Participating Faculty & Research Units
Keck School of Medicine
Kristian Carlson, PhD
​Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences
Research interests: hominin biomechanics & bone adaptation
kristian.carlson@usc.edu
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Cheng-Ming Chuong, MD, PhD
​Professor, Department of Pathology
Research interests: dermal tissue evo-devo, evolution of feathers & teeth
cmchuong@usc.edu
Adam Huttenlocker, PhD
Principal Investigator, USC Paleosciences Research Consortium
Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences
Research interests: origins of mammals, bone histology & paleophysiology
huttenlo@usc.edu
Tea Jashashvili, MD, PhD
Myra Laird, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences
Research interests: primate craniodental morphology, feeding mechanics
Kristi L. Lewton, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences
Research interests: primate locomotion, biomechanics
Francesca Mariani, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Research interests: bone development, repair
fmariani@usc.edu
Biren A. Patel, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences
Research interests: paleoanthropology; primate forelimb function
birenpat@usc.edu
Erik Seiffert, PhD
Professor, Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences
Research interests: placental mammal evolution
seiffert@usc.edu
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Christopher Boehm, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Research interests: behavioral anthropology
David Bottjer, PhD
Co-PI, USC Paleosciences Research Consortium
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
Research interests: marine ecology, paleogenomics, mass extinctions
dbottjer@usc.edu
Frank Corsetti, PhD
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
Research interests: geobiology, early life
fcorsett@usc.edu
Matthew Dean, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Research interests: reproductive biology, sexual selection, evolution of the baculum
Sarah Feakins, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
Research interests: biogeochemistry, climate change
feakins@usc.edu
David Raichlen, PhD
Professor of Biological Sciences
Research interests: human evolution, energetics, physical activity
Trond Sigurdsen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Research interests: tetrapod phylogenetics, functional anatomy
Craig Stanford, PhD
Co-PI, USC Paleosciences Research Consortium
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Research interests: primate behavioral ecology
stanford@usc.edu
Natural History Museum of
Los Angeles County
Luis Chiappe, PhD
Director, Dinosaur Institute
Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, USC
Research interests: dinosaur paleontology, bird origins
chiappe@nhm.org
Michael Habib, PhD
Research Associate, Dinosaur Institute
Research interests: pterosaurs, flight mechanics, fluid dynamics
Emily Lindsey, PhD
Assistant Curator & Excavation Site Director, La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
Research interests: Ice Age mammal paleontology
elindsey@tarpits.org
Nathan D. Smith, PhD
Co-PI, USC Paleosciences Research Consortium
Associate Curator of the Dinosaur Institute
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
Research interests: dinosaur paleontology
nsmith@nhm.org
Jorge Velez-Juarbe, PhD
Associate Curator of Mammalogy
Research interests: morphology & systematics of marine mammals
Jann Vendetti, PhD
Twila Bratcher Chair in Malacological Research
Research interests: evolutionary biology of gastropods
Xiaoming Wang, PhD
Curator, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth Sciences & Biological Sciences, USC
Research interests: Tibetan mammal paleontology
xwang@nhm.org
Affiliated Researchers
William Chang, PhD
Pathology
Hans Harn, PhD
Pathology
Masa Inaba, PhD
Pathology
Ya Cheng Liang, PhD
Pathology
Ellie McNutt, PhD
Integrative Anatomical Sciences
