URAP

Juan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Lateral line sensory system, or lateral line organ, or simply the lateral line, is a system of sensory organs found in fish and some tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates). The lateral line enables those vertebrates to detect and perceive the hydrodynamic and physical environment they inhabit including movement, vibration, and pressure...

Juan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The water-land transition of tetrapods is one of the most pivotal events in evolutionary history. This project investigates how early tetrapods (specifically temnospondyls, also considered early amphibian relatives) adapted to the novel acoustic environment of land. By using fossils, we are examining the form-function relationship of the early...

Juan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Our study aims to explore the intricate details of mammalian hearing, with a specific emphasis on the function and evolution of the middle ear, with comparative anatomy with fish hearing apparatus. This critical aspect of auditory anatomy plays a pivotal role in the way mammals perceive and interpret sound. By...

Juan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

During the Late Cretaceous period, the North American Rocky Mountain region was once part of a lost island continent called Laramidia. The eastern coastline of this landmass preserves a rich and understudied record of sharks, rays, and bony fish from the late Mesozoic and early Cenozoic Eras. The most diverse...