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COLLEEN FARMER

Professor

School of Biological Sciences

  • Professor
    School of Biological Sciences
  • Adjunct Professor
    Biomedical Engineering

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I study multiple facets of vertebrate evolution, focusing on metabolism.  My research is at the interface of biology, physics, engineering, and paleontology.  My team uses cutting edge medical technologies and a wide range of laboratory and field methodologies to address questions of major vertebrate transitions.  Work from my lab is published in internationally respected, high-ranking journals, such as Nature (impact factor 38.6), Science (impact factor 31.2), Annual Review of Physiology (impact factor 18.5), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (9.8), Current Biology (8.8), Journal of Experimental Biology (impact factor 6.6), and The American Naturalist (impact factor 4.7).

 

Key words: Evolutionary Biology, Metabolism, cardiopulmonary system

GRANTS

  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    AERODYNAMIC VALVES: DISTRIBUTION AND FUNCTION
    15 Jul 2021 - 30 Jun 2027
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    AERODYNAMIC VALVES: DISTRIBUTION AND FUNCTION- PART SUPPORT
    15 Jul 2021 - 30 Jun 2027
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Using VR in Teaching
    UEN1 Oct 2020 - 30 Sep 2021
    UEN
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    RAPID: Aerosol and Direct Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Bats and other Animals
    National Science Foundation1 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2023
    National Science Foundation
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    VirtMorph Symposium and Workshop
    National Science Foundation6 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
    National Science Foundation
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    VIRTMorph Symposium and Workshop, 2019 International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology
    Company of Biologists1 Jan 2019 - 28 Feb 2019
    Company of Biologists
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Blue Water Fellowship
    National Science Foundation1 Aug 2018 - 31 Jul 2019
    National Science Foundation
  • FELLOWSHIP OR RESIDENCY
    BLUE WATER FELLOWSHIP
    UNIVERSITY OF IL AT URBANA-CHA1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2019
    UNIVERSITY OF IL AT URBANA-CHA
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    INSPIRE
    Enterprise Ireland1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2018
    Enterprise Ireland
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    The origins of mammalian and avian red blood cells and vascular supply in long bones: Biological insights from Recent and fossil bone
    National Science Foundation31 Aug 2013 - 30 Aug 2016
    National Science Foundation
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    AIRFLOW IN SAUROPSID LUNGS
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION8 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2020
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Cost Share Award
    Ocean Optics1 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2010
    Ocean Optics
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    ARCHOSAUR
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2013
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    CROCODILE CARDIOPULMONARY SYST
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION5 Mar 2002 - 31 Dec 2007
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    The Importance of Thoracic and Abdominal Pressures to Venous Return
    National Institutes of Health1 Aug 1998 - 11 Aug 2001
    National Institutes of Health
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Did Lungs and the Intracardiac Shunt Evolve to Oxygenate the Heart?
    National Science Foundation1 Sep 1995 - 30 Apr 1997
    National Science Foundation