Wednesday, April 1, 2020 12pm to 1pm
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View map Free EventThe Molecular Imaging Center (MIC), Department
of Radiology Presents our Speaker for a Special
MIC Seminar Series: Preclinical and Basic Research
Using Imaging Based Analysis
Raul Diaz, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
California State University – Los Angeles
Research Associate, Natural History Museum of
Los Angeles County, Division of Herpetology
Using modern genetic, anatomical and visual techniques to
learn about lizard
Summary:
My lab is interested in studying the diversity of body plans present across vertebrates (morphological disparity), but more specifically we are interested in the development and diversification of reptiles. In addition, we employ a very broad array of classic and modern lab and genomic techniques to understand embryonic morphogenesis from a genetic to cellular and tissue level while also understanding how organisms interact with their environments by placing structural anatomy within the framework of biomechanics, ecology and phylogeny. Insights into the evolution of body plans can also come from understanding human diseases and lab-based disease models, where anatomical changes associated with malformations are disadvantageous (or lethal) in some organisms, but are adaptive in other organisms and ecological contexts such as the cleft/split hands/feet of chameleons. This latter research area we have called Evo Devo Path and is also the study of “Hopeful Monsters.”
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