SICB Division of Vertebrate Morphology (DVM)

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From the DVM Researchers Database

Richard Blob

Evolutionary Morphology & Biomechanics
My lab studies the diversity and evolution of animal function. My students and I are interested in questions about:

- How animals (and their parts) work
- How the ways that animals work affect their ability to survive
- How animal function varies to meet the demands of different environments
- How animal function has diversified and changed through evolution

To answer these questions, most of our research examines vertebrate skeleton and muscle function during locomotion and feeding, with a major focus on reptiles (especially turtles and alligators), amphibians, and fishes. Some current projects include studies of the evolution of limb bone loading during locomotion and bone mechanical properties (using limb bones and antler); studies of the hydrodynamics and motor control of swimming turtles; and studies of locomotor and feeding function in waterfall-climbing gobiid fishes of tropical island streams, geared toward understanding that factors leading to population and species divergence in these remarkable fishes.

Pictures: Nanue Stream, Big Island, Hawai'i (field site for climbing goby work);
Painted turtle (focus of hydrodynamic studies)


Click here for a complete listing of the DVM Researchers Database.



- 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 01/2011-01/2013 Kiisa Nishikawa
Chair-Elect 06/2011-01/2013 Alice Gibb
Secretary 01/2012-01/2014 Susan Williams
Program Officer 01/2010-01/2012 Richard Blob
Student/Postdoc Representative 01/2011-01/2014 Joanna Mandecki




DVM Memberlist

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Emily Abbott  University of California Irvine 
Arkhat Abzhanov  Harvard University 
Kerri Ackerly  Adelphi University 
Dominique Adriaens  Ghent University 
Peter Aerts  University of Antwerp 
Anna Ahn  Harvey Mudd College 
Heather 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 
Corey Allard   
Rebecca Allen  Univ of RI 
Brett Allen  Blackburn College 
Lisa Allred   
Robert Aluck   
Christine Ambrosino  University of Hawaii at Manoa 
Marshall Andersen  Rockhurst University 
Curt Anderson  Idaho State Univ 
Roger Anderson  Western Washington University 
Noah J Anderson  Idaho State University 
Erik Anderson  Grove City College 
Philip Anderson  Univ of Bristol 
Christopher Anderson  University of South Florida 
Brian B Andres  Yale Dept of Geology and Geophysics 
Kenneth Angielczyk  The Field Museum 
Jeff Arendt  UC Riverside 
Sara Armon  Blackburn College 
Maria Armour  CW Post LIU 
Sarah L. Armstrong  Millsaps College 
Eric Armstrong   
Gary P Aronsen  Yale Univ 
Helena Aryafar  CSU fullerton 
Miriam Ashley-Ross  Wake Forest Univ 
Henry Astley  Brown University 
Lisa Marie Axtman  Colorado State Univ 
Manny Azizi  University of California, Irv 
Sharon Kay Babcock  James Madison University 
Thomas Bachmann  TU Darmstadt 
Marc Badger  University of California, Berkeley 
Laura Bagge   
Justin Bagley  Brigham Young Univ 
Joseph Bahlman  Brown University 
David Baier  Providence College 
John Bailey  William Carey University 
John J. Baird   
Shirley M. Baker  University of Florida 
T. Vernon Baker  Grove City College 
Jordan Balaban  University of Rhode Island 
Vikram Baliga  University of California Santa Cruz 
Kapil Bambardekar   
Justin Baum  University of Cincinnati 
Allison Beck  Univ of Chicago 
Brian Beckman  National Marine Fisheries Service 
Jennie Lanett Beltran  The George Washington University 
Willy Elliott Bemis  Cornell University 
Noah Ben-Aderet  Bar-Ilan Uni 
Miriam Ben-Hamo   
Albert F. Bennett  University of California Irvine 
Matthew Hector Benoit  WM Keck Science Center 
Sergejs Berdnikovs  UC 
Angela Berg Robertson  University of Houston 
Kathryn Berge  UNI 
Philip Bergmann  Clark University 
Attila Bergou  Brown University 
Dieldrich Salomon Bermudez   
Diego Bernal  U Mass Dartmouth 
Chelsea Berns  Iowa State University 
Annalisa Berta  San Diego St Univ 
Bhart-Anjan Singh Bhullar  Harvard University 
Hilary Bierman  University of Maryland 
Andrew Biewener  Harvard University 
Audrone Biknevicius  Ohio University 
Wendy J. Binder  Loyola Marymount University 
Sandra Ann Binning  Australian National University 
Aleksandra Birn-Jeffery  Royal Veterinary College 
Cory Bishop  St. Francis Xavier University 
Kristin Bishop  Florida International University 
Janelle Bissell  Hendrix College 
Daniel Blackburn  Trinity College 
Jusin Blair   
Tara Blank  University of North Texas 
Richard Blob  Clemson University 
Barbara Block  Stanford University Hopkins Marine Station 
