Luca Pozzi

ABOUT US

Research in the Pozzi Lab centers on primate biodiversity and conservation. Our work focuses on exploring the origin of biological diversity, investigating the evolution of reproductive barriers that reduce or prevent gene flow among populations, and understanding how primates respond to human-induced environmental and climatic change. We are located in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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Lab news

October 2022. New paper on primate sleeping ecology published on the American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
August 2022. Evan Miller joined our PhD program at UTSA!
May-June 2022. Our team is heading to South Africa. Looking forward to collecting samples at the museum in Pretoria and in the wild. First field trip since 2020!!!
May 2022. New publication co-authored by Luca and Anna just released on the May/June issue of Evolutionary Anthropology: "Rocks and clocks revised: New promises and challenges in dating the primate tree of life."
September 2021. Luca is named as a recipient of the 2021 Regents Outstanding Teaching Award. This program honors extraordinary classroom performance and innovation.
June 2021. Luca is one of the invited speaker at the II Virtual Meeting of Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution. He will talk about "Hidden in the dark: the importance of integrative taxonomy and museum collections in exploring cryptic biodiversity"
May 2021. Congrats to Anna Penna for being awarded The Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) Graduate Student Research Award for her work on the systematics of western dwarf galagos.
May 2021. Luca was elected chair of Pride FSA, the LGBTQ+ Faculty and Staff Association at UTSA.
April 2021. Welcome to Evan Miller to our lab. Evan just accepted a position as graduate student in our MA program. Welcome to UTSA Evan!
January 2021. Luca was awarded the 2020 Researcher of the year award by the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at UTSA.
January 2021. Luca joined the Society of Systematic Biologists Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee (DEIC)
June 2020. New publication co-authored by Luca and Anna just out on Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. In this paper we explore cryptic diversity and species boundaries in Eastern dwarf galagos.

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