Royal Society of South Australia March 2024 Meeting

TheRoyal Society of South Australiais a membership-based learned society, dedicated to the promotion and advancement of science, with a particular interest in the Natural Sciences.

Royal Society of South Australia

RSSA Monthly meeting and scientific presentation for March 2024

You are invited to the first Royal Society of South Australia meeting and scientific presentation for 2024. Come perch on a chair with us on Thursday March 14th with our speaker Dr Jacqueline Nguyen (Flinders University &amp; Australian Museum) presenting on Australia's key role in our understanding of songbird evolution. Please note that the talk will start at 6:30 pm, but you can wet your beak over nibbles, refreshments and networking between 6:00 - 6:30 pm. Pre-talk nibbles and refreshments available by small donation.We will hold this as an in-person event in our Society rooms, but we will simultaneously live-stream the meeting via Zoom for those not in attendance or for interested non-members.To attend either in person, or online, you MUST REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE. The zoom link will be sent to you on registration. Please feel free to share this event with your institution or networks.If in-person tickets are sold out, please be aware that we are unable to admit more people than our room capacity. If online tickets are sold out, please contact admin@rssa.org.au and we can supply the zoom link to you.For more information on the location of the RSSA rooms, please visit https://www.rssa.org.au/contact/ Talk title: Australia’s key role in our understanding of songbird evolutionAbstract: Songbirds make up nearly 50% all living birds (over 5,000 species) and are found in almost every habitat and continent. In the last two decades, DNA studies have transformed our understanding of the bird tree of life, including the unexpected finding that almost half of the world’s birds can trace their origins back to an ancestor in what is now Australia. Despite the enormous diversity and ubiquity of songbirds today, there is still much to learn about their early fossil record and how they became so successful. In this seminar, I will give some examples of how the Australian fossil record can be used to understand the early history of songbirds and the evolutionary relationships among modern birds, including recent findings from studies of genomes.Bio: Jackie is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at Flinders University and a Scientific Officer in Ornithology at the Australian Museum. She is also an Honorary Research Associate at the South Australian Museum. Jackie’s research interests include the systematics, morphology, and evolution of fossil and modern birds, especially Australian songbirds. She is interested in using a combination of fossils, morphology, and DNA to gain a better understanding of the evolutionary history of birds, both living and extinct.

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