Brian Bloodworth   
Nathaniel Bobbitt  Central Washington University 
Walter Bock  Columbia University 
Catherine Anne Boisvert  Institute for Physiology and EOB 
Calhoun Bond  Greensboro College 
Ronald Bonett  University of Tulsa 
Jonathan Bonin   
Robert L. Boord  University of Delaware 
Allison Bormet  Indiana University 
Kimberly Bostwick  Cornell University 
Jason Bourke   
Melissa Bowlin  University of Michigan-Dearborn 
David Bradley   
Elizabeth L. Brainerd  Brown Univ 
Katherine Brakora  University of California Berkeley 
Patricia Brennan   
Kenneth Breuer  Brown University 
Ashley Kristen Brewington   
Jennie Bright  University of Bristol 
Chad Brock  Washington State 
Chris Broeckhoven  University of Antwerp 
Frances V Brozozowski  Syracuse University 
Shawn Bruce  Minot State Univ 
Emily Buchholtz  Wellesley College 
David Buckley  Cal-Berkeley 
Sara Burch  Stony Brook University 
Brett J. Burk   
Louis Burnett  College of Charleston 
Morgan Burnette  Wake Forest University 
Michael Burns  University of Alberta 
Michael Butcher  YSU 
Donald G. Buth  University of California 
Marguerite A. Butler  University of Hawaii 
Nathan J. Butler   
Macrina Butler  Hendrix College 
Greg Byrnes  U of Cincinnati 
Craig Byron  Mercer University 
Ariel Camp  Brown University 
Christopher Caprette  Ohio Northern University 
Gwyneth Card  Caltech 
Kristian Carlson  NYCOM 
Rose L Carlson  Harvard University 
Niels Carlson   
Ryan Carney  Brown University 
Spencer Carpenter-Carter   
James A. Carr  Texas Tech University 
Jennifer Carr  Northeastern Univ 
Robert Carr  Ohio University 
Matthew Thomas Carrano  Smithsonian Institution 
Carrie Carreno  Duke University 
David Carrier  Univ of Utah 
Robert L. Carroll  McGill University Redpath Museum 
Margarida Casadevall  Universitat de Girona Servei D'Adquisicions 
Amanda Cass  Cornell University 
Theodore Castro-Santos  S O Conte Anadromous Fish Res Ctr 
Brad Chadwell  Guilford College 
Julie Charbonnier   
Hu Chen  University of Missouri - St Louis 
Jorn Cheney  Brown University 
Kai-Jung Chi  Nat. Chung Hsing Univ., Taiwan 
Il-Gyu Cho   
Linsey Christensen   
Katie Chronister   
Kerin Claeson  Ohio University Heritage COM 
Leon Claessens  College of the Holy Cross 
Brian D. Clark  Temple University College of Allied Health Professions 
Andrew Clark  College of Charleston 
CHRISTOPHER CLARK  UC BERKELEY 
Christofer Clemente  Harvard University 
Sharon Clemmensen  University of Tennessee 
Andrew Clifford  Brown University 
Kari B. Clifton  Mayo Clinic 
Matthew Close  Lehigh University 
Brittney Racheal Coats  California State University San Bernardino 
Sam Cobb  Hull York Medical School 
Samantha E Colayori  Indiana State Univ 
David Collar  University of California, Santa Cruz 
Clint Collins  Georgia Southern University 
Moira Concannon   
Keith Condon  Dept of Anatomy and Cell Biology 
Katheryn Connell   
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 Cooper  University of Illinois 
Jennifer Cooper  Univ of Illinois 
W James Cooper  Syracuse Univ 
Lynn Copes   
Joshua Copus  NAU 
Andrew Corder  UC Berkeley 
Gerardo Cordero  Iowa State University 
Anthony Cornett   
Katherine Costantini  George Washington University 
David Coughlin  Widener University 
Robert Covert  Slippry Rock University 
Joel Cracraft  American Museum of Natural History 
Kristen Crandell  University of Montana 
Ted W. Cranford  SDSU 
Callie Crawford   
Susan Crockford  U Victoria BC 
Stephanie Crofts  UW, Seattle 
Roger Croll  Dalhousie Univ 
Peter James Croucher  ESM, Univ CA Berkeley 
Megan Cummins  Lafayette College 
David Cundall  Lehigh University 
Christopher Cunningham  U of Utah 
Chelsea Cupp  Hendrix College 
Amanda Jane Curtin  Duke University 
Brian Dagley  Framingham State University 
Monica A. Daley  Royal Veterinary College 
David Darda  Central Washington Univ 
Ilya S. Darevsky  Zool. Inst. Russian Acad. Science Department of Herpetology 
Ian Davenport  Xavier Univ of Louisiana 
Marcus Davis  Kennesaw State University 
Jillian Davis   
Julian Davis  University of Southern Indiana 
Ellen M. Dawley  Ursinus College 
Megan Dawson  Brown University 
Tricia Dawson  Arizona State University 
Steven Day  Rochester Inst of Technology 
Maria de Boef Miara  Harvard University 
Carrie De Jesus  Cal State Fullerton 
Mason Dean  Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces 
Jennifer Dearolf  Hendrix College 
Paul C. Dechow  Baylor College of Dentistry Texas A & M Health Science Center 
Claudia V. deGruy   
Brigitte Demes  Stony Brook University 
James Norman Dent   
Elissa Derrickson  Loyola University Maryland 
Emilie Descamps  Ghent University 
Alexandra Deufel  Minot State University 
