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

  • Cieri, R. L., Turner, M. L., Carney, R. M., Falkingham, P. L., Kirk, A. M., Wang, T., Jensen, B., Novotny, J., Tveite, J., Gatesy, S. M., Laidlaw, D. H., Kaplan, H., Moorman, A. F. M., *Howell, M., *Engel, B., *Cruz, C., *Smith, A., *Gerichs, W., *Lian, Y., Schultz, J., Farmer, C. G. 2021. Virtual and augmented reality: New tools for visualizing, analyzing, and communicating complex morphology. Journal of Morphology, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21421. Published, 08/27/2021.
  • Schachner, E.R. & B.P. Hedrick, H.A. Richbourg, J.R. Hutchinson, C.G. Farmer. (2020). Anatomy, ontogeny, and evolution of the archosaurian respiratory system: a case study on Alligator mississippiensis and Struthio camelus. Journal of Anatomy. Published, 12/01/2020.
  • Farmer, CG (2020). Linking Structure and Function in the Vertebrate Respiratory System: A Tribute to August Krogh. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A. Vol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa. Published, 12/01/2020.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2020.110892
  • Gillich, A., F. Zhang, C.G. Farmer, M. Gu, M.A. Krasnow, R. J. Metzger. 2020 Capillary cell type specialization in the alveolus revealed by single cell analysis. Nature: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2822-7. Published, 10/14/2020.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2822-7
  • Gillich, A. & Zhang, C.G. Farmer, M. Gu, M.A. Krasnow, R. J. Metzger. (2020). Capillary cell type specialization in the alveolus revealed by single cell analysis. Nature. Vol. 586, 785-789. Published, 10/14/2020.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2822-7
  • Farmer, CG (2020). Parental Care, Destabilizing Selection, and the Evolution of Tetrapod Endothermy. Physiology. Vol. 35, 160-176. Published, 01/15/2020.
  • Cieri, B. CG Farmer (2019). Computational fluid dynamics reveals a unique net unidirectional pulmonary airflow pattern in savannah monitor lizards (Varanus exanthematicus) (cover). Anatomical Record. Vol. 303(7), 1768-1791. Published, 12/02/2019.
  • Uriona, T.J., M. Lyon, C.G. Farmer. (2019). Lithophagy prolongs voluntary dives in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). Integrative Organismal Biology. Vol. 1. Published, 01/01/2019.
  • Summers, A.P., R.W.Blob, M.A. Butler, C.G. Farmer, C.A. Fassbinder-Orth, L.P. Hernandes, I.T. Moore (2019). Integrative Organismal Biology-A Journal We Want and Need. Integrative Organismal Biology 1. Vol. 1, 1. Published, 01/01/2019.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/oby005
  • Huttenlocker, A & C.G. Farmer (2017). Bone microvasculature tracks red blood cell size diminution in Triassic mammal and dinosaur forerunners. Current Biology. Vol. 27, 48-54. Published, 05/2017.
  • Farmer, C.G. (2017). Pulmonary Transformations of Vertebrates. Pp 99-112. In, The Biology of the Avian Respiratory System: Evolution, Development, Structure and Function. . J. Maina, editor. Springer. Published, 04/2017.
  • A lizard that generates heat. Nature 529(7587):470-472. Published, 01/28/2016.
  • Unidirectional flow in lizard lungs: a paradigm shift in our understanding of lung evolution in Diapsida. Zoology 118(5):299-301 doi:10.1016/j.zool.2015.06.001. Published, 10/2015.
  • Similarity of the crocodilian and avian lungs indicates unidirectional flow is ancestral for archosaurs. Integrative and Comparative Biology 55(6)962-971. (cover) doi:10.1093/icb/icv078. Published, 07/2015.
  • The evolution of unidirectional pulmonary airflow. Physiology 30(4):260-272. Published, 07/2015.
  • Functional morphology of the Alligator mississippiensis larynx with implications for vocal production. Journal of Experimental Biology 218:991-998. Published, 04/2015.
  • Cieri, R., Craven, B., Schachner, E., Farmer, CG. 2014. New insight into the evolution of the vertebrate respiratory system and the discovery of unidirectional airflow in iguanan lungs. PNAS 111 (48) 17218-17223. Published, 11/01/2014.
  • Schachner, E.R., Cieri, R. Butler, J., Farmer, CG. 2014. Unidirectional pulmonary airflow patterns in the savannah monitor lizard. Nature 506: 367-370. Published, 01/30/2014.
  • Farmer, CG and K Sanders. 2010. Unidirectional airflow in the lungs of alligators. Science. 327:338-340. Published, 11/01/2010.
  • Farmer, CG (2006). Destabilizing Selection, Parental Care and the Evolution of Tetrapod Endothermy. Physiology. Vol. 35(3), 160-176. Published, 04/15/2006.

