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Phylogenetics
Sharlene Santana awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
Hayden Davis Thesis Defense
Lauren Buckley named vice president of the American Society of Naturalists for 2024
Adam Leaché awarded Fulbright US Scholarship
Stable Isotope Analyses in Neotropical Mammals: Paleoecological Implications
Stable isotope analyses are powerful tools for reconstructing ancient ecologies and ecosystems, as they provide direct insights into dietary ecology independent of morphology. The application of stable isotope analyses, however, is not without limitations, as determination of food web dynamics using these methods often relies on poorly tested assumptions. In this presentation, I will address challenges in paleoecological reconstructions of South American tropical ecosystems.
Organismal Dynamics, Fluids and Sparks: Stories of Marvelous Beasts
Most incredible animal adaptations, such as flight or filter-feeding, have been shaped by natural selection in which the fluid environment has played a fundamental role. Similarly, at submillimeter scales, some tiny organisms use other phenomena, such as electrostatics, to their biological advantage. In this seminar, I am going to focus on four stories of my recent research that show how fluids, as well as electrostatic forces outline the animal world.
Sharlene Santana in UW News on bat teeth and jaw evolution
Dick Olmstead's work on plant molecular phylogenetics featured in Kew's "State of the World's Plants and Fungi"
Sharlene Santana featured in UW News on bat research [VIDEO]
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