3rd Annual Biology Graduate Research Forum 2012
Presented by the Graduate Students of the Department of Biology, Western University
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Keynote Speaker
We are pleased to announce that this year's plenary speaker will be Dr. Andrew Mason from the University of Toronto at Scarborough. Dr. Mason's research focuses on the sensory processes underlying communication and decision-making.The goal of his research is to understand the mechanisms by which the nervous system controls ongoing activity and how these mechanisms relate to behavioural adaptation. The Mason group uses invertebrate model systems to identify basic principles of sensory integration of complex stimuli, mulit-modal communication, and how organisms adapt to biophysical constraints on these processes.
Ongoing projects in Dr. Mason's lab include: localization and sensory integration in parasitoid flies, multi-modal communication in jumping spiders, and vibrational communication in katydids.
More information about Dr. Mason can be found at http://www.scar.utoronto.ca/~amason/contact.html.
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