I’m looking forward to giving an invited presentation to Butterfly Conservation South Australia (BCSA) next month. The BCSA formed over 20 years ago to promote the conservation of butterflies and moths, and their habitat. Their members hold monthly meetings which begin with a “Butterfly of the Month” presentation, before an invited lecture from a diverse range of scientists (that’s where I come in).
I’ll be talking about one of my absolute favourite topics “Brain evolution of fossil fish and the first tetrapods“. I’ll summarise some of my previous work looking at brains of lungfishes, before moving on to more recent work on other groups more closely related to tetrapods (the first terrestrial vertebrates). There’ll be some spectacular fossils to be celebrated and I’m sure to say the work ‘endocast’ at least 100 times.
I always really enjoy the opportunity to talk about my research with the public so I’m very much looking forward to the night (even though we wont get to meet face-to-face due to current social distancing guidelines). However, if you ever need somewhere to learn about, identify, attract or breed butterflies, then apparently BCSA is the place to go!
Dr Alice Clement 