Maya deVries  UC Berkeley 
Eric Dewar  Suffolk University 
Kenneth Dial  University of Montana 
Terry Dial  Brown University 
Renee Dickie  Institute for Advanced Study 
William Beatty Dickson  Caltech 
Lawrence S. Dillon   
Peter Michael Dimoulas   
Yang Ding  Georgia Tech 
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   
Morgan Douglas  Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville 
Charles M Drabek  Whitman College 
Robert E. Druzinsky  University of Illinois 
Brooke Dubansky  Louisiana State Univ 
Robert Dudley  University of California, Berkeley 
David Dufeau  Ohio University 
Elizabeth Dumont  Univ of Massachusetts 
Donald Dunbar  University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine 
Mariah Dunbar  xa 
Christopher Durie   
Andrew Michael Durso  Utah State University 
Hiran M. Dutta  Kent State University Department of Biological Sciences 
Darren J Dutto  Eastern OR Univ 
Laurel Dwyer  U Connecticut 
Joseph Eastman  Ohio University 
Hayley Ebersbacher  Westminster College, PA 
Mark Eckardt  Holy Cross 
Kirsten Eckert   
Whitney Edmonds   
Sara Edsall  Dalhousie University 
Jessica Edwards  Univ New Orleans 
Chris Effken  University of Nebraska - Omaha, Department of Biology 
Laura Eidietis  Hunter College 
Thomas Eiting   
Richard Elinson  Duquesne University 
David Ellerby  Wellesley College 
Kyle Elliott  Univ of Manitoba 
Carolyn Eng  Harvard University 
Virginia Engel  Vassar College 
Jackie Entz  Georgia Southern 
Gregory Erickson  Florida State University 
Rolf Ericsson  Macquarie Univ 
Timothy Erton  Blackburn College 
Nora R. Espinoza  Clemson University 
Richard Essner  Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 
Alison Esteva-Sanders  The George Washington Univ 
Shelley Etnier  Butler Univeristy 
Dennis 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  Cornell University 
Colleen Farmer   
Daphne Gail Fautin  University of Kansas 
James Fawcett  University of Nebraska, Omaha 
Barbara Fears  Missouri S&T 
Kara Feilich  Harvard University 
Connie Fellmann   
Teresa Feo   
Maria Jose Fernandez  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 
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 
John Foley  Electronic Imaging Systems 
Janet Fontanella  West Chester University 
Kathryn Fosha  Univ North Texas 
Kathleen Foster  University of California, Riverside 
Austin Francis, Jr.  Armstrong Atlantic State University 
Adam Franssen  Randolph-Macon College 
Tamara Franz-Odendaal  Mount Saint Vincent University 
Stephen Roy Frazee  University of Central Oklahoma 
Thomas Frazzetta  University of Illinois Departm 
Carina Frias  Vassar College 
Anthony Friscia  UCLA 
Patrick Fuller   
Molly Gabler   
Frietson Galis  Leiden Univ 
Theodore Garland  University of California 
Gabriel Gartner  University of California 
Stephen Gatesy  Brown University 
Tom Geerinckx  Ghent University 
Matthew George  Gonzaga University 
Justin Georgi  Midwestern University 
Gary Wayne Gerald  Miami University 
Rebecca German  Johns Hopkins Medical School 
Shannon Gerry  Fairfield University 
Alice Gibb  N Arizona Univ 
Nicholas Gidmark  Brown University 
Paul Gignac  Stony Brook University 
Edwin Gilland  Howard University College of Medicine 
Gary Gillis  Mt Holyoke College 
Carly Ginter  Texas A&M University 
Christopher Gintof  Hofstra University 
Ralph Giorno   
Todd T. Gleeson  University of Colorado Boulder 
Emily Glenn  Blackburn College 
Kenneth Gobalet  California State University 
Luminita Goebbel  Faculty of Medicine 
Jeremy Goldbogen  Cascadia Research Collective 
Jeffrey Goldman  Center for Embedded Network Sensing 
Alfred Goldschmid  University of Salzburg 
Franz Goller  University of Utah 
Jesus Gomez  UPR Humacao Campus 
Brian Goo  UC Irvine 
Amy Goodfriend   
Malcolm Gordon  UCLA 
Matthew Gore   
William Casey Gosnell  Clemson University 
Anjali Goswami  Univ of Chicago 
Eugene V. Gourley   
Callie Grabenstein  University of Tennessee 
Jared Green  Weber State Univ 
Patrick Green   
Stefan Greif   
Theresa Grieco  UC Berkeley 
Jamie Grivas  DePauw University 
Mariana Grizante  USP 
Joshua B Gross   
Ian Grosse  Univ of Massachusetts 
Justin R. Grubich  The Field Museum 
Michael Gudo   
Sander Gussekloo  Wageningen University 
Andres Gutierrez  Vassar College 
Sarah Gutzwiller  The Ohio State University 
Alejandra Guzman  Texas A&M Univ 
Maria Laura Habegger  USF 
Maria Laura Habegger   
Annat Haber   
Insley Haciski  URI 
Travis Hagey  University of Idaho 
Aaron Haiman  University of California, Davis 
Melina Hale  Univ of Chicago 
Margaret Hall  MWU 
Benedikt Hallgrimsson  University of Calgary 
Jonna Hamilton  Brown University 
