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SICB Division of Vertebrate Morphology (DVM)

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From the DVM Researchers Database

Dominique Adriaens

Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates
Many of the fascinating examples resulting from millions of years of evolution are known from the vertebrate lineage of chordate animals. Because of the vast range of body plan diversifications that have arisen, knowing vertebrate evolutionary morphology is crucial for exploring the structural basis reflecting processes of adaptive (but also neutral) evolution. As such, especially functional systems that form the core of the survival of vertebrate organisms can be expected to best reflect the processes of variation, natural selection and adaptation.
Two systems that have been subjected to intense selective pressures, but still show a tremendous variation and specialization towards an increased performance, are the feeding and the locomotory systems. The research within the group focuses on several aspects underlying the morphological evolution of these two systems in several representative lineages of vertebrates. Particularly animal groups with extreme specializations and/or performance are the focus, as they provide good case-studies of adaptive evolution. Some examples that form the subject of past and ongoing research are suckermouth catfishes, blood-sucking catfishes, seahorses, chameleons, mole rats, etc.
The main research focus is adaptive morphological evolution for improved performance in a specific function, as well as phenotypic responses to changing performance regimes due to varying selective pressures. Several disciplines are required to provide relevant information on the big picture behind structural diversity and evolutionary patterns underlying it. So, in short, in order to get a holistic idea about the morphological evolution of vertebrates, disciplines and methodologies that are applied include: dissections, clearing-and-staining, histological sectioning and graphical 3D-reconstructions, geometric morphometrics, taxonomy, phylogeny (morphological and molecular), biomechanics and performance testing.
The expertise on studying vertebrate phenotypes is also used for more applied research topics, such as larval fish quality assessment in aquaculture and phenotyping of cranio-facial deformations in model organisms.

Website: http://www.fun-morph.ugent.be/


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- News and Announcements -

Meetings
Joint DVM/DCB Southeastern Regional SICB Meeting, October 11, 2008

Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a Joint DVM/DCB Southeastern Regional SICB meeting on Saturday, October 11 at Clemson University (Clemson, SC). This one-day meeting will be the first SE Regional DVM meeting since 2003 and the first regional DCB meeting. The meeting will be comprised of a full day of 10 minute talks with a $30 registration fee. We expect that topics will fall broadly within the range of vertebrate and invertebrate biomechanics and morphology and, as with other regional meetings, this meeting will provide a friendly environment for sharing new research and ideas, particularly for student presentations.

We will be sending out additional information and a call for papers shortly. Any inquiries can be sent to Rick Blob (rblob@clemson.edu).

We look forward to your participation.

Best Regards,

Gabe Rivera, Rick Blob, and Ty Hedrick


DVM Northeast Regional Meeting
The Division of Vertebrate Morphology held a Northeast Regional Meeting on October 13, 2007 that was hosted by the University of Rhode Island. This meeting was dedicated to Karel Liem, one of the world's greatest functional morphologists and President of SICB (then ASZ) in 1989. See the upcoming Fall SICB Newsletter for more details and photos.




Student Presentations in the Division of Vertebrate Morphology

There are two questions that are undoubtedly on your mind as you polish your abstract and its submission deadline approaches:

What sort of presentation should I give?
There are two ways to present your results to the scientific community: oral papers and posters. Posters are an excellent way to present preliminary data or the results of a small project; oral presentations are more appropriate for projects that tell larger stories. Both types of presentation involve a fair bit of advance preparation: posters are laid out and printed before the meeting, and even with PowerPoint, slides for oral papers need to be designed ahead of time. Both types of presentation are also excellent ways to practice communicating your ideas with others; the oral presentation tends to be favored as a way of practicing for the day when you give a job talk, but a poster session is a good way to learn to describe your data in a more casual setting.

Should I enter the Best Student Paper competition?
Think carefully. The prize is given to a paper that represents a significant conceptual, observational, or experimental contribution to the field of vertebrate morphology. Papers that present preliminary data are unlikely to meet this criterion, if only because they will be competing against papers presented by advanced students (and new Ph.D.s!) who have had the time to develop their work further. When deciding whether or not to mark the box on the abstract submission form, consider whether or not your project is ready to be throughly evaluated by professional scientists.

Collaborative projects are eligible for the competition, but these projects should clearly be the work of the student (or students) who present the paper. If you plan to present multiple papers at the meeting, bear in mind that only one of those papers will be accepted into the competition in any year.

And although spectacular presentation techniques do not trump the scientific merits of a paper in the Davis competition, poor visual aids and muttering can make it difficult for the judges to understand the most brilliant and original analysis. The next page (coming in October, 2001) will cover tips for organizing and giving an efffective presentation.





Officers & Representatives


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Chair 01/2009-01/2011 Mark Westneat
Chair-Elect 01/2010-01/2011 Kiisa Nishikawa
Secretary 01/2010-01/2012 Lara Ferry
Program Officer 01/2010-01/2012 Richard W. Blob





