Christian Heck, PhD

Assistant Professor of Anatomy 

School/College: Osteopathic Medicine
Email: check@pnwu.edu

Fields:

  • Gross and Functional Anatomy​
  • Osteohistology​
  • Ecology​
  • Paleontology​

Areas of Expertise:

  • Evolutionary Biology​
  • Biomechanics ​
  • Bone Physiology and Growth​
  • Archosaurian Life History​

Methodological Expertise:

  • Hard tissue histological processing​
  • Paleontological field methods​
  • Morphometrics​
  • Polarized Microscopy

Current Projects:

  • Life history reconstruction of the non-avian dinosaur Maiasaura​
  • Assessing bone growth dynamics in modern mammals​
  • Intraskeletal growth mark variation in tetrapods​
  • Investigating mechanisms of metaplastic hard tissue development