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Kristina Aldridge
Assistant Professor
PhD, 2004, Johns Hopkins University
office: M309 Medical Sciences Building DC055.07
phone: 573-882-8910
fax: 573-882-4612
email: aldridgek@missouri.edu
web: http://web.missouri.edu/~aldridgek/
interests: craniofacial development, evolution, and integration; neuroanatomy; neurodevelopmental disorders

Douglas C. Anthony
Professor, Chair
MD, PhD, Duke University
office: Medical Sciences Building DC055.07
phone: 573-882-1205
fax: 573-882-4612
email: anthonydc@missouri.edu

Russell T. Hogg
Lecturer
ABD, City University of New York
office: M172 Med Sci. Bldg.
phone: 573-884-2361
email: hoggr@health.missouri.edu
interests: evolution of growth and physiology as evidenced in hard tissue microstructure

Casey M. Holliday
Assistant Professor
PhD, 2006, Ohio University
office: 318 Medical Sciences building
phone: 573-884-6599
fax: 573-882-4612
email: hollidayca@missouri.edu
web: web.missouri.edu/~hollidayca/
interests: evolutionary and functional morphology of the reptilian skull; feeding mechanics; paleoecology; lepidosaurs; crocodyliforms; dinosaurs; adaptive plasticity; connective tissue biology

William J. Krause
Professor
PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia
office: M312 Medical School
phone: 573-882-2288
fax: 573-882-4612
email: krausew@health.missouri.edu
web: web.missouri.edu/~krausew/
interests: factors involved with the healing of gastric and duodenal ulcers, mechanisms controlling duodenal (Brunner's) gland secretion, expression and function of guanylin/uroguanylin and its receptor, development of tissues and organs in the opossum (Didelphis virginiana), mechanisms of sperm pairing in the opossum,development of web based educational resources.

Robert K. McAfee
Assistant Teaching Professor
PhD, Northern Illinois University
office: M102 Medical Sciences Building
phone: 573-884-8938
fax: 573-882-4612
email: mcafeerk@missouri.edu
web: www.sloth-world.org
interests: sloths, armadillos, anteaters, vertebrate paleontology, functional morphology, comparative anatomy

Tara A. Peburn
Lecturer
MS, ABD, CUNY & the New Yok Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
office: M170 Medical Sciences Building
phone: 573-882-1205
fax: 573-882-4612
email: peburnt@missouri.edu
interests: the impact of ecology, growth/development and behavior on the structural and functional variation in primate/human cranial morphology; skeletal biology; homoplasy; papionin monkeys; geometric morphometrics

Matthew J. Ravosa
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
PhD, 1989, Northwestern University
office: M303 Medical Sciences Building DC055.07
phone: 573-884-7303
fax: 573-882-4612
email: ravosam@missouri.edu
interests: evolutionary morphology of the mammalian skull, experimental biology, circumorbital region, masticatory apparatus, craniofacial integration, allometry/scaling, ontogeny/aging, ecogeographic variation, morphometrics.

M. Sharon Stack
Professor, Vice Chair for Research
PhD, 1989, University of Louisville
office: Medical Sciences Building DC055.07
phone: 573-882-2288
fax: 573-882-4612
email: stackm@missouri.edu
web: www.stackscientific.com
interests: extracellular matrix proteins, enzymology, matrix metalloproteinases, integrins, ovarian and oral cancer, connective tissue biology.

Carol Ward
Professor
PhD, 1991, Johns Hopkins University
office: M308 Medical Sciences Building DC055.07
phone: 573-882-0858 (office) 573-882-8909 (lab)
fax: 573-882-4612
email: wardcv@missouri.edu
web: web.missouri.edu/~wardcv/
interests: paleoanthropology, Miocene hominoids, Australopithecus, evolution of ape and human locomotion, orthopaedic spinal mechanics, evolution of human intelligence.

Department of Pathology & Anatomical Sciences | School of Medicine | University of Missouri-Columbia

copyright © 2006 The Curators of the University of Missouri | an equal opportunity/ADA institution
anatomy image credits: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus: Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani
courtesy National Library of Medicine Historical Anatomies on the Web

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