DVM Memberlist

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Elene Dorfmeier    
Emily Abbott  Brown University 
Dominique Adriaens  Ghent University 
Peter Aerts  University of Antwerp 
Anna N. Ahn  Harvey Mudd College 
Heather Elizabeth Ahrens   
Christina Aimone   
Hugo Alamillo  WSU 
Monica Albe  Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 
R. Craig Albertson  University of New Hampshire Department of Zoology 
Craig Albertson   
R. McNeill Alexander  University of Leeds 
Michael E. Alfaro  UCLA Dept of Ecol and Evol Biology 
Rebecca Allen  Univ of RI 
Brett Allen  Blackburn College 
Chris Amemiya  Benaroya Research Inst at Virginia Mason 
Marshall Andersen   
Marshall Andersen  Rockhurst University 
Curt Anderson  Idaho State Univ 
Roger A. Anderson  Western Washington University Department of Biology 
Noah J Anderson  Idaho State University 
Erik Anderson  Grove City College 
Philip Seth Anderson  Univ of Bristol 
Christopher Anderson  U South Florida 
Brian B Andres  Yale Dept of Geology and Geophysics 
Robin Andrews  Virginia Tech 
Kenneth Angielczyk  The Field Museum 
Michael Angilletta  Indiana State University 
Anthony T. Annunziato  Boston College 
Jeff Arendt  UC Riverside 
Sara Armon  Blackburn College 
Maria Armour  CW Post LIU 
Sarah L. Armstrong  Millsaps College 
Gary P Aronsen  Yale Univ 
Helena Aryafar  CSU fullerton 
Miriam A. Ashley-Ross  Wake Forest Univ 
Lisa Marie Axtman  Colorado State Univ 
Manny Azizi  Brown University 
Sharon Kay Babcock  James Madison University 
Marc Alan Badger  Harvey Mudd College 
Justin Bagley  Brigham Young Univ 
Joseph Bahlman  Brown University 
David Baier  Brown University 
John G. Bailey  William Carey University 
John J. Baird   
Shirley M. Baker  University of Florida 
T. Vernon Baker  Grove City College 
Franklin H. Barnwell  University of Minnesota Dept of Ecology Evolution & Behavior 
Ian Bartol  Old Dominion University 
Brian Lee Beatty  New York College of Osteopathic Med 
Allison Beck  Univ of Chicago 
Brian Beckman  National Marine Fisheries Service 
Christine Bedore  Florida Atlantic Univ 
Jennie Lanett Beltran  The George Washington University 
Willy Elliott Bemis  Cornell University 
Noah Ben-Aderet  Bar-Ilan Uni 
Miri Ben-Hamo   
Albert F. Bennett  University of California Irvine 
Matthew Hector Benoit  WM Keck Science Center 
Sergejs Berdnikovs  UC 
Angela Berg  Harvard Univ 
Kathryn Berge  UNI 
Philip J Bergmann  University of Arizona 
Diego Bernal  U Mass Dartmouth 
Marvin H. Bernstein  New Mexico State University 
Annalisa Berta  San Diego St Univ 
John E. A. Bertram  Univ of Calgary 
Catherine R. Bevier  Colby College Department of Biology 
Bhart-Anjan Singh Bhullar  Harvard University 
Hilary Susan Bierman  Brandeis University/Marder Lab 
Andrew A. Biewener  Harvard University 
Audrone Regina Biknevicius  Ohio University 
Wendy J. Binder  Loyola Marymount University 
Geoffrey F. Birchard  George Mason University Dept of ESP 
Nathan Bird  George Washington University 
Cory Bishop  St. Francis Xavier University 
Kristin Bishop  Florida International University 
Daniel Blackburn  Trinity College 
Neil W. Blackstone  Northern Illinois University 
Tara Blank  University of North Texas 
Erin Blevins  Harvard University 
Richard W. Blob  Clemson University 
Barbara Block  Stanford University Hopkins Marine Station 
Brian Bloodworth   
Nathaniel Bobbitt  Portland State University 
Walter Bock  Columbia University 
Catherine Anne Boisvert  Institute for Physiology and EOB 
Calhoun Bond  Greensboro College 
Ronald Bonett  University of Tulsa 
Jonathan Bonin  Louisiana State 
Robert L. Boord  University of Delaware 
Allison K Bormet  Univ of Illinois 
Kimberly S. Bostwick  Cornell University 
Melissa Sue Bowlin  Lund University 
David Bradley   
Elizabeth L. Brainerd  Brown Univ 
Katherine Brakora  University of California Berkeley 
Martin Daniel Brazeau  Museum fuer Naturkunde 
Patricia Brennan   
Kenneth Breuer  Brown University 
Ashley Kristen Brewington   
Jennie Bright  University of Bristol 
Chad Brock  Washington State 
Frances V Brozozowski  Syracuse University 
Shawn Bruce  Minot State Univ 
Alan H. Brush  University of Connecticut Emeritus 
Emily A. Buchholtz  Wellesley College 
David Buckley  Cal-Berkeley 
Sara Huntington Burch  Stony Brook Univ 
Ann Campbell Burke  Wesleyan University Biology Department 
Louis E. Burnett  Grice Marine Lab 
Morgan Burnette  Northern Arizona 
Michael E Burns  University of Alberta 
Michael T. Butcher  YSU 
Donald G. Buth  University of California 
Marguerite A. Butler  University of Hawaii 
Luke K Butler  Tufts University 
Nathan J Butler   
William A. Buttemer  Deakin University 
Greg Byrnes  U of Cincinnati 
ROBERT Andrew Cameron  California Institute of Technology 
John S. Cameron  Wellesley College 
Ariel Camp  Brown University 
Regina Campbell-Malone  West Chester Univ 
David C. Cannatella  University of Texas 
Christopher Caprette  Ohio Northern University 
Gwyneth Card  Caltech 
Kristian Carlson  NYCOM 
Rose L Carlson  Harvard University 
James A. Carr  Texas Tech University 
Jennifer Carr  Northeastern Univ 
Matthew Thomas Carrano  Smithsonian Institution 
Carrie A. Carreno  Duke University 
David Carrier  Univ of Utah 
Andres Carrillo  CSU Fullerton 
Robert L. Carroll  McGill University Redpath Museum 
Andrew Carroll   
Wade Carruth  Georgia Southern U 
