Former Postdoctoral Associates
Julie Winchester
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PhD institution: Stony Brook
Dates of affiliation: 2017 Funding: NSF grant BCS 1552848 Dr. Winchester came to Duke to develop computational workflows implementing new geometric algorithms for analyzing 3D digital models of anatomical structures. Her primary project was to optimize and enable analyses using a diffusion-based surface mapping and segmentation protocol called "Hecate". She also mentored and trained graduate and undergraduate students and contributed to the background research and experimental design of novel research in collaboration with Ingrid Daubechies group. After 8 months in a postdoctoral position Julie changed positions and became the lead developer and product manager of the MorphoSource.org digital repository. However, she continues to work on bioinformatic research with the Daubechies group and as a senior personnel on another NSF grant through the Division of Biological Infrastructure: DBI 1759839. |
Hesham Sallam
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PhD institution: Oxford
Dates of affiliation: 2015-2017 Funding: NSF grant BCS 1231288 and BCS 1552848 Dr. Sallam worked on mass digitization of Egyptian fossil collections held by the Duke Lemur Center Division of Fossil Primates and studied taxa and faunas from the these sites while in the Boyer lab at Duke. He currently directs the only academic program in vertebrate paleontology in Egypt at Mansura University. The program is vibrant with many students and lots of new exciting fossils. See the latest fossil discoveries and papers here: http://muvp.mans.edu.eg/ |
Lauren Gonzales
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PhD institution: Duke University (anthropology)
Dates of affiliation: 2015-2016 Funding: NSF grant BCS 1440742 Dr. Gonzales built on her dissertation work examining semicircular canal morphology adding data on Eocene primates while in the Boyer lab at Duke. She also helped develop field work projects in Southern and Central Wyoming as well as in Peru during this time. She is currently an assistant professor in the school of medicine of the University of South Carolina in Greenville. See the most update info on Lauren at her webpage here: http://laurengonzales.yolasite.com/ |
Judit Marigó
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PhD institution: Institut Catala de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP)
Dates of affiliation: 2013-2014 Funding: NSF grant BCS 1317525 Dr. Marigo described new postcranial material and studied comparative morphology of the small-bodied adapiform primate from Spain, Anchomomys frontanyensis while in the Boyer lab at Duke. In addition, she taught human gross anatomy for Duke's School of Medicine. She then studied humeral morphology of adapine fossil primates with Marc Godinot in Paris. Now she is a research scientist at the ICP in Spain. |
Elizabeth St. Clair
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PhD institution: Stony Brook University (IDPAS)
Dates of affiliation: 2013-2014 Funding: NSF grant BCS 1304045 Dr. St. Clair used digital imaging and 3d geometric morphometrics to assess causes of morphological disparity of primate teeth while in the Boyer lab at Duke. She is also a long time collaborator on paleontological research in the Crazy Mountains Basin. After Duke she became an instructor at Johns Hopkins in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution. You can find more information about her on her webpage: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/fae/EMS.html |
