Dr Christine Böhmer - Palaeobiologist
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...
The neck is a biomechanical innovation that contributed to the diversification of vertebrates. A better understanding of the functional morphology of the neck can help to develop design principles for technical applications. The range...
The neck of birds has always been regarded as a classic example of high variability in the number of vertebrae ranging from ten cervical vertebrae in parrots to 26 cervical vertebrae in swans. And...
Founded in 2005 by François Taddei and Ariel Lindner, the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI) is a French educational institution that offers interdisciplinary research-based study, and awards a bachelor’s and master’s degree in...
As a result of the special symposium on „What an interdisciplinary approach can tell us about the evolution of grasping and manipulation“ organized by my colleagues Dr. Emanuelle Pouydebat and Dr. Ameline Bardo at the...
The Vertebrate Palaeontology Meeting (AKW) of the German Palaeontological Association took place in Vienna in 2019. Since 1974 all vertebrate palaeontologists working in Germany, Austria and Suisse come together for a scientific meeting over...
The „Research in Museums Mini-Symposium“ will be held in Tübingen at the Paleontological collection of the Eberhard Karls Universität organized by PD Dr. Ingmar Werneburg und Dr. Antonio Cordero. The event is kindly supported...
The upcoming congress of the International Society of Vertebrate Morphology, to be held in Prague (Czech Republic) from 21-25 July 2019, will host the symposium „The axial skeleton: diversity, patterning and function“ organized by...
I’m very proud of my co-supervised student Maxime Taverne* who published his master’s thesis in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society! This work is part of my project on the Form-function relationships in...
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