{"id":3343,"date":"2014-01-20T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=3343"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:58","slug":"dr-hillary-maddin","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/event\/dr-hillary-maddin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Hillary Maddin"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p><b>Title: TBA<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Hillary Maddin, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, January 31<sup>st<\/sup> \u2013 3:30PM \u2013 CTTC 4440Q<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Faculty Host: Alex Wong<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Paleontology \u2022 Evolution \u2022 Developmental Biology <\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SEMINAR ABSTRACT TBA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>Biography from Website: <\/i><i>Hillary Maddin\u2019s research aims to understand the origin and maintenance of organismal diversity over large time scales. In particular, Hillary is interested in the evolution of cranial morphology and how patterns of relatedness, and developmental and functional constraints underlie the origin of morphological diversity observed among animals living today.&nbsp;The focus of Hillary\u2019s Banting research will be to investigate the influence of brain morphology on the cranial form of tetrapod animals. Whereas the developmental aspects of brain-cranium interactions are areas of intense study in mammals (e.g., the mouse), largely due to medical interests, evolutionary aspects of these interactions remain less well understood. By combining analyses of the fossil record and lab-based analyses of development, the nature of these interactions and their role in cranial evolution will be elucidated in a complementary tetrapod lineage, the amphibians.&nbsp;This research will provide new information about the conservation of brain-cranium interactions across tetrapod animals, and has the potential to provide insight into processes of genetic and morphogenetic evolution of the tetrapod cranium in general.&nbsp;Hillary obtained her PhD from the University of Calgary, and recently completed an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, in the department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-3343","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2014-01-31T15:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2014-01-31T16:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"TT","cu_event_meeting_room":"4440Q","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Alex Wong","cu_event_email":"alex.wong@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}