrants. The refuge comprises 14,000 ha of bottomland hardwoods, pine uplands, ponds and wetlands, and crop fields, providing a wide diversity of wildlife habitat. A refuge bird checklist can found at http://www.tws.aov/wheeler/observation/ BirdsofWheelerNWR.pdf . We will meet at the visitor center at 8:00 AM. To get to the refuge, get on 1-565 west towards Decatur. When you get to 1-65, get on the interstate and head towards Birmingham. Get off at Hwy 67, heading toward Decatur. You will see the refuge entrance after about 5km. If you have any questions, contact David Aborn at 423-425-5236. Bring your lunch. There may be a small park entrance fee. 4. Explore the fish and mussel fauna of the Duck River in Shelby Co., Tennessee. Trip Leaders: Dave Neely (dave-neelv@utc.edu) from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Anna George from the Tennessee Aquarium. The Duck River contains one of the most diverse aquatic faunas in North America. We will visit a site approximately an hour north of Huntsville that supports over sixty fish species (many of which should be near peak nuptial color!) and also has a diverse unionid mussel fauna. Meet at 10:00 at public park off southeast side of US Hwy 231 at bridge over Duck River in Shelbyville, Bedford Co., TN (35.4818 N 86.4630 W). From Huntsville, follow US Hwy 231 N until you reach the park (right, east, side of road), approximately 58 mi (93 km). 5. Huntsville space and rocket museum. Trip Leader: Roger Sauterer (sauterer@jsu.edu). Join us on a trip through one of America’s most extensive collection of spacecraft, missiles, rockets and other space hardware. Participants will be guided through the museum by ASB member and space enthusiast Roger Sauterer, who will explain the history of the many spacecraft and rockets, including some from the former Soviet Union, on display. Participants will also get an opportunity to experience the full g- forces of a Shuttle flight in their centrifuge. The museum has many artifacts, 172 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 including one of the three surviving Saturn V moon rockets, many cold-war missiles and rockets. Learn the history of the US - Soviet space race while viewing the actual hardware. Step inside the Soviet Mir space station and imagine spending over a year in orbit inside it. Meet at the museum at 9:00 AM near the rocket, outside the main entrance. Tickets can be purchased at the entrance, lunch may be purchased in the cafeteria at about noon, and expect to be at the museum until 4:00 PM. 6. Herpetological trip to James D. Martin - Skyline Wildlife Management Area in Jackson County Alabama; about an hour Northeast of Huntsville. Trip Leader: Dr. Zach Felix (zif@reinhardt.edu) of Reinhardt University in Waleska, GA. The site we will visit is in the heavily dissected portion of the southern Cumberland Plateau ecoregion. An interesting mix of approximately 45 species of reptiles and amphibians have been documented at the site, including green, cave, and four-toed salamanders, mountain chorus frogs, eastern milk snakes, timber rattlesnakes, and green anoles. The site features a large-scale ecological study of the effects of varying levels of canopy removal on plant and animal communities; some results of this work will be shared. These study sites are covered by mixed hardwood forests interspersed with headwater streams and numerous rock outcrops. We will visit a unique depressional wetland located on the top of the Plateau that contains relatively large populations of at least three species of Ambystoma salamanders and other reptile and amphibians. To meet us near the site use the following coordinates (34 deg 56’21.45”, 86 deg 04’59.89”). No cost associated. Field Trips 173 Southern Appalachian Botanical Society 75" Anniversary Celebration Please plan to attend the special activities scheduled for the celebration of the 75 th Anniversary of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society. The Society was founded as the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club in West Virginia and began publication of its journal, Castanea, in 1936. SABS is the oldest and largest affiliate of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. Events celebrating and commemorating the founding and history of the Society will be held on April 15, 2011, in conjunction with the annual ASB meeting. All are invited to attend he celebration activities. Please register for the ASB meeting and check off the special SABS celebration events. ASB registration forms are available on the ASB website beginning on March 1, 2011 (http://www.sebiologists.org/). Program - Friday, April 15: 7:00-8:30 SABS and SEBSA joint breakfast/business meeting 8:30-10:30 Showing of updated video “And Who Will Weigh the Mountains” Speakers (Roy Clarkson, John Fairey, Jim Matthews, Mike Baranski) Special recognitions and remarks Group photos (all attendees and Past-Presidents) Historical photo display and poster signing 1:30-4:30 Symposium - “A Thread of the Past, the Present, and Future Botanical Research” Joe Winstead, Moderator - “SABS and 75 Years of Plant Biology in the Southern Appalachians” Paper themes: • The development and accomplishments of finding plant diversity in the Southern Appalachians • Significant cryptogamic findings and relationships within the Southern Appalachians and future opportunities • Plant ecosystems of the Southern Appalachians - facts, fantasies, and futures (Consult the ASB meeting program for paper titles and presenter names.) Panel discussion 4:30 - Mixer (all invited, but especially for young botanists and symposium speakers) West Virginia Wildflower Pilgrimage : Events celebrating SABS’ anniversary will also be held in conjunction with the WV Wildflower Pilgrimage, May 5-8, 201 1 , at Blackwater Falls State Park in WV. Persons wishing to attend these events should consult the Pilgrimage website. 174 SE Biology , Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Commemoration publication : A special publication recounting the last 25 years since the 50 th anniversary in Columbia, SC, is being prepared by Charles Horn. This article will b e published at a later date and will contain the group photos from the 75 th anniversary celebration. Historical photo displays and exhibits : Poster panel displays and slide presentations featuring photos of botanists; past group and field trip photos; historical documents; and other items will be featured at the meeting. Please submit digital or hard copy images, with appropriate identifications, to Larry Mellichamp (lmellichamp@carolina.rr.com or 3036 Ventosa Dr., Charlotte, NC 28205) by March 1, 2011. Memorabilia : A variety of anniversary memorabilia, featuring the anniversary logo, will be available for sale at the SABS booth for the duration of the meeting. Memorabilia include hats, t-shirts, mugs, and buttons (free). Copies of the “And Who Will Weigh the Mountains” DVD will also be available for sale. Please join us on this historic occasion. Anniversary Planning Committee: Andy Ash Mike Baranski, Chair Pat Cox John Herr Charles Horn Conley McMullen Pat Parr Joe Winstead SABS 75 th Anniversary Celebration 175 ASB SALUTES THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BOTANICAL SOCIETY ON ITS 75 th ANNIVERSARY As ASB moves toward its 75 th anniversary in 2012, the Society recognizes the true value of its affiliate organizations. These affiliates (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists-Southeastern Division; Botanical Society of America-Southeastern Division; Ecological Society of America-Southeastern Chapter; Society of Herbarium Curators; Society of Wetland Scientists-South Atlantic Chapter; Southeastern Society of Parasitologists; Southern Appalachian Botanical Society; and Tri-Beta-Southeastem Districts I & II) meet with ASB and encourage the same goals that are so important to the mission of ASB: dissemination of biological information to southeastern biologists. At the same time that ASB was getting organized, plans for another biological organization were underway for the purpose of studying the biological diversity of the southeastern United States. This organization eventually became the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society, the oldest ASB affiliate and largest in terms of membership numbers. The year 2011 marks the 75 th anniversary of the founding of the organization, and celebratory special events are being held in conjunction with the 72 nd ASB meeting in Huntsville, AL. The Association of Southeastern Biologists is very proud to list the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society as an affiliate. We recognize the magnitude of the Society's accomplishments and wish a long and active future for the organization and continued association with ASB. I hope everyone attending the Huntsville meeting will take time to visit the SABS booth to purchase a commemorative item, see the photo display commemorating this remarkable milestone, and participate in the other activities. The following article is a brief reflection on the first 75 years of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society. Patricia Cox, President, ASB 75 YEARS OF BOTANY - THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BOTANICAL SOCIETY Charles N. Horn, Treasurer, SABS In 1935 a group of botanists in Morgantown, West Virginia, got together to form a club to encourage “A more careful and systematic investigation of the flora of the [Southern Appalachian] region by its permanent residents .. ." (Core 1936, p. 1). By the time