Rachel Anne Hamilton  University of Cincinnati 
Christina Hamlet  North Carolina State Universit 
Paul Hampton  Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette 
Jennifer Hancock  Marietta College 
Corey Handelsman  Colorado State University 
Wolf Hanke  Rostock University 
James Hanken  Harvard University 
Jandy Hanna  WVSOM 
Breanne Hanson   
Caroline Harper  Brown University 
Frederick W. Harrison  Journal of Morphology 
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 
john henderson  university of nebraska 
Aik Roy Heng  CA State U Pomona 
Justin Henningsen  University of Massachutts Amherst 
Havalee Henry  Northeastern Univ 
Allison Henry  Hendrix College 
Cody Henson   
John Hermanson  Cornell University 
L Patricia Hernandez  George Washington University 
Raymond Hernandez   
Eleanore Hernandez  Beth Israel 
Anthony Herrel   
Susan W. Herring  University of Washington Department of Orthodontics 
W. Ronald Heyer  Smithsonian Institution 
Lyndie Hice  Stony Brook Univ 
James Hicks  Univ Calif Irvine 
Rebecca Hicks   
Tobin Hieronymus  Northeastern Ohio Universities 
Ben Higgins   
Tim Higham  University of California 
Milton Hildebrand  University California, Davis Dept. of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology 
Willem Hillenius  College of Charleston Department of Biology 
Sanja Hinic-Frlog  Carleton Univ 
Scott Hippe  Gonzaga U 
Jonathan Hirokawa  Vassar College 
Melanie Hnot   
Robert Ho  Univ of Chicago 
Long Ho  Lafayette College 
William Hoese  CSU Fullerton 
Jessica Hoffman   
Luke Holbrook  Rowan University 
Linda Holland  U of CA San Diego 
Maranda Wood Holley  Univ of South Florida 
Casey Holliday  University of Missouri 
Farland Holliman  NC State University 
Roi Holzman  Tel Aviv University 
Dominique Homberger  Louisiana State University 
Craig S. Hood  Loyola University Department of Biological Sciences 
Tom Hoogendyk  Univ of Mass 
Mildred A Hoover  Salem State College 
Samantha Hopkins   
Sagiri Horisawa  U of CA Berkeley 
Mike Horn  Cal State Univ 
Richard Ian Horn  University of Akron 
Angela Horner  Brown University 
Kimberly Hruska  University of British Columbia 
Shi-tong Hsieh  Temple University 
Tatjana Hubel  Royal Veterinary College 
Daniel Huber  The University of Tampa 
Susie Huber  Cal Poly Pomona 
Penny Hudson  Structure and Motion Lab, Royal Vet College 
Nathan Brett Hudzik  Youngstown State University 
Meribeth Huizinga  Colorado State University 
Darrin Hulsey  University of Tennessee 
Jerry Husak  Univ St. Thomas 
Steve Huskey  Western Kentucky U 
John Hutchinson  Royal Veterinary College 
Deborah Hutchinson  Coastal Carolina University 
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 
Jose Iriarte-Diaz  University of Chicago 
Frances Irish  Moravian College 
Duncan Irschick  Univ Massachusetts 
Nina G. Jablonski  Penn State University 
Kate Jackson  Whitman College 
Brandon Jackson  Univ. of Montana 
Antone G. Jacobson  University of Texas Austin MCDB 
Kevin Jagnandan   
Claire James  Univ of Portland 
Brandon James   
Christine Janis  Brown University Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 
Jeff Janovetz  Sweet Briar College 
Paul Jarrell  Pasadena City College 
Sandra Jasinoski  University of Bristol 
Alan P. Jaslow  Rhodes College Department of Biology 
Carolyn R. Jaslow  Rhodes College 
Andrea Jaszlics  University of Texas Arlington 
Robert Javonillo  George Washington Univ 
Bruce Jayne  U of Cincinnati 
Farish Jenkins  Harvard University 
Natalie Jeremijenko   
Elizabeth L. Jockusch  U of Connecticut 
Shelly R. Johnson  Pasadena City College Retired 1993 
Cassie Johnston   
Melanie Jonas  Illinois State Unversity 
Cory Bryan Jones   
Zachary Jones  U of Cincinnati 
Laura Jordan  Florida Atlantic University 
Mike Jorgensen  Ohio University 
Jean M. P. Joss  Macquarie University 
Ingrid Kaatz   
Stephen M. Kajiura  Florida Atlantic University 
Gerhard W. Kalmus   
Robert Kambic  Brown University 
Christian Kammerer  American Museum of Natural History 
Brittany Kammerer  UC Davis 
Aaron Kampe   
Mutahammis Kareem  Univ of VI 
Hilary Katz  Mount Holyoke College 
Sandy Kawano  Clemson University 
Kazuhiko Kawasaki  Pennylvania State University 
Diane Kelly  University of Massachusetts 
Scott Kelly  UC Riverside 
Addison Kemp  University of Helsinki 
Christopher Kenaley  University of Washington 
Natalia Kennedy  UCLA 
Brett Kennedy   
Matthew Kennedy  James Madison Univ 
James Kerfoot  Union University 
Ryan Kerney  Dalhousie 
Kim Khuc  UC Berkeley 
Patrick Kilkenny  JMU 
Heather King  Univ Chicago 
Adam Kirchhefer  AFAR, UWO 
Thomas Kleinteich  Univ Hamburg 
Nathan J. Kley  Stony Brook Univ 
Daniel Kmack  Dept of Mechanical Engineering 
