by Stephanie Sang | Nov 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our lab was featured in a UChicago news article about CEB50, a celebration of the first fifty years of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. Mike is the current chair of CEB and was photographed absolutely glowingly (mostly due to the light table), basking among the...
by Stephanie Sang | Nov 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Here, we report the first skeletal remains of Phoebodus from the Famennian (Late Devonian) of the Maïder region of Morocco, revealing an anguilliform body, specialized braincase, hyoid arch, elongate jaws and rostrum, complementing its characteristic dentition and...
by Stephanie Sang | Nov 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
After an extended gestation, Tristychius -the jaws paper-, is finally out, published in Science Advances: ‘High-performance suction feeding in an early elasmobranch’. The work highlights collaboration with Aaron Olsen (Brown University) and his...
by Stephanie Sang | Sep 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to our post-doc Tetsuto for receiving the Stensiö Award! Named after Swedish vertebrate paleontologist Erik Stensiö, the award recognizes the research and impact of a scholar within five years of receiving a Ph.D. Stensiö, the founder of the...
by Stephanie Sang | Sep 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our very own Ben Otoo, aka Captain Tetrapod, was awarded a Field Museum Armour Graduate Fellowship for 2019-2020! This award is given to one graduate student working closely with the museum each year. More information about the fellowship can be found here....
by botoo | Jun 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Congrats to Vish Venkat on successfully defending his PhD proposal, “Evolution and development of the anterior mechanosensory lateral line” on June 10th!
