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Kathryn Kavanagh, PhD
Associate Professor
Biology
Contact
508-999-8248
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Liberal Arts 385
Education
| 1998 | James Cook University of North Queensland | PhD in Biology |
| 1992 | College of William and Mary | MA in Marine Science |
Teaching
- Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
- Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- Embryology
- Coral Reef Biology
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Research
Research activities
- Adaptive plasticity in thoracic and limb regions in birds and mammals
- Co-evolution of morphological and life history traits in damselfishes
Research
Research awards
- $ 599,926 awarded by National Science Foundation for Connecting Undergraduates to Biodiversity Instruction through Citizen Science (CUBICS)
- $ 231,083 awarded by Office of Naval Research for UMassD MUST IV: Humpback Whale Behaviors in Relation to Human Activities and Structures on Stellwagon Bank
Research
Research interests
- Developmental bias and plasticity in evolution
- Vertebrate skeletal development and evolution
- Evolution of larval-brooding damselfishes
Select publications
- Kavanagh, K.D. (2019).
Developmental plasticity associated with early structural integration and evolutionary patterns: examples of developmental bias and developmental facilitation in the skeletal system.
Evolution & Development - Young, N.M., Takkellapati, S., Winslow, B., Kavanagh, K.D. (2015).
Shared rules of development predict patterns of evolution in segmentation.
Nature Communications, 6, 6690. - Kavanagh, K.D., Evans, A.E., Jernvall, J. (2007).
Predicting evolutionary patterns of mammalian teeth from development.
Nature, 449, 427-432.