Title: “The colour of dinosaurs and other fossils”

Speaker: Dr Jakob Vinther, Lecturer in Macroevolution, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol

Date: Saturday 13th December 2014

Time: The lecture will begin at 11.00am. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available from 10.30am

Venue: Wallace Lecture Theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University

Admission: Free and all are welcome

Speaker profile: Dr Jakob Vinther’s research spans the study of evolution from the perspective of the fossil record and other disciplines such as molecular biology.

He focusses on invertebrate groups such as annelids and molluscs and tests ideas of their evolution and their fossil record with molecular biological techniques to obtain independent estimates of phylogeny and divergence timing.

 Dr Vinther also has a particular interest in fossilisation processes, or Taphonomy.

Currently, he is working on the preservation of melanin in fossils and how we can use this evidence to reconstruct color patterns in feathered dinosaurs.

For further information please contact Dr Geraint Owen, Department of Geography, College of Science, Swansea University, email: g.owen@swansea.ac.uk.

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