 We are offering a five-day course to learn how to collect specimens in the field, obtain genomic data and interpret biodiversity using cutting-edge phylogenomic analyses.
This training initiative is aimed at PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, early-career environmental science researchers and those working in biology, environmental and ecological sectors. The course (2 to 6 March 2026) will benefit those who wish to enhance their understanding of biodiversity discovery methods. Scientists from the Natural History Museum will guide you through the skills necessary to document and describe biodiversity using intensive phylogenomic analyses and field-collected data. Applications are due 1 December 2025. Click here to see the full course description.
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Our recent paper on genetic diversity in Hypogeophis rostratus, led by Dr Miranda Sherlock has been featured on the AmphibiaWeb homepage. Thanks to the team at AmphibiaWeb for highlighting our research.  Another successful NHM Adder Day! Eight adders, one slow worm and one common lizard :)  In collaboration with Prof Julia Day and Dr David Gower, we are offering a PhD project that will expand on our previous frog vision research: Diversity and evolution of burrowing frog visual systems Read the full project description here.  Wonderful to help host Prof Jing Che and Dr Kai Wang from KIZ on their recent visit to London!  Had a wonderful time at the tenth World Congress of Herpetology in Kuching. Great talks, posters, and loads of former NHMers attended! Mac users can download our eBook at Apple Books. This book provides an introduction to animal vision and highlights what we discovered during our NSF-NERC project. A lovely meeting at the University of Wolverhampton. Really fun to give a joint plenary with Patrick Campbell about the importance of museum collections in herpetological research - many thanks to the organizers for the invitation. Dr. Ian Brennan and Joe Rees also presented new research on frogs and squamates. Overall an exceptional outing to the Midlands complete with a visit to the Wolves pitch (Molineux Stadium) for the closing banquet! Super grateful to the hundreds of amphibian biologists that generated the molecular data used for our recent study in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Time-calibrated trees are available to download on GitHub and OSF. NHM Press Release  With support from the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles and the Systematics Association, we held a symposium on amphibian vision at the 2023 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Norfolk, Virginia. Many thanks to co-organizer Dr. Rayna Bell and all of the speakers! |
AuthorJeff Streicher is a Principal Curator at the Natural History Museum, London Archives
May 2025
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