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Sarah Werning
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My research focuses on the evolution of bone tissue. An animal’s bone tissue varies with other aspects of its biology (e.g., age, ecology, growth rate, metabolism) and is preserved even after death and fossilization. I develop quantitative and qualitative methods to describe the relationships between bone tissue and growth physiology in reptiles, birds, and mammals, and use these relationships to infer aspects of biology that cannot be directly observed in their extinct ancestors.
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Assistant Professor
Des Moines University
September 2015
Anatomy
Course Co-director for Molecules, Cells & Tissues (required course for first year DO, DPM, & MS, Anatomy students). Also teach in Gross Anatomy (DO, DPM, MSA), Clinically Oriented Anatomy (first year PA students) and co-direct the MSA Capstone course.
Research: Skeletal histology, growth, metabolism, & life history of reptiles, especially dinosaurs, crocodiles, birds, and their fossil ancestors.
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Stony Brook University
September 2013
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August 2015
Anatomical Sciences
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December 16, 2021