CG FARMER portrait
  • Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Professor, School Of Biological Sciences
  • Adjunct Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology
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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

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