Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. EEB Museums Seminar: Running a university-based research collection: backyard birds, backyard successes, and backyard challenges (March 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51121 51121-11976185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Research Museums Center
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB Museums Seminar at the Research Museums Center (RMC).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:22:22 -0400 2018-03-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T12:00:00-04:00 Research Museums Center Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Colorful bird collection
EEB Museums Seminar - The inside story: how computed tomography is revolutionizing natural history museums in the 21st Century (April 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51909 51909-12285987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Research Museums Center
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Scientific collections serve the global research community as storehouses of biodiversity information, and recent advances and increased access to Computed Tomography (CT) are opening up new avenues for integrative collections-based research. Through CT, we are able to generate three-dimensional volumes of external and internal anatomy for morphological descriptions, as well as quantitative analyses of surfaces and volumes such as with geometric morphometrics. As the method is not destructive, we can easily integrate rare and important specimens into our studies and can capture and quantify traits that otherwise would be difficult in traditional preparations, such as osteoderm distributions or cranial endocasts. Through contrast-enhanced microCT scanning we can also visualize soft tissues, such as muscles, nerves, and arteries, facilitating the study of complex anatomical systems. The images and 3D volumes that result form this work can be easily shared and repurposed for other forms of future research and education (including 3D printing). Over the next four years, 16 US institutions will collaborate to create the open vertebrate (oVert) network: an unprecedented library of vertebrate morphology that contains high-resolution 3D anatomy of over 20,000 museum specimens. These emerging digital 3D resources will renew interest in phenotypic diversity and evolution and make our scientific collections accessible to more people than ever before.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:56:34 -0400 2018-04-13T11:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 Research Museums Center Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar CT scans of animals
EEB Museums Seminar: Migration Patterns: supporting the work of database curation in natural history museums (September 14, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54966 54966-13660776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Research Museums Center
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Migration Patterns: supporting the work of database curation in natural history museums.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:38:09 -0400 2018-09-14T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T15:00:00-04:00 Research Museums Center Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar EEB Museums Seminar092018
EEB Friday Museums Seminar - A life on the move: Unraveling the mysterious evolution of fish migration (November 30, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57721 57721-14272047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Research Museums Center
Organized By: Herbarium

Migration is a widespread phenomenon among animals and has a profound influence on the evolution of species traits. Diadromous fishes are an extreme example of migration, moving between marine and freshwaters, often traveling thousands of kilometers for feeding and reproduction. Diadromous fishes include iconic species such as salmon, eels, shad, lamprey and sturgeon, yet the origins and evolutionary consequences of diadromy remain elusive. In this talk I will explore the evolution of diadromy spanning population to phylogenetic scales. I will evaluate a widely accepted hypothesis that links the origins of diadromy with productivity by integrating phylogenetic, biogeographic and global productivity data. Using phylogenetic comparative methods I will investigate the adaptive landscape of diadromous fishes to determine whether intraspecific variation predicts macroevolutionary phenotypic patterns in migratory fishes. Finally, using more than 100 years of natural history collections, I will trace the origin and evolutionary ecology of alewives introduced in the Great Lakes and compare these populations to native migratory populations from the East Coast of North America.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Nov 2018 12:36:36 -0500 2018-11-30T14:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 Research Museums Center Herbarium Lecture / Discussion Image of seminar announcement.