Bridgett Knowles  San Diego State 
Thomas Kocher  University of Maryland 
Klaus-Peter Koepfli  National Cancer Institute 
David Koester  University of New England  
Tiana Kohldorf  Univ Sao Paulo 
Jerry J. Kollros  University of Iowa 
Matthew Arthur Kolmann  Florida State University 
Nicolai Konow  Brown University 
Paul Korchari  Clemson Univ 
Wyatt L. Korff  Caltech 
Keith Korsmeyer  Hawaii Pacific University 
Brian Kot  UCLA 
Brian Kraatz  Western Univ.of Health Science 
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   
Pascal J Lafontant  DePauw University 
Ngan Lai  UC Berkeley 
Simon Lailvaux  University of New Orleans 
Richard H. Lambertsen   
Andrew Lammers  Cleveland State University 
Winston C. Lancaster  California State University Sacramento 
Tobias Landberg  Murray State University 
Stuart O. Landry  State Univ of New York at Binghamton 
Geerling Langenbach  ACTA 
Paul D. Langer  Gwynedd-Mercy College Natural Science Division 
Peter Langer  Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Institut F. Anatomie 
Brian Langerhans  NC State University 
Nicholas Larghi  University of Florida 
Peter M. Larson  St Anselm College 
Patrick Lathrop  AMU 
George Lauder  Harvard Univ 
Jack R. Layne  Slippery Rock University 
Brian Leary  University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth 
Hilary Lease  Univ of New Mexico 
Andrew Huaien Lee  Ohio University 
Rachel Lee  Hendrix College 
Sarah Legates  University of Wyoming 
Pierre Lemelin  University of Alberta 
Liliana Lettieri  Georgia Tech 
Kristi L. Lewton  Harvard University 
Heleen Leysen  Ghent University - Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates 
James Liao  Whitney Lab/UF 
Daniel Lieberman  Harvard University 
Karel F. Liem  Professor of Ichthyology 
Jeanette Lim  Harvard University 
Kelly Limoncelli  Hendrix College 
YI-FEN LIN   
David Little   
James Michael Logan  Biology Department 
Pauline K. Long   
John Long  Vassar College 
Alessandra Inez Lopez  California State Polytechnic Univ 
Hernan Lopez-Fernandez  Royal Ontario Museum 
Jonathan Losos  Harvard Univ 
Matthew Lotti  University of RI 
Leeann Louis  Cornell University 
Alan Love  University of Minnesota 
Owen Lovejoy  Kent State University 
Joshua Ludtke  University of Calgary 
Alissa Luken  CSU Northridge 
Richard Lund  Carnegie Museum of Natural History 
Vincent Lynch  Yale Univerity 
Melissa Lynn Lyon  University of Utah 
Leigh MacAyeal   
Laura Macesic  Mount Holyoke College 
Ted Macrini  AMNH 
Peter G Madden  Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoolology 
Hillary Maddin  Harvard University 
Paul Maderson  Brooklyn College 
Nisreen Madhoun  Widener University 
Murat Maga  Seattle Childrens Research Institute 
Anne M. Maglia  National Science Foundation 
Luke Mahler  University of California, Davis 
Anabela Maia  Ghent University 
Rafael Maia  The University of Akron 
Takashi Maie  Clemson University 
Alana Mailey  Macquarie University 
Russell Main  Purdue University 
Kyle Maki  George Fox Univ 
Joanna Mandecki  The University of Chicago 
Bruce Manion  Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science 
Kyle Mara  Temple University 
Jonathan Marcot  Univ of Illinois 
Tina Marcroft   
Michael Marcucci  Holy Cross 
Eladio J Marquez  University of Michigan 
Richard L. Marsh  Northeastern Univ 
Christopher Marshall  Texas A&M University 
Sarah Marshall   
Christopher Martin  UC Davis 
Rachael Martinez  Holy Cross 
Hamidreza Marvi  Georgia Institute of Technolog 
Andrew Matson   
Gianna McArthur  Vassar College 
Lance McBrayer  Georgia Southern Univ 
Jacob McCartney  Stony Brook University 
Blinda McClelland  U of Texas at Austin 
Katie McComas   
Charlene McCord   
Amy McCune  Cornell University 
Eric McElroy  College of Charleston 
Matthew McGee  UC Davis 
Craig McGowan  University of Idaho 
Daniel McGraw   
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 
Julie Meachen  NESCent 
Erin Meagher  Univ of North Carolina at Wilmington 
Rita Mehta  Univ of California 
Daniel J. Meinhardt  U of Wisconsin-Green Bay 
Keegan Melstrom  University of Michigan 
Marco Mendoza  University of Southern California 
Gloria Meredith  Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science 
Tricia Meredith  Florida Atlantic University 
Keith Metzger  Hofstra University 
Jay Meyers  Univ Mass Amherst 
Donald Miles  Ohio University 
Kirk Miller  Franklin & Marshall College 
Charlotte Miller  Duke University 
Simon Miner  Umass Amherst 
Ortal Mizrahy   
Jennifer Modrall  Tufts University 
Shabnam Mohammadi  Utah State University 
Stephane Montuelle  Ohio University 
Brad Moon  Univ. Louisiana at Lafayette 
Brandon C. Moore  Louisiana Tech University 
