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2024 – annual camping trip to watch the elephant seal drama play out.

2023 – the graduating students from BISC363 Mammalogy. Go forth young mammalogists!

We developed a super fun 2-day workshop on the evolution of hands for 19 high school juniors enrolled in USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative. Here we are exploring dolphin and seal flipper morphology.

We developed a super fun 2-day workshop on the evolution of hands for 19 high schoo juniors enrolled in USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative. Here we are exploring dolphin and seal flipper morphology.

We developed a super fun 2-day workshop on the evolution of hands for 19 high schoo juniors enrolled in USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative. Here we are exploring dolphin and seal flipper morphology.

We developed a super fun 2-day workshop on the evolution of hands for 19 high schoo juniors enrolled in USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative. Here we are exploring dolphin and seal flipper morphology.

We developed a super fun 2-day workshop on the evolution of hands for 19 high schoo juniors enrolled in USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative. Here we are exploring dolphin and seal flipper morphology.

La Familia

Taking the Lab to a Monster Truck Jam is always a good idea

Sometimes a fella just needs carrots.

BISC363: Mammalogy. A truly awesome course.

Meet lab mascots Earwax and Butternut (Dendrobates leucomelas). Fisher and Guido are gone but not forgotten.

Hunting for bacula in the bowels of Chicago Field Museum with Dr. Bruce Patterson. We found ’em. Bruce is holding a walrus baculum.

2019. Caleb Ghione, Sara Keeble, Matt Dean, Nick Schultz, Michael Lough-Stevens. All celebrating at Sara’s defense.

2019. Sending newly doctored’s Sara and Nick off into the real world. We miss you two!

A visit from Yiding!

Matt speaking to 10th graders at Upper Mississippi Academy (Minneapolis) about what it’s like to be a scientist. SMART KIDS! Keep asking those questions.

Public panel discussion at USC’s Visions and Voices with Richard Pell (founder of PostNatural History Museum in Pittsburgh), Amy Gusick (curator at LA Natural History Museum) and Matt, talking about how humans have genetically modified all kinds of things.

Spent my sabbatical with Marty Cohn’s lab at University of Florida (2018). Life changing stuff here. Some day I hope to be half as smart as these people. Big Thanks to all of you!

Special symposium on the evolution of intromittent organs, SICB 2016. Top row, left to right: Jeff Hoch, Diane Kelly, Brandon Moore, Marty Cohn, Brian Langerhans, Marissa Gredler. Bottom row, left to right: Mercedes Burns, Matt Dean, Patty Brennan, Clarissa House, Teri Orr. Otherwise known as “our homies”.

Hockey and pizza… perfect way to send off Yiding and Brent.

Visit to Jeff Good’s lab (U. Montana) to fish out some ideas. Left to right: Matt Dean, Jeff Good, Bret Payseur.

Time to leave the nest little birds. Fly, fly, fly.

Taking high schoolers to the LA Natural History Museum to do real research. Because mammals are awesome. Bottom to top: Mr. Cue, Jose Jaime, Charlie Sanchez, Mrs. Yang.