The hum of hundreds of bat scientists in one place is hard to describe. For Dr. Giorgia Auteri, a biology adjunct faculty member at Missouri State University and senior research scientist at Bat Conservation International, the 53rd North American Symposium for Bat Research (NASBR), was a reminder of why scientific community matters. The event took place Oct. 8-11, 2025, in … [Read more...] about Bats, brilliance and big wins
Bats are remarkable creatures with diverse behaviors and adaptations that make them essential to many ecosystems around the world. Carly Trujillo and Aleana Savage, students in Dr. Giorgia Auteri’s lab at Missouri State University, recently won awards for their bats research at the North American Society for Bat Research Symposium in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Judging … [Read more...] about Batty about research
Dr. Giorgia Auteri is new to Missouri State University, but not the world of evolutionary biology. For the last six years, she has been aiming to understand the full extent of how mammals adapt to changes in their environment caused by humans. Now an assistant biology professor at MSU, Auteri has achieved much along the way. An early interest Growing up in Seattle, … [Read more...] about A beacon for bats and bears