April 24, 2017

Join us on May 30 at 6:30 p.m. at the Glenwood Springs Public Library to hear Daniel Medeiros, CU Boulder associate professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO), deliver a lecture titled "What Darwin Didn't Know About Animal Evolution."

Medeiros will discuss the field of evolutionary developmental biology, or evo-devo, and how the evo-devo approach is being used to solve one of oldest questions in biology, the origin of animal diversity. He will also introduce some of the powerful new genome editing tools currently being used to reverse-engineer evolution, which means recreating, in the lab, the steps in the evolutionary process.

This lecture is part of the Glenwood Springs Library Spring Lecture Series. Before or after the lecture, please visit the Evo-Devo: Sharing Genes for 3.5 Billion Years exhibit in the library lobby. This exhibit was produced through collaboration between the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder and was funded by the National Science Foundation.

Medeiros joined the CU Boulder EBIO faculty in 2008. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Hawaii, Medeiros earned his doctorate from the California Institute of Technology. Medeiros’ lab uses a comparative evo-devo approach to understand the genetic and developmental changes driving the evolution of vertebrates. For more information about Medeiros' research, vist his website.