*The 2015 recipient of the Rohlf Medal for Excellence in Morphometric
Methods and Applications will be Benedikt Hallgrimsson*
[image: The Medal]
Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at the
University of Calgary, combines developmental genetics with 3D imaging and
morphometrics to address the developmental basis and evolutionary
significance of phenotypic variation and variability of the mammalian
craniofacial complex, with special reference to animal analogues of human
craniofacial dysmorphology. His studies combine the quantitative power and
detailed anatomical characterization of phenotypic effects that
morphometric methods provide with inferences to the developmental processes
responsible for those effects.
Recently he has pioneered applications of geometric morphometrics to large
samples of embryos, potentially rendering high-throughput morphometric
analysis a tool just as relevant to medicine as to developmental biology or
morphometrics. That geometric morphometrics is now widely accepted as a
technique in developmental biology is largely due to Hallgrimsson's work in
his laboratory and in his role as editor of the journal Evolutionary
Biology. For his excellence in evo-devo morphometric research, for his
advances in the imaging technology that drives the research, and for his
varied and energetic efforts at disseminating all this to a broad variety
of audiences, Benedikt Hallgrimsson richly deserves the honor of this third
Rohlf Medal for Excellence in Morphometrics.
The medal will be presented on October 26, 2015 at Stony Brook University.
Afterwards, he will present a lecture (title to be announced).
Click here <http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/RohlfMedal/travel.html> for
Travel and accomodations if you plan to attend.
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