The latest publication out of the Braun Lab was recently accepted in Behavioral Ecology. “Tests of the kin selection model of mate choice and inbreeding avoidance in satin bowerbirds,” by Sheila M. Reynolds, J. Albert C. Uy, Gail L. Patricelli, Seth W. Coleman, Michael J. Braun, and Gerald Borgia. See publication page for full citation.
June PhyloPizza
Our next PhyloPizza event will take place Tuesday, June 10, at 5:30 in the National Museum of Natural History’s Executive Conference Room. Cara Santelli will give a talk entitled “Microbes to the rescue: using metagenomics and culture-based approaches to understand the role of microbes in remediating polluted environments.” Join us! Keep up to date with future events here.
May PhyloPizza
Our next PhyloPizza event will take place Tuesday, May 13, at 5:30 in the National Museum of Natural History’s Vertebrate Zoology seminar room (WG-33). Brain O’Meara will give a talk entitled “Dealing with the heterogeneity of life for comparative methods.” Join us! Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here.
True Facts about Owls
We in The Braun Lab are big fans of owls, facts, and funny videos. So here’s something we recently found, and instantly loved. Enjoy.
The Chicken from Hell?!
Work conducted in part by colleagues here at the National Museum of Natural History has recently culminated in the presentation of Anzu wyliei, a feathered dinosaur with crested bone structure on the top of its head. The Washington Post was quick to dub it the chicken from hell (and we love that name)!
April PhyloPizza
Our next PhyloPizza event will take place Tuesday, April 8, at 5:30 in the National Museum of Natural History’s Executive Conference Room (ECR). Tracy Heath will give a talk entitled “The Fossilized Birth-Death Process: A Coherent Model of Fossil Calibration for Divergence Time Estimation.” Join us! Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here.
Welcome HC!
The Braun Lab welcomes postdoc Haw Chuan (HC) Lim to the website! HC joined the Braun lab in September of 2013, and comes to us from the Sheldon lab at Louisiana State University. Check out the People page to learn more about HC’s research interests.
March PhyloPizza
Our next PhyloPizza event will take place Tuesday, March 11, at 5:30 at the University of Maryland’s campus in College Park, MD, in the Bioscience Research Building, room 1103. Kevin Omland will give a talk entitled “Using species trees to reconstruct character evolution: repeated loss of female song and elaborate coloration across orioles, blackbirds and al songbirds.” Join us! Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here.
February PhyloPizza
Our next PhyloPizza event will take place Tuesday, February 11, at 5:30 in the National Museum of Natural History’s Vertebrate Zoology Seminar Room (WG-33). Max Alekseyev will give a talk entitled “Mammalian Phylogenomics: A Genome Rearrangements Perspective.” Join us! Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here.
Go Seahawks!
We in the Braun Lab don’t always agree on our favorite sports teams, but we just can’t resist supporting a mighty bird mascot! Call us bird-biased, but this superbowl we’re rooting for the Seahawks.
