“The Love of Frogs: What they have taught us about diversification and conservation”

Title: “The Love of Frogs: What they have taught us about diversification and conservation”

Date: Monday, 28 April 

Time: 4:00-5:00 pm

Place: Aztec Student Union Theater (2nd floor, east end of the Union; for map, see: https://sunspot.sdsu.edu/map/display.cgi?new_loc_id=2002)
Reception: immediately following the talk at the Faculty-Staff Club, 5:00-7:00 PM 

Information about Dr. Zamudio:

Dr. Zamudio is a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin and an Endowed Fellow of the Doherty Regents Chair in Molecular Biology. She received her B.A. from UC Berkeley in Zoology, her Ph.D. from University of Washington, and was an NSF post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. She worked at Cornell University from 1999-2021 where she was a Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on the origin and maintenance of vertebrate biodiversity (especially reptiles and amphibians), and she has published over 200 papers. Her research has been instrumental in understanding population declines faced by amphibians, with a particular focus on the roles played by disease resistance and the toll of human activity on the landscape. She is a past president of the Society for the Study of Evolution and an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
You can learn more about her research here: https://zamudiolab.org/