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Feeling stupid? | vanzandtlab
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Research and teaching at Birmingham-Southern College. Research doesn’t go as planned. When science gets tough…. Here’s a nice blog post about the difficulty. Of grad school and thinking you can’t hack it. The importance of stupidity. Remember that it’s hard for everyone, even the best of ’em. But I am very poorly today and feel very stupid and hate everybody and everything. One lives only to make blunders ( Charles Darwin. To Charles Llyell in 1861. One year after publishing On the Origin of Species ).
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Teaching resources | vanzandtlab
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Research and teaching at Birmingham-Southern College. All of the course videos for my Evolutionary Ecology course (BI 225) can be found here in the order they appear during the semester. Module 1 – Fundamentals of Evolution. Using the course Moodle page ( link. How to watch videos for the course ( link. Using Virtual Classrooms software ( link. Where to find the paper assignment ( link. Taking the Punnett square review quiz ( link. Population genetics and HWE introduction ( link. Exceptions to HWE ( link.
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Publications | vanzandtlab
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Research and teaching at Birmingham-Southern College. Assistant Professor of Biology September, 2013-present. Birmingham-Southern College, Department of Biology. Research Associate July, 2010-present. Mississippi Entomological Museum. Post-doctoral Researcher with Jonathan Chase 2003-2005. Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Biology. Post-doctoral Fellow with Anurag Agrawal. 2001-2003. University of Toronto, Department of Botany. To Salinity Stress. Advisor: Susan Mopper. LeCroy, K. A&#...
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Research and teaching at Birmingham-Southern College. Episode on Catalpa sphinx caterpillars can be seen here. 2015) There are some nice teaching resources here. By Daytime Alabama on why moths are so cool (2013). Absolutely Alabama: Turkey Creek . October 19, 2012. Fox News. BSC student finds rare wildflower in preserve . March 14, 2011. The Birmingham News. Living laboratory: Birmingham-Southern College students follow plants at botany sites . May 28, 2008. The Birmingham News. Peter A. Van Zandt.
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Lab alumni | vanzandtlab
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Research and teaching at Birmingham-Southern College. Where have all the students gone? I try to keep track of where my former students have ended up. Here’s where some are at the moment. If you’re on this list (or should be), drop me a line. Was a National Science Foundation REU. Student who studied the influence of Birmingham’s heat island on moth phenology. She is finishing her undergrad degree at the University of Florida. Studied the moth diversity of Bibb County and is in med school at William Carey.
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Student projects | vanzandtlab
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Research and teaching at Birmingham-Southern College. Page for timelines, forms, and additional advice. Some possible projects are featured below. Please contact me for more details. Alkaloid defenses of Baptisia. Left: Genista Broom Moth (. In Bibb Co., AL. Right: samples prepped by Rebecca Forkner for GC analysis of alkaloids. Several students have worked with me on characterizing the alkaloid defenses of several species of Baptisia. When exposed to different combinations of bacteria species. Left: Dam...
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Urban moths | vanzandtlab
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Research and teaching at Birmingham-Southern College. Moth phenology and urban heat islands. For more info on this project, see my UHI moth research page. Top: Diagram of urban heat island (UHI) from US EPA. Bottom: Google Earth image of Birmingham, AL, showing sampling locations along the urban-rural gradient. Above: A bucket trap in action at night and students collecting specimens from a trap. Peter A. Van Zandt. Birmingham, AL 35254. Why feeling stupid can be a good sign. See the feeling stupid.