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Research Seminar – Dr. Prashant Sharma, University of Wisconsin Madison

1014 North Lawn Hall 221 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Making horseshoe crabs crabs again: Integrating data classes in the phylogenetic inference of ancient radiations The backbone phylogeny of Chelicerata--the subphylum of arthropods that includes spiders, mites, and horseshoe crabs--remains intractable to phylogenetic resolution, owing to a confluence of conflicting phylogenetic signal, long branch attraction artifacts, limitations in taxonomic sampling, and episodic extinction at the ordinal level. Salient sampling omissions in modern chelicerate phylogenies include the miniaturized orders Palpigradi and Schizomida, as well as Opilioacariformes, the sister group to the [...]

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Three Minute Thesis BSC Competition

2435 SEC

Three Minute Thesis (3MT; https://graduate.ua.edu/current-students/3mt/?fbclid=IwAR3LHOOblUW16yZjVyqruxQRb1x_umJZhCl694w1ctd3sJ7UzY9if8ym2is) is a research communication competition that challenges graduate students to present a compelling oration on their research and its significance in just three minutes in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. We will have an internal Biological Sciences 3MT competition on 10/9 at 3:30 pm. We will select two winners (1st place and 2nd place) and an alternate. Dr. Behzad Mortazavi has graciously committed $250 (research/travel funds) to award the two departmental winners and $100 [...]