UChicago || Postdoctoral Researcher, Tsegai Lab || paleo(han)thropologist studying the evolution of the hominin shoulder girdle - and now I work on feet too!
Joined June 2019
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17 Mar 2025
My last paper may have left you wondering, “What about the #trabecularbone?”
Well don't you worry, "Locomotor signals in the trabecular structure of the hominoid clavicle" is out in @JournalofAnat! #OpenAccess 🦴💪
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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6/ What we did find is that muscle activity influences clavicular trabecular structure across all apes, offering fresh insights into early hominin locomotion and shoulder use. 🦧
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7/ Huge shoutout to my amazing undergraduate coauthor, Rena! Also, big thanks to my postdoc advisor @ZewdiT, and my funding sources @NSF, @TheLeakeyFndtn, and @UChicago for their support 🎉
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5 Mar 2025
Excited to share my first paper is out in #JHE! Big thanks to my co-author Zeray, funding from @UChicago, @TheLeakeyFndtn, and @NSF! We explore how the cross-sectional geometry of the ape clavicle through ontogeny reflects their locomotor behaviors 🦍🦧🧵sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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4/ Despite gibbon clavicles being built for unidirectional bending and orangutan clavicles remodeling to resist multidirectional loading, their cortical geometry along anatomical axes (Ix/Iy) shows similar trends, reflecting their shared suspensory behaviors.🌱💪
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5/ These findings highlight the importance of the clavicle in understanding the locomotor evolution of early hominins, especially Australopithecus. (stay tuned for more on this very soon!!) 🦴✨
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30 Sep 2024
The first chapter of my dissertation is out in
@J_Exp_Biol! We applied load path analysis to better understand mandible form and function. journals.biologists.com/jeb/… (1/n)
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2 May 2024
Thesis defended and I got to share this amazing moment with my family - I couldn’t be more grateful! #PhDone
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17 Apr 2024
UCPD found this puppy in a @UChicago parking garage at 6054 S. Drexel and are trying to help reunite him with his humans! If this is your puppy or you know whose puppy it is, please contact UCPD at 773.702.8181. He’s very friendly and staying with UCPD at 850 E. 61st Street.
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19 Sep 2023
happening in a little over a week! for prospective students thinking about applying to this program and/or elsewhere. faculty: please share with students in your courses, lab etc
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14 Sep 2023
Huge congratulations to Slater Lab and @UChicagoBSD grad student @AlexaWimberly on the #OpenScience publication of her first diss. chapter. Read all about predicting ruminant body mass from post-cranial bones here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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19 Apr 2023
Are you attending #AABA2023 this week? Are you interested in methods for studying form-function relationships in-vivo? Or in living organisms as a model for fossils? Come check out my talk on some methods development work from my dissertation at 10 am tomorrow in Tuscany 1!
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1 Apr 2023
Starting #MidwestSICB @UChicago off with a bang! Thanks to @NeilShubin for a fantastic opening talk and to everyone who came for braving the thunderstorm!
I can’t wait for tomorrow!
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