January 2013
Monthly Archive: January 2013
We're up for a Shorty Award!
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The ROM changed my life - it's in my DNA.
![Oliver and Christine in the lab, checking out the DNA of some flightless bird, maybe a Moa.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/img_1622_0.jpg?itok=3i52kydw)
My name is Christine Black, and I'm a grade 12 student at St. Clement's high school in Toronto. Thanks to Oliver and Kristen, I now love DNA.
ROM Research Colloquium: Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez
![Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez in the field Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez in the field](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/dsc_0041.jpg?itok=hfy6qty7)
The annual ROM Colloquium highlights recent discoveries by ROM curators and researchers.
ROM Research Colloquium: Justin Jennings
![Figure 1. The site of La Real as it looked in 1995 when archaeologists first arrived — the circus was in town (photo courtesy of Marko Lopez) Figure 1. The site of La Real as it looked in 1995 when archaeologists first arrived — the circus was in town (photo courtesy of Marko Lopez)](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/figure1.jpg?itok=c6Wu5L9R)
The annual ROM Colloquium highlights recent discoveries by ROM curators and researchers.
ROM Research Colloquium: Kim Tait
![Kim during her recent trip to northern Yukon Kim during her recent trip to northern Yukon](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/100_0583_1.jpg?itok=gXu019n8)
The annual ROM Colloquium highlights recent discoveries by ROM curators and researchers.
ROM Research Colloquium: Ryan Dodge
![Ryan hard at work! Ryan hard at work!](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/img_0321_1.jpg?itok=JtQLdE5L)
The annual ROM Colloquium highlights recent discoveries by ROM curators and researchers.
ROM Research Colloquium: David Rudkin
![Pages from a puzzle-solver’s notebook – piecing eurypterids back together … on paper. Pages from a puzzle-solver’s notebook – piecing eurypterids back together … on paper.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/rudkin_colloquium_blog_2013.jpg?itok=_79QW3VD)
The annual ROM Colloquium highlights recent discoveries by ROM curators and researchers.
ROM Research Colloquium: Arthur Smith
![George Barbier print George Barbier print](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/barbier1.jpg?itok=XPK3eAg0)
The annual ROM Colloquium highlights recent discoveries by ROM curators and researchers.
My journey with Sir David Attenborough
![Sir David Attenborough with Jean-Bernard Caron at the Walcott Quarry (Burgess Shale) Sir David Attenborough with Jean-Bernard Caron at the Walcott Quarry (Burgess Shale)](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/img_0139_converted.jpg?itok=Xs2TgPHX)
Sir David Attenborough has been filming Nature all his life. In 2009, at the age of 83, he traveled the world again to discover how Life began and diversified into the myriad of organisms that form the basis of today's biodiversity. The result of this journey is the beautiful documentary, "First Life," that won three Emmy Awards in 2011. The new ROM Gallery of Early Life anticipated to open by the end of 2014 will feature some of the key fossils shown in the documentary, many of those will come from our own ROM collections!
ROM Research Colloquium: Dr. Peter Kaellgren
![Dr. Peter Kaellgren on a recent trip to the Louvre Dr. Peter Kaellgren on a recent trip to the Louvre](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/img_1195_0.jpg?itok=lZAjTqTc)
The annual ROM Colloquium highlights recent discoveries by ROM curators and researchers.