This event is in the past.It took place on May 15, 2026 at Biological Sciences Building.

EEB Student Thesis Defense - Comparing Phyllostomid Bat Brains to Feeding Strategies 1
Educational Talk

EEB Student Thesis Defense - Comparing Phyllostomid Bat Brains to Feeding Strategies

May 15 at 10am

At Biological Sciences Building

Burns Park, Ann Arbor

🦇Open to the public, no registration needed
🧠3D skull scanning & phylogenetic analysis featured

Discover how fruit-eating and blood-sucking bats stack up against their insect-eating cousins in brain size. Samantha Henry's thesis defense uses 3D skull scans to explore whether diet actually drives neural evolution, with surprising results that challenge what we think we know about feeding and intelligence.

Academic research talk
Free lecture
Biology & neuroscience
Student thesis defense