Margarida Casadevall  Universitat de Girona Servei D'Adquisicions 
Amanda Cass  Cornell University 
Theodore Castro-Santos  S O Conte Anadromous Fish Res Ctr 
Brad A. Chadwell  Wake Forest Univ 
Hu Chen  University of Missouri - St Louis 
Jorn Cheney   
Kai-Jung Chi  Nat. Chung Hsing Univ., Taiwan 
Il-Gyu Cho   
Katie Chronister   
Kerin Claeson  Umass Amherst 
Kerin Claeson  UT Austin 
Leon PAM Claessens  College of the Holy Cross 
Brian D. Clark  Temple University College of Allied Health Professions 
Andrew Clark  Clemson University 
CHRISTOPHER CLARK  UC BERKELEY 
Andrew Clifford  Brown University 
Kari B. Clifton  Mayo Clinic 
Matthew T Close  Lehigh University 
Sam Cobb  Hull York Medical School 
Samantha E Colayori  Indiana State Univ 
David Charles Collar  Harvard University 
Keith W. Condon  Dept of Anatomy and Cell Biology 
Michelle H Connolly  Tufts University 
Jackie L Conrad  AMNH 
Jack Conrad  American Museum of Natural History 
Thomas R Consi  Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
Sheryl L. Coombs  Bowling Green State University 
Lisa Noelle Cooper  NEOU COM 
Jennifer Cooper  Univ of Illinois 
W James Cooper  Syracuse Univ 
Lynn Copes   
Clay Corbin  Bloomsburg Univ 
Andrew Corder  UC Berkeley 
Gerardo Cordero  Iowa State Univ 
Anthony Cornett   
David J. Coughlin  Widener University 
Robert Covert  Slippry Rock University 
Joel Cracraft  American Museum of Natural History 
Kristen Crandell  U Montana 
Ted W. Cranford  SDSU 
Karen Crawford   
Susan Crockford  U Victoria BC 
Stephanie Crofts  UW, Seattle 
Roger Croll  Dalhousie Univ 
A. W. Crompton  Harvard University 
Peter James Croucher  ESM, Univ CA Berkeley 
Megan Cummins  Lafayette College 
David L L. Cundall  Lehigh University Department of Biological Sciences 
Chris B Cunningham  U of Utah 
Chelsea Cupp  Hendrix College 
Amanda Jane Curtin  Duke University 
Monica A. Daley  Royal Veterinary College 
Nicole Danos  Harvard Univ. 
Benjamin James Dantzer  Michigan State University 
David M. Darda  Central Washington Univ 
Ilya S. Darevsky  Zool. Inst. Russian Acad. Science Department of Herpetology 
Ian Robert Davenport  Xavier Univ of Louisiana 
Brad Davidson  Univ of Ariz 
Marcus C. Davis  Kennesaw State University 
Jillian Summer Davis   
Ellen M. Dawley  Ursinus College 
Megan Dawson  Brown University 
Tricia Dawson  Arizona State University 
Steven Day  Rochester Inst of Technology 
Maria de Boef  CFS, Harvard Univ 
Mason Dean  Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces 
Jennifer Leigh Dearolf  Hendrix College 
Stephen M Deban  University of South Florida 
Paul C. Dechow  Baylor College of Dentistry Texas A & M Health Science Center 
Claudia V. deGruy   
Brigitte Demes  SUNY at Stony Brook 
James Norman Dent   
Elissa Miller Derrickson  Loyola College 
Emilie Descamps  Ghent University 
Alexandra Deufel  Minot State Univ 
Maya deVries  UC Berkeley 
Eric Dewar  Suffolk University 
Kenneth P. Dial  University of Montana 
Renee Dickie  Harvard University 
Kathy Dickson  CSU fullerton 
William Beatty Dickson  Caltech 
Juleen Dickson  University of Rhode Island 
Lawrence S. Dillon   
Peter Michael Dimoulas   
Claudia Distler  Ruhr-Universitat-Bochum 
James L. Dively   
Jocelyne Dolce  Wellesley College 
Jeanine Donley  California State U 
James K Dooley  Adelphi University 
Nicole Doorly  Vassar College 
Thomas Michael Dornhoffer   
Charles M Drabek  Whitman College 
Robert E. Druzinsky  Governors State University 
Robert Dudley  University of California, Berkeley 
David Dufeau  Ohio University 
Elizabeth Dumont  Univ of Massachusetts 
Donald C. Dunbar  University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine 
Paul Richard Dunn   
Christopher Durie   
Hiran M. Dutta  Kent State University Department of Biological Sciences 
Darren J Dutto  Eastern OR Univ 
Laurel Dwyer  U Connecticut 
Joseph T. Eastman  Ohio University 
Mark Eckardt  Holy Cross 
Jessica Edwards  Univ New Orleans 
Naoko Egi  Kyoto University Primate Research Institute 
Laura Eidietis  Hunter College 
Thomas P Eiting  Univ of Massachusetts Amherst 
Richard Elinson  Duquesne University 
David Ellerby  Wellesley College 
Kyle Elliott  Univ of Manitoba 
Carolyn Margaret Eng  Harvard University 
Virginia Engel  Vassar College 
Jackie Entz  Georgia Southern 
Rolf Ericsson  Macquarie Univ 
Nora Raquel Espinoza  Clemson University 
Richard L. Essner  Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 
Alison Esteva-Sanders  The George Washington Univ 
Shelley Etnier  Butler Univeristy 
Dennis J Evangelista  UC Berkeley 
Howard E. Evans  Cornell University Veterinary College 
Alistair Evans  Monash University 
Marissa Fabrezi  Museo de Ciencias Naturales-Universidad Nacional de Salta 
Stacy Farina  U of New Hampshire 
Andrew Farke  Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology 
Daphne Gail Fautin  University of Kansas 
James D. Fawcett  University of Nebraska, Omaha 
Barbara Fears  Missouri S&T 
Teresa Feo  UC Berkeley 
Maria Jose Fernandez  UC Berkeley 
Blaine R. Ferrell  Western Kentucky University 
Abbie Ferris   
Lara Ferry  Division of Mathematics & natural Sciences 
Jennifer L Fessler  The Field Museum 
Ethan Feuerborn  Idaho State U 
Daniel Field  UBC 
Nirvana Filoramo  Clark University 
Frank E. Fish  West Chester University Department of Biology 
Brooke Flammang  Harvard University 
Kyle Flann  N Arizona Univ 
