News from Functional Anatomy & Evolution
Read our latest announcements about department updates, honors and publications.
Young Investigators’ Day
Young Investigators’ Day was established in 1978 to recognize young investigators trained at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and provide them with a forum of their work. The awards are intended to recognize research undertaken by applicants while...
Cooke Lab: Antillothrix fossils making headlines!
A research team including our own Dr Siobhan Cooke says their findings about the monkeys' lives and deaths may inform efforts to conserve dwindling species.Dr Siobhan Cooke has recently been making waves for her work in the Caribbean. As part of a team that identified...
First Publication from the Fabbri Lab
Congratulations to our newest member of faculty in the FAE Center, Dr Matteo Fabbri, for his first publication at Johns Hopkins! Please see the link to his paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.104
Congrats to EJ Huang & Jake Wilson on their recent publication!
Bever Lab PhD students EJ Huang and Jake Wilson just published a detailed analysis of body mass and its method of estimation among small mammals, with important implications for the Mesozoic fossil record! http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala.12692 Way to go EJ and Jake!
Publication alert for PhD candidates Fernando Torres & EJ Huang!
PhD students Fernando Torres and EJ Huang published a new study of Pleistocene fossils from Ecuador that advances our understanding of the famous giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2313615 See also a note on this article...
FAE is proud to present: Dr. Aneila Hogan!
We would like to offer our congratulations to Aneila who successfully defended her dissertation this week. Aneila's thesis is titled "Development and Evolution in the Olfactory System of Birds" and was completed as part of an NSF-funded project in the Bever Lab. We...
Inaugural FAE Day
On Thursday, December 14th, 2023, the center faculty, graduate students, and postdocs gathered for the first-annual FAE Day! Members of the FAE presented their current research and recent work performed prior to joining the center.
FAE outreach at Maryland Science Center!
Dr. Matthew Ravosa as well as available postdocs and graduate students organized our first-ever outreach event on Saturday, December 9th, 2023 at the Maryland Science Center. Using center collections and posters developed specifically to engage the general public and...
FAE celebrates the holidays!
The FAE faculty, students, postdocs, and staff celebrated the 2023 holidays together on Thursday, December 14th at Hotel Revival's Topside Restaurant overlooking Mount Vernon and Baltimore city. Thanks to Revival for hosting a great party!