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Throughout the academic year, the AMNH will present the weekly Museum Seminar Series at which presentations on a variety ofscientific topics will be given by leading scientists, educators and AMNH curators.
During the first year, students will be 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 will earn one credit per semester for a total of two credits. After the first year, students’ participation is not required for credit, but will be strongly encouraged.
Seminars Meet in the Lecture Hall on the following Mondays from 11:00am to noon unless otherwise noted.
RGGS Second- Year Student Symposium (3:00 -5:00 PM)
Dr. Andy Dobson
"The Eye of the Finch: Systems Biology of an Emerging Avian Pathogen"
Dr. Gunther Wagner, Yale University
“Developmental Evolution of Avian and Skink Digit Homology ”
Dr. Thomas Near, Yale University
"Genomic Approaches to Resolving Phylogenies of Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes"
No Seminar – Columbus Day Holiday
Dr. Robert Cox, Dartmouth College
TBA
Dr. Jody Hey, Rutgers University
"On the arbitrary identification of real species"
RGGS Student Symposium, Session 2: S. Kvist and S. Brusatte
Dr. Maureen O’Leary, Stony Brook University
"The origin of whales from land mammals, interpreting new fossil discoveries in the context of molecular and anatomical data"
Dr. Rich Glor, University of Rochester
"The Evolution of Species Richness in Greater Antillean Anolis Lizards
Dr. Else Fjerdingstad, Queens College
TBA
Dr. Catherine Graham, Stony Brook University
“TBA
Dr. Jason Munshi-South, Baruch College
"Landscape Genetics of White-footed Mice in NYC"
Dr. Patrik Nosil, University of Colorado
TBA
Dr. Mary Killilea, New York University
TBA
Dr. Doug Futuyma, Stony Brook
TBA
No Seminar – President’s Day Holiday
Dr. Olaf Bininda-Emonds, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
“Making Sense of Mammals: Why Phylogeny Matters”
Dr. Luke Harmon, University of Idaho
“Causes and Effects of Adaptive Radiation”
Dr. Paul Koch, University of California, Santa Cruz
TBA
No seminar- Spring Break
Dr. Apurva Narechania, American Museum of Natural History
"ithink and iam: assessing the strenght of phylogenetic signal in real and random concatentated data sets"
Dr. Kevin DeQueiroz, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute
"Philosophy of Phylogenetic Inference"
TBA
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 http://research.amnh.org/eps/seminars.
EPS Seminar Schedule: http://research.amnh.org/eps/seminars/currentschedule
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