Seminars and Conferences
Museum Seminar Series 2019-2020
Throughout the academic year, the AMNH will present the weekly Museum Seminar Series at which presentations on a variety of scientific topics will be given by leading scientists, educators and AMNH curators.
- Comparative Biology Seminars
- Earth and Planetary Sciences Seminars
- Northeast Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium (NERVES)
- Student Conference on Conservation Science at AMNH (NY)
Comparative Biology Seminars
During their first year, RGGS Comparative Biology Ph.D. students are required to attend each program in the Series and will meet prior to each program for a discussion of the pertinent literature, which they will be expected to have read prior to the lecture, for a total of two hours each week. First year students earn one credit per semester for a total of two credits. After the first year, students’ participation is not required for credit, but is strongly encouraged.
Seminars Meet in the RGGS Lecture Hall on the following Mondays from 11:00 am to noon unless otherwise noted.
| Preliminary Academic Year 2019-2020 Seminar Schedule | ||
| FALL 2019 | ||
| 16 September 2019 Dr. Victor Sojo American Museum of Natural History “On the evolution of membranes and the three branches of the tree of life” |
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| 23 September 2019 Dr. Marcelo Gehara American Museum of Natural History Talk Title TBA |
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| 30 September 2019 Dr. Josef Uyeda Virginia Tech University "The Measurement of Macroevolutionary Causes" |
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| 7 October 2019 Dr. Samantha Cheng American Museum of Natural History “Phylogenetics and population genomics of coastal squid species: cryptic diversity, fisheries management, and conservation” |
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| 14 October 2020 NO SEMINAR- MUSEUM HOLIDAY |
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| 21 October 2019 Dr. Patricia Hernandez The George Washington University “Bottom feeding and beyond: Using XROMM and 3D PIV to investigate functional implications of cypriniform trophic novelties” |
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| 28 October 2019 Dr. Nathan Lujan American Museum of Natural History Talk Title TBA |
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| 4 November 2019 Dr. Brandon Ogbunu Brown University “Evolution ab epistulus ('from letters'): lexical landscapes, protein space, and re-thinking adaptation” |
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| 11 November 2019 NO SEMINAR- MUSEUM HOLIDAY |
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| 18 November 2019 Dr. Alycia Stigall Ohio University Talk Title TBA |
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| 25 November 2019 Dr. Elodie Ghedin New York University “Panning for immunological gold in the secretome of parasitic worms” |
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| 2 December 2019 Dr. Fangyuan Mao American Museum of Natural History "New evidence on the evolution of basal therians" |
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| 9 December 2019 Dr. John Kingston University of Michigan Talk Title TBA |
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| Spring 2020 | ||
| 27 January 2020 Dr. Paul Lewis University of Connecticut “How to measure (phylogenetic) information” |
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| 3 February 2020 TBD |
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| 10 February 2020 TBD |
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| 17 February 2020 Dr. Ariadna Morales American Museum of Natural History Talk Title TBA |
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| 24 February 2020 Dr. Amane Tajika American Museum of Natural History Talk Title TBA |
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| 2 March 2020 Dr. David Wright American Museum of Natural History "The dredge and the hammer: reconstructing the evolution of biological diversity in crinoid echinoderms" |
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| 9 March 2020 Dr. Ricardo Botero-Trujillo American Museum of Natural History Talk Title TBA |
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| 16 March 2019 NO SEMINAR- RGGS SPRING BREAK |
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| 23 March 2020 Dr. Nathan Thompson New York Institute of Technology "3-D mechanics of knuckle-walking" |
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| 30 March 2020 Dr. Matt Friedman University of Michigan Talk Title TBA |
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| 6 April 2020 Dr. Jonathan Losos Washington University Talk Title TBA |
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| 13 April 2020 Dr. Molly Przeworski Columbia University “Towards the genomic prediction of bleaching in corals” |
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| 20 April 2020 Dr. Tim Higham University of California-Riverside Talk Title TBA |
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| 27 April 2020 Dr. Luke Harmon University of Idaho Talk Title TBA |
Earth and Planetary Sciences Seminars
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History holds seminars on most Thursdays through the Fall, Winter and Spring. Please refer to the current schedule, and for more details on getting to the seminars, see Earth and Planetary Science Seminars.
2019 Northeast Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium (NERVES)
Researchers from around the region are invited to the annual meeting of the Northeast Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium (NERVES)
Meeting details: TBD
Student Conference on Conservation Science at AMNH (NY)
October 2–4, 2019
Please visit 2019 SCCS-NY for details.