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 explored 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 southern 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 & COAUTHORS
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)
Petrified Forest National Park: Adam Marsh
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, Yun-Hsin Wu
Evolutionary Studies Institute, Wits University, Johannesburg: Jennifer Botha, Luke Norton, Bruce Rubidge, Roger Smith, Brandon Stuart *
California State University, San Bernardino: Stuart Sumida
The Field Museum, Chicago: Kenneth Angielczyk, Jason Pardo, Pia Viglietti
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
KU Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum, Lawrence: Lindsay Walker
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
Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City: Jim Kirkland
University of California, Berkeley: Kevin Padian, Charles Marshall, James Pinto *
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Josh Feinberg, Jonathan Stine
Yuen Ting "Athena" Tse
PhD student
Yuen Ting 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, Caroline Abbott *
Megan Sodano
PhD student (incoming 2024)
Megan is a PhD student in USC's Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences. She received her BS in Paleobiology from Virginia Tech. She is interested in investigating the relationship between behavior and the bony trabecular architecture of distal phalanges, and comparing the function of the distal phalanges across different tetrapod clades.
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg: Sterling Nesbitt, Michelle Stocker
Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City: Randall Irmis, Carolyn Levitt-Bussian
Louisiana State University, New Orleans: Emma Schachner
Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona: Elizabeth Rega
James Pinto
PhD student (incoming 2024) (co-advised by David Bottjer)
James is a PhD student in USC Earth Sciences. He earned his BA in Integrative Biology and Geology at UC Berkeley. He studies how sexual selection shapes trait evolution in vertebrates, focusing on amniotes. His research includes studying sexual dimorphism in ancient mammals and comparing display traits across different amniote groups.
* student collaborator