Talia Yuki Moore  Harvard University 
Alexis Moore   
Sophie Moore  Hendrix College 
Clinton Moran  Moss Landing Marine Labs 
Meghan Moran   
Janelle Morano  Cornell University 
Heather More  SFU 
Carlos Moreno  Harvard University 
Ashley Morhardt   
Sabine Moritz  Brown University 
Jeremy Morris  University of Utah 
Sarah Mortimer   
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 
Ross Mounce  University of Bath 
John David Moury  Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Department of Physical and Life Sciences 
Jacqueline Moustakas  Institute of Biotechnology 
Ulrike K. Muller  CSU Fresno 
Lara Muller  George Washington 
Jacob Musser   
Laura Mydlarz  Cornell University 
Marcella Myers  St. Catherine University, Department of Biology 
Amber Nappier  College of Charleston 
Peter N. Nassar  University of Pennsylvania 
Donna Nemeth  Univ Virgin Islands 
Nicole Neubarth  Univ of Chicago 
Ashley Neway  MLML 
Nhi P Nguyen   
Rachel Nichols   
Lisa Nicholson  Northwestern Univ 
Phil Nicodemo  University of Cincinnati 
Christopher Nicolay  Univ. North Carolina Asheville 
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 
Kayla Nygaard  Carleton College 
Spencer Nyholm  University of Connecticut 
Haley O'Brien  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 
Patrick OConnor  Ohio University 
AdeGbenga Adekunle Okuwoga  Epetedo senior High School 
Aaron Olsen  University of Chicago 
John Olson  Villanova University 
Wendy M. Olson  U Northern Iowa 
Kate Olson  U Northern Iowa 
Lennart Olsson  Jena University 
Julia Olszewski  Brown University 
Dara Orbach  Texas A&M University-Galveston 
Jason Organ  Saint Louis University  
Michelle Osborn  Louisiana State University 
Andrew Ott  Blackburn College 
Tomasz Owerkowicz  California State University 
Busra Ozpolat   
D. Pabst  University of North Carolina Wilmington 
Cinnamon Pace  Northern Arizona U 
Kevin Padian  UC Berkeley 
Erin Paig-Tran  Graduate 
Meredith Palmer  Ohio Wesleyan University 
Lynne Parenti  National Museum of Natural History 
Jana Marie Parson   
Biren A. Patel  Ohio University 
Mihaela Pavlicev  University of Oslo 
Rachel Payne  RVC UK 
Samantha Payne  U Guelph 
Scott Pedersen  South Dakota State University 
scott pedersen   
Nancy Pelaez  Purdue University Bio Sci 
Benjamin Perlman  Wake Forest University 
Margaret Perry  Swarthmore College 
Miroslav Peterka  Inst Exper Medic 
Renata Peterkova  Inst Exper Medic 
Susan Peters  Univ of NC at Charlotte 
James Peters  Univ of Illinois 
Charles C. Peterson  Hofstra University 
Janne Pfeiffenberger  Florida Institute of Technology 
Nadine Piekarski  FSU-Jena 
Stephanie E Pierce  University of Bristol 
Michele Pierotti   
Vandewalle Pierre  University of Liege, Institut de Chimie 
Rebecca Pike  Slippery Rock Univ 
Tia Renee Pilikian   
Marina Piscitelli   
Aaron Place  Northwestern OSU 
T. Plenderleith   
Gianluca Polgar   
John Polk  Univ of Illinois 
Herman Pontzer  Washington Univ 
Marianne Porter  Vassar College 
William Porter  Ohio University 
Rita Jacqueline Portocarrero  JMU 
Stuart G. Poss   
F. Harvey Pough  Rochester Institute of Technology 
Larry Powell  University of Calgary 
Kara Pratt  University of Wyoming  
Michelle Marie Prehoda  Hendrix College 
Andrew H. Price   
Sara Prince  Hendrix College 
Pauline Provini   
Megan Pruette  Duke University 
Richard Leo Puzdrowski  University of Houston Clear Lake 
Rebecca A. Pyles  East Tennessee State University 
Rachel Racicot   
Cristina Rade  George Washington University 
Jonathan Rader  University of Wyoming 
Katherine Rafferty  U of Washington 
David Raichlen  Univ of Texas 
Matthew Ramirez  Auburn University 
George Ramos   
Jason Ramsay  Univ of Rhode Island 
Manku Rana  SFU Burnaby 
Matthew J. Ravosa  Department of Biological Sciences 
Lindsey Reader  University of Utah 
Vito Rebecca  Lafayette College 
Chrystal Redding  SenesTech 
Sarah Redmond  DePauw University 
Ashley Redo  Hendrix College 
Jonathan Reichard   
Stephen M. Reilly  Ohio University 
Rita Rein   
Karen Zich Reiss  College of the Redwoods 
John Reiss  Humboldt State University Department of Biology 
Phil Reno  Kent State Univ 
Crystal Reynaga  cmreynag@ucsc.edu 
Aaron Rice  Bioacoustics Research Program 
Christopher Richards  Rowland Institute at Harvard 
Alejandro Rico-Guevara  U of Connecticut 
Lance Riley  Hendrix College 
Marc Daniel Rinehart   
Daniel K Riskin  Brown University 
Angela Rivera  Florida Atlantic University 
Gabriel Rivera  Iowa State University 
Hector Riveroll   
Alison Roark  Hood College 
John L. Roberts  University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Biology 
Lesley Roberts  Dalhousie Univ 
Sonia Roberts  HHMI/JFRC 
