Curriculum Vitae September 2015

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Trond Sigurdsen, PhD

Natural History Museum of LA County, Dinosaur Institute 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA

Phone: 310 882 9584; Email: [email protected] OR [email protected]

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Jan. 2014 - Present Lecturer, Biology (BISC) and Human Biology (HBIO), University of Southern California. Refs. Prof. Craig Stanford, Dr. Oliver Rizk, Gorjana Bezmalinovic.

Jan. 2014 - Present Research Associate (Honorary), Dinosaur Institute, Natural History Museum, LA County

Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Postdoctoral Supervisor: Robert L. Carroll; Co-Supervisor: David M. Green.

Jan. 2010 - Dec. 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Postdoctoral Supervisor: Thérèse Cabana (UdeM);

co-supervisor: Kevin Padian (UC Berkeley).

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February 2010 Ph.D., Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Supervisors: Robert L. Carroll and David M. Green.

Started Sep. 2005, defended Nov. 25, 2009. Thesis: “The Lower Permian Dissorophoid Doleserpeton (Temnospondyli), and the Evolution of Modern Amphibians.”

June 2003 Cand. Scient. degree (equivalent to M.Sc.), Biology, University of Oslo, Norway. Supervisors: Jørn H. Hurum, David Bruton, and Nils C. Stenseth.

June 2000 Cand. Mag. degree (equivalent to B. Sc.), Biology, University of Oslo, Norway.

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2014-2015 Lecturer in Biology. Human Biology and Evolution, General Biology, Cell Biology and Physiology. USC.

Fall Term 2011 Demonstrated and taught comparative vertebrate anatomy in the lab sections of BIO2470, Université de Montréal.

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Jan 2012- Dec 2013 NSERC, Postdoctoral Research Grant, McGill University. CAD 35 000 per year for two years.

2010-2011 Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT), postdoctoral fellowship, CAD 30 000 per year for two years.

Fall 2008-Winter 2009 McGill Graduate Student Scholarships (CAD 19 000) Fall 2007-Winter 2008 McGill Graduate Student Scholarships (CAD 16 000) Fall 2006-Winter 2007 McGill Graduate Student Scholarships (CAD 20 000) Spring 2006 Student Stipend,Lånekassen, Norway(CAD 3000) Fall 2005-Winter 2006 Max Stern Recruitment Fellowship (CAD 10 000) Fall 2005 Student Stipend,Lånekassen, Norway(CAD 3000)

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Spring 2010 FQRNT, postdoctoral travel grant(CAD 1000) Fall 2009 BGSA travel grant,McGill University (CAD 400)

Summer 2008 Delise Allison Student Travel Grant, McGill University, (CAD 1000)

Fall 2007 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Travel Grant (CAD 300)

Fall Term 2009 Guest lecture: The evolution of modern amphibians. November 22, 2009 (Course: BIOL 427, Herpetology, McGill University). Fall Term 2007 Teaching assistant, BIOL 427 (Zoology, Herpetology), McGill

University.

Fall Term 2005 Teaching assistant, BIOL 111 (Organismal Biology), McGill University Quebec, Canada.

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Summer 2007 Alma Mater Student Travel Grant, McGill University, (CAD 750)

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Sigurdsen T, Carroll R (in press). The early ancestry of amniotes: the existing evidence and the missing pieces of the puzzle. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. Elsevier. Reference: Roshmi Joy

Zhang Y, O’Connor J, Di L, Qingjin M, Sigurdsen T, Chiappe LM. 2014. New information on the anatomy of the Chinese Early Cretaceous Bohaiornithidae (Aves : Enantiornithes) from a subadult specimen of Zhouornis hani. PeerJ 407: 1-19. DOI 10.7717/peerj.407

Sigurdsen T, Green D, Bishop PJ. 2012(invited publication). Did Triadobatrachus jump? Morphology and evolution of the anuran forelimb in relation to locomotion in early salientians.

Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences (Special volume dedicated to John R. Bolt) 5:77-89 Eds: Ruta M, Anderson J, Lombard E, Sumida S. (2 citations)

Sigurdsen T, Huttenlocker A, Modesto S, Rowe T, Damiani R. 2012. Reassessment of the morphology and paleobiology of the therocephalian Tetracynodon darti (Therapsida) based on CT-scanning, and the phylogenetic relationships of Baurioidea. Journal of Vertebrate

Paleontology32 (5):1113-1134. (7 citations)

Sigurdsen T, Green D.2011. The origin of modern amphibians: a reevaluation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society162: 457-469. (21 citations)

Sigurdsen T, Bolt JR.2010. The Lower Permian amphibamid Doleserpeton (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea), the interrelationships of amphibamids, and the origin of modern amphibians.

