Professor
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Elizabeth L. Brainerd is the Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology at Brown University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991 studying functional morphology of fishes with Prof. Karel Liem. She was Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and then Full Professor at Brown University where she teaches human anatomy to medical students. Professor Brainerd has broad research interests in the anatomy, biomechanics, and evolution of movement in vertebrate animals, including work on all major groups of extant vertebrates and feeding, breathing, and locomotor behaviors. At Brown she has worked with Prof. Stephen Gatesy and many other colleagues and students to develop X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM), which is a set of methods for visualizing and quantifying the movements of 3D bones in 3D space. XROMM has now been adopted by many research groups around the world and is yielding new insights into musculoskeletal structure, function, and evolution. Prof. Brainerd is a Fellow of the American Association for Anatomy and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Evolutionary Transformations in the Anatomy and Biomechanics of Vertebrate Respiratory Pumps
Friday, March 28, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM US PDT
