Dr. Craig Albertson from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will be our seminar speaker at 12 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in BSEL 101.

"Fast and furious skull evolution: genetics and adaptation in fishes."

Craig's research focuses on craniofacial ecology, evolution and development in fishes, particularly in the massive adaptive radiations of the East-African rift-lake cichlids, but his lab also uses the zebrafish as a developmental-genetic model and he has explored skull and skeletal evolution in such derived groups as the Antarctic icefishes.

website: http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/about/directories/faculty/r-craig-alber...