{"id":302,"date":"2021-10-20T04:17:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T04:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/scipos\/wordpress\/?p=302"},"modified":"2022-06-24T14:33:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T21:33:48","slug":"graduate-student-symposium-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/scipos\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/20\/graduate-student-symposium-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Student Symposium 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another year, another great Graduate Student Symposium (GSS)!<br>While attempting to get our own research done and balancing other aspects of our professional and personal life, it is often easy to forget what a broad department we work in and how incredibly knowledgable the fantastic scientists around us are. GSS is always a great reminder of all the cool science that our friends and colleagues are involved in and this year was no exception. Just take a look at the line-up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Savannah Olroyd<\/strong>: Allometry of sound reception structures in a modern analog for non-mammalian therapsid hearing<\/li><li><strong>Aji John<\/strong>: Characterizing forest microclimates by in-situ instrumentation<\/li><li><strong>Romi Ramos<\/strong>: A-mazie-ing yeast: Using yeast to study a corn developmental pathway<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Jhi7kbXkdzs\/XOcn5NR4LBI\/AAAAAAAAAOE\/6djGawvVnJoi_KfQghjYECqeL_SttmKigCLcBGAs\/s1600\/IMG_2490%2B2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Jhi7kbXkdzs\/XOcn5NR4LBI\/AAAAAAAAAOE\/6djGawvVnJoi_KfQghjYECqeL_SttmKigCLcBGAs\/s640\/IMG_2490%2B2.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Jhi7kbXkdzs\/XOcn5NR4LBI\/AAAAAAAAAOE\/6djGawvVnJoi_KfQghjYECqeL_SttmKigCLcBGAs\/s1600\/IMG_2490%2B2.jpg\"><\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Romi Ramos<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Ashley Paynter<\/strong>: Ultra-deep sequencing as a predictor of dog lymphoma<\/li><li><strong>Caroline Cappello<\/strong>: Better late than never? Consequences of later and less synchronous breeding in Magellanic penguins<\/li><li><strong>Meera Sethi<\/strong>: \u201cDo you want a pet cockroach?\u201d The role of informal science education in invertebrate conservation<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-YHL0DdgG7E4\/XOcn45oxayI\/AAAAAAAAAN8\/WeUTb4PHs3g5-UT54nC81C2Ww2ZIjF4KwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/IMG_2495%2B2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-YHL0DdgG7E4\/XOcn45oxayI\/AAAAAAAAAN8\/WeUTb4PHs3g5-UT54nC81C2Ww2ZIjF4KwCLcBGAs\/s400\/IMG_2495%2B2.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-YHL0DdgG7E4\/XOcn45oxayI\/AAAAAAAAAN8\/WeUTb4PHs3g5-UT54nC81C2Ww2ZIjF4KwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/IMG_2495%2B2.jpg\"><\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>This year, we were also visited by Dolce, Meera&#8217;s Madagascar hissing cockroach, who was working to increase some awareness about invertebrate conservation 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