John Robertson  Westminster College 
Josi Robertson  Hendrix College 
Dominique Roche   
Jeri Rodgers   
Corey Roelke  UT Arlington 
Nala Rogers   
Campbell Rolian  Univ of Calgary 
Laura Romero  U Andes 
Rob Root  Lafayette College 
Ivo Ros  Harvard University 
Eduardo Rosa-Molinar  Univ Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 
Hannah Rosenblum  Vassar College 
Anna Ross  Christian Brothers University 
Callum Ross  University of Chicago 
Margaret Rubega  U of Connecticut 
Jonas Rubenson  Biology Department 
Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza  Dartmouth College 
Amber Ruskell   
Anthony Russell  University of Calgary 
Michael J Ryan  Cleveland Museum of Natural History 
Natalia Rybczynski  CMN 
William Ryerson  U Connecticut 
Rudyard Sadleir  University of Chicago 
Edward 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  University of South Florida 
Christopher Sanford  Hofstra University 
Sharlene Santana  UCLA 
Francesco Santini  University of California at Los Angeles 
Iwao Sato  Nippon Dental University 
Alan Savitzky  Utah State University 
Sara J. Sawyer  Glenville State College 
Jeffrey Scales  Univ of Hawaii 
Fred Schachat  Duke University Medical School 
Emma Schachner  University of Utah 
Justin Schaefer   
Thomas Schilling  UC Irvine 
Nadja Schilling  University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation 
Gerhard Schlosser  Natnl Univ of Ireland (NUI) Galway 
Robert J. Schmitz  Univ of Wisconsin 
Lars Schmitz  University of California, Davis 
James Schmitz   
Heiko Schoenfuss  St Cloud State Univ 
John Schroeder  Hendrix College 
Joseph W Schumacher  Vassar College 
Cosima Schunk   
Heidi Schutz  UC Riverside 
Kurt Schwenk  Univ of Connecticut 
Anna Sciortino  Hendrix College 
Andrea Scott  URI 
Karen E. Sears  Univ of Illinois 
Elizabeth Sefton   
Jessica Self   
Maria Serrat  Cornell University 
Robert Shadwick  University of British Columbia 
Katherine Shadwick  UC San Diego 
Heather Shaffery   
Ron Shahar   
Michael Shapiro  University of Utah 
Liza Shapiro  UT Austin 
Judith Shardo  Middle Tenessee State University 
Jeffrey Sharick   
Rebecca Shearman  Framingham State University 
Thomas Sheridan   
Janet Anne Sherman   
Robin Sherman  Nova Southeastern University 
Emma Sherratt  Harvard University 
Brian L Sidlauskas  National Evolutionary Synthesis Center 
Andrew Simons  Univ of Minnesota 
Erin Simons  Midwestern University 
Graham Slater  UCLA 
Leah Sloan  HSU 
Tamara L. Smith  Washington State 
Andrew Smith  Umass, Amherst 
Matthew Smith  The University of Alabama 
Stephanie Smith  Johns Hopkins University 
Cherice Smithers   
Tara Snyder  Montclair State University 
John Socha  Virginia Tech 
Alan Sokoloff  Emory University Department of Physiology 
Jiakun Song  U of Maryland 
Laurie Sorenson  University of California, Los Angeles 
Emily Sou  George Washington 
Manoj Srinivasan  Princeton University 
Katie Staab  The George Washington University 
Aaron Stahl  Northern Iowa 
Eric F Stakebake  Univ of Utah 
Emily Standen  Harvard University 
Theodore Stankowich  Univ Mass Amherst 
Shane Stanley  University of Alabama 
Matthias Starck  University of Munich (LMU) 
Alyssa Stark  The University of Akron 
Nancy Staub  Gonzaga 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 Stewart  East Tennessee State University 
Scott A. Stewart   
Arthur Stewart  Hendrix College 
Elise Stickles  Vassar College 
Josef Barrett Stiegler  Montana State University 
Reed Stiller  Georgia Southern University 
Jerry Stinner  University of Akron 
Rebecca Liv Stirnemann  Trinity College 
David W Stock  Univ of Colorado 
Ashley Stoehr  Univ. of Mass. Dartmouth 
Geffrey Stopper  Sacred Heart University 
Kristin Stover   
James Strother  Janelia Farm Research Campus 
Joshua Sturm  Vassar College 
Jennifer Stynoski  University of Miami 
Corwin Sullivan   
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 Swartz  Univ of California, Berkeley 
Theresa Szabo  Brandeis Univ 
John Andrew Szczepanski  University of Rhode Island 
Natasha Taft  UMASS 
Natalia Taft  DePaul University 
Jaime B Tanner  Umass-Amherst 
James Tarrant   
Kellie Taylor  Hendrix College 
Jamie Tedeschi   
Raymond Telfair II   
David Tessmer  Coconino Inst. of Technology 
Matthew Teutimez   
Larry Thompson   
Justin Tickhill  Scottsdale Community College 
Lori Timm   
Douglas W Timm   
Alexander Tinius  University of Calgary 
Tim Tkint  Ghent University 
Bret Tobalske  University of Montana 
Nancy Todd  Manhattanville College 
William L. Todt  Concordia College 
Maxx Toler  Duke University 
Carole Tomlinson  Haskell Indian Nations University 
Carole Tomlinson  Haskell Indian Nations Univ. 
