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Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Engineering
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Professor, School Of Biological Sciences
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Adjunct Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology
Professional Service
- Museum of Natural History, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
Role: Invited Speaker, ,member of the Organizing Committee.
Paleophysiology Symposium, .
08/01/2023 - 10/23/2024
- American Physiological Society.
Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section of the American Physiological Society Section representative of the committee on committees.
02/01/2023 - present
- American Physiological Society.
Programming steering committee member.
02/01/2022 - present
- Biology Letters, A Journal of The Royal Society.
Editorial Board Member.
06/2018 - present
- Integrative Organismal Biology-A Journal of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Associate Editor.
06/2018 - 06/2020
- South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF).
External Evaluator.
01/2018 - 12/2018
- International Society of Vertebrate Morphology.
Scientific Program Committee Member.
05/2017 - 02/05/2022
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Direct Submission Editor.
01/2017 - 12/2017
- International Society of Vertebrate Morphology.
Executive Committee Member.
06/2016 - 06/2019
Internal Service
- Tenured Faculty Review Committee.
member,
01/01/2020 - 05/31/2020.
Department service.
- Alumni Relations and Development.
member,
08/20/2019 - 05/31/2020.
Other service.
- Honors Committee .
member,
08/20/2019 - 05/31/2020.
Department service.
- U Emerging Technology Steering Committee.
Member,
06/2018 - 05/2019.
University service.
- Graduate Admissions Committee.
Member,
06/2015 - 05/2016.
Department service.
- Aquatic Facilities Committee.
Member,
06/2014 - 05/2015.
Department service.
- Retention, Promotion and Tenure subcommittee.
Member,
06/2014 - 05/2015.
Department service.
- Animal Care/Facilities Committee, Outreach Committee.
Committee Member,
01/2011 - 06/2012.
University service.
Outreach
- ScienceDaily article about CJ Farmer - Blind students learn to think like scientists with revolutionary traveling toolboxes. ScienceDaily, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150106081620.htm.
01/06/2015 - present
- Farmer Lab Website
http://biologylabs.utah.edu/farmer/index.html.
01/01/2014 - present
Honors & Awards
- Best Paper Prize, Runner-up.
American Society of Anatomists,
12/01/2022
- Plenary Lecture Brazilian Federation of Experimental Societies and the Brazilian Physiology Society.
08/19/2019
- Plenary Lecture for the American Physiological Society Intersociety Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
American Physiological Society,
08/2018
- Plenary Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Canadian Society of Zoologists,
05/2017
- Keynote Lecture at the 38th Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
International Union of Physiological Sciences,
03/2017
- Selected for Faculty of 1000.
02/01/2014
- Plenary speaker for the 10th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Barcelona, Spain.
08/2013
- University of Utah Early Career Teaching Award.
University of Utah,
06/2013
- Recipient of the John R. Park Teaching Fellowship.
University of Utah,
01/2013
- CAREER Award.
National Science Foundation,
06/2011
- National Science Foundation Career Award.
NSF,
02/01/2011
- Advance Fellowship.
National Science Foundation,
02/01/2002
- Best Student Poster.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology,
01/10/1997
In the Media
- Freeman’s Biological Science 8e textbook. 2023 Pearson Education. Featured in the chapter “The Human Angle”. 02/09/2023.
- •Consultant on a BBC Radio and Podcast production called Hybrid that included coverage of my research results. BBC contacts are Emily Knight (Emily.Knight@bbc.co.uk) and Simon Watt (Simon Watt).
06/01/2021.
- University of Utah press release: https://www.newswise.com/articles/building-a-mobile-virtual-reality-classroom?ta=home
. 06/01/2021.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/building-a-mobil...
- • KUTV Salt Lake City covered new curriculum developed for BIOL 3665. One example can be found here: https://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=c20619cf-82ba-4dbb-8b99-562306bec6b1
. 06/01/2021.
https://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEd...
- • My research was covered in a new digital BBC series called Amaze Me with Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin. BBC contact for this production is Gemma Gilbride (gemma.gilbride@bbc.co.uk) of the BBC Natural History Unit. The program aired July 2021. 06/01/2021.
- • Consultant on a BBC Production called "Predators" that included coverage of my research. The program will air in 2022. BBC contacts for this production are Asher Flatt (asher.flatt@bbc.co.uk) and Stephen Gooder (stephen.gooder@bbc.co.uk).
06/01/2021.
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• Research profiled by NSF https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299787&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
. 08/01/2020.
