NEWS
2023
The lab moves to UF - Dr. Stephanie Baumgart PhD and Alexis Slack join the team!
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.
Dr. Andy Grand Pre successfully defends his thesis proposal!
Dr. Adam Lawson's Parrot Lung model wins 1st Place in the AAA BioArt Competition
2021
PhD student Aracely Martinez joins the lab
Adam Lawson Defends his thesis and accepts a faculty position at Tulane University School of Medicine
PhD student Adam Lawson's African grey parrot research featured on the cover of the Journal of Morphology
Alligator/Ostrich project featured on the cover of the Journal of Anatomy
2020
COVID-19 Research with Dr. Bradley Spieler wins AuntMinnie.com Image of the Year award
Dinosaur Lung TEDx published as a full TED talk
2018
Andy Grand Pre, PhD (2010, Univ of Pennsylvania) joins the lab to complete his second PhD in Clinical Anatomy
2017
Snapping turtle lung research published in the Journal of Anatomy and featured on the cover.
2016
Turtle shell research published in the journal Current Biology describing a new hypothesis for the origin of the turtle shell
Joined the faculty at the LSUHSC School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy