Alumni Symposium: MVZ @ 100: Celebrating Vertebrate Diversity, Speakers

History and Impact

  • Dr. David Wake and Dr. James Patton - Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
    MVZ in Perspective
  • Dr. Enrique Lessa - Universidad de la República, Uruguay
    A South American perspective on the MVZ history and impact
  • Dr. James Hanken - Harvard University
    The future of university-based natural history museums: lessons from
    history (and the MVZ).

Insights into Ecological and Evolutionary Processes

  • Dr. Marjorie Matocq - Idaho State University
    The roles of ecology, behavior, and morphology at species boundaries:
    what the packrats of MVZ continue to teach us
  • Dr. Jonathan Losos - Harvard University
    Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: A Grinnellian Study of Adaptive Radiation
    in Anolis Lizards
  • Dr. Stephen Pruett-Jones - University of Chicago
    Splendid Birds: Evolution in Australian Fairy-wrens
  • Dr. Adam Summers - University of California, Irvine
    From synchrotrons to swimming sharks - an investigation of the
    alternative to the bony skeleton

Discovery and Conservation

  • Dr. Russ Greenberg - Smithsonian National Zoological Park
    The creatures from the black lagoons: Adaptations for tidal marsh life in
    sparrows and other animals
  • Dr. Gabriela Parra-Olea - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Biodiversity and conservation of mexican salamanders
  • Dr. William Laurance - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
    Studying threats to tropical biodiversity

New Horizons

  • Dr. James Edwards - Encyclopedia of Life
    The Impending Integration of Biodiversity Informatics Resources
  • Dr. Erica Rosenblum - University of Idaho
    Natural history and the genomics revolution: a new perspective on
    amphibian declines
  • Dr. Catherine Graham - State University of New York at Stony Brook
    Northern Andean biodiversity: past, present and future
  • Dr. Harry Greene - Cornell University
    Natural History, Aesthetics, and Conservation