Vertebrate Paleontology

Faculty-Curator

Stephanie E. Pierce

Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology
Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Prof. Pierce’s research is focused on major morphological and ecological transitions in vertebrate evolution through...
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Stephanie Pierce Lab
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Room 105
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
spierce@oeb.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-2499

Postdoctoral Fellows

Robert Brocklehurst

Postdoctoral Fellow
Stephanie Pierce Lab
robert.brocklehurst@manchester.ac.uk
Katrina Elizabeth Jones

Research Associate
Stephanie Pierce Lab
Katrina Jones is an evolutionary biologist specializing in functional anatomy and paleontology. Her research strives to understand the functional,...
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personal website
Museum of Comparative Zoology
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
katrinajones@fas.harvard.edu
Brianna McHorse

Research Affiliate
Stephanie Pierce Lab
Brianna is interested in combining macroevolutionary and biomechanical approaches to study animal locomotion in extinct and extant animals. Her...
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personal website
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Room 103A
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
bmchorse@fas.harvard.edu
Sophie Pryal Regnault

Postdoctoral Researcher
Stephanie Pierce Lab
sophie_regnault@fas.harvard.edu
Tiago R. Simões

Alexander Agassiz Postdoctoral Fellow
Stephanie Pierce Lab
Tiago Simões started his career in his home city (Rio de...
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Museum of Comparative Zoology
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tsimoes@fas.harvard.edu

Staff

Jessica Cundiff

Curatorial Associate/Collection Manager
Invertebrate & Vertebrate Paleontology
Jessica Cundiff has been at the MCZ since February of 2001. During this time she has worked on a NSF funded collection renovation, a NSF funded...
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Museum of Comparative Zoology
52 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
jcundiff@oeb.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-5406
Chris Capobianco

Technician and Preparator
Vertebrate Paleontology
Museum of Comparative Zoology
52 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
christopher_capobianco@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-1052
Eva Biedron

Curatorial Assistant
Vertebrate Paleontology
Museum of Comparative Zoology
52 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
embiedron@fas.harvard.edu
Cyrus Green

Curatorial Assistant
Invertebrate and Vertebrate Paleontology
Cyrus is a paleontologist who has dug up...
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Northwest Building
52 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
cyrusgreen@fas.harvard.edu
Jared Hughes

Faculty/Collection Assistant
Herpetology
Invertebrate and Vertebrate Paleontology
Museum of Comparative Zoology
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
jehughes@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-2496
Mark Wright

Research Assistant
Stephanie Pierce Lab
Mark was a Master's student in the Erasmus Mundus Master Program in Evolutionary Biology (MEME) and is now a Research Assistant in the Pierce lab. He is... Read more about Mark Wright
mark.wright@evobio.eu

Graduate Students

Blake Dickson

Graduate Student
Stephanie Pierce Lab
Blake's research interests broadly focus around functional morphology using 3D modelling and digital analyses to answer questions about behaviours and...
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Museum of Comparative Zoology
Room 103A
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
bdickson@g.harvard.edu
Philip Lai

Graduate Student
Andrew Biewener Lab
Stephanie Pierce Lab
Phil is interested in structure and function in the pectoral girdle and forelimb along the line to mammals. He plans to combine in vivo kinematics, ex vivo... Read more about Philip Lai
Museum of Comparative Zoology
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
philiplai@g.harvard.edu
Zachary Morris

Graduate Student
Stephanie Pierce Lab
Zachary is fascinated by the role development plays in the evolution of novel characteristics. He searches for mechanisms underlying evolution by integrating... Read more about Zachary Morris
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Room 103A
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
zmorris@fas.harvard.edu

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