Month: July 2024
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Comic art collaboration
The CVN lab’s research is featured in an all new format, a comic! Our headbutting research was selected for a collaboration with students from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (or MassArt) and their Integrative Sciences and Biological Arts Department. This collaboration is the brain child of Dr. Caroline Hu, an Assistant professor at…
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The Tanglewood woodpecker project has begun!
Back in April, the CVN lab was approved to begin a project at the Tanglewood Research Station. Tanglewood, also known as the J. Nicholene Bishop Biological Station, is a 570-acre nature reserve and research facility that is a part of the University of Alabama. We are very excited to take advantage of this wonderful research…
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Goat pilot experiment is a wrap!
The CVN lab has been working on a pilot experiment for the last six months. As of this April we have successfully completed all sample collection for the goat pilot. This project involves using goats as a model for Alzheimer’s disease, specifically because they self-inflict brain injury by headbutting. We collaborated with Mississippi State University…
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New paper on dinosaur headbutting!
A new review is out in The Anatomical Record, entitled “Headbutting through time: A review of this hypothesized behavior in “dome-headed” fossil taxa“. Co authored by Cary Woodruff and Nicole Ackermans.This paper is part of a special issue for The Anatomical Record, organized and guest-edited by Nicole Ackermans. Get the full article here! https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25526 Subscribe…
Nicole Ackermans, CVN lab 