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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2014

 

Oviraptorosaur (Anzu wyliei) research covered world wide by various news organizations 

 

Publication of a new species of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur in the open access journal PLoS One with colleages at the Carnegie Museum and the Smithsonian Institution

 

Joining the lab of Dr. Mandi Lopez at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine in May of 2014

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2013

 

Monitor lizard work is covered by national and international news organizations including Nature News, National Geographic , Scientific American, The Salt Lake Tribune, and Yahoo news

 

Publication of monitor lizard 'uniflow' research in Nature, and makes the front page of the website

 

Publication in PeerJ makes the front page of the website.

 

Oral presentation at the Experimental Biology meeting in Boston on turtle lung morphology