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(5): 1360-1377. (14 citations)

Sigurdsen T, Bolt JR. 2009. The lissamphibian humerus and elbow joint, and the origins of modern amphibians.Journal of Morphology270: 1443-1453. (9 citations)

Sigurdsen T. 2008. The otic region of Doleserpeton (Temnospondyli) and its implications for the evolutionary origin of frogs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society154: 738-751. (11 citations)

Sigurdsen T. 2006. New features of the snout and orbit of a therocephalian therapsid from South Africa. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica51 (1): 63-75. (11 citations)

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Sigurdsen T. 2013. The gorgonopsian braincase and the evolution of therapsid brains. 22nd Canadian Paleontology Conference, University of Toronto. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology,

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Sigurdsen T, Rowe T. 2012. The gorgonopsian skull and braincase studied by CT-scanning, and the evolution of the therapsid brain. 22nd Canadian Paleontology Conference, University of Toronto.

Sigurdsen T, Huttenlocker A, Modesto S, Rowe T, Damiani R. 2011. Reassessment of the morphology and paleobiology of the therocephalian Tetracynodon darti (Therapsida) based on CT-scanning, and the phylogenetic relationships of Baurioidea. Oral presentation. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Annual Meeting. Las Vegas. Abstract published in: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (supplement).

Sigurdsen T, Huttenlocker A, Rowe T, Modesto S. 2011. New information on the anatomy of the Triassic therapsid Tetracynodon darti, and the interrelationships of therocephalians.

Canadian Society of Zoologists, Annual Meeting, Ottawa. Abstract published in: Bulletin (Canadian Society of Zoology) 42(2): 134.

Sigurdsen T, Green D. 2010. The Palaeozoic origin of modern amphibians: a new study of the fossil and phylogenetic evidence. Oral presentation. Canadian Society of Zoologists Annual Meeting. Abstract published in: Bulletin (Canadian Society of Zoology).

Sigurdsen T. 2009. The first complete skeletal description of the putative stem lissamphibian

Doleserpeton (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) sheds new light on the origin of modern

amphibians. Oral presentation. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Annual Meeting, Romer Prize Session. Bristol University. Abstract published in: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (supplement to nr.3): 143.

Sigurdsen T. 2008. The evolution of the amphibian humerus and the origin of saltation in frogs. Oral presentation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Annual Meeting, October 2008,

Cleveland, OH. Abstract published in: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (supplement to nr.3): 143.

Sigurdsen T. 2007. The braincase and otic region of the amphibamid Doleserpeton

(Temnospondyli), and its implications for the origin of frogs. Oral presentation, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Annual Meeting, Ottawa. Abstract published in: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology27 (supplement to nr.3): 146-147.

Sigurdsen T. 2007. New features of the amphibamid Doleserpeton (Temnospondyli), and its implications for the origins of frogs. Oral presentation, 8th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology 2007, Paris. Abstract published in: Journal of Morphology268 (12): 1134.

Sigurdsen T. 2007. The Lower Permian temnospondyl Doleserpeton, and its implications for the origins of frogs. Oral presentation, Canadian Society of Zoologists, Annual Meeting 2007, McGill University, Montreal. Abstract published in: Bulletin (Canadian Society of Zoology)38

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Sigurdsen T. 2006. The Lower Permian temnospondyl Doleserpeton, and its implications for the origins of frogs. Poster presentation, Canadian Palaeontology Conference, McGill University, Montreal.

Sigurdsen T. 2006. On the origin of frogs, a reassessment of the Lower Permian temnospondyl

Doleserpeton. Oral presentation, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Symposium: 86.

McGill University, Montreal.

Sigurdsen T. 2003. Snout and orbit of a Therocephalian (Therapsida) from South Africa studied by serial sectioning. Poster presentation, Norsk Geologisk Forenings 18. Vinterkonferanse.

Abstract published in: NGF Abstracts and Proceedings of the Geological Society of Norway1

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Sigurdsen T. 2011. “Takk for ingenting”. [A short newspaper article in Norwegian explaining why Norway needs to increase the funding of natural sciences]. Aftenposten, December 29.

