Boyer presents poster at Chicago conference

Barbara Boyer, professor of biological sciences, and Susan Hill of Michigan State University, presented a poster titled "The Role of Heterochrony in the Life Cycle of the Opportunistic Polychaete Capitella sp. I" at a fall conference on "The Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Change" at the University of Chicago.

Their presentation was featured in the Nov. 18 issue of the journal, Science. Boyer and Hill do collaborative work at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole on development of the locomotory systems in capitellid annelids.