the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club was officially formed in 1936 there were almost 100 members (Baranski 1986), The club continued to grow over the next five decades and by the 50th anniversary the organization had just over 560 members. Although the number has risen and fallen over the years, today we have about 640 members. In 1992 the club felt it was important to emphasize its scientific roots, professional goals and expanded mission through a name change from club to Society (Herr 1992), and the club became the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society. The journal, initially called The Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club, was first published in January 1936 and included seven articles, the longest of which was four pages. For volume 2, the now familiar title 176 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Castanea was adopted. Over the next seven decades, Castanea published hundreds of botanical articles concerning floristics, ecology, systematics and physiology in the eastern United States. The journal has become an important publication for scientists studying everything from a single species to entire communities. In 2010 the 46 published research articles had an average length of 11 pages. Starting in 2001, SABS developed the opportunity to publish lengthy manuscripts (over 50 pages) and symposium proceedings. Three such issues have been published within Castanea, Occasional Papers in Eastern Botany. In addition to Castanea, the Society publishes a newsletter, Chinquapin, to announce botanical activities to members, including reviews of new publications, field trips and Society business. This publication also allows scientists to solicit comments and ideas relative to observational quandaries or research in progress. In the early years of the organization, life was simple and so were the finances. But by the late 1970s there was concern about monetary issues, and a group of visionaries saw that an endowment would greatly assist in ensuring that the Society would continue to exist and publish its journal. A goal of $200,000 was set to maintain the publication of Castanea. That goal has been exceeded and there is certainty that the endowment will continue to grow and secure the future of Castanea (Horn 2008). In addition, the Society initiated an endowment drive to create a graduate student research fund; this fund is named after one of the Society’s founders, Earl L. Core. The Society also honors its members and other botanists through a series of awards. The Elizabeth Ann Bartholomew Award annually honors a botanist who has made important and lifelong contributions to the Society or to the botany of the region. So far, 21 awardees have been announced at the annual meeting of the Society. Starting in 1990, we also annually recognize the best systematic paper published in Castanea through the Richard and Minnie Windier Award. Starting this year, the Society will also present awards for outstanding student oral and poster presentations at the annual ASB meeting. At the ASB meeting in April 2011, the Society will celebrate 75 years of existence with an exciting Friday symposium entitled A Thread of the Past, the Present, and Future Botanical Research. In addition, there will be a photo display of SABS history, acknowledgment of important contributors, group photos, special memorabilia for sale, and an updated presentation of our video And Who Will Weigh the Mountains. Later in the year the Society will publish a special issue of Castanea to highlight the symposium and the Society’s milestone. The organization has been an important bonding point for many botanists over the last seven decades and will continue to serve their needs into the future - the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society, 75 years strong and growing! Literature Cited Baranski, Michael J. 1986. Fifty years of Southern Appalachian botany - A profile of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club. Castanea 51(4): 247-262. Core, Earl L 1936. Foreword. Castanea 1(1): 1-2. Herr, John M„ Jr. 1992. The President’s message. Castanea 57(4): 217-219. Horn, Charles. N. 2008. A report on the SABS endowment: Reaching our $200,000 goal and more. Castanea 73(3): 162-165. SABS 75 th Anniversary Celebration 177 ASB Symposium and Luncheons/Workshops Southern Appalachian Botanical Society 75 th Anniversary Symposium A Thread of the Past , The Present, and Future Botanical Research Moderator and Introductory Remarks: Joe Winstead - College of Science and Technology, Southern Arkansas University. SABS and 75 Years of Plant Biology in the Southern Appalachians. Segment I. The Development and Accomplishments of Finding Plant Diversity in the Southern Appalachians. Alan Weakley - UNC Herbarium (NCU), University of North Carolina Botanical Garden. We’ve Come a Long Way! - Eight Decades of Progress in Understanding the Southeastern Flora. Zack Murrell, Michael Denslow, and Derick Poindexter, Department of Biology, Appalachian State University. Where Do We Go From Here? - Challenges and Opportunities in Understanding the Southeastern Flora. Segment II. Significant Cryptogamic Findings and Relationships within the Southern Appalachians and Future Opportunities. Karen Renzaglia and Carlos Villarreal, Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University. The Hidden Life of Bryophytes and Pteridophytes in the Southern Appalachians. Allen C. Risk, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Morehead State University, and Paul G. Davison, Department of Biology, University of North Alabama. Cryptogamic Discoveries in the Southern Appalachians: Progress in Floristics and Ecology. Segment III. Plant Ecosystems of the Southern Appalachians - Facts, Fantasies, and Futures. Thomas Wentworth, Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Forbes Boyle, Michael Lee, and Robert Peet, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Classification and Environmental Relationships of Plant Communities in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North and South Carolina. Michael E. Held, Department of Biology, Saint Peter’s College, and William S. Bryant, Department of Biology, Thomas More College. The Blue Ash - Oak Savanna - Woodland of the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky: The Ecological History of an Extinct Ecosystem. Segment IV. Panel Discussion with Presenters and Audience. 178 SE Biology , Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Education Committee Luncheon and Workshop The Education Committee Luncheon and Workshop is scheduled for Friday, April 15, noon-1 :25 p.m. The location is TBA at this time. The workshop will focus on the strategies and challenges associated with teaching biology online. Special Luncheon Sponsored by the Committee on Human Diversity When: 12:00 pm on Thursday, 14 April 2011 Where: TBA The Committee on Human Diversity is sponsoring a Luncheon on Thursday April 14th. The Guest Speaker will be Dr. Melissa McDaniels of Michigan State University. Dr. McDaniels will focus on Mentoring for Inclusive Excellence in the 21 st Century Scientific Workforce. In this presentation, she will discuss the ongoing relevance and importance of mentoring for advancing scientific careers of undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty at all career stages. Information concerning emerging research on mentoring that particularly addresses experiences of women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities will be provided. In addition, she will challenge some of the “traditional” assumptions about mentoring, and challenge the audience to think about the responsibilities that individuals (mentors and mentees), institutions (academic departments and colleges) and disciplines have in supporting the professional growth of all scientists. This information will be useful in construction of a framework for students, faculty, and administrators to build comprehensive mentoring initiatives on their campuses. Dr. Melissa McDaniels is Project Director of Michigan State University’s National Science Foundation ADVANCE program. She has written and presented domestically and internationally on topics such as: organizational change, workforce diversity, and professional development of academics across the career span. Prior to assuming her role as director of Michigan State University’s ADVANCE grant, she spent twenty years working as an administrator and faculty member in Boston and Washington, D.C. Symposium and Luncheons/Workshops 179 Social Events Wednesday Night Mixer: Immediately following the Plenary Session, there will be a social mixer with LIGHT hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, and live music. The mixer is a long tradition at ASB meetings and is a great time to renew old acquaintances and make new ones. Be sure to sign up for this FREE event on the registration form. Thursday Night Social: “Sweet Home Alabama” Some say that a meeting is judged by the success of the Thursday Night Social. We hope to maintain a longstanding tradition of music, dancing, and entertainment that will give you a break from the work of the meeting. The Social will be located in the center of downtown Huntsville, and adjacent to the Embassy Suites. An easy one-minute walk from the Embassy Suites or Holiday Inn to the event. A great local band is returning for another fantastic performance. The Midnighters. specializing in a great mix of 60’s through today’s rock and roll dance music, will entertain you! Did someone say dance? Yes, dance