BIOL455W

Centers on student-developed research projects on ecological interactions. Projects may include interactions between bees and flowers, especially the summer longhorn bees, gall-forming wasps and oak trees, or mycorrhizal fungi and their host plants. Students will design projects using molecular, morphological or field data, implement them, and learn to analyze the data they have collected. Writing assignments will involve writing, peer-editing and re-writing multiple drafts of all the sections of a scientific paper. Class time will involve discussions of student project design and of the current ecological literature, data collection in the lab or field, and statistical analysis in R.

All Years

Fall Semester