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RANDALL B IRMIS
Professor, Geology & Geophysics
Curator of Paleontology, University of Utah, Natural History Museum of Utah
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CG FARMER
Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Professor, School Of Biological Sciences
Adjunct Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Utah
Research Summary: I study multiple facets of vertebrate evolution, focusing on metabolism. My research is at the interface of biology, physics, engineering, and paleontology. My team uses cutting edge medical technologies and a wide range of laboratory and field methodologies to address questions of major vertebrate transitions.
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Anton Franz-Josef Wroblewski
Adjunct Associate Professor, Geology & Geophysics
Research Summary: I am working on several projects, but I am not taking on students because I am in an adjunct position and have no funding available and cannot supervise student projects.
I am a clastic sedimentologist and stratigrapher with an interest in ichnology, vertebrate paleontology, and paleoecology. I work in fluvial and shallow marine deposits worldwide in core, outcrop, seismic, and well log, in addition to studying modern clastic and carbonate environments.
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MARK A LOEWEN
Professor (Lecturer), Geology & Geophysics
Research Summary: Mark Loewen is a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Utah. He specializes in research on Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaurs with an emphasis on the taxonomy, evolution and biogeography of meat eating, armored and horned dinosaurs. These include Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Ankylosaurus and Triceratops. Along with colleagues he has named 13 dinosaurs including Lythronax, Kosmoceratops, Utahceratops and Seitaad.
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Tyler Faith
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Chief Curator, Natural History Museum of Utah
Research Summary: My research addresses the relationships between Quaternary mammals, environmental change, and human-environment interactions, with an emphasis on the African record. To explore these relationships, I study vertebrate remains from paleontological and archaeological sites. My approach to the fossil record draws on paleoecological and zooarchaeological techniques.
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BRYN TM DENTINGER
Associate Professor, School Of Biological Sciences
Curator of Mycology, Natural History Museum of Utah
Research Summary: My lab studies fungal diversity using collections-based research, integrating fieldwork and molecular data to discover and understand the awesome and often weird world of Fungi. We routinely employ DNA barcoding to identify fungi collected from all over the world. More recently, genome sequencing has become standard practice for phylogenetic inference, metagenomic discovery in complex samples, and comparative approaches to elucidate natural product biosynthesis and genome evolution.