The Evolutionary Morphology Seminar Series brings students, faculty, post-docs, and the broader evolutionary biology community together for presentations on a vast array of interesting and relevant topics.
The 2023-2024 EvMorph series concludes with an engaging and diverse lineup of speakers joining us in Spring Quarter:
| Date / Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar title |
| March 28, 4:30pm | Anderson Feijo | The Field Museum | Diversification, adaptation, and climate resilience of Montane mammals |
| April 11, 4:30pm | Guang Li | Xiamen University, China | Amphioxus and origin of vertebrates and chordates |
| April 25, 4:30pm | 2024 Sewall Wright speaker: Armita Manafzadeh | Yale University | Joints: Form, function, and the foundation of vertebrate motion (please email evbio@uchicago.edu for presentation link) |
| May 9, 4:30pm | Lee Hsiang Liow | University of Oslo | Understanding phenotypic change on geological time scales: Bryozoans as a study system |
The annual Sewall Wright Lecture honors Dr. Sewall Wright (1889–1988), a pioneer in evolutionary biology, a co-founder of the field of population genetics, and a UChicago faculty member for 3 decades. Darwinian Sciences students nominate and vote for the annual Sewall Wright speaker, who is invited to deliver a special EvMorph in Spring Quarter.
Students, if you missed an EvMorph: just click on the seminar title to access the Zoom recording
Click on the titles below to listen to any of these seminars:
Autumn Quarter 2023
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Oct. 5, Anjan Bhullar, Yale University, Musculoskeletal development and evolution in the origin of the avian body
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Oct. 12, Elizabeth Harper, Cambridge University, Does environment matter? Evolution of shell mineralogy, shape and predation resistance in marine clams and snails
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Nov. 2, Andrew Barr, George Washington University, Hominin paleoenvironments, herbivore ecomorphology, and spatial bias in the African fossil record
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Nov. 16, Zewdi Tsegai, UChicago OBA, Understanding the form-function relationship of internal structure of the skeleton in human evolution: examples from hands, feet and skulls
Winter Quarter 2024
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Jan. 11, Jasmine Nirody, UChicago OBA, Adaptive locomotion in complex, changing environments
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Jan. 25, Pavitra Muralidhar, UChicago E&E, The causes and consequences of sexual selection
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Feb. 8, Simon Sponberg,Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Physics, Transitions and tradeoffs in the different strategies insects use to fly
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Feb. 22, Darwin Admissions: Zhe-Xi Luo & Graham Slater, UChicago OBA & GeoSci, Mesozoic evolution of mammalian middle ear and ecological diversification of Cenozoic mammals