Mary Flauto  Adelphi Univ 
Bob Foehring  University of Tennessee, Memphis Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology 
Janet Fontanella   
Kathryn Fosha  Univ North Texas 
Kathleen Foster  UBC 
Austin W Francis, Jr.  Armstrong Atlantic State University 
Adam Franssen  Roane State 
Adam Franssen  Randolph-Macon College 
Tamara Franz-Odendaal  Mount Saint Vincent University 
Thomas H. Frazzetta  University of Illinois Department of EEE 
Carina Frias  Vassar College 
Anthony Friscia  UCLA 
Patrick Fuller  Clemson University 
Frietson Galis  Leiden Univ 
Jayne M Gardiner  Mote Marine Laboratory 
Theodore Garland  Univ of California 
Gabriel Gartner  University of California 
Tom Geerinckx  Ghent University 
Matthew George  Gonzaga University 
Justin Georgi   
Gary Wayne Gerald  Miami University 
Rebecca Z. German  Johns Hopkins Medical School 
Shannon Gerry  Wellesley College 
Alice C. Gibb  N Arizona Univ 
Nicholas J Gidmark  Brown University 
Paul M Gignac  FSU 
Edwin Gilland  Howard University College of Medicine 
Gary B. Gillis  Mt Holyoke College 
Carly Ginter  Texas A&M 
Christopher Gintof  Hofstra University 
Todd T. Gleeson  University of Colorado Boulder 
Emily Glenn  Blackburn College 
Luminita Goebbel  Faculty of Medicine 
Jeremy Arthur Goldbogen  Scripps-UCSD 
Jeffrey Goldman  Center for Embedded Network Sensing 
Alfred Goldschmid  University of Salzburg 
Jesus Gomez  UPR Humacao Campus 
Brian Goo  UC Irvine 
Amy Goodfriend  Bucknell 
Matthew Gore   
William Casey Gosnell  Clemson University 
Anjali Goswami  Univ of Chicago 
Eugene V. Gourley   
Jared Green  Weber State Univ 
Theresa Grieco  UC Berkeley 
Jamie Grivas  DePauw University 
Mariana Grizante  USP 
Eileen Grogan  St Joseph's University 
Ian Grosse  Univ of Massachusetts 
Justin R. Grubich  The Field Museum 
Michael Gudo   
Andres Gutierrez  Vassar College 
Alejandra Guzman  Texas A&M Univ 
Maria Laura Habegger  USF 
Insley Haciski  URI 
Stavros P Hadjisolomou  Brooklyn College 
Travis Hagey  University of Idaho 
Melina E. Hale  Univ of Chicago 
Brian K. Hall  Dalhousie University 
Margaret Hall  MWU 
Benedikt Hallgrimsson  University of Calgary 
Jonna Hamilton  Brown University 
Rachel Anne Hamilton  University of Cincinnati 
Michelle Hamilton  Adelphi University 
Christina Hamlet  Univ of North Carolina 
Paul Hampton  Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette 
Jennifer Hancock  Ohio University 
Jennifer Hancock  Marietta College 
Steven C. Hand  Louisiana State Univ 
Corey Handelsman  Colorado State University 
Wolf Hanke  Rostock University 
James Hanken  Harvard University 
Jandy Hanna  WVSOM 
James M Harper  University of Michigan 
Cally Harper  Brown University 
Michelle A. Harris  University of Wisconsin, Madison 
Frederick W. Harrison  Journal of Morphology 
Michaela Hau  Max Planck Inst 
Theresa L Hauser   
Sarah Havens  Missouri S&T 
Michael Hawkins  University of Colorado at Boulder 
Megan Heberle   
Tyson Hedrick  UNC at Chapel Hill 
Ashley Heers  U of Montana 
Christopher Paul Heesy  Midwestern University/Dept of Anatomy 
Paul G. Heltne  Chicago Academy of Sciences 
Gordon Hendler  NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM 
Brian T. Henen   
Aik Roy Heng  CA State U Pomona 
Justin Henningsen  University of Massachutts Amherst 
Havalee Henry  Northeastern Univ 
John W. Hermanson  Cornell University 
L Patricia Hernandez  George Washington University 
Raymond Hernandez   
Eleanore Hernandez  Beth Israel 
Anthony Herrel  Harvard University 
Susan W. Herring  University of Washington Department of Orthodontics 
W. Ronald Heyer  Smithsonian Institution 
Lyndie Hice  Stony Brook Univ 
James W. Hicks  Univ Calif Irvine 
Tobin Hieronymus  Northeastern Ohio Universities 
Tim Higham  Clemson University 
Milton Hildebrand  University California, Davis Dept. of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology 
Willem J. Hillenius  College of Charleston Department of Biology 
Sanja Hinic-Frlog  Carleton Univ 
Scott Hippe  Gonzaga U 
Jonathan Hirokawa  Vassar College 
Leslea Hlusko  University of California 
Melanie Hnot   
Robert Ho  Univ of Chicago 
Long Ho  Lafayette College 
William Hoese  CSU Fullerton 
Jessica Hoffman  West Chester University 
Luke T. Holbrook  Rowan University 
Maranda Wood Holley  Univ of South Florida 
Casey Holliday  Marshall University 
Farland Holliman  NC State University 
Roi Holzman  UC Davis 
Dominique G. Homberger  Louisiana State University 
Wendy R. Hood  Auburn University 
Craig S. Hood  Loyola University Department of Biological Sciences 
Tom Hoogendyk  Univ of Mass 
Mildred A Hoover  Salem State College 
Brooke Hopkins  Louisiana State Univ 
Samantha Hopkins   
Sagiri Horisawa  U of CA Berkeley 
Mike Horn  Cal State Univ 
Richard Ian Horn  University of Akron 
Angela Horner  Ohio University 
Jaquan Horton  Univ of California Irvine 
Donald F. Hoyt  Cal Poly Pomona 
Kimberly Hruska  University of British Columbia 
Shi-tong Tonia Hsieh  University of Florida 
Tatjana Hubel  Brown University 
Daniel Huber  U of Tampa 
Susie Huber  Cal Poly Pomona 
Dennis M Hudson  Prevea Clinic & St Vincent Hospital 
Nathan Brett Hudzik  Youngstown State University 
Meribeth Huizinga  Colorado State University 
Darrin Hulsey  University of Tennessee 
Jerry Husak  Univ South Dakota 
Steve Huskey  Western Kentucky U 
