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                    Roger E. Carpenter Lecture in Comparative Biology


This lecture series was established in honor of Dr. Roger E. Carpenter, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology at SDSU.  Roger is a comparative physiologist with a long history of  teaching and  research in ecological and evolutionary physiology. The lecture, held annually each spring, highlights the research of a distinguished biologist whose research perspective is integrative and highlights major patterns and unifying themes in comparative biology.

2009 Lecture
Dr. Jonathan Losos
Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles


Monday 4 pm April 27
Gold Auditorium
BioScience Center
The Roger Carpenter  Lecture for 2009 will be given by Dr. Jonathan Losos, Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. Jonathan is a comparative biologist with a research focus on the behavioral and evolutionary ecology of lizards. Major questions concern how lizards interact with their environment and how lizard clades have diversified evolutionarily. His approach involves the integration of behavioral, ecological, functional morphological, and phylogenetic studies. A major focus has been the evolutionary radiation of Caribbean Anolis lizards, but other lizard radiations are also being studied.