current members
Principal investigator
Dr. Adam Huttenlocker
Associate Professor of Integrative Anatomical Sciences
Growing up in the Hawaiian islands, I found that evidence of evolution is everywhere. I brought to the mainland my curiosity for science and natural history, and experienced the fossil-rich Rocky Mountains as a student at University of Colorado at Boulder. My travels continued during my Master's and PhD, exploring field sites across the western United States, the Transantarctic Mountains, and Africa. I'm currently an Associate Professor of Integrative Anatomical Sciences at USC where I teach anatomy to medical students. When I'm not training future anatomists and medical professionals or traveling for research, I'm probably hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains, birding, improving my guitar playing, casual gaming, and enjoying the great outdoors.
Email: huttenlo@usc.edu
Twitter: @dimetrodoc
Paul Byrne
PhD candidate (co-advised by David Bottjer, Luis Chiappe, Nathan Smith)
Collaborators
Students & lab alums
Alums & former advisees
Nick Schultz, 2019, USC Biological Sciences PhD (now faculty at Pasadena City College)
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris: Vivian de Buffrénil
Kyle Kato, 2019, USC Biological Sciences undergraduate
Yun-Hsin "Becky" Wu, 2022, USC Earth Sciences PhD (now NHMLA)
Paul is a PhD candidate in USC Earth Sciences. His dissertation research investigates the interactions between lung tissue and the internal structure of bone in the "pneumatized" skeletons of birds and some fossil non-avian archosaurs. He is building a large comparative database of pneumosteal tissues using a combination of histologic and 3D biomedical imaging techniques.
Jeremy Klingler, 2020, U of U Biological Sciences PhD (now faculty at Southwestern Oklahoma State University)
Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City: Randall Irmis, Carolyn Levitt-Bussian
Sorbonne Université, Paris: Jorge Cubo
Collège de France, Paris: Armand de Ricqlès
Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town: Claire Browning, Zaituna Skosan
Natural History Museum of LA County, Los Angeles: Luis Chiappe, Nathan Smith, Xiaoming Wang, Becky Wu
Evolutionary Studies Institute, Wits University, Johannesburg: Jennifer Botha, Bruce Rubidge, Roger Smith, Brandon Stuart *
California State University, San Bernardino; Stuart Sumida
The Field Museum, Chicago: Kenneth Angielczyk, Jason Pardo, Pia Viglietti
Cape Breton University, Sydney: Sean Modesto
Texas Tech University, Lubbock: Sankar Chatterjee, Bryan Small
DJ Oh, 2019, USC Biological Sciences undergraduate (now at UCLA)
Idaho State University Museum, Pocatello: Brandon Peecook, Xavier Jenkins *
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh: David S Berman, Amy Henrici
Louisiana State University, New Orleans: Emma Schachner
University of Calgary: Jason Anderson, Charles Henderson
McKenzi Yocus, M.D., 2016 (M.D., University of Utah School of Medicine)
University of Southern California, Dornsife College, Los Angeles: David Bottjer, Trond Sigurdsen, Matthew Dean, Craig Stanford
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles: Tea Jashashvili, Biren Patel
University of Utah School of Biological Science, Salt Lake City: David Carrier, Colleen Farmer
University of Washington Burke Museum, Seattle: Christian Sidor
* student collaborator
Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona: Elizabeth Rega
Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City: Jim Kirkland
University of California, Berkeley: Kevin Padian
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Josh Feinberg, Jonathan Stine
Yuen-Ting "Athena" Tse
PhD student
Athena is a PhD student in USC's Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences. She received her BS from University of Washington and MSc from Ohio State University. She is broadly interested in cranio-dental ecomorphology in mammals and their extinct synapsid forebears.
Matthew Crane, M.D., 2019, USC Biological Sciences undergraduate (M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Neven Bowler, 2022, USC Biological Sciences undergraduate
University of Oklahoma & Sam Noble Museum of Natural History: Jacqueline Lungmus
University of Chicago: Zhe-Xi Luo, Jacqueline Lungmus*