Year 3 Therevid NSF PEET Report: Upcoming Training

To Be Done
Summary of work to be performed during the next year of support, if changed from the original proposal; an indication of any current problems or favorable or unusual developments; and any other significan information pertinent to the type of project supported by NSF or as specified by the terms and conditions of the grant.

2B) Training at three collaborating institutions

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
North Carolina State University
University of Queensland

2B Training.

University of Illinois. Mr. Metz and Mr. Holston will finish taking courses towards a Ph.D. from the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois in the fall semester of 1998. Both Mr. Metz and Mr. Holston will spend the majority of the following spring semester in Wiegmann's lab learning molecular techniques using material collected in alcohol on numerous expeditions and attending a formal course in systematics taught by Wiegmann. PI Irwin, co-PI Yeates, Mr. Metz, Mr. Holston, and Mr. Gaimari will attend an informal workshop in May 1998 with Dr. Sabine Huhndorf at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago to learn computer image capturing and manipulation techniques. Ms. Jill Mullett hopes to attend the annual GNSI meeting in Iowa this summer and improve skills relating to computer-assisted illustration.
North Carolina State University. Mr. Yang hopes to take summer courses on biological technology at molecular and cellar level. He will also take Insect Ecology and Systematic Botany next year. His advisor, Brian Wiegmann, will teach him various methods of analyzing molecular data using different software. Mr. Yang will also increase his proficiency in the use of other pertinent software during the coming year.
University of Queensland. Mr. Winterton will continue his revision of the large and speciose genus Agapophytus, concentrating on the morphological characteristics of the species groups within the genus. In January 1999, he will spend several months in the Wiegmann lab (North Carolina) to work on the molecular systematics of Agapophytus and hone his skills in this important technology.

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