Museum Seminar Series

The Museum Seminar Series is a weekly research talk at the LSU Museum of Natural Science given by invited speakers and LSU personnel that revolves around topics of natural history, ecology, or evolutionary biology. Seminars are open to the public and take place on Fridays at 3:30pm in the museum exhibits area. See schedule below. #MuseumSeminar

2019 Spring Seminar Schedule

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January 18	Andre Moncrieff, Anna Hiller, & Jon Nations Dept. of Biological Sciences, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University Title: "Expedition Travelogue: Peru and Indonesia"
January 25	Dr. Kyle Harms, Professor Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University Title: "Plant community assembly in high-diversity southeastern pine savannas"
February 1	John Ososky, Collections Manager Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Mammals, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Title: True stories from the archives: Smithsonian Curator Frederick True (1858-1914)"
February 8	Dr. William Murphy, Professor Dept. of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M Title: What a tangled web we weave: recombination and the genomic distribution of phylogenetic signal."
February 15	Dr. Laura Frost, Postdoctoral Researcher Dept. of Biological Sciences, Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium, Louisiana State University Title: "Comparing effects of niche conservatism and niche evolution on diversification rate in Neotropical flowering plant genus Citharexylum (Verbenaceae)"
February 22	Dr. Erin Sigel, Assistant Professor Dept. of Biology, University of Louisiana Lafayette Title: "Into the next next generation of fern genomics"
February 26 (Tuesday)	Clare Brown, PhD Candidate (Dissertation Defense) Dept. of Biological Sciences, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University Title: "A phylogenetic and transcriptomic perspective on migration in swallows (Hirundinidae)"
March 8	Dr. Brian Folt, Postdoctoral Researcher School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University Title: “Repatriation of the Eastern Indigo Snake: incorporating phylogenetic and population demographic models"
March 15	Dr. Graham Slater, Assistant Professor Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago Title: TBA
March 22	Dr. Kathleen Ferris, Assistant Professor Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University Title: TBA
March 29	Anne Chambers, PhD Candidate Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin Title: "The implications of using the multispecies coalescent for species delimitation"
April 5	Dr. Andrew Hope, Assistant Professor Division of Biology, Kansas State University Title: "Exploring the evolution of shrews for applied biodiversity management"
April 12	No Seminar: Spring Break
April 19	No Seminar: Spring Break
April 26	Dr. Ashley Long, Assistant Professor School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University Title: "Using Geolocators to identify migratory connectivity for an endangered warbler"

For further information, please contact Jackson Roberts – jrob265 [at] lsu.edu