The Evolutionary Morphology Seminar Series brings together students, faculty, post-docs, and the broader evolutionary biology community, for presentations on interesting and novel topics that are relevant to research focused on evolution, ecology, morphology, geophysical sciences, theoretical evolutionary models, anatomy, and more.


The 2024-2025 EvMorph series continues with an engaging and diverse lineup of speakers joining us in Winter Quarter:
Date / Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar title |
Jan. 16, 5pm | Arjan Mann | Field Museum Geology | The Late Carboniferous radiation of tetrapods and the origins of terrestrial ecosystems: New insights from the Midwest! |
Jan. 30, 5pm | Ava Ghezelayagh | UChicago GeoSci | Space, time and trees: Understanding diversification in the oceans |
Feb. 13, 5pm | Phil Anderson | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Living on the Point: A decade of puncture research from Crossbows to Fish Pendula |
Feb. 20, 5pm | 2025 Darwin Admissions: John Bates & Shannon Hackett | Field Museum Birds |

Students, if you missed an EvMorph: just click on the seminar title to access the Zoom recording

Autumn 2024
- Sept. 24, Adam Welz, nature conservationist & writer, Ameliorating climate change and the challenge of biological conservation (email evbio@uchicago for link to seminar)
- Oct. 10, Lauren Carley, UChicago E&E, Causes and consequences of intraspecific variation in plants
- Oct. 17, Anjali Goswami, Natural History Museum, London, The Shape of Life: A deep time perspective
- Oct. 24, Dakota (Cody) McCoy, UChicago E&E, Solar-powered coral reef symbioses, colorful birds, and primate pregnancy
- Nov. 7, Tyler Karp, UChicago GeoSci, Herbivore-fire interactions across spatial and temporal scales
- Nov. 21, Julia Kreiner, UChicago E&E, The tempo and mode of plant adaptation to contemporary agricultural environments