UPPSALA UNIVERSITY: Department of Earth Sciences: Palaeobiology: Developmental palaeobiology

Developmental palaeobiology

At Uppsala University
To understand how the animal phyla originated and evolved requires study of both their history (from the fossil record) and the developmental biology of living animals.  Our research lab is unique in the world in combining both.

HEAD OF LAB

Major Topics:

  • Palaeobiology of the Cambrian explosion
  • Basal evolution of the Arthropoda, with particular reference to the head
  • Developmental aspects of the "halkieriid hypothesis"
  • Development and  palaeobiology of the Ecdysozoa
  • Innovations in tetrapod cranial development during the invasion of land
  • Theory of the evolution of development and morphology
Field-trip photos

Docent Graham E. Budd,
VR Forskarassistent
Rolf Ericsson in the field, collecting lungfish eggs in southern Queensland, Australia.
Photographer: Joakim Eriksson
Group Members
Rolf Ericsson and NoelTait having a barbeque during a peripatus collecting trip to the Great Dividing Range in NSW, Australia.
Photographer: Joakim Eriksson

Dr. Ashley Edwards,
VR postdoctoral worker
Dr. Noel Tait in the process of extracting peripatus from a log.
Photographer: Joakim Eriksson

A larva of the priapulid Priapulus caudatus collected at the swedish west coast, Klubban biological station.

Joakim Eriksson,
doktorand
Major collaborators:

Dr. Noel Tait
Department of Biological Sciences
Macquarie University, Sydney
ntait@rna.bio.mq.edu.au



Prof. Dr. Lennart Olsson
Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena


Dr. Earl Larson
Department of neuroscience, Unit of Pharmacology
Uppsala Biomedical Centre
Uppsala University

Ged Malsher,
doktorand

Rolf Ericsson,
doktorand

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