Nastaran presents at the TU Biology Students Research Symposium

Nastaran Keshmiri presented a poster on her independent research project she has been working on while enrolled in BIOL491.

Today the Longo Lab had a new first: our first presentation from research begun here at TU (during a pandemic no less!). Nastaran Keshmiri presented her poster: “Convergent Evolution of the Hyobranchial Apparatus in Three Families of Birds” on Dec 10, 2021. She began working in the lab last spring (on mammals!) but transitioned to birds this summer as a Wayman-McAuliffe Fellow. This project grew out of observations Nastaran made this summer after looking at the hyobranchial apparatus of 100’s of families of birds.

In addition, this became the first time that our growing lab was able to hang out together in person. We can’t thank Peyton Mitchell and Sriraj Potukuchi enough for coming to support their labmate and for their contributions to our ongoing work on the hyobranchial apparatus across vertebrates.

The entire lab came to support Nastaran Keshmiri as she presented her BIOL491 independent research project at the 2021 TU Biology Students Research Symposium. From left to right: Sriraj Potukuchi, Peyton Mitchell, Nastaran Keshmiri, Sarah J. Longo