| Dr.
Jessica Anderson Maisano
Evolutionary
Biologist
Area of Expertise: Herpetology, Morphology,
Developmental Biology
Short
Biography:
Jessie
came to The University of Texas in January
2000 after completing her Ph.D. in vertebrate
paleontology at Yale University. She is
a postdoctoral fellow in the High-Resolution
X-ray Computed Tomography Facility. From
her arrival through December 2003 she
oversaw the implementation of Digital
Morphology: An NSF Digital Library.
This ongoing project involves the construction
of an online resource of high-resolution
CT-based imagery of a broad diversity
of fossil and Recent organisms; currently,
the site features almost 200 taxa. Beginning
in 2004, Jessie will be a collaborator
on Deep
Scaly, a project focusing
on higher-level systematics of squamates
(lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians) that
is part of NSF’s Assembling the Tree
of Life initiative.
Jessie’s dissertation and ongoing
research focus on the development of the
squamate skeleton and its morphology using
cleared and double stained specimens and
high-resolution X-ray CT.
Contact
Information:
Office: 3.316B
Phone: 512-471-0260
FAX: 512-471-9425
Email: maisano@mail.utexas.edu
Mailing
Address:
The University
of Texas at Austin
Geol Science Dept
1 University Station C1100
Austin, TX 78712-0254
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