EES Guest Speaker - Dr. Joe Moysiuk

This week’s seminar speaker is Dr. Joe Moysiuk. Please join us Friday, October 30th, 2026 at 12:30 pm in room 204 NatSci.

Talk title: The Burgess Shale and the evolution of animal body plans

Bio: Joe Moysiuk a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist, with research interests in macroevolution, evolutionary developmental biology, and the origin of animal body plans. He is the Curator of Palaeontology and Geology at the Manitoba Museum, Adjunct Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, and Research Associate at the Royal Ontario Museum. Joe's research centers around the early fossil record of animals, particularly arthropods, and exceptional fossil preservation. His work integrates new fossil discoveries with modern analytical and statistical methods to investigate how major animal body plans diverged and diversified during the early Paleozoic.