Biology

Events

David Maddison Seminar - Molecular and Morphological Surprises

Date: October 24 2011 4:00pm - 5:00pm Location: J.R. Howard Hall - J.R. Howard Hall - Room 202

 

David Maddison is a well-known theoretical and empirical phylogenetic biologist, computational biologist, and an expert on beetle diversity. He is co-author of the software programs Mesquite and MacClade -  widely used tools for computational evolutionary biology, and is the creator and coordinator of the Tree of Life web project. He is also a faculty member in the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing at Oregon State.  As if that’s not enough he’s also an amazing artist and cake sculptor. Check out http://david.bembidion.org/index.html for more information and links to most of the things listed above.