ecology and evolutionary biology

1. February 18, 2019

   Mark Hunter to show how animals use pharmaceuticals in plants

   In his Distinguished University Professor lecture Tuesday, Mark Hunter will explain how animals, like humans, use the natural pharmaceuticals in plants.

2. August 24, 2017

   U-M partners on digital encyclopedia of 3-D vertebrates

   U-M is one of 16 research institutions included in a $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant that will launch an initiative to CT scan 20,000 vertebrates and “teleport” them to the internet.

3. February 16, 2017

   U-M ecologist named AAAS public engagement fellow

   U-M ecologist Meghan Duffy has been named a 2017-18 Public Engagement Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

4. June 2, 2016

   More than 13M museum specimens moving to new U-M facility

   Movers have begun hauling more than 13 million museum specimens from U-M’s zoology, paleontology and anthropology collections to a state-of-the-art collections and research facility south of campus.

5. September 22, 2015

   U-M plays key role in developing ‘tree of life’ for 2.3M species

   Two U-M biologists played a key role in creating the first draft of recently released “tree of life” for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes.