2018 Fall Seminar Schedule

Seminars begin at 3:30pm in the main exhibit area of Foster Hall

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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 communitites: physiology, behavior, and color evolution in cold blood"

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

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