Research conducted by faculty in Anatomical Sciences bridges the fields of evolutionary morphology and clinically relevant anatomical sciences. Faculty possess a broad range of expertise in lab-, museum- and field-based investigations of the evolutionary and translational significance of anatomical variation in primates, mammals and vertebrates.

Photo of Casey Holliday and colleague with alligator head.

Principal research areas center on: quantitative approaches to neural and cranial imaging and integration; allometric, multivariate and geometric morphometric analyses of ontogeny and phylogeny; adaptive significance of musculoskeletal transformations during major evolutionary events; and experimental analyses of joint formation, function, formation and aging.

Students interested in working in these areas may directly contact individual faculty members.

Faculty

  • Kristina J. Aldridge, PhD
  • Dana Duren, PhD, Adjunct Professor in Anatomy
  • Kevin Flaherty, PhD
  • Sean Greer, PhD
  • Cheryl Hill, PhD
  • Casey Holliday, PhD
  • Allison Nesbitt, PhD
  • Richard Sherwood, PhD
  • Carol V. Ward, PhD
  • Sarah Zaleski, PhD