Annual QU Sigma Xi Conference
15th Annual QU Sigma Xi Conference (2026) Tuesday April 21st
Submit abstract HERE https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SigmaXiQU2026.
- Abstract submission deadline Thursday April 16th (11pm)
- View previous abstract booklets
- View the 2026 abstract booklet here:
- https://tinyurl.com/SigmaXiQU2026 (not live yet)
- Posters are 4' long by 3' high.
- You can either have your posted printed or print your poster sheets:
- Print the poster as a large document (Staples or Kinkos Fedex North Haven) and clip it (clips provided) to the trifold
- OR Print 8.5x11 inch sheets, bring thumb tacks (come early & tack the sheets to your board)
To help out and JUDGE student posters, contact Neil Schultes (Neil.Schultes@ct.gov) or (james.kirby@qu.edu)
- 12:00-12:30
- Setup Posters (Burt Kahn Court in the Recreation and Wellness Center)
- 12:30-1:30
- Sigma Xi Keynote Speaker Dr. Dustin Rubenstein of Columbia University presents "Complexity: Linking Genome Evolution and Social Evolution"
- 1:45-2:45 Student poster presentations (Public attendance)
- Session 1 (1:45–2:45 PM): Students** assigned to even-numbered posters will be present at their posters.
- Session 2 (1:45–2:45 PM): Students** assigned to odd-numbered posters will be present at their posters.
Distinguished Speaker: 12:30pm, followed by Student Poster presentations
Sigma Xi Keynote Speaker Dr. Dustin Rubenstein of Columbia University presents "Complexity: Linking Genome Evolution and Social Evolution"
Sigma Xi Speaker Dustin Rubenstein is the Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Conservation Biology in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society, and has been recognized by the National Academy of Sciences as both a Kavli Fellow for his research accomplishments and as an Education Fellow in the Sciences for his innovation in STEM teaching. In recognition of his research accomplishments, Rubenstein has received awards from the Animal Behavior Society, the American Ornithologists’ Union, the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, and the University of Michigan.
He has been acknowledged for his teaching, scholarship, and mentoring by Columbia University with a Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award and as a Provost’s Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar, as well as by the Society of Columbia Graduates with a Great Teacher Award. Rubenstein’s research takes an integrative approach to understand why complex animal societies form and how organisms cope with environmental change through studies that combine behavior, ecology, and evolution with those of the underlying molecular, neural, and neuroendocrine mechanisms. He has studied a variety of animals, including reptiles, mammals, birds, crustaceans, and insects on every continent except Antarctica.
He is the author of nearly 150 publications and the market-leading textbook Animal Behavior. Rubenstein currently serves as the Specialty Chief Editor for the Evolutionary Ecology of Social Behavior Section of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, as well as an Associate Editor for Science Advances and Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. He was previously on the editorial boards of Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Behavioral Ecology, PLOS ONE, and F1000Research, and has been a guest editor for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Behavioral Processes, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
Dustin Rubenstein is a Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University in the City of New York. At Columbia. He is the Director of the Center for Integrative Animal Behavior and Chair of the University Seminar in the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, as well as an Affiliate Member of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and a Faculty Mentor in the Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior.
As an innovative leader in undergraduate education, Rubenstein helped create the Program in Tropical Biology and Sustainability, a semester-long study abroad program in Africa, and the sTEAM Fellows Program, a team-based interdisciplinary summer research program for first year students from underrepresented groups. He was also the youngest faculty member to lecture in Frontiers of Science, part of Columbia College’s undergraduate Core Curriculum.
His research takes an integrative approach to understand why complex animal societies form and how organisms cope with environmental change through studies that combine behavior, ecology, and evolution with those of the underlying molecular and neuroendocrine mechanisms. He has studied a variety of animals, including reptiles, birds, mammals, crustaceans, and insects in Central and South America, Asia, Australia and Africa. Rubenstein is the author of over 100 publications, as well as co-editor of the book Comparative Social Evolution and co-author of the market-leading textbook Animal Behavior
Rubenstein received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in 1999, his Ph.D. from Cornell University, and was awarded a Miller Research Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley from 2006-2009.
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