John R. Hutchinson  Royal Veterinary College 
Deborah A Hutchinson  Old Dominion Univ 
Adam Huttenlocker  California State Univ San Bernardino 
Katleen Huyghe  University of Antwerp 
Martha L. Hyde  West Texas A&M University 
William Hylander  Duke University 
Celine Ide  Ghent University 
Carlos Infante  University of Georgia 
Jose Alejandro Iriarte-Diaz  University of Chicago 
Duncan Irschick  Univ Massachusetts 
Erika V. Iyengar  Muhlenberg College 
Nina G. Jablonski  Penn State University 
Kate Jackson  Whitman College 
Brandon Jackson  U of Montana 
Antone G. Jacobson  University of Texas Austin MCDB 
Claire James  Univ of Portland 
Heather Jamniczky  Faculty of Medicine, U of Calgary 
Christine Janis  Brown University Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 
Jeff Janovetz  Sweet Briar College 
Sandra Jasinoski  University of Bristol 
Alan P. Jaslow  Rhodes College Department of Biology 
Carolyn R. Jaslow  Rhodes College 
Robert Javonillo  George Washington Univ 
Bruce C. Jayne  U of Cincinnati 
Farish A. Jenkins  Harvard University 
Natalie Jeremijenko   
Elizabeth L. Jockusch  U of Connecticut 
Henry B John-Alder  Rutgers Univ 
Shelly R. Johnson  Pasadena City College Retired 1993 
Sarah Johnson  Blackburn College 
Cassie Johnston   
Melanie Jonas  Illinois State Unversity 
Cory Bryan Jones   
Zachary Jones  U of Cincinnati 
Laura Katherine Jordan  UCLA 
Michael Jorgensen  Ohio University 
Jean M. P. Joss  Macquarie University 
Jean Joss  Macquarie U 
Ingrid M. Kaatz   
Stephen M. Kajiura  Florida Atlantic University 
Gerhard W. Kalmus   
Robert Kambic  Brown University 
Christian Kammerer  Univ of Chicago 
Brittany Kammerer  UC Davis 
Emily Kane  Clemson University 
Mutahammis Kareem  Univ of VI 
Kathryn D Kavanagh  Harvard 
Sandy Kawano  Clemson University 
Kazuhiko Kawasaki  Pennylvania State University 
Diane A. Kelly  Amherst College 
Scott Kelly  UC Riverside 
Addison Kemp  Mount Holyoke 
Christopher Kenaley  University of Washington 
Natalia Kennedy  UCLA 
Brett Kennedy   
Matthew Kennedy  James Madison Univ 
James Kerfoot  Florida Tech 
Ryan Kerney  Dalhousie 
Kim Khuc  UC Berkeley 
William M. Kier  UNC - Chapel Hill 
Patrick Kilkenny  JMU 
Heather King  Univ Chicago 
Stephen T. Kinsey  UNC Wilmington 
Adam Kirchhefer  AFAR, UWO 
Thomas Kleinteich  Univ Hamburg 
Nathan J. Kley  Stony Brook Univ 
Bridgett Knowles  San Diego State 
Thomas Kocher  University of Maryland 
David M. Koester  University of New England Department of Anatomy 
Tiana Kohldorf  Univ Sao Paulo 
Alan J. Kohn  University of Washington 
Erik Kolb  Univ of California - Riverside 
Jerry J. Kollros  University of Iowa 
Matthew Arthur Kolmann  Florida State University 
Nicolai Konow  Johns Hopkins Univ 
Paul Korchari  Clemson Univ 
Wyatt L. Korff  Caltech 
Keith E. Korsmeyer  Hawaii Pacific University 
Brian Kot  UCLA 
Michael Krzyzak  Holy Cross 
Dietmar Kultz  University of California Davis 
Joseph G. Kunkel  University of Mass - Amherst 
Thomas H. Kunz  Boston University 
Chi-Yun Kuo   
Shigeru Kuratani  CDB RIKEN 
Samantha Kushner   
Stephanie Kuster   
Michael LaBarbera  University of Chicago Organismal Biology & Anatomy 
Suzanne LaCroix  Michigan State University 
Pascal J Lafontant  DePauw University 
Ngan Lai  UC Berkeley 
Simon Lailvaux  University of New South Wales 
Thomas C. Lakars  University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Oral Biology (M/C 690) 
Eric Lambert   
Richard H. Lambertsen   
Andrew R. Lammers  Cleveland State University 
Winston C. Lancaster  California State University Sacramento 
Matthew P. Landau  Richard Stockton College 
Tobias Landberg  University of Connecticut 
Stuart O. Landry  State Univ of New York at Binghamton 
Paul D. Langer  Gwynedd-Mercy College Natural Science Division 
Peter Langer  Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Institut F. Anatomie 
Brian Langerhans  NC State University 
A Kristopher Lappin  Cal State Polytechnic U 
Peter M. Larson  St Anselm College 
Jacob Lasala  GSU 
George V. Lauder  Harvard Univ 
Ronald G. Lawler   
Jack R. Layne  Slippery Rock University 
Hilary Lease  Univ of New Mexico 
Richard F. Lee  Skidaway Institute of Oceanography 
David V. Lee  UNLV 
Andrew Huaien Lee  Ohio University 
Sarah Legates  University of Wyoming 
Elizabeth Leininger  Columbia University 
Pierre Lemelin  University of Alberta 
David Lentink  Wageningen 
Liliana Lettieri  Georgia Tech 
Kristi Lewton  Arizona State University 
Heleen Leysen  Ghent University - Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates 
James C Liao  Whitney Lab/UF 
Daniel Lieberman  Harvard University 
Karel F. Liem  Professor of Ichthyology 
Jeanette Lim  Harvard University 
Kelly Limoncelli  Hendrix College 
James Michael Logan  Biology Department 
Pauline K. Long   
John H. Long  Vassar College 
Alessandra Inez Lopez  California State Polytechnic Univ 
Jonathan Losos  Harvard Univ 
Matthew Lotti  University of RI 
Leeann Louis  Cornell University 
Alan Love  University of Minnesota 
Owen Lovejoy  Kent State University 
Joshua Andrew Ludtke  University of Calgary 
Richard Lund  Carnegie Museum of Natural History 
Deborah I. Lutterschmidt  Neuroscience Institute 
Bram Lutton   
Vincent Lynch  Yale Univerity 
Melissa Lynn Lyon  University of Utah 
Leigh MacAyeal   
Laura Macesic  Fl Atl Univ 
Duncan S. MacKenzie  Texas A & M University 
Ted Macrini  AMNH 
