Dr Sanaa El-Sayed was part of the first Diversity in Paleontology Luncheon at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology where she hosted a roundtable discussion on Present Challenges and Future Prospects for Egyptian Women in Vertebrate Paleontology
The Late Cretaceous is a time of critical importance for our understanding of vertebrate evolution because it marked the final phase of non-avian dinosaur evolution, and was likely the interval during which the last common ancestor of all living placental mammals appeared.
The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, prof/ Khaled Abd Algafar, received prof/ Mohamed Kenawy - President of Mansoura University, and the research team of the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology center (MUVP). The meeting was attended by prof/ Adel Geneidi- Dean of the Faculty of Science, prof/ Azza Ismail - former Dean of the Faculty of Science,
Sallam Lab team was honored by Professor Mohamed El-Kenawy, President of Mansoura University, on Tuesday, January 30, 2018, for discovering a new genus and species of dinosaur that is 80 million years old