{"id":12999,"date":"2022-12-09T11:20:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=12999"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:44","slug":"last-cmn-seminar-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2022\/last-cmn-seminar-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Last CMN seminar of 2022!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Last CMN seminar of 2022!\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

How do animals walk, and how does environment influence evolution of the ways they move? Join Alexa Wednesday next week for an analysis across tetrapods and case studies in hoofed mammals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comment les animaux marchent-ils, et comment l’environnement influence-t-il l’\u00e9volution de leurs modes de d\u00e9placement ? Rejoignez Alexa mercredi prochain pour une analyse des t\u00e9trapodes et des \u00e9tudes de cas sur les mammif\u00e8res \u00e0 sabots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virtual Seminar Wednesday <\/strong>December 14, 2022 \u2013 Conf\u00e9rence virtuelle mercredi le 14 decembre 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:00 \u2013 13:00 <\/strong>(Eastern  Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexa Wimberly<\/strong> <\/strong>(<\/strong>University of Chicago)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quadrupedal tetrapod walking gaits and the novelty of locomotor morphology in unguligrade mammals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cD\u00e9marches quadrup\u00e8des des t\u00e9trapodes et nouveaut\u00e9 de la morphologie locomotrice chez les mammif\u00e8res unguligrades\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary:<\/u><\/strong>  Tetrapods move around in their environments in many ways. By studying movement in living animals, we can better understand evolutionary patterns in locomotion and ecology in fossil animals. This seminar will first investigate the diversity of quadrupedal tetrapod walking gaits in an evolutionary context by studying phase, or the sequence in which four-legged animals move their limbs. Alexa will also discuss how this walking gait project influenced the direction of her dissertation work: how ecological factors have influenced the locomotor evolution of hoofed mammals, particularly ruminant artiodactyls (Suborder Ruminantia; cattle, deer, gazelles, giraffes, etc.). The second part of the talk will look at the first part of Alexa\u2019s dissertation, which predicts body mass from limb bone measurements in living ruminants. The seminar will end with a brief look at current and future projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This seminar is open to public.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please register HERE<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>to receive a link to the Zoom event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are welcome to share the flyer with family, friends or colleagues at other institutions and post the registration link on your social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cette conf\u00e9rence est ouverte au public. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veuillez vous inscrire ici<\/strong><\/a> pour recevoir un lien vers l’\u00e9v\u00e9nement Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vous \u00eates invit\u00e9s \u00e0 partager le d\u00e9pliant avec votre famille, vos amis ou vos coll\u00e8gues d’autres institutions et \u00e0 publier le lien d’inscription sur vos m\u00e9dias sociaux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexa received her Bachelor of Arts in anthropology with an emphasis in biological anthropology at the University of Arkansas in 2016, where she studied dental microwear in capuchin monkeys. She began pursuing her PhD at the University of Chicago in 2018 as part of the Integrative Biology program with new interests in mammalian evolution, functional morphology, and locomotion. Since January of 2022, Alexa has been living in Washington, D.C. as part of a year-long predoctoral fellowship program at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, where she has been collecting data in living and extinct hoofed mammals for her research. In late December, she will move back to Chicago to continue her dissertation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How do animals walk, and how does environment influence evolution of the ways they move? Join Alexa Wednesday next week for an analysis across tetrapods and case studies in hoofed mammals. Comment les animaux marchent-ils, et comment l’environnement influence-t-il l’\u00e9volution de leurs modes de d\u00e9placement ? Rejoignez Alexa mercredi prochain pour une analyse des t\u00e9trapodes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-undergrad-opportunities"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"event-lecture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13000,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999\/revisions\/13000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}