Current visiting post-docs:
Dr Eline Schotsmans, University of Wollongong, University of Bordeaux (bone histology as part of Eline's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global - Horizon 2020 project with AFTER - Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research)
Dr Anne Marie E. Snoddy, University of Otago (dental and bone histology as part of our Marsden Grant)
Current research students:
Lauren Richards (Masters) Bone health and social inequality
Madeleine Green (PhD, Chair) Hominin fossil histology and behaviour
Karen Cooke (PhD, Chair) Histopathology of treponemal disease in archaeological human bone (Australian Government RTP Scholarship)
Tahlia Stewart (PhD, Chair) The effect of different dietary regimes on human bone physiology (Australian Government RTP Scholarship)
Chelsea Morgan (PhD, Chair) Bioarchaeology of sex and gender (Australian Government RTP Scholarship)
Supervisory panel member:
Pau Basilia (PhD) Examining insular dwarfism in SEA Stegodon sp. fossils (Griffith University)
Lauren Meckel (PhD) Health of Irish Famine victims (University of Otago)
Nicole Macfarlane (PhD) The effects of differing water types on the decomposition of bone in aquatic contexts (ANU)
Completed student projects:
2021 Madeleine Fleming (MPhil) Investigation of type 2 diabetic trabecular compensation in femoral bone of the NOD·B10 foz/foz mouse (co-supervisor at JCSMR)
2019 Hannah Miles (Masters) Osteocyte lacunae morphology in medieval human bone
2019 Nathalia Dias Guimaraes (Masters) Human Palaeohistology at Santana Do Riacho (now consulting bioarchaeologist)
2019 Meg Walker (Masters) Ancient human behaviour and ancestry in Holocene northern Vietnam
2019 Kate Phillips (Masters) Sex, age, and physical activity and bone maintenance and loss (now medical student at ANU)
2019 Sarah Robertson (PhD) Differential diagnosis of cribra orbitalia at Christ Church Spitalfields via micro-CT (now consulting archaeologist)
2018 Tara Mann (Honours) Tibia vara and obesity
2018 Diana Tieppo (Masters) Sex-specific bone microstructure of the midshaft femur (now RA at Victorian Institute for Forensic Medicine)
2018 Danielle Rosenquist (Masters) Remodelling in the phalanges of the hands and the feet
2017 Coco James (Masters) Femoral muscle markings and endosteal cortex bone remodelling (now works in forensics for the AFP)
2017 Stephanie Robinson (Masters) Chalcolithic Wedge Tombs and an Iron Age Burial (now PhD student at College Cork)
2017 Bronwyn Wyatt (Masters) Health and disease in prehistoric Indonesia (now PhD student at ANU)
2017 Claire Rider (Masters) Hip joint pathology and lower limb skeletal adaptation (now Government public servant in Canberra)
2016 Natasha Langley (Masters) The effects of experimental burning on Sus scrofa enamel
2016 Ashley Bridge (Masters) Stature in forensics using Australian anthropometric data
2014 Rosie Pitfield (Masters) Histomorphometry in the human humerus during ontogeny (co-supervisor, University of Kent) (did a PhD & post-doc in the UK, now Associate Medical Writer in the US)
Undergraduate (UG) & graduate (PG) shorter projects:
2021 Charlotte March (PG) TBC
2020 Oyundari Batbayar (PG) Dental health in prehistoric Indonesia
2020 Alex Isaac (PG) Linear enamel hypoplasia and enamel secretion rates
2019 Bryce Campbell (PG) Fossil crocodile tooth histology through time in Australia
2019 Elizabeth Drew (UG) Relationship between osteocyte lacuna shape and osteocyte function (now medical student at ANU)
2018 Annie Backshall (PG) The relationship of posterior human palate morphology to ancestral origin
2018 Meg Walker (PG) Palaeohistology of wombat humerus (went onto Masters research in my lab)
2018 Gabrielle Smith (UG) Biorhythms in human hard tissues (now PhD student in evolutionary biology at ANU)
2018 Bonnie Taylor (UG) "Giant" secondary osteons (now PhD student in bioarchaeology at ANU)
2018 Josephine Tucker (UG) Investigating anaemia in archaeological human populations
2017 Sian McInnes (PG) Intra-observer error in recording entheseal changes
2017 Kate Phillips (PG) Osteon population density and determine anatomical location of human femur (now medicine student at ANU)
2017 Brendan Bayliss (PG) Inferring behaviour from femoral robusticity and diaphyseal measures
2016 Tahlia Stewart (PG) Skeletal growth rates in archaeological humans (now PhD student in my lab)
2016 Amy-Marie Beugelsdyk (PG) Osteon circularity in ancient human cortical bone
2016 Meg Walker (UG) Human paleophysiology in Medieval England (went onto Masters research in my lab)
2016 Tara Mann (UG) Reading between the lines: The aetiology of the Harris line (went onto Honours research in my lab)
Australian Academy of Science Internships:
2017 Daisy Wang Policy position in science
2017 Tegan Cassell Animals in research: A researcher's guideline to communication