Presentations

  • Control of Breathing and Airway Defense, Global online seminar series hosted by University of Florida Breathing Research and Therapeutics Center. FL, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/12/2023.
  • Symposium, Experimental Biology, Philadelphia USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/22/2022.
  • Symposium: International Congress of Ornithology. Beyond the Pectoralis, Durban, South Africa. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/16/2022.
  • School of Biology, University of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/10/2022.
  • Department of Bioengineering Elevated Talks. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/11/2021.
  • Department of Zoology, University of California Berkeley. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/05/2020.
  • Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/11/2019.
  • Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Frazer University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/04/2019.
  • Plenary Lecture for the Brazilian Federation of Experimental Societies and the Brazilian Physiology Society. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/19/2019.
  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/14/2019.
  • Informal Seminar, Invitation by Manu Prakesh, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/11/2019.
  • Symposium talk at the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology. Prague, Czech Republic. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/04/2019.
  • Invited Seminar - Human Performance Wing, United States Airforce, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2018.
  • Symposium Speaker at the 80th Birthday Celebration of Professor Roy Weber, Sandbjorg, Denmark, Symposium entitled: Oxygen . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2018.
  • Plenary Lecture at the American Physiological Society Intersociety Meeting in Comparative Physiology. New Orleans, Louisiana. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2018.
  • Invited Seminar - Department of Biosciences, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2018.
  • Invited Seminar - Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Brigham Young University, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2018.
  • Brown University, Zeitschrift for Christine Janis. Providence RI. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2017.
  • LOC Plenary Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Symposium entitled: The Present as a Window to the Past. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/2017.
  • Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/2017.
  • Student Invited Speaker, Department of Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2017.
  • Department of Biology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2017.
  • Keynote lecture at the 3rd Annual European Croc Networking meeting, Denmark. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2017.
  • Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman Argentina. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2017.
  • Keynote lecture at the 38th Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/2017.
  • Science Night Live Lecture Series. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2016.
  • International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology. Symposium: New insight into the functional relationship between anatomy and physiology of extinct and extant vertebrates. Washington DC, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2016.
  • Department of Zoology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2016.
  • Invited Seminar - Office of Comparative Medicine, University of Utah, SLC, UT, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2015.
  • Invited Seminar - Royal Veterinary College, University of London, England. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/2015.
  • Keynote speaker for the annual meeting of the Utah Friends of Paleontology. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2015.
  • Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, England. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2015.
  • Invited Seminar - Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, England. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2015.
  • Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology, Symposium: Integrative Biology of the Crocodilia, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2015.
  • Experimental Biology, Joint meeting of the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology and American Association of Anatomists, Symposium: The Evolutionary Tapestry of Vertebrate Morphology and Locomotion. Boston Massachusetts, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2015.
  • Annual meeting of the Utah Friends of Paleontology. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2015.
  • Invited Seminar - Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/2015.
  • Center for High Performance Computing, University of Utah, SLC, UT, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2014.
  • Pulmonary Division, Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, SLC, UT USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2014.
  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/2014.
  • Plenary speaker for the 10th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Barcelona, Spain. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2013.
  • Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Boston USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2013.
  • University of Aarhus, Denmark. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2013.
  • Brown University, Providence RI, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2013.
  • Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Boston USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2013.
  • University of Utah, Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2013.
  • Invited Seminar - California State Northridge, Department of Biology, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2012.
  • Invited Seminar - University of Utah, Department of Bioengineering, Salt Lake City, Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2012.
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2011.
  • Royal Veterinary College, University of London, England. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2011.
  • Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2011.
  • University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2011.
  • University of Bern, Institute of Anatomy, Bern, Switzerland. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/2011.
  • Symposium: "Control of Breathing in Reptiles." International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry. Nagoya, Japan. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2011.
  • Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2011.
  • Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, England. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2011.
  • University of Utah, Depart of Chemistry Program for High School Students, SLC, UT, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2009.
  • University of Utah, Depart of Physics, Laboratory of Brian Saam, SLC, UT, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2009.
  • Symposium on the Evolution of the blood-gas barrier of the lung. 2nd International Congress of Respiratory Science. Bonn, Germany. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2009.
  • University of British Columbia, Depart of Zoology, Vancouver, Canada. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2009.