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Patty Brennan

Publication

Brennan, P.L.R. and Orbach, D.N. 2020. Copulatory behavior and its relationship to genital morphology. Advances in the Study of Animal Behavior (52), 65-122.

Orbach, D.N., Brennan, P.L.R., Hedrick, B.P., Keener, W., Weber, M.A. and S. L. Mesnick. (2020). Asymmetric and Spiraled Genitalia Coevolve with Unique Lateralized Mating Behavior. Scientific Reports. 10, 3257. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60287-w 

Honor

Dr. Brennan was invited to talk on April 1, 2024 at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, First Friday at the Museum event.

Dr. Brennan was invited to speak at Texas A&M on March 25, 2024.

In the fall of 2023, Dr. Brennan was invited to speak at the University of Montana, Duluth (September), the University of Nebraska (October) and honored as the Graduate Student Invited speaker at Marquette University (November).

Dr. Brennan was invited to speak at the Chelsey Lecture at Carleton College. The title of the talk was Oddball Science. Why studies of evolutionary Phenomena are crucial. The talk was given on February 11, 2024.

Dr. Brennan was invited to talk at Adelaide University, Australia. (2023)

Dr. Brennan was an invited speaker at the First Friday outreach event at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. Voted the best science outreach event in Southern California, this event brings scientists in conversation about contemporary topics in science. 

Dr. Brennan was a Chelsey Lecture speaker at Carleton College, presenting “oddball science: why studies of weird evolutionary phenomena are crucial”; she also gave a departmental seminar for Biology: “Genital morphology and the overlooked female”

Dr. Brennan was an invited speaker at the Gender and Science in Communication Colloquium in Bilbao, Spain, February 9, 2023. Her presentation “De Vaginas y Clitorises, Historias de ciencia innovadora,” discussed the importance of a diverse perspective in Science. Dr. Brennan gave the opening presentation in the Third Colloquium of Biological Sciences for BUAP in Mexico in celebration of the International day of women in science on February 11, 2023 . Her virtual presentation was “Re-examinando la biología genital de las hembras.”