Miss Yu Zhi (Daisy) Hu

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Office | Cockcroft 4 59 | ||||||||||
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Research interests
My research concerns the evolutionary development of teeth and jaw amongst early vertebrates, especially in placoderms (armored jawed fish). The morphology and histology of gnathal elements of placoderm fishes reveals a wealth of functional morphological and evolutionary developmetal information, lending to broad inner group comparisons and comparisons with very distantly related lineages or groups that may have few outward resemblances; together challenging the definition of 'true' teeth and shedding light on the evolution of teeth and jaw.
Areas of expertise: Early Vertebrate Evolution, Virtual Paleontology and Scientific Visualization.
Recent publications
Burrow, C., Hu, Y.-Z. & Young, G.C. (2016) Placoderms and the evolutionary origin of teeth: a comment on Rucklin & Donoghue (2015). Biology Letters 12, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0159.
King, B., Hu, Y.-Z. & Long, J. (2018) Electroreception in early vertebrates: survey, evidence and new information. Palaeontology, doi:10.1111/pala.12346.
Lu, J., Young, G.C., Hu, Y.-Z., Qiao, T., Zhu, M. (2018) The posterior cranial portion of the earliest known Tetrapodomorph Tungsenia paradoxa and the early evolution of tetrapodomorph endocrania. Vertebrata PalAsiatica.
Biography
- July 2013- January 2018, Research Officer, Department of Applied Maths, RSPE, The Australian National University, Australia.
- August 2018- Present, Sessional Tutor, Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of Canberra, Australia.
- November 2018- Present, Project Coordinator (digital and scientific visualization), R&D Department, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Science, China.
Outreach
Teaching
Business Statistics
Chemistry 1
Introduction to Chemistry
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