Dr. Alison Sweeney, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Physics, Yale University, presents "A Simple Mechanism for Optimal Light-Use Efficiency of Photosynthesis Inspired by Giant Clams".
Chris Tuggle, Distinguished Professor, Iowa State University, presents "Epigenetics of pig immune cells to identify cell-type specific regulatory elements".
The perfect squares (1, 4, 25, 36 and so forth) were studied extensively by Leonardo Fibonacci in his thirteenth-century publication "The Book of Squares." Fibonacci studied triples of squares such as 1, 25, 49 for which the middle number is the average of the other two.
Dr. Troy Magney, Associate Professor of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, presents "Plant optics: Using biophysics to inform how plants respond to their environment".
Alexandra Protopopova, University of British Columbia, presents "Choice, consent, and control: Are these concepts useful in the study of animal welfare?".