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We'd like to officially welcome our new postdoc Gregoire Boulinguez-Ambroise, PhD to the Animal Locomotion Lab. We look forward to many exciting moments ahead!
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The Animal Locomotion Lab will like to welcome our new postdoc, Mayowa Adegboyega.
Dr. Adegboyega uses geometric morphometrics to study the evolution and functional anatomy of the human pelvis. She completed her doctorate at the University of California, Davis working with Dr. Timothy Weaver.  First year (MS1) medical student Nathan Luzum chronicles his experience in the Anatomy lab for the Duke Chronicle
The Animal Locomotion Lab is glad to welcome two new postdocs Madelyn Crowell and Sarah Little.
Dr. Madelyn Crowell studies the bone density of semiaquatic mammals and how that may correlate with ecological niche and feeding behaviors. Dr. Sarah Little investigates bone loading and biomechanics in humans and osteoimmune regulation of bone mass acquisition during development using rodent models. Two new postdoctoral researchers, Lauren Sarringhaus and Blake Dickson, are joining the Animal Locomotion Lab in 2020.
Dr. Sarringhaus researches ontogenetic change in the skeletons of great apes. She completed her doctorate at the University of Michigan working with Dr. Laura MacClatchy and Dr. John Mitani. Dr. Dickson uses quantitative methods to investigate the transition from aquatic to terrestrial locomotion in early tetrapods. He completed his doctorate at Harvard University working with Dr. Stephanie Pierce. ALL members Daniel Schmitt, Gabriel Yapuncich, and Angel Zeininger, along with fellow Duke Evolutionary Anthropology faculty member Doug Boyer, were awarded an NSF grant to investigate leaping performance in primates. The research will take place at the Duke Lemur Center and the Cleveland Zoo and will be done in collaboration with faculty at the Northeast Ohio Medical University.
 Angel Zeininger and Daniel Schmitt appeared in a news segment on their development of locomotion in chimpanzees and gorillas research at the North Carolina Zoo.
 Undergraduate, Noor Tasnim, presented a poster at the Duke Global Health Institute. His research on foot shape and pedal biomechanics in rural Madagascar was featured as a student spotlight.
 Daniel Schmitt and Jandy Hanna's work on the biomechanics of primate climbing was featured in the National Geographic show, "Going Deep with David Rees: How to climb a Tree."
In this video, Tracy Kivell discusses her work on the evolution of knuckle-walking. This collaborative research with Daniel Schmitt was also featured by Live Science, Science Daily and National Geographic.
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