Dr Eline Schotsmans, University of Wollongong, University of Bordeaux (bone histology as part of Eline's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global - Horizon 2020 project with AFTER - Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research)
Dr Anne Marie E. Snoddy, University of Otago (dental and bone histology as part of our Marsden Grant)
Current research students:
Lauren Richards (Masters) Bone health and social inequality
Madeleine Green (PhD, Chair) Hominin fossil histology and behaviour
Karen Cooke (PhD, Chair) Histopathology of treponemal disease in archaeological human bone (Australian Government RTP Scholarship)
Tahlia Stewart (PhD, Chair) The effect of different dietary regimes on human bone physiology (Australian Government RTP Scholarship)
Chelsea Morgan (PhD, Chair) Bioarchaeology of sex and gender (Australian Government RTP Scholarship)
Supervisory panel member:
Pau Basilia (PhD) Examining insular dwarfism in SEA Stegodon sp. fossils (Griffith University)
Lauren Meckel (PhD) Health of Irish Famine victims (University of Otago)
Nicole Macfarlane (PhD) The effects of differing water types on the decomposition of bone in aquatic contexts (ANU)
Completed student projects:
2021 Madeleine Fleming (MPhil) Investigation of type 2 diabetic trabecular compensation in femoral bone of the NOD·B10 foz/foz mouse (co-supervisor at JCSMR)
2019 Hannah Miles (Masters) Osteocyte lacunae morphology in medieval human bone
2019 Nathalia Dias Guimaraes (Masters) Human Palaeohistology at Santana Do Riacho (now consulting bioarchaeologist)
2019 Meg Walker (Masters) Ancient human behaviour and ancestry in Holocene northern Vietnam
2019 Kate Phillips (Masters) Sex, age, and physical activity and bone maintenance and loss (now medical student at ANU)
2019 Sarah Robertson (PhD) Differential diagnosis of cribra orbitalia at Christ Church Spitalfields via micro-CT (now consulting archaeologist)
2018 Tara Mann (Honours) Tibia vara and obesity
2018 Diana Tieppo (Masters) Sex-specific bone microstructure of the midshaft femur (now RA at Victorian Institute for Forensic Medicine)
2018 Danielle Rosenquist (Masters) Remodelling in the phalanges of the hands and the feet
2017 Coco James (Masters) Femoral muscle markings and endosteal cortex bone remodelling (now works in forensics for the AFP)
2017 Stephanie Robinson (Masters) Chalcolithic Wedge Tombs and an Iron Age Burial (now PhD student at College Cork)
2017 Bronwyn Wyatt (Masters) Health and disease in prehistoric Indonesia (now PhD student at ANU)
2017 Claire Rider (Masters) Hip joint pathology and lower limb skeletal adaptation (now Government public servant in Canberra)
2016 Natasha Langley (Masters) The effects of experimental burning on Sus scrofa enamel
2016 Ashley Bridge (Masters) Stature in forensics using Australian anthropometric data
2014 Rosie Pitfield (Masters) Histomorphometry in the human humerus during ontogeny (co-supervisor, University of Kent) (did a PhD & post-doc in the UK, now Associate Medical Writer in the US)
Undergraduate (UG) & graduate (PG) shorter projects:
2021 Charlotte March (PG) TBC
2020 Oyundari Batbayar (PG) Dental health in prehistoric Indonesia
2020 Alex Isaac (PG) Linear enamel hypoplasia and enamel secretion rates
2019 Bryce Campbell (PG) Fossil crocodile tooth histology through time in Australia
2019 Elizabeth Drew (UG) Relationship between osteocyte lacuna shape and osteocyte function (now medical student at ANU)
2018 Annie Backshall (PG) The relationship of posterior human palate morphology to ancestral origin
2018 Meg Walker (PG) Palaeohistology of wombat humerus (went onto Masters research in my lab)
2018 Gabrielle Smith (UG) Biorhythms in human hard tissues (now PhD student in evolutionary biology at ANU)
2018 Bonnie Taylor (UG) "Giant" secondary osteons (now PhD student in bioarchaeology at ANU)
2018 Josephine Tucker (UG) Investigating anaemia in archaeological human populations
2017 Sian McInnes (PG) Intra-observer error in recording entheseal changes
2017 Kate Phillips (PG) Osteon population density and determine anatomical location of human femur (now medicine student at ANU)
2017 Brendan Bayliss (PG) Inferring behaviour from femoral robusticity and diaphyseal measures
2016 Tahlia Stewart (PG) Skeletal growth rates in archaeological humans (now PhD student in my lab)
2016 Amy-Marie Beugelsdyk (PG) Osteon circularity in ancient human cortical bone
2016 Meg Walker (UG) Human paleophysiology in Medieval England (went onto Masters research in my lab)
2016 Tara Mann (UG) Reading between the lines: The aetiology of the Harris line (went onto Honours research in my lab)
Australian Academy of Science Internships:
2017 Daisy Wang Policy position in science
2017 Tegan Cassell Animals in research: A researcher's guideline to communication
