{"id":13126,"date":"2009-03-25T11:39:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T18:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=13126"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:49:58","slug":"biosphere-2-summit-to-plant-seeds-for-science-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/biosphere-2-summit-to-plant-seeds-for-science-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Biosphere 2 summit to plant seeds for science development"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAU\u2019s\u00a0Science Foundation<\/a>\u00a0Arizona fellows will converge with their peers from Arizona State University and the University of Arizona March 27 through 29 during the Graduate Research Fellows Grand Challenge Innovation Summit at the Biosphere 2 in Oracle.<\/p>\n

The summit is to encourage participants to consider the grand challenges facing communications technology, sustainable systems and biomedical research.<\/p>\n

Laura Huenneke<\/strong>, vice president for Research, and\u00a0Paul Keim<\/strong>, Regents’ professor of biology and the Cowden Endowed Chair in Microbiology, will represent NAU on the academic panel at the conference.<\/p>\n

Also attending are\u00a0Lesley Cephas<\/strong>, coordinator for the vice president for Research and project director for NAU\u2019s Science Foundation Arizona Graduate Fellowship Program, and NAU researcher\u00a0Loretta Mayer,\u00a0<\/strong>who will represent the Flagstaff-based biotech company SenesTech, which she co-founded. Paul Begovac, of W. L. Gore & Associates, also is attending the summit as an industry panelist at NAU\u2019s request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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NAU graduate students presenting at Graduate Research
\nFellows Grand Challenge Innovation Summit at the Biosphere 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rui Chen<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0
\nSaiyi Wang<\/strong><\/td>\n		\u201cEnergy Efficiency in Environmental Sensing Networks:
\nDynamic Reporting and Transmission Censoring\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brian Cardall<\/strong><\/td>\n\u201cRapid Evolution of a Native Tree (\/Populus fremontii)\/ in Response to Invasive Saltcedar
\n(\/Tamarix\/ spp.)\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emily Cope<\/strong><\/td>\n\u201cCharacterization of Microbial Biofilms in Chronic Rhinosinusitis\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Luke Evans<\/strong><\/td>\n\u201cComparative Gene Flow and Population Structure in a Common Plant-herbivore System\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeffrey Kane<\/strong><\/td>\n\u201cResin Duct Production Predicts Mortality in Ponderosa Pine Forests of Northern Arizona\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Additional NAU graduate researchers participating at the event include\u00a0Alicyn Gitlin<\/strong>,\u00a0Benjamin Jaffe<\/strong>,\u00a0Jean-Guillaume Lonjaret<\/strong>,\u00a0Ryan Middleton<\/strong>,\u00a0Muhammed Shamsul Arefin<\/strong>,\u00a0Kathryn Ireland<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Brian Reif<\/strong>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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