Christy Anna Hipsley
Associate Professor, Assistant Professor
My research uses integrative techniques to reconstruct morphological transformations in the 500-million year history of vertebrate life, including bioinformatic, molecular, ecological, paleoclimatic and morphological approaches. In particular, I use X-ray computed tomography, or CT, to generate three-dimensional models of fossil and living organisms for comparison in an evolutionary framework, often using geometric morphometrics. I currently apply these methods to diverse groups such as primates, canids, marine mammals, marsupials, turtles and other reptiles, with the goal of understanding how Cenozoic climate change has shaped morphological and taxonomic variation, and to identify the contexts under which biodiversity is generated and destroyed.
Primary fields of research
Evolutionary biology
Vertebrate paleontology
Herpetology
Phenotypic convergence
3D shape analysis
Teaching
Evolutionary Ecology
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First evidence of convergent lifestyle signal in reptile skull roof microanatomy
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Genome of the Tasmanian tiger provides insights into the evolution and demography of an extinct marsupial carnivore
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Postnatal development in a marsupial model, the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata; Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae)
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