Daniel C Totten   
Eric Traister   
Nina Elise Triche  Univ of Texas 
Henry Tsai   
Derek Tucker  Georgia Southern Univ 
Frank J Tulenko   
Ralph Turingan  Florida Tech 
Kenyon S. Tweedell  University of Notre Dame Department of Biological Sciences 
Eric Tytell  Johns Hopkins University 
Amiko Uchida  Weber State University 
Todd Uriona  University of Utah 
Jim Usherwood  Royal Vet College 
Theodore Uyeno  Valdosta State University 
Janet Vaglia  Depauw Univ 
Johan van Leeuwen  Wageningen Univ 
William Van Trump  UC Irvine 
Leigh M. Van Valen  University of Chicago Department of Ecology & Evolution 
BLAIRE VAN VALKENBURGH   
Sam Van Wassenbergh   
Pierre Vandewalle  Universite de Liege Faculte des Sciences 
Bieke Vanhooydonck  University of Antwerp 
Alexander Vargas  Yale University 
Christine Vega  Wake Forest University 
William Velhagen  New York University 
Brandy Velten   
Judith M. Venuti  LSU Health Science Center 
Melinda Vergara   
Nina Veselka   
Matthew Vickaryous  Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph 
Sacha Vignieri  AAAS/Science 
Shawn Vincent  Tulane University 
Chris Vinyard  NEOUCOM 
Valerie Virta  University of Washington 
Kristen Vollrath   
Rhea von Busse  Brown University 
Erica L. Wagner  Sacramento City Coll 
Jonathan Wagner  The University of Texas 
Stephen Wainwright  Duke University 
Peter Wainwright  UC Davis 
David Wake  Univ of California 
Marvalee Wake  University of California, Berkeley 
Warren F. Walker  Brightview Commons 
Jeffrey A. Walker  U Southern Maine 
Hortense Walker  Oberlin College 
Rebekah Walker  Hendrix College 
Christine Wall  Duke University 
Breda Walsh  SDSU 
Rebecca Walter  University of Utah 
Brian Walter  Illinois Wesleyan Univ 
Jing Wang  Wellesley College 
Abigail Wark  Harvard Medical School 
Douglas Warrick  Oregan State 
Rhyan Washington   
Akinobu Watanabe  Florida State University 
Mrinalini Watsa  Washington University in Saint Louis 
Robert E Weaver  Washington State University 
Paul Webb  Univ of Michigan 
Jacqueline Webb  University of Rhode Island 
Denita Mychele Weeks   
Christina Weggelaar  Univ of South Florida 
Nicholas Wegner  Scripps Institution of Oceanography 
Kara Weigand   
Jonathan Weinbaum  Southern Connecticut State Univ 
Vera Weisbecker  Jena University 
Bianca Werner  Lafayette College 
Sarah Werning  University of California Berkeley 
Alexander Werth  Hampden-Sydney College Dept. of Biology 
Mark Westneat  Field Museum of Natural History 
William Wharton  Hendrix College 
Howard Whidden  East Stroudsbourg University 
Katherine Whitcome  University of Cincinnati 
Thomas D. White  SUNY Buffalo 
Jennifer L. White  East Stroudsburg University 
Bartholomew Joeseph White  Youngstown State Univ 
Lisa B Whitenack  Allegheny College 
John Whitlock  University of Michigan 
Susan Lynn Whittemore  Keene State College 
M. Gary Wickham  Northeastern State University College of Optometry 
Darrell Wiens  University of Northern Iowa 
Martin Wikelski  Max Planck Inst 
Cheryl Wilga  University of Rhode Island 
Kit Wilkinson  Northern Arizona University 
Susan Williams  Ohio University 
Katie Willis  University of Maryland 
Alan Wilson  The Royal Veterinary College 
Peter D Wilson   
Jennifer Wilwert  Widener University 
Lawrence E. Wineski  Morehouse School of Medicine 
Benjamin Winslow  Wesleyan 
Lawrence Witmer  Ohio University 
Ronald G. Wolff  University of Florida Department of Zoology 
Lyndsy M Wolff   
Gene Wong  Quinnipiac Univ 
Heejun Woo   
Bradley Wood  Louisiana State University 
John P. Wourms  Clemson University 
Margaret R. Wright  Vassar College Department of Biology 
Jeremy Wright  UFL 
Barth Wright  George Washington University 
Kathryn Wright  Clemson University 
Matthew Wund  The College of New Jersey 
Jeanette Wyneken  Florida Atlantic Univ 
Yoshiyuki Yamamoto  UCL 
Lengxob Yong   
Edwin Yoo  Harvard University 
Nathan Young   
Jesse Young  NEOMED 
John H. Youson  University of Toronto at Scarborough 
Edward Zalisko  Blackburn College 
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 
Kazimiera Zippert  Westminster College 
Sarah Zohdy  Institute of Biotechnology 
Myriam Zylstra  Midwestern University