Thursday, February 6, 2025 12:30pm to 1:15pm
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Add to calendarSpeaker: Dr. Sam Borstein, Assistant Professor @ Texas State University
Title: “Macroevolutionary perspectives on speciation and innovation in fishes”
Abstract: Dr. Sam Borstein is an Assistant Professor at Texas State University, where his labs studies large-scale macroevolutionary topics such as adaptive radiation, evolutionary innovations, and the evolution of dietary specialization. Much of Sam's work involves some of the most interesting and diverse fishes in the world—the cichlids. Before arriving at Texas State University, Sam earned his undergraduate degree from Cal State Sacramento, his PhD from the University of Tennessee Knoxville, and worked as a postdoc at the University of Michigan. His presentation includes great examples of how to combine basic natural history, cutting-edge genomic methods, and new statistical frameworks to learn about the world around us.
The Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, & Organismal Biology (EEBOB) seminar series focuses on biological topics at whole-organism and higher scales of organization. Guest speakers come from universities, governmental agencies, NGOs, zoos, museums, and other institutions. The EEBOB seminar is an opportunity to learn about career paths and research in the biology discipline, and for students to engage with professionals in a wide variety of biology careers.
This seminar series consists of a pre-recorded seminar, which will be posted to a playlist at the beginning of each week, and a live, virtual Q&A session with the speaker. All are welcome to attend! To be granted access to the live Q&A session, interested attendees can email Dr. Todd Pierson. The live Q&A session will be held each Thursday at 12:30 PM.
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