music.... so bring your dancing shoes for a night of great food, music and networking with friends alike! Interactive, high energy and fun for everyone! You will not want to miss this! Friday Night Awards Banquet: The culmination of the annual meeting is the ASB Awards Banquet, where we honor the accomplishments of members and students. Delicious beef, chicken and vegetarian options are available. Following dinner, awards will be presented. Remember that long speeches are no longer a part of the banquet. (A reminder: those competing for ASB awards must register for the meeting and be present at the banquet in order to receive the award.) Activities for Guests Attendees and family members will find many interesting places to visit in the Huntsville area. Visit the Huntsville website to learn more details about the following: v" US Space & Rocket Center s Huntsville Botanical Garden V Burritt On The Mountain y Alabama Constitution Village v Historic Huntsville Depot v' Huntsville Museum of Art s Harrison Brothers Hardware Store s North Alabama Railroad Museum V Veteran’s Memorial Museum S Sci-Quest S Early Works Children’s Museum V Weeden House Museum V Harmony Park Safari 180 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Conference Badges You will receive your meeting badges when you arrive in Huntsville. Simply proceed to the Registration Area at the Von Braun Center (Convention Center) to receive your badge. Guests of conference participants should ask for guest conference badges at the registration desk. YOU MUST WEAR YOUR BADGE TO ALL FUNCTIONS, INCLUDING SOCIAL EVENTS! SABS Student Awards! The Southern Appalachian Botanical Society is pleased to announce two awards for students: the SABS Outstanding Student Poster Award and the SABS Outstanding Student Contributed Paper Award. These will be presented for the first time at the Association of Southeastern Biologists meeting in Huntsville, AL, in April 2011. SABS convenes as one of the affiliate organizations at this meeting. The posters and talks will be assessed by anonymous judges. Each award includes an honorarium of $150.00, and the winners will be announced at the ASB banquet. Qualifications: A nominee must be a current undergraduate or graduate student in good standing and must be a current member of SABS. A student will nominate his/her poster or oral presentation when registering for the ASB meeting and submitting the abstract. The instructions for nomination are on the ASB Website. Commercial Workshops/Special Sessions Commercial Workshops/Special Sessions will also be available for all registered attendees! These workshops presented by exhibitors will allow you to learn about the latest tips from the experts. The fee for each workshop will be $10 each, and you may register to attend one or more workshops during the Annual ASB Meeting. To register, and to read about the workshop descriptions, go to www.sebioloaists.ona and click on Attendee Registration & Information. Space is limited and you must pre-register for them, so don’t delay! All workshops will be held at the Von Braun Center (Convention Center). Other Meeting Activities 181 LOCAL COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE 72 nd ANNUAL MEETING Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Program Committee: Nicole Welch nwelch@as.muw.edu (662) 329-7243 Field Trips: Joey Shaw joey-shaw@utc.edu Randy Small rsmall@utk.edu (423) 425-4265 (865) 974-6207 Social Events: Scott Jewell A2ZConvention@gmail.com (336) 421-0034 Volunteer Coordinators: Marilyn Pendley mpendley@cccti.edu (828) 759-4685 Tri-Beta Coordinators: Christi Mag rath cmagrath@troy.edu Don Roush dhroush@una.edu (334) 670-3626 (256) 765-4435 Audiovisual Coordinator: Scott Jewell A2ZConvention@gmail.com (336) 421-0034 Silent Auction: Scott Jewell A2ZConvention@gmail.com (336) 421-0034 Meetings Coordinator: Scott Jewell A2ZConvention@gmail.com (336) 421-0034 The Meetings Coordinator arranges/coordinates the Annual Meeting Budget, Commercial Exhibits & Workshops, Special Sessions, Advertising, On-Line Registration, On-Site Registration, Hotel Accommodations, and Transportation. 182 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Affiliate Societies Meeting with ASB April 13-16, 2011 The following affiliate societies will be in attendance at the 2011 Annual Meeting. We anticipate an excellent diversity of paper and poster presentations. The societies and their contacts are listed below. