Dr Christine Böhmer - Palaeobiologist
Even T-rex could have suffered a disc protrusion? The intervertebral disc is a fibrocartilaginous joint that connects two successive vertebrae and allows for movement between the bones. It is commonly considered to be a...
I couldn’t be more excited! Our anatomy atlas is published! More than 400 photographs and illustrations that visualize the diversity in forelimb and hind limb muscle anatomy of 30 mammalian species. We carefully dissected...
Birds vary significantly in the number and shape of vertebrae in the neck. Despite this variation, a similar regionalization along the neck of a diversity of avian species has been observed. Depending on their...
The European Commission has announced the successful applicants to Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships. The grants are part of the Horizon 2020, the EU’s framework programme for research and innovation. I am extremely honoured...
Finding, collecting, identifying and cataloging fossils is the basis for research in palaeontology. Amongst others, I was fortunate to gain experience in prospecting and excavating extinct dinosaurs in Argentina (Patagonia) and South-Africa. Most recently,...
Our publication on the neck anatomy of vultures (Böhmer et al. 2020 J Anatomy) got featured by the Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF). The Vulture Conservation Foundation is an international non-governmental organization committed to the...
Same lab, new project! I’m excited to announce that I started my next postdoc project on the grasping biomechanics in primates. I look forward to work with Dr. Emmanuelle Pouydebat – an internationally renowned...
The head-neck system of birds is a highly complex structure that performs a variety of demanding and competing tasks. We here analyzed the neck anatomy of three closely-related vultures that distinctly differ in feeding...
The 44th conference of the French Society for Biomechanics (Congrès de la Société de Biomécanique) takes place in Poitiers (France) in 2019. The scientific program includes a number of interesting contibrutions to the following...
With a mean body mass of about 300g and a wingspan of about 70cm, the Black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) is the largest woodpecker species in Eurasia. It feeds by using its bill to hammer...