Emma Schachner,
Assistant Professor
Department:
Department of Physiological Sciences
Business Email:
eschachner@ufl.edu
About Emma Schachner
Research in the Schachner Lab utilizes an integrative approach to ask questions about the anatomy, physiology, and evolution of the respiratory and skeletal systems in vertebrates. The lab’s primary focus is on the ecomorphology, physiology, and development of lungs in birds and reptiles, with associated clinical interests in the impact of trauma, environmental and climate change, and disease on the avian respiratory system. The Schachner Lab additionally has projects on the paleontology and soft tissue biology of extinct archosaurs (including non-avian dinosaurs) and specializes in 3D digital anatomical modeling and image analysis. For more information, visit the Schachner Lab website: www.theropoda.com
Accomplishments
American Association of Anatomy BioArt Finalist 1st Place: Anatomy BioArt Competition
2022
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American Association of Anatomy
Chancellor's Excellence Award
2022
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LSU Health New Orleans
Anatomical Society Joint-Runner-Up Best Paper Prize
2021
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Council of the Anatomical Society
FASEB BioArt Scientific Image Competition Winner
2020
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FASEB
Minnies 2020 Best Radiology Image
2020
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Annual Minnie Awards AuntMinnie.com
TED Speaker
2020
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TED: Ideas worth spreading
American Association of Anatomists Postdoctoral Fellow
2012
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American Association of Anatomists
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship
2010
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University of Pennsylvania
Teece Dissertation Research Fellowship
2009
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University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship
2006-2008
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University of Pennsylvania
Teaching Profile
Courses Taught
2023
VME6932 Seminar in Physiological Sciences
2023-2025
VEM5101 Vet Gross Anatomy
2024
VME6905 Problems in Veterinary Medical Sciences
2024
VEM5112 Animal Systems 3
Research Profile
www.theropoda.com
Areas of Interest
- Embryonic Development
- Comparative anatomy
- Evolutionary biology
- Paleontology
- Respiratory physiology
Publications
Academic Articles
2024
Sample Size and Geometric Morphometrics Methodology Impact the Evaluation of Morphological Variation
Integrative Organismal Biology.
6(1)
[DOI] 10.1093/iob/obae002.
[PMID] 38313409.
2024
The respiratory system influences flight mechanics in soaring birds.
Nature.
630(8017):671-676
[DOI] 10.1038/s41586-024-07485-y.
[PMID] 38867039.
2024
Variation in air sac morphology and postcranial skeletal pneumatization patterns in the African grey parrot.
Journal of anatomy.
[DOI] 10.1111/joa.14146.
[PMID] 39374322.
2023
A New Era of Morphological Investigations: Reviewing Methods for Comparative Anatomical Studies.
Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England).
5(1)
[DOI] 10.1093/iob/obad008.
[PMID] 37035037.
2023
A Problem of Gender Representation: Adapting the Bechdel Test to Evaluate the Social Media Presence of Radiology Residency Programs.
Current problems in diagnostic radiology.
52(4):263-268
[DOI] 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2023.03.005.
[PMID] 37087372.
2023
Decoupling body shape and mass distribution in birds and their dinosaurian ancestors
Nature Communications.
14(1)
[DOI] 10.1038/s41467-023-37317-y.
[PMID] 36949094.
2023
Perspectives on lung visualization: Three‐dimensional anatomical modeling of computed and micro‐computed tomographic data in comparative evolutionary morphology and medicine with applications for COVID‐19
The Anatomical Record.
[DOI] 10.1002/ar.25300.
2023
Validating osteological correlates for the hepatic piston in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis).
PeerJ.
11
[DOI] 10.7717/peerj.16542.
[PMID] 38144194.
2022
A Framework for the Virtual Medical Interview Process: Considerations for the Applicant and the Interviewer.
Ochsner journal.
22(1):61-70
[DOI] 10.31486/toj.21.0074.
[PMID] 35355652.
2022
Alligator appendicular architecture across an ontogenetic niche shift
The Anatomical Record.
305(10):3088-3100
[DOI] 10.1002/ar.24717.
2022
Architecture of the bronchial tree in Cuvier’s dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus)
The Anatomical Record.
305(10):3037-3054
[DOI] 10.1002/ar.24919.
2022
Body size, shape and ecology in tetrapods
Nature Communications.
13(1)
[DOI] 10.1038/s41467-022-32028-2.
[PMID] 35896591.
2022
Dispatches from the age of crocodiles: New discoveries from ancient lineages
The Anatomical Record.
305(10):2343-2352
[DOI] 10.1002/ar.25043.
2022
Revision of hip flexor anatomy and function in modern humans, and implications for the evolution of hominin bipedalism
The Anatomical Record.
305(5):1147-1167
[DOI] 10.1002/ar.24769.
2021
A new Heterodontosaurus specimen elucidates the unique ventilatory macroevolution of ornithischian dinosaurs
eLife.
10
[DOI] 10.7554/elife.66036.
2021
Anatomy, ontogeny, and evolution of the archosaurian respiratory system: A case study on Alligator mississippiensis and Struthio camelus
Journal of Anatomy.
238(4):845-873
[DOI] 10.1111/joa.13358.
[PMID] 33345301.
2021
Anatomy, variation, and asymmetry of the bronchial tree in the African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus)
Journal of Morphology.
282(5):701-719
[DOI] 10.1002/jmor.21340.