Sigurdsen T. 2010. A new study of the fossil and phylogenetic evidence for the origin of modern amphibians. Oral presentation. Special Seminar, Université de Montréal. Presented March 12, 2010.

Sigurdsen T. 2009. The first full skeletal description of the possible proto-lissamphibian

Doleserpeton (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea). Oral presentation. InterdisciplinaryGraduate

Student ResearchSymposium, McGill University. Presented March 26, 2009.

Sigurdsen T. 2008. The evolution of the amphibian humerus. Oral presentation. Evolution and

Ecology Lunch, McGill University, June 2008.

Sigurdsen T. 2006. On the origin of frogs, a reassessment of the Lower Permian genus temnospondyl Doleserpeton. Poster presentation, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student

Symposium, McGill University, Montreal.

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Internal larval characters in anuran systematic studies: a phylogenetic hypothesis for Leptodactylus (Anura, Leptodactylidae). Reviewed September 2012. Manuscript ID ZOJ-09-2012-1371.

Synapsida Symposium. New material of Bauriidae (Eutherapsida, Therocephalia) from the

Middle Triassic of South Africa and the taxonomy of Bauriidae. Reviewed on March 1, 2011. Authors: Fernando Abdala, Tea Jashashvili, Bruce S. Rubidge, Juri van den Heever. (Eds.: Christian Kammerer, Ken Angielczyk, and Jorg Frobisch).

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. A new Lower Permian trematopid (Temnospondyli:

Dissorophoidea) from Richards Spur, Oklahoma. Reviewed Nov 16, 2009, Manuscript ID ZOJ-09-2009-0705. Authors: Brendan Polley and Robert Reisz.

Naturwissenschaften. Jumping in Basal Frogs: Evidence of Saltational Patterns in the Evolution of Anuran Locomotion. Reviewed with David Green on Oct 2, 2009. Manuscript Number: NAWI-D-09-00192. Authors: Richard L. Essner, Jr., Daniel J. Suffian, Stephen M. Reilly.

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May 2009 Field trip to Saskatchewan, Canada, and Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. Main activities: prospecting fossil microsites, taking part in dinosaur excavations, helping undergraduate students.

2005-2007 Field trips to various localities in the area of Montreal, in connection with duties as a TA. Activities included helping undergraduate students and collecting local amphibians and reptiles.

2000-2003 Field trips to invertebrate fossil sites in the Oslo Fiord area of Norway, partly in connection with undergraduate courses. 2000 One-week field trip to Møre & Romsdal, Norway. Activities:

helping researchers of the University of Oslo to assess numbers of golden eagles and white-tailed eagles nesting in the area.

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-Skilled in the use of Avizo (scientific 3D-reconstruction and visualization software).

-Skilled in the use of software for inferring phylogenetic relationships, including Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (PAUP) and Bayesian phylogenetic inference (MrBayes).

-Skilled in the use of scientific statistical software, such as PAST (Paleontological Statistics), and SYSTAT.

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-Other software packages frequently used include Mesquite, Excel, Corel Draw, Corel Photo Paint, Photoshop, Microsoft Word etc.

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Norwegian: Mother tongue

English: Fluent spoken and written

German: Two years education in High School and two years in elementary school

French: One year in High School

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-Volunteering research-related work at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, with Director Luis Chiappe, 2013-2014 (later appointed Research Associate, Ref. Luis Chiappe) -Cataloguing specimens and updating museum specimen databases, particularly type specimens. Redpath Museum, 2012. (Refs. Prof David Green, and Anthony Howell)

-Tutoring undergraduate students working for Dr. Hans Larsson in the use of Avizo (scientific 3D visualization software), 2011.

-Highly skilled in the making of sketches, illustrations and stereo-photographs depicting anatomical features and paleontological specimens.

-Trained in the use of scanning electron microscopes (SEM) for studying microstructure of mineralized tissues. In addition to the operation of the electron microscope itself, the training included the preparation of specimens by conductive coating. Instructor: Prof. Gisle Fosse (Oslo).

-Trained in the use of serial grinding equipment for studies of mineralized specimens.

-Completed core training in Workplace Hazardous Materials Information Systems (W.H.M.I.S.) on June 20, 2007. McGill University, Canada.

-Field trip to study the golden eagles of Møre & Romsdal, Norway 2001. University of Oslo.

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Citizenship: Norway

Permanent Resident: Canada

Work permit (J2): USA (current Work Permit valid until Feb. 2018)