Peter G Madden  Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoolology 
Paul F. A. Maderson  Brooklyn College 
Nisreen Madhoun  Widener University 
Murat Maga  Univ of Washington 
Anne M. Maglia  Missouri University of Science and Technology 
Luke Mahler  Harvard University 
Anabela Maia  Univ of Rhode Island 
Takashi Maie  Clemson University 
Russell Paul Main  Cornell University 
Joanna L Mandecki   
Bruce L. Manion  Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine 
Kyle Mara  U of South Florida 
Jonathan Marcot  Univ of Illinois 
Michael Marcucci  Holy Cross 
Jessamyn Sheehan Markley  Univ of Utah 
Eladio J Marquez  University of Michigan 
Richard L. Marsh  Northeastern Univ 
Christopher D. Marshall  Texas A&M University at Galveston 
Sarah Marshall   
Christopher Martin  UC Davis 
Rachael Martinez  Holy Cross 
Frederic Martini   
Gianna McArthur  Vassar College 
Lance D. McBrayer  Georgia Southern Univ 
Jacob McCartney  Stony Brook Univ 
Charlene Leann McCord   
Amy McCune  Cornell University 
Eric James McElroy  Ohio University 
Eric McElroy  College oc Charleston 
Matthew McGee  UC Davis 
Craig Patrick McGowan  University of Texas at Austin 
Anna McGregor  Duke University Marine Lab 
Polly McGuigan  University of Bath 
Jenny Lynn McGuire  University of California, Berkeley 
Matthew J McHenry  U. C. Irvine 
James P. McKeown  Millsaps College Department of Biology 
William McLamb  Florida Institute of Technology 
Katie McLean  U of Guelph 
Erin Meagher  Univ of North Carolina at Wilmington 
Thomas Meek  UC Riverside 
Rita Mehta  Univ of California 
Daniel J. Meinhardt  U of Wisconsin-Green Bay 
Gloria Meredith  Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science 
Keith Metzger  Hofstra University 
Ron Meyers  Weber State University 
Jay Meyers  Univ Mass Amherst 
Kevin M. Middleton  CSU San Bernadino 
Cecelia Miles  University of Chicago 
Donald Richard Bailey Miles  Ohio University 
Kirk Miller  Franklin & Marshall College 
Charlotte Miller  RVC, London 
William K. Milsom  Uof British Columbia 
Simon Miner  Umass Amherst 
Ortal Mizrahy   
Jennifer Modrall  Tufts University 
Jenna A. Monroy  Northern Arizona U 
Brad R. Moon  University of Louisiana at Lafayette 
Janelle Morano  Cornell University 
Heather More  SFU 
Carlos Moreno  Harvard University 
Sabine Moritz  FSU Jena 
Melvin L. Moss  College of Physicians & Surgeons Department of Anatomy 
Amanda Lynne Moss  Georgia Southern Univ 
Heather Elizabeth Mostman-Liwanag  U of CA Santa Cruz 
Tami Mott  UC Berkeley 
Philip Jay Motta  U South Florida 
John David Moury  Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Department of Physical and Life Sciences 
Jacqueline Emmanuel Moustakas  Univ of Calif 
Hendrik Mueller  Jena University 
Gerd B. Muller  University of Vienna 
Ulrike K. Muller  CSU Fresno 
Samantha Mulvany  Univ S Florida 
Jason Charles Mussell  LSUHSC 
Laura Mydlarz  Cornell University 
Marcella J. Myers  College of Saint Catherine Department of Biology 
Peter N. Nassar  University of Pennsylvania 
Sandra Nauwelaerts  MSU 
Donna Nemeth  Univ Virgin Islands 
James R. Nestler  Walla Walla University 
Nicole Neubarth  Univ of Chicago 
Ashley Neway  MLML 
Nhi P Nguyen   
Rachel Nichols   
Lisa Nicholson  Northwestern Univ 
Stuart Nielsen  University of Mississippi 
Kiisa Nishikawa  Northern Arizona University Department of Biological Sciences 
Drew Noden  Cornell Veterinary 
Ken Noriega  California State Univ 
R. Glenn Northcutt  UCSD 
Bryan Nowroozi  Brown University 
Noelle Noyes  Mt Holyoke College 
Spencer Nyholm  University of Connecticut 
Patrick O'Connor  Ohio University 
Jennifer Lee O'Connor   
Matthew W O'Neill  Northern Arizona University 
Claire O'Quin  George Washington University 
James O'Reilly  Univ of Miami 
Robert K. Okazaki  Weber State Univ 
AdeGbenga Adekunle Okuwoga  Epetedo senior High School 
John Michael Olson  Villanova University 
Wendy M. Olson  U Northern Iowa 
Kate Olson  U Northern Iowa 
Lennart Olsson  Jena University 
Michelle Lynn Osborn  Louisiana State University 
Andrew Ott  Blackburn College 
Tomasz Owerkowicz  UC Irvine 
Busra Duygu Ozpolat   
D. Ann Pabst  University of North Carolina at Wilmington 
Cinnamon Pace  Northern Arizona U 
Kevin Padian  UC Berkeley 
Erin Winters-Mist Paig-Tran   
Nicole Palenske  Central College 
Tami M Panhuis  Ohio Wesleyan University 
Lynne R. Parenti  National Museum of Natural History 
Nicholas Parnell  GA Tech 
Jana Marie Parson   
Biren A. Patel  Ohio University 
Mihaela Pavlicev  Washington University 
Rachel Payne  RVC UK 
Samantha Payne  U Guelph 
Scott C. Pedersen  South Dakota State University 
Nancy Pelaez  Purdue University Bio Sci 
Chuck Pell  Duke University 
Benjamin Perlman  Moss Landing Marine Labs 
Margaret Perry  Swarthmore College 
Miroslav Peterka  Inst Exper Medic 
Renata Peterkova  Inst Exper Medic 
Susan E. Peters  Univ of NC at Charlotte 
Charles C. Peterson  Hofstra University 
Joseph Pfaller  Univ of Florida 
Janne Pfeiffenberger  USF 
Nadine Piekarski  FSU-Jena 
Stephanie E Pierce  University of Bristol 
Vandewalle Pierre  University of Liege, Institut de Chimie 
Rebecca Pike  Slippery Rock Univ 
Tia Renee Pilikian   
Marina Piscitelli   
Aaron Place  Northwestern OSU 
Gianluca Polgar   
John Polk  Univ of Illinois 
Herman Pontzer  Washington Univ 
Tracy E. Popowics  University of Washington 