2021
Online conferencing software in radiology: Recent trends and utility.
Clinical imaging.
76:116-122
[DOI] 10.1016/j.clinimag.2021.02.008.
[PMID] 33592549.
2020
Osteology of the Late Triassic Bipedal Archosaur Poposaurus gracilis (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from Western North America
The Anatomical Record.
303(4):874-917
[DOI] 10.1002/ar.24298.
2020
Respiratory evolution in archosaurs
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
375(1793)
[DOI] 10.1098/rstb.2019.0140.
[PMID] 31928195.
2020
Three-dimensional (3D) lung segmentation for diagnosis of COVID-19 and the communication of disease impact to the public
BMJ Case Reports.
13(8)
[DOI] 10.1136/bcr-2020-236943.
[PMID] 32816940.
2018
Vertebral morphometrics and lung structure in non-avian dinosaurs.
Royal Society open science.
5(10)
[DOI] 10.1098/rsos.180983.
[PMID] 30473845.
2017
Anatomical Variation of the Tarsus in Common Inbred Mouse Strains.
Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007).
300(3):450-459
[DOI] 10.1002/ar.23493.
[PMID] 27731937.
2017
Cystic Calculus in a Laboratory-housed Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis).
Comparative medicine.
67(2):112-115
[PMID] 28381311.
2017
Pulmonary anatomy and a case of unilateral aplasia in a common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina): developmental perspectives on cryptodiran lungs
Journal of Anatomy.
231(6):835-848
[DOI] 10.1111/joa.12722.
[PMID] 29063595.
2016
Fossorial Origin of the Turtle Shell.
Current biology : CB.
26(14):1887-94
[DOI] 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.020.
[PMID] 27426515.
2015
Comments and corrections on 3D modeling studies of locomotor muscle moment arms in archosaurs.
PeerJ.
3
[DOI] 10.7717/peerj.1272.
[PMID] 26500810.
2015
Correction: A new large-bodied oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of western North America.
PloS one.
10(4)
[DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0125843.
[PMID] 25923787.
2015
Diagnosis, prevention, and management of canine hip dysplasia: a review.
Veterinary medicine (Auckland, N.Z.).
6:181-192
[DOI] 10.2147/VMRR.S53266.
[PMID] 30101105.
2014
A new large-bodied oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of western North America.
PloS one.
9(3)
[DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0092022.
[PMID] 24647078.
2014
Breathing life into dinosaurs: tackling challenges of soft-tissue restoration and nasal airflow in extinct species.
Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007).
297(11):2148-86
[DOI] 10.1002/ar.23046.
[PMID] 25312371.
2014
Effect of pre-cardiac and adult stages of Dirofilaria immitis in pulmonary disease of cats: CBC, bronchial lavage cytology, serology, radiographs, CT images, bronchial reactivity, and histopathology.
Veterinary parasitology.
206(1-2):24-37
[DOI] 10.1016/j.vetpar.2014.09.007.
[PMID] 25288308.
2014
Effects of intravenous and subcutaneous heartworm homogenate from doxycycline-treated and untreated donor dogs on bronchial reactivity and lung in cats.
Veterinary parasitology.
206(1-2):14-23
[DOI] 10.1016/j.vetpar.2014.09.021.
[PMID] 25458120.
2014
New insight into the evolution of the vertebrate respiratory system and the discovery of unidirectional airflow in iguana lungs.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
111(48):17218-23
[DOI] 10.1073/pnas.1405088111.
[PMID] 25404314.
2014
Origin of the unique ventilatory apparatus of turtles.
Nature communications.
5
[DOI] 10.1038/ncomms6211.
[PMID] 25376734.
2014
Pedal proportions of Poposaurus gracilis: convergence and divergence in the feet of archosaurs.
Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007).
297(6):1022-46
[DOI] 10.1002/ar.22863.
[PMID] 24421153.
2014
Unidirectional pulmonary airflow patterns in the savannah monitor lizard.
Nature.
506(7488):367-70
[DOI] 10.1038/nature12871.
[PMID] 24336209.
2013
Pulmonary anatomy in the Nile crocodile and the evolution of unidirectional airflow in Archosauria.
PeerJ.
1
[DOI] 10.7717/peerj.60.
[PMID] 23638399.
2012
Disparity and convergence in bipedal archosaur locomotion.
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface.
9(71):1339-53
[DOI] 10.1098/rsif.2011.0687.
[PMID] 22112652.
2011
Evolution of the dinosauriform respiratory apparatus: new evidence from the postcranial axial skeleton.
Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007).
294(9):1532-47
[DOI] 10.1002/ar.21439.
[PMID] 21809455.
2011
Pelvic and hindlimb myology of the basal Archosaur Poposaurus gracilis (Archosauria: Poposauroidea).
Journal of morphology.
272(12):1464-91
[DOI] 10.1002/jmor.10997.
[PMID] 21800358.
2009
Evolution of the respiratory system in nonavian theropods: evidence from rib and vertebral morphology.
Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007).
292(9):1501-13
[DOI] 10.1002/ar.20989.
[PMID] 19711481.
Education
PhD
2010
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University of Pennsylvania
MSc
2006
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University of Bristol
BA
2004
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Bucknell University
Contact Details
Emails:
- Business:
- eschachner@ufl.edu
Addresses:
- Business Street:
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2015 SW 16TH AVE
GAINESVILLE FL 32608