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Southeastern Division Dr. Greg Fulling E-mail: qfullinq@qeo-marine.com Website: http://www.asih.org Beta Beta Beta Southeastern District I Dr. Steven J. Coggin Department of Biology Catawba College Salisbury, NC 28144 (704) 637-4110 acoggin@catawba.edu Beta Beta Beta Southeastern District II Dr. Christi Magrath Dept, of Biological & Env. Sci. Troy University Troy, AL 36082 (334)670-3622 e-mail: cmagrath@troy.edu Botanical Society of America Southeastern Section Dr. Lytton John Musselman Mary Payne Hogan Professor of Botany and Chair Department of Biological Sciences 110 Mills Godwin Building/45th St Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529-0266 (757) 683 3595; Fax: (757) 683 5283 e-mail: lmusselm@odu.edu http://web.odu.edu/lmusselman Ecological Society of America Southeastern Chapter Dr. Dean Cocking Department of Biology James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA 22807 (540) 568-6566 Fax (540) 568-3333 cockingwd@jmu.edu Society of Herbarium Curators Dr. John Nelson Department of Biological Science University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 (803)777-8196 e-mail: nelson@biol.sc.edu Society of Wetland Scientists South Atlantic Chapter Dr. David Bailey U.S. Army Corps of Engineers CE-SAW-RG-L 69 Darlington Ave. Washington, DC 28403-1343 (901) 251-4469 David.E.Bailey2@usace.army.mil Southern Appalachian Botanical Society Dr. Lytton John Musselman Mary Payne Hogan Professor of Botany and Chair Department of Biological Sciences 110 Mills Godwin Building/45th St Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529-0266 (757) 683 3595; Fax: (757) 683 5283 e-mail: lmusselm@odu.edu http://web.odu.edu/lmusselman ASB Affiliate Societies 183 Southeastern Society of Parasitologists Dr. Vince Connors, Secretary-T reasurer Dept, of Biology, University of South Carolina Upstate 800 University Way Spartanburg, SC 29303 (864) 503-5780 email: vconnors@uscupstate.edu Southeastern Fishes Council Dr. Henry Bart Tulane Museum of Natural History Tulane University Belle Chasse, LA 70037 Phone: (504) 394-1771 Fax: (504) 394-5045 E-mail: hank@museum.tulane.edu Southeastern Microscopy Society Cynthia S. Goldsmith Secretary, SEMS E-mail: csgl@cdc.gov Website: http://www. southeastemmicroscopv.org National Association of Biology Teachers Lisa Walker Director of Conventions 1 walker@nabt. org 184 SE Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, April, 201 1 Special Reminders from the Journal Editor ASB BANQUET ATTENDANCE Please keep in mind that recipients of ASB awards must be present at the annual ASB banquet to receive the award. Therefore, all applicants for ASB awards must attend the banquet to insure the presence of the winners. MEMBERSHIP AND REGISTRATION UPDATE All applicants for ASB research awards must be ASB members in good standing, and be duly registered for the annual meeting. If necessary, check with the Treasurer for verification before you apply. Please make sure your membership status is up-to-date amply before the deadline for abstract submission and for annual meeting registration. Please be aware that mailing a check or money order for membership renewal to the treasurer and then trying to register online or by mail for the annual meeting on the same day does not work. Moreover, trying to pay for membership renewal online in tandem with registering for the annual meeting online does not work well either. EXTRA ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Besides sending abstracts of papers and posters to the Program Committee by January 28, 2011, anyone wishing to be considered for an award must send an abstract to the respective award committee chairperson in order to be considered. An abstract must be sent to the chairperson by January 28, 2011. Preliminary Presentation Instructions Paper (oral) presentations are allotted 15 minutes, must be in PowerPoint format, and must be brought to the meeting on a USB memory drive. Presenters will be required to load their presentations on the session’s laptop computer at the beginning of the session. Poster presentations must fit in a 46” x 46” space and presenters should bring their own push pins for hanging their poster. Posters will hang for the entire day and presenters will stand with their posters for a designated one-hour period. More specific instructions for paper and poster presentations will be posted on the ASB website when abstract acceptance notifications are released. Questions? Contact Program Chair, Nicole Turrill Welch, nwelch@as.muw.edu. Special Reminders 185 Advertise With The Association of Southeastern Biologists Reach Your Target Audience and Promote your Products and Services Throughout the Year!! Advertise in Southeastern Biology!! And on ASB’s NEW Web Site! Advertise in Southeastern Biology and reach over 5,000 people from 42 states and 9 countries. ASB publishes four issues of Southeastern Biology per year and an on-site Program for the Annual Meeting. Choose either or both of these opportunities to increase your marketing exposure. 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