Marianne E Porter  Vassar College 
William R Porter  Ohio University 
Rita Jacqueline Portocarrero  JMU 
Stuart G. Poss   
F. Harvey Pough  Rochester Institute of Technology 
Michelle Marie Prehoda  Hendrix College 
Andrew H. Price   
Megan Pruette  Duke University 
Rebecca A. Pyles  East Tennessee U 
Rachel Racicot   
Christina Rade  Adelphi Univ 
Katherine Rafferty  U of Washington 
David Raichlen  Univ of Texas 
Jason B Ramsay  Univ of Rhode Island 
Manku Rana  SFU Burnaby 
Matthew J. Ravosa  University of Missouri, School of Medicine 
Emily Jayne Rayfield  University of Bristol 
Vito Rebecca  Lafayette College 
Chrystal Redding  SenesTech 
Susan J. Rehorek  Slippery Rock University 
Jonathan Reichard   
Stephen M. Reilly  Ohio University 
Rita Rein   
Karen Zich Reiss  Humboldt State University Department of Biological Sciences 
John O. Reiss  Humboldt State University Department of Biology 
Phil Reno  Kent State Univ 
Aaron Nicholas Rice  Cornell University 
Christopher Richards  Harvard University 
Alejandro Rico-Guevara  U of Connecticut 
Lynn M. Riddiford  Howard Hughes Medical Institute 
Marc Daniel Rinehart   
Daniel K Riskin  Brown University 
Angela R Rivera  Clemson University 
Gabriel Rivera  Clemson University 
Julio Rivera  UH Manoa 
Hector Riveroll   
Thomas J. Roberts  Brown University 
John L. Roberts  University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Biology 
Lesley Roberts  Dalhousie Univ 
Sonia Roberts  Vassar College 
Corey Roelke  UT Arlington 
Nala Rogers   
Campbell Rolian  Univ of Calgary 
Laura Romero  U Andes 
Ivo Ros  Harvard University 
Eduardo Rosa-Molinar  Univ Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 
Hannah Rosenblum  Vassar College 
Callum Ross  University of Chicago 
Ashlee Hedgecock Rowe  University of Texas @ Austin, Section of Neurobiology 
Margaret A. Rubega  U of Connecticut 
Jonas Rubenson  Biology Department 
Douglas Ruby  University of Maryland Eastern Shore 
Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza  Dartmouth College 
Amber Ruskell   
Anthony P. Russell  University of Calgary 
Michael J Ryan  Cleveland Museum of Natural History 
Natalia Rybczynski  CMN 
William Ryerson  U Conn 
Rudyard Sadleir  University of Chicago 
Edward I. Saiff  Ramapo College of New Jersey School of Theoretical & Applied Science 
Hassan Sakhtah  Vassar College 
Sarah Laurie Sanderson  College of William and Mary 
Paula Sandusky   
Paula Sandusky  University of South Florida 
Christopher Sanford  Hofstra University 
Sharlene Santana  U Mass Amherst 
Francesco Santini  UCLA 
Iwao Sato  Nippon Dental University 
Alan H. Savitzky  Old Dominion University 
Sara J. Sawyer  Glenville State College 
Jeffrey A. Scales  Univ of Hawaii 
Fred Schachat  Duke University Medical School 
Emma Schachner  Univ of Pennsylvania 
Justin Schaefer  Brown University 
Justin Schaefer   
Thomas Schilling  UC Irvine 
Kai Schmidt  LMU 
Robert J. Schmitz  Univ of Wisconsin 
Lars Schmitz  University of California, Davis 
Heiko Lars Schoenfuss  St Cloud State Univ 
Carl B. Schreck  Oregon State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife 
Alex M. Schreiber  St Lawrence University 
John Schroeder  Hendrix College 
Eric Schultz  U Conn 
Joseph W Schumacher  Vassar College 
Heidi Schutz  UC Riverside 
Kurt Schwenk  Univ of Connecticut 
Andrea Scott  URI 
Karen E. Sears  Univ of Illinois 
Elaine Seaver  University of Hawaii 
Casey J Self  University of Washington 
Maria Serrat  Cornell University 
Robert Edward Shadwick  University of British Columbia 
Katherine Shadwick  UC San Diego 
Michael D. Shapiro  University of Utah 
Liza Shapiro  UT Austin 
Judith Shardo  Middle Tenessee State University 
Rebecca Marie Shearman  Wesleyan University 
Thomas Sheridan   
Janet Anne Sherman   
Robin Sherman  Nova Southeastern University 
Stanley Shostak  University of Pittsburgh 
Brian L Sidlauskas  National Evolutionary Synthesis Center 
Andrew Simons  Univ of Minnesota 
Erin Simons  Midwestern University 
Graham James Slater  UCLA 
Leah Sloan  HSU 
Kathleen K. Smith  Duke University 
Tamara L. Smith  Washington State 
Daphne Soares  University of Maryland 
Jake Socha  Virginia Tech 
Alan Sokoloff  Emory University Department of Physiology 
Jiakun Song  U of Maryland 
Emily Sou  George Washington 
Larry T. Spencer  Plymouth State University 
Manoj Srinivasan  Princeton University 
Katie Lynn Staab  The George Washington University 
Aaron Stahl  Northern Iowa 
Eric F Stakebake  Univ of Utah 
Emily Standen  Harvard University 
Theodore Stankowich  Univ Mass Amherst 
Matthias J Starck  University of Munich (LMU) 
Nancy Staub  Gonzaga University 
Tristan Stayton  Bucknell University 
Vicki K. Stegall  Alaska Dept of fish and Game 
Edmund J. Stellwag  East Carolina Univ 
Lisa Lynn Sternadel   
Karen L. Steudel  University of Wisconsin 
Nancy Stevens  Ohio University 
Anna Correen Stevenson  University of Nebraska at Kearney 
James R. Stewart  East Tennessee State University 
Scott A. Stewart   
Elise Stickles  Vassar College 
Josef Barrett Stiegler  Montana State University 
Jerry Stinner  University of Akron 
Rebecca Liv Stirnemann  Trinity College 
David W Stock  Univ of Colorado 
Ashley Stoehr  URI 
Geffrey Foresman Stopper  Yale University 
Kristin Stover   
James Strother  Univ of California Irvine 
Joshua Sturm  Vassar College 
Jennifer Stynoski  University of Miami 
