{"355191":{"#nid":"355191","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Mason Dean, Max Planck Institute","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvolutionary perspectives on vertebrate hard tissues\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvolutionary perspectives on vertebrate hard tissues\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESkeletal biology literature is dominated by work on a small number of model mammalian species,\u0026nbsp;although mammals represent fewer than 10% of living species of vertebrates (animals with backbones). In\u0026nbsp;contrast, the number of living fish species dwarfs that of mammals, being half of all vertebrates and\u0026nbsp;offering an astounding range of morphological, functional and ecological diversity. Fishes represent the\u0026nbsp;oldest non-extinct lineages of vertebrates, and so provide an unparalleled window into the evolution of\u0026nbsp;skeletal tissues, with the two primary groups \u2014the so-called cartilaginous fishes and bony fishes\u2014\u0026nbsp;illustrating two strikingly different primary skeletal materials. I use a variety of anatomical, imaging,\u0026nbsp;mechanics and materials science techniques to investigate development and form-function relationships\u0026nbsp;in fish skeletal materials, from the tissue level up to the level of whole skeletal elements. By rooting these\u0026nbsp;analyses in the ecology of the species under study and in comparisons with other vertebrate tissues, I\u0026nbsp;show that vertebrate skeletal morphology and performance are much broader than can be appreciated\u0026nbsp;from mammalian tissues alone.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mason Dean, Max Planck Institute"}],"uid":"27964","created_gmt":"2014-12-12 10:35:00","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:20:56","author":"Jasmine Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-01-08T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-01-08T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-01-08T10:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-01-08 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-01-08 15:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-01-08 15:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"87521","name":"Jeanette Yen"},{"id":"65601","name":"Marc Weissburg"},{"id":"112131","name":"Mason Dean"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you have questions about logistics or would like to set up an appointment with the speaker, please contact the School of Biology\u0027s administrative office at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bio-admin@biology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebio-admin@biology.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}