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn...
- Panel participant in Word Education Services Career Conversations, West End Secondary School, 227 W 61st St, New York, NY 10023 https://www.wes.org. 08/01/2020.
- @theU. 12/16/2019.
https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/the-role-of-l...
- Coverage by National Geographic in August, 2019. 08/01/2019.
- Coverage by SuperScience scholastic . 03/01/2019.
https://superscience.scholastic.com/home-page-logg...
- Ornithology 4th ed., Gill and Prum, 2019, W. H. Freeman, MacMillan Learning, New York. 01/01/2019.
- science blog, https://scienceblog.com/505766/alligators-eat-rocks-to-increase-time-underwater/. 01/01/2019.
https://scienceblog.com/505766/alligators-eat-rock...
- Research covered in Science magazine . 01/01/2019.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/alligators...
- Coverage by ScienceDaily . 01/01/2019.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/1912...
- Research profiled by NSF . 01/01/2019.
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn...
- • My work is included in a permanent exhibition on the evolution of birds at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, Geowissenschaftliche Abteilung, Germany, and is features in a booklet that is made available to public schools in Germany. 01/30/2018.
- My research is featured in the textbook Biological Sciences, 73 by Scott Freeman, Michael Black, Emily Taylor, Kim Quillin, Lizabeth Allison. Pearson Education. 01/01/2018.
- Featured in I, Mammal by Liam Drew, 2017 Bloomsbury Publishing, London. 01/01/2017.
- Before It's News. 12/28/2016.
https://beforeitsnews.com/science-and-technology/2...
- ScienceDaily. 12/22/2016.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/1612...
- Bioengineering.org. 12/22/2016.
https://bioengineer.org/biologists-use-fossils-to-...
- Science Magazine. 12/22/2016.
https://scienmag.com/biologists-use-fossils-to-pin...
- UNews. 12/22/2016.
https://unews.utah.edu/biologists-follow-fossiliza...
- PhysOrg. 12/22/2016.
https://phys.org/news/2016-12-biologists-fossils-m...
- NewsWise. 12/21/2016.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/biologists-follo...
- Featured in an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. 01/01/2016.
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-among-u...
- • Featured in Wild Things: Slate’s animal blog Nov 17 10:15 AM 2015, . 11/17/2015.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things.html
- ScienceNews article about CJ Farmer - Chasing BREATH, Search for one-way airflow alters lung evolution story. ScienceNews 188(9):22-25. 10/31/2015.
- Science daily. 01/06/2015.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/1501...
- Featured in, Botched Bodies, How evolution shapes our health and is revolutionizing medicine. Author, Jeremy Taylor. Chicago University Press. 01/01/2015.
- Featured in: The 4.6 Billion Year Journey of Earth, AJA production, Tokyo, Japan. 07/01/2014.
- Spiegel Online Science. 12/16/2013.
https://farmer.biology.utah.edu/in%20the%20news/Mo...
- Salt Lake Tribune. 12/15/2013.
https://farmer.biology.utah.edu/in%20the%20news/Th...
- LiveScience. 12/11/2013.
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-among-u...
- I participated in the production of the documentary series, Origin of Heart Disease, by NHK, . 06/01/2013.
https://pf.nhk-ep.co.jp/detail/1766
- AFP. 01/01/2013.
https://farmer.biology.utah.edu/in%20the%20news/Fr...
- Article on my research was published Science et Vie (French monthly Science magazine) . 01/01/2013.
- The telegraph. 01/15/2010.
https://farmer.biology.utah.edu/in%20the%20news/Al...
- Science News 173(11). 09/30/2009.
https://doi.org/10.1002/scin.2008.5591731106
- Science News 170 (17). 09/25/2009.
https://doi.org/10.1002/scin.2008.5591731106
- I participated in the production of the documentary, "Inside Nature's Giants," a Windfall Films of London Production. The film aired in Europe in July 09 and in the US in November 2009. 06/06/2009.
- •I participated in the creation of a National Geographic film, "Croc World," which aired on the National Geographic Channel in 2009. 05/06/2009.
- ScienceDaily. 02/07/2008.
https://farmer.biology.utah.edu/in%20the%20news/Ga...
- Science News. 02/07/2008.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/0802...
- ScienceNews. 10/17/2006.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quirky-cardiol...
- Natural History. 04/04/2000.
http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/htmlsite/master.h...
- Nature News and Views. 09/18/1997.
https://farmer.biology.utah.edu/in%20the%20news.ht...