Corwin Sullivan  Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology 
Stuart Shigeo Sumida  California State University 
Adam P. Summers  Friday Harbor Laboratories 
Diego Sustaita  U Conn 
Brook Swanson  Gonzaga Univ 
Eli Swanson  Michigan State University 
Sharon Swartz  Brown University 
Brian A Swartz  Univ of California, Berkeley 
Karen L Sweazea  Arizona State University Polytechnic 
Donald Swiderski  University of Michigan 
Theresa Szabo  Brandeis Univ 
John Andrew Szczepanski  University of Rhode Island 
Natasha Taft  UMASS 
Natalia Taft  University of Chicago 
Jaime B Tanner  Umass-Amherst 
Kellie Taylor  Hendrix College 
Jamie Tedeschi   
Matthew Teutimez   
Justin David Tickhill   
Lori Timm   
Douglas W Timm   
Tim Tkint  Ghent University 
Bret W. Tobalske  University of Montana 
Nancy Todd  Manhattanville College 
William L. Todt  Concordia College 
Carole Tomlinson  Haskell Indian Nations University 
Daniel C Totten   
Eric Traister   
Nina Elise Triche  Univ of Texas 
Pei-San Tsai  University of Colorado 
Henry Tsai   
Jack Tseng  LACM/USC 
Derek Tucker  Georgia Southern Univ 
Frank J Tulenko   
Ralph G. Turingan  Florida Tech 
Kenyon S. Tweedell  University of Notre Dame Department of Biological Sciences 
Eric Tytell  University of Maryland 
Amiko Uchida  Weber State University 
Todd Uriona  University of Utah 
Jim Usherwood  Royal Vet College 
Janet Vaglia  Depauw Univ 
Glen Van Der Kraak  University of Guelph 
Johan van Leeuwen  Wageningen Univ 
William Van Trump  UC Irvine 
Leigh M. Van Valen  University of Chicago Department of Ecology & Evolution 
Blaire Van Valkenburgh  UCLA 
Sam Van Wassenbergh   
John Vanden Brooks  Arizona State University 
Robert M Vanderhoek   
Pierre Vandewalle  Universite de Liege Faculte des Sciences 
Bieke Vanhooydonck  University of Antwerp (U.I.A.) 
Alexander Vargas  Yale University 
William A. Velhagen  New York University 
Judith M. Venuti  LSU Health Science Center 
Matthew Vickaryous  Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph 
Shawn Vincent  Tulane University 
Chris Vinyard  NEOUCOM 
Valerie Virta  University of Washington 
Steven Vogel  Duke University 
Kristen Vollrath   
Erica L. Wagner  Sacramento City Coll 
Jonathan Wagner  The University of Texas 
Stephen A. Wainwright  Duke University 
Peter C. Wainwright  UC Davis 
David B. Wake  Univ of California 
Marvalee H. Wake  University of California 
Warren F. Walker  Oberlin College 
Jeffrey A. Walker  U Southern Maine 
Hortense Walker  Oberlin College 
Christine Wall  Duke University 
Breda Walsh  SDSU 
Rebecca Walter  University of Utah 
Brian Walter  Illinois Wesleyan Univ 
Jing Wang  Wellesley College 
Andrea B. Ward  Adelphi University 
Douglas Warrick  Oregan State 
Rhyan Washington   
Richard Wassersug  Dalhousie Univ 
Robert E Weaver  Washington State University 
Paul W. Webb  Univ of Michigan 
Jacqueline Webb  University of Rhode Island 
Denita Mychele Weeks   
Christina Weggelaar  Univ of South Florida 
Deck Ari Wehrle  California State Univ Northridge 
Kara Weigand   
Jonathan Weinbaum  Southern Connecticut State Univ 
Vera Weisbecker  Jena University 
Carl F. Wellstead  WVU Tech 
Bianca Werner  Lafayette College 
Sarah Werning  University of California Berkeley 
Alexander J. Werth  Hampden-Sydney College Dept. of Biology 
Mark Westneat  Field Museum of Natural History 
William Wharton  Hendrix College 
Howard P. Whidden  East Stroudsbourg University 
Thomas D. White  SUNY Buffalo 
Jennifer L. White  East Stroudsburg University 
Bartholomew Joeseph White  Youngstown State Univ 
Lisa Whitenack  Allegheny College 
John Whitlock  University of Michigan 
Susan Lynn Whittemore  Keene State College 
M. Gary Wickham  Northeastern State University College of Optometry 
Martin Wikelski  Max Planck Inst 
Alexis M Wiktorowicz Conroy  Royal Veterinary College 
Cheryl Wilga  Uof Rhode Island 
E. Eugene Williams  Salisbury University 
Susan Williams  Ohio University 
Kristina Williams  Caretta Research 
Alan Wilson  Royal Vet College 
Jennifer Wilwert  Widener University 
Lawrence E. Wineski  Morehouse School of Medicine 
Benjamin Winslow  Wesleyan 
Lawrence M. Witmer  Ohio University 
Ronald G. Wolff  University of Florida Department of Zoology 
Lyndsy M Wolff   
Gene Wong  Quinnipiac Univ 
Heejun Woo   
Bradley Wood  LSU 
John P. Wourms  Clemson University 
Mary L. Wright  College of Our Lady of the Elms 
Margaret R. Wright  Vassar College Department of Biology 
Jeremy Wright  UFL 
Barth Wright  George Washington University 
Kathryn Wright  Clemson University 
Roshna Wunderlich  James Madison Univ 
Jeanette Wyneken  Florida Atlantic Univ 
Yoshiyuki Yamamoto  UCL 
Gregor Yanega  National Evolutionary Synthesis Cntr 
Zvi Yaron  Tel Aviv University 
Edwin Yoo  Harvard University 
Bruce A. Young  U Mass Lowell 
Rebecca Lynn Young  Yale University 
Nathan Young   
Jesse Wyatt Young  University of Texas at Austin 
John H. Youson  University of Toronto at Scarborough 
Edward J. Zalisko  Blackburn College 
William E. Zamer  Ntnl Science Fndtn 
Rainer Zangerl   
Sarah Zehr  Duke Lemur Center 
Angel Zeininger  UT Austin 
Miriam Leah Zelditch  University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology 
Yu Zeng  UC Berkeley 
Eric Zepnewski  Northern Ariz Univ 
Breda Zimkus  Harvard University 
Katherine Zink  Harvard University 
Myriam Zylstra  Midwestern University