The Puckett Lab hosted Dr. Mark Edwards for seminar. Dr. Edwards is the Curator of Mammalogy at the Royal Alberta Museum and studies the ecology of carnivores and large herbivores in northern temperate and Holarctic environments. His talk was titled, “Museum Collections Cast New Light on Spatial Ecology of Extant Species.”

The Puckett Lab hosted Dr. Marc Tollis for seminar. Dr. Tollis studies cancer evolution within mammals, transposable elements, and has broader interests in the systematics of vertebrates. His talk was titled, “Tempo and mode of Peto’s Paradox: Comparative genomics and the evolution of cancer suppression.”

The Puckett Lab hosted Dr. Greg Barsh for seminar. Dr. Barsh is a Faculty Investigator at HudsonAlpha and Professor at Stanford University. He studies the genetic basis of mammalian coat color and patterning (e.g. stripes, spots) variation. His talk was titled, “Stripes and spots: Genetics of mammalian color pattern.”

The Puckett Lab hosted Dr. Emily Latch for seminar. Dr. Latch is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. She studies phylogeography and landscape genetics of several mammal species, with an emphasis on using this information to inform management. Dr. Latch met with the students in the Urban Ecology & Wildlife Management class, […]