2023

The lab moves to UF - Dr. Stephanie Baumgart PhD and Alexis Slack join the team!

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2022

Aracely Martinez receives two research grants: the AAA travel fellowship to visit the Hedrick Lab at Cornell University, and the Jurassic Foundation grant to fund her research into avian postcranial pneumaticity.  

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Dr. Andy Grand Pre successfully defends his thesis proposal! 

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Dr. Adam Lawson's Parrot Lung model wins 1st Place in the AAA BioArt Competition 

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2021

PhD student Aracely Martinez joins the lab

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Adam Lawson Defends his thesis and accepts a faculty position at Tulane University School of Medicine

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PhD student Adam Lawson's African grey parrot research featured on the cover of the Journal of Morphology

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Alligator/Ostrich project featured on the cover of the Journal of Anatomy

 

2020

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COVID-19 Research with Dr. Bradley Spieler wins AuntMinnie.com Image of the Year award

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Dinosaur Lung TEDx published as a full TED talk

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2018

Andy Grand Pre, PhD (2010, Univ of Pennsylvania) joins the lab to complete his second PhD in Clinical Anatomy

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2017

Snapping turtle lung research published in the Journal of Anatomy and featured on the cover.

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2016

 

Turtle shell research published in the journal Current Biology describing a new hypothesis for the origin of the turtle shell

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Joined the faculty at the LSUHSC School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy

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