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Dr. Kirsten E. Nicholson
Curator
of Natural History
Spring 2008
Contact
Information:
Office:
(989) 774-3176
Biology Dept.:
(989) 774-3758
E-mail:
nicho2ke@cmich.edu
Visit her
webpage
Office Hours
Wednesday
3:00-5:00 Brooks 174
Thursday
2:00-4:00 Rowe 103
Others by
appointment
Teaching
Schedule
MST 550
Museum
Collect Mgt/Care
Thursday
6:00-08:50
Rowe 101
Dr.
Nicholson is an evolutionary biologist who's research
interests are broad in scope and revolve around
vertebrate fauna. Most of her training and
experience is with reptiles and amphibians and her
research focuses on the evolutionary biology of lizards
in the genus Anolis. These lizards are
neotropical but most of her fieldwork has been conducted
in Central and South America. She
reconstructs the evolutionary relationships of these
lizards using primarily molecular data in the form of
DNA sequences, and uses this background information to
test various hypotheses involving the evolution of
certain characters or morphological traits.
Dr.
Nicholson earned a bachelor’s degree in science in 1991
at the University of Memphis and a master’s degree in
science in 1995 at Auburn University in Alabama. She earned her doctorate
in biology in 2001 at the University of Miami and
continued her research as a postdoctoral student at
Washington University in St. Louis. Her museum-related
experience includes stints as a museum technician
preparing specimens for the mammal collection at the
University of Memphis, assistant curator for the
herpetology collection at Auburn University’s Museum of
Natural History and assistant curator for the
internationally recognized Costa Rican Expeditions, a
museum of herpetology at the University of Miami.
Contact us at:
103 Rowe Hall
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859
(989)774-3829
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