Dinosaurs and Drinks Happy Hour

Amy Balanoff is an assistant professor in the Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a research associate in the Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History in New York City and in the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Balanoff received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York. Her research focuses on the interplay of behavioral innovation with anatomical structure and function during the transition from the primarily two-dimensional environment of ground-dwelling dinosaurs to the three-dimensional environment experienced by birds today. 

Gabriel S. Bever is an associate professor in the Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Bever is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D. C. He is an honorary research scientist in the Center for Evolutionary Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Bever earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and held research fellowships at the American Museum of Natural History and Yale University. His research interests center on the integration of paleontological and developmental data to better understand major transitions in vertebrate evolution.

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