Zachary T. Calamari, PhD

Zachary Calamari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences at Baruch College and the PhD Program in Biology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research focuses on the evolution of complex anatomical structures using genomics, morphology, and phylogenetic comparative methods. He has studied a broad diversity of mammals, from bank voles to mammoths and mastodons; a major focus of the lab is the horns, antlers, and other bony appendages of even-toed ruminants (Artiodactyla). He is interested in mentoring student research that leverages high-throughput sequencing data and the excellent fossil and skeletal collections at the American Museum of Natural History.

Curriculum Vitae


Kyra Tippens-Richan

CUNY PhD Program in Biology

Kyra's research interests include cancer, disease pathology, anatomy, and physiology of hoofed mammals. Before coming to CUNY, she worked as an autopsy technician at the Animal Medical Center. She has been a wildlife rehabilitator for over ten years, so wildlife work is not something new. Although she has never raised deer, she is pretty fawned of deer and their friends.

 

Undergraduate researchers

Mohammad Abdallah (Baruch Undergrad)
Michael Bellido (Baruch Undergrad & Post-Bacc)
Michelle Fridburg (Baruch Undergrad & Post-Bacc)
Alvi Khan (Baruch Undergrad)
Dani Kitaygorodskiy (Baruch Undergrad & Post-Bacc)
Owen Kuchinad (USC Undergrad)
Elly Ng (Baruch Undergrad)
Tamari Razmadze (Baruch Undergrad & Post-Bacc)
Mariya Son (Baruch Undergrad)
Mohammed Zaman (Baruch Undergrad)

Lab alumni

Christopher Finck (CUNY PhD Program in Biology)

Ahmed Abbas (Baruch Undergrad)
Muspika Akter (Baruch Undergrad & Post-Bacc)
Shemari Caesar (Baruch Undergrad)
Gordon Chan (Baruch Undergrad)
Emily Cohen (Baruch Undergrad)
Liam Cooper (Baruch Undergrad)
Kingshuk Datta (Baruch Undergrad)
Mariah DeJesus (Baruch Undergrad)
Nate Demchak (Baruch Undergrad)
Rachel Droznik (Baruch Undergrad)
Micah Goltsman (Baruch Undergrad)
Joy Julius (Baruch Undergrad)
Nina Kornfeld (SAR High School)
Adamary Leal (Baruch Undergrad)
Amy Li (Baruch STEM RA High School Research Experience)
Nora Noaman (Baruch Undergrad)
Clementina Regalado (Baruch Undergrad)
Josif Rony (Baruch Undergrad)
Anika Shamim (Baruch Undergrad)
Michael Shi (Baruch STEM RA High School Research Experience)
Andrew Song (Bergen Academies Intern)
Genrietta Yagudeva (Hunter Post-Bacc)
Nicola Zabiega (Baruch Undergrad)