Historical biogeography increasingly depends on probabilistic phylogenetic models to reconstruct where ancestral species once lived. Standard approaches, however, rely almost solely on information about the present to reconstruct the past. More complex phylogenetic models that integrate paleogeographical, paleoenvironmental, and paleontological data promise to improve historical evolutionary inferences.

Nekton community composition in a mosaic of seagrass and oyster-culture habitats
By: Fiona Boardman (Ruesink Lab)

Eco-morphology of phragmocone-bearing cephalopods: Using stable isotopes analyses to look into the differences in metabolism and trophic ecology between extinct and extant sepiids and nautiloids
By: Job Veloso (Ward Lab)

Cell-searching: did habitat openness parallel grass dominance in the Cenozoic assembly of great plains grasslands?
By: William Brightly (Stromberg Lab)

Investigating the role of the actin cytoskeleton in sensory cell development and function
By: Evan Craig (Rasmussen Lab)