Anatomical Sciences- Research Sponsors

SPRING 2012 SEMESTER
Faculty Sponsor   Course   Sect.   Crs #   Research Interests
Brigitte Demes               Biomechanics and functional morphology, kinematics and kinetics of primate locomotion, influence of body size on locomotion and the structure of the musculoskeletal system, long bone loading patterns
Fleagle, John   BIO 489   T26   42730   Primate evolution, behavior and ecology, primate anatomy 
Gignac, Paul               How highly integrated phenotypes, which must work together to execute their function, are capable of evolutionary changes without compromising that function 
Jungers, William               Functional morphology, paleoanthropology, primate evolution, morphometrics
Kley, Nathan               Functional and evolutionary morphology, evolution of squamate feeding systems, limb reduction in snakes, snake origins, herpetology, morphometrics
Krause, David               Systematics, biogeography, functional morphology, paleoecology, biochronology of Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic mammals, evolutionary and biogeographic history of the Gondwanan vertebrate fauna, biogeographic origins of the extant Malagasy vertebrate fauna
Larson, Susan               Primate and human anatomy, experimental functional morphology and biomechanics, human and primate evolution
O'Leary, Maureen               Evolution and systematics of mammals, vertebrate evolution in sub-Saharan Africa, combined data phylogeny reconstruction, systematic biology, vertebrate paleontology
O'Neill, Matthew               Comparative biomechanics, with a particular emphasis on the evolution of metabolism (locomotor costs; daily energy expenditure) in humans, apes and lemurs
Orr, Caley               The functional anatomy of the forelimb—especially the hand and wrist—as it relates to a number of questions in human evolution 
Patel, Biren               Functional and evolutionary questions related to primate locomotor biology 
Seiffert, Erik               Biogeography, adaptation, and phylogenetic relationships of placental mamm
Stern, Jack               The evolution of muscle function in nonhuman primates and humans; origins of hominid bipedalism
Sussman, Randall               Fossil Record of Hominid Evolution, Ecology and Behavior of African Apes, Studies of Ape and Human Locomotion, Comparative Morphology
Turner, Alan               Phylogeny, systematics, and anatomy of crocodylomorphs and theropod dinosaurs; body size evolution in archosaurs, and theorectical issues in historical biogeography
Wetterer, Andrea               Mammalian evolution, biogeography, development, and anatomy; phylogenetic reconstruction; and the development of technology to facilitate morphological research 

 

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