Lab News

GSA 2024 in Anaheim, Cambrian paleobiology, and Disneyland!

September 30, 2024

We are back home after a fabulous week at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting at Anaheim, California! The IP lab led the organization of the day-long topical session Evolution of Marine Life in the Cambrian , coordinated by Rudy-Lerosey...

Karma Nanglu to join UC Riverside faculty in Fall 2025

September 04, 2024

We are delighted to share the news that Dr. Karma Nanglu will start his own research group in the West Coast at the prestigious University of California Riverside in Fall 2025! Karma's work on the biodiversity, paleobiology and paleoecology of Cambrian...

Welcoming graduate students Maddi Waskom and Walker Weyland, and postdoctoral researcher Bruno Becker Kerber

September 01, 2024

We've had quite a turnaround over the summer, now we are delighted to welcome new graduate students Madeleine (Maddi) Waskom (previously at the School of Education in Harvard) and Walker Weyland (previously at UC Riverside), as well as postdoctoral...

The Insane Biology of Tardigrades feat. Marc Mapalo

August 04, 2024

Graduate student Marc A. Mapalo is one of the experts featured in a comprehensive and accessible YouTube video focusing on the unique and fascinating biology of tardigrades, also colloquially known as water bears or moss piglets. Marc's graduate...

Winifred Goldring Award to Dr. Sarah Losso

June 27, 2024

Dr. Sarah Losso is the latest recipient of the prestigious Winifred Goldring Award granted by the Asociation of Women Geoscientists to outstanding female graduate students pursuing a career in paleontology. Sarah's research focuses on the morphology...

IP Lab visits Ann Arbor for NAPC 2024

June 23, 2024

We are back from a week full of science, colleagues and amazing talks at the 12th North American Paleontological Convention ( NAPC 2024) organized by Matt Friedman and colleagues at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor! The IP lab had a great...

Spring fieldwork at the Marjum Formation of Utah

June 05, 2024

We are back from another successful campaign of fieldwork in the Marjum Formation of Utah as part of our ongoing efforts to study the most diverse, abundant and well preserved Cambrian Burgess Shale-type deposits from the United States! In addition to our...

Back to back publications on Cambrian and Ordovician Lagerstätte

May 14, 2024

We are excited to feature the lab's latest publications coming out a day apart from each other! First, graduate student Jared C. Richards led the first broad scale quantitive comparison between the conventional fossil biota preserved in the Early...

Jared Richards defends during G4 Symposium

April 25, 2024

Congratulations to graduate student Jared C. Richards for a great performance during this year's G4 Symposium event! Jared shared some of the latest progress on their work on the soft bodied organisms preserved in the Ordovician Fezouata Shale biota of...

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Losso!

April 11, 2024

We are incredibly proud of Dr. Sarah Losso after her spectacular graduate dissertation defense! Sarah shared with the entire department an authetic tour de force on the exceptional preservation of non-biomineralized ventral structures in trilobites and...

Fezouata fossils show post-Cambrian survival of Selkirkia

March 27, 2024

Excited to share the latest species from the Ordovician Fezouata Shale biota of Morocco published in Biology Letters. New exceptional fossils from the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Harvard and the Yale University Pebody Museum demonstrate that the tube...

OEB/EPS 56 undergraduate fieldtrip to Utah

March 17, 2024

Students and teaching staff alike had a blast during the Spring fieldtrip to Utah as part of the course OEB/EPS 56 The History and Evolution of Life on Earth. Highlights included checking out modern oolites in the Great Salt Lake, exceptionally...