Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Grace Musser

Postdoctoral Fellow
Department / Division
Education

Ph.D. in Paleontology and Evolutionary Morphology from the University of Texas at Austin

M.A. in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology from Columbia University. 

Research Interests

NSF PRFB Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Birds working with Helen James on the fusion, development and genetic architecture of the avian vertebral column. Her primary research comprises the evolution, phylogenetics and biogeography of birds and avian dinosaurs