EDUCATION:

MA Biological Anthropology, Penn State, 2005

BA French, Wellesley College, 1999

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS:

I am currently working on a project with Kat Willmore and Joan Richtsmeier to quantify craniofacial form in a sample of modern human children described as microcephalic. I presented this work recently at the 2008 meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Columbus.     Abstract     Presentation Slides

Another of my primary areas of research is to examine and quantify changes in craniofacial morphology associated with species-level dwarfing in mammals. I am interested in large-scale evolutionary trends, and evolution within Primates, in particular.

Click here to check out the Richtsmeier Lab, where I spend most of my days.

     

From left: Satama Sirivunnabood, Chris Percival, Cheryl Hill, Joan Richtsmeier, John Starbuck, me, Kat Willmore

AWARDS:

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005-2008

Research & Graduate Studies Office (RGSO) Dissertation Support Grant, Penn State, 2008

Hill Foundation Dissertation Support Grant, Penn State, 2008

University Fellowship, Penn State, 2003-2004

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

2008   Frazier BC, Mooney MP, Losken HW, Barbano T, Moursi A, Siegel MI, Richtsmeier JT.   Comparison of craniofacial phenotype in craniosynostotic rabbits treated with anti-Tgf-ß2 at suturectomy site. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. (in press)  

2007   von Cramon-Taubadel N, Frazier BC, Mirazón Lahr M. The Problem of Assessing Landmark Error in Geometric Morphometrics: Methods and Modifications. Amer J Phys Anthropol 134(1):24-35.    PDF