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

2018 Fall Seminar Schedule

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August 24	Diego Elias & A.J. Turner Dept. of Biological Sciences, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University Title: "Expedition Travelogue Part I: Guatemala and Southeastern USA"
August 31	Subir Shakya & Heru Handika Department of Biological Sciences, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University Title: "Expedition Travelogue Part II: Indonesia and Indonesia"
September 7	Dr. Michael McKain, Assistant Professor & Herbarium Curator Dept. of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama Title: “Identifying the evolutionary history of subgenomes in polyploids”
September 14	Dr. Solomon David, Assistant Professor Dept. of Biological Sciences, Nicholls State University Title: "Modern insights regarding ancient fishes"
September 21	Heru Handika, PhD Student Dept. of Biological Sciences, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University Title: "The geography of diversification among endemic island rodents on Sulawesi, Indonesia"
September 28	Dr. Renata Durães Ribeiro, Professor of the Practice Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University Title: "Testing hypotheses for the evolution of lekking behavior on a tropical bird"
October 5	No Seminar: Fall Break
October 12	Dr. Loren Cassin Sackett, Professor Dept. of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Title: “Introduced pathogens drive the distribution of genetic diversity in vertebrate hosts”
October 19	Dr. Jamie Oaks, Assistant Professor Dept. of Biological Sciences, Auburn University Title: “Generalizing the birth-death process to test for bursts of diversification across the phylogeny of Southeast Asian geckos”
October 26	Dr. Jay McEntee, Postdoctoral Researcher Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Florida Title: “Avian trait evolution is very slow, and so fast"
November 2	No Seminar: Rails & Rice Festival
November 9	No Seminar: Museum Retreat
November 16	Dr. Jessica Oswald, Postdoctoral Researcher Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Florida Title: "Using morphology and DNA from subfossils to understand historical diversity, distributions, and phylogenetic relationships of Caribbean fauna"
November 23	No Seminar: Thanksgiving Break
November 30	Dr. Alex Gunderson, Assistant Professor Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University Title: "Thermal adaptation in lizard communities: physiology, behavior, and color evolution in cold blood"

For further information, please contact Oscar Johnson – ojohns7 [at] lsu.edu