The Evolutionary Morphology Seminar Series brings students, faculty, and the broader evolutionary biology community together for presentations on a vast array of interesting and relevant topics.
The 2022-2023 academic year finishes up with an impressive lineup of speakers joining us in Spring Quarter:
| Date / Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar title |
| March 23, 4:30pm | Lucas Weaver | University of Michigan | Exploring the intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms underlying macroevolutionary patterns in early mammalian evolution |
| March 30, 4:30pm | Pia Viglietti | The Field Museum | Evidence from South Africa for a protracted end-Permian mass extinction event on land |
| April 13, 4:30pm | 2023 Sewall Wright Lecture: Sofia Casasa |
Boston University | announced soon! |
| April 27, 4:30pm | Susan Williams | Ohio University | Chewing it over: Sensorimotor integration and the dynamics of mammalian mastication across timescales |
| May 11, 4:30pm | Ricardo Mallarino | Princeton University | The developmental basis of biological diversity: patterning mechanisms in mammalian skin |
Students, please note: if you would like to hear an EvMorph seminar that you missed, please click on the seminar title to access the Zoom recording.
The annual Sewall Wright Lecture honors Dr. Sewall Wright (12/21/1889-3/3/1988), a pioneer in evolutionary biology and a co-founder of population genetics, who taught at the University of Chicago for three decades. Each year, Darwinian Sciences students nominate and vote for their chosen speaker, who is given the honor of delivering a special seminar as part of the Spring EvMorph series.
Winter Quarter 2023 EvMorphs
- Jan. 12, Jack Tseng, University of California, Berkeley, Jaws of a kind: Biomechanical consequences of being mammal
- Jan. 19, Fabiany Herrera, The Field Museum, Tropical South American forests: 145 million years in the making
- Jan. 26, ADMISSIONS 2023: Cara Brook, UChicago Ecology & Evolution, Population dynamics of bats and viruses in Madagascar
- Feb. 9, Mason Fidino, Lincoln ParkZoo, Disentangling spatiotemporal variation in mammalian responses to urbanization and diel activity patterns through a global camera trap study
- Feb. 23, Bruno de Medeiros, The Field Museum, Antagonism, mutualism and diversification in tropical insect flower visitors
Autumn Quarter 2022 EvMorphs
- Oct, 6, Jonathan Losos, Washington University in St. Louis, Lizards in an evolutionary tree: Ecology and adaptive radiation of anoles
- Oct. 20, Beth Brainerd, Brown University, XROMM yields new insights into musculoskeletal structure, function, and evolution
- Nov. 10, Anne Yoder, Duke University, Cryptic speciation in mouse lemurs: A tale of addiction
- Dec. 1, Matthias Steinruecken, UChicago, Ecology & Evolution, Unravelling adaptation using ancient DNA