Rob Asher completed his Ph.D. in 2000 on Phylogenetic History of Tenrecs and Other Insectivorous Mammals. I co-advised Rob with Ross MacPhee. Rob was Curator of Mammals at the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin until fall of 2006, at which point he moved to the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. See Rob's webpage.

Chris Heesy defended his Ph.D in 2003 on The functions of the mammalian postorbital bar. I co-advised Chris with Brigitte Demes. Chris is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona. We have published several papers together and continue to collaborate. See Chris's webpage.

• Ross C.F., Hall, M.I., and Heesy, C.P. (2006) Were basal primates nocturnal? Evidence from eye and orbit shape. In Primate Origin: Adaptation and Evolution, M.J. Ravosa and M Dagosto (eds.). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 233-256. (download)
• Heesy, C.P., Ross C.F. and Demes, B.D. (2006) Oculomotor stability and the functions of the postorbital bar and septum. In Primate Origins: Adaptation and Evolution, M.J. Ravosa and M. Dagosto (eds.). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 257-283. (download)
• Heesy, C.P. and Ross, C.F. (2004) Mosaic evolution of activity pattern, diet, and color vision in haplorhine primates. In, C.F. Ross and R.F. Kay, eds., Anthropoid Origins: New Visions. New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, pp. 665-698. (download)
• Heesy C.P. and C.F. Ross (2001) Evolution of activity patterns and chromatic vision in primates: Morphometrics, genetics and cladistics. J. Hum. Evol. 40: 111-149. (download)

Margaret Hall defended her dissertation in 2005. Her topic was Eye and orbit size and shape in vertebrates. Meg is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona. We have published the following papers together and continue to work together on the evolution of the vertebrate visual system.

• Ross C.F., Hall, M.I., and Heesy, C.P. (2006) Were basal primates nocturnal? Evidence from eye and orbit shape. In Primate Origin: Adaptation and Evolution, M.J. Ravosa and M Dagosto (eds.). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 233-256. (download)
• Hall, M.I. and Ross, C.F. (2007) Eye shape and activity pattern in birds. Journal of Zoology. 271: 437-444. (download)

Keith Metzger defended his dissertation in 2005 on The Kinematics of Intra-oral Prey Transport in Lizards. Keith is a postdoc at Brown University. We have several papers together and have ongoing collaborations on the evolution of vertebrate feeding systems. See Keith's webpage.

• Metzger, K.A, Daniel, W., Ross, C.F. (2005) Comparison of beam theory and finite-element analysis to in vivo bone strain in the alligator cranium. Anatomical Record 283A: 331-348. (download)
• Ross, C.F. and Metzger, K.A. (2004) Bone strain gradients and optimization in tetrapod skulls. Annals of Anatomy. 186: 387-396. (download)
• Herrel, A., Schaerlaeken, V., Meyers, J.J., Metzger, K.A., and Ross, C.F. (2007) The evolution of cranial design and performance in squamates: consequences of skull bone reduction on feeding behavior. Integrative and Comparative Biology. (submitted)
• Ross, C.F., Eckhardt, A., Herrel, A., Hylander, W.L., Metzger, K.A., Schaerlaeken, V. and Washington, R.L. (2007) Modulation of intra-oral processing in mammals and lepidosaurs. Integrative and Comparative Biology. (submitted)

Mark Coleman defended his dissertation in 2007 on the ecological correlates of variation in primate middle ear morphology. He currently holds a postdoctoral position at Stony Brook University. We have published one paper together.

• Coleman, M.N. and Ross, C.F. (2004) Primate auditory diversity and its influence on hearing performance. Anatomical Record 281A:1123-1137. (download)