Development & Evolution – Form & Function – Patterns & Processes
Evolutionary Morphology
@ Canadian Museum of Nature
I am a broadly trained zoologist with an interest in:
- evolution of animal forms
- patterns in the fossil record
- developmental mechanisms generating morphological variations at both micro- and macroevolutionary scales.
A hatchling of a Devonian stem lamprey Priscomyzon riniensis (from Miyashita et al., 2021)
Taxonomic expertise: early Paleozoic vertebrates and living jawless fishes
Anatomical systems: vertebrate skeletons, metazoan nervous systems
Experimental models: zebrafish, lampreys, hagfish, acorn worms
Tetsuto Miyashita
Research Scientist, Palaeobiology – Canadian Museum of Nature
Email: TMiyashita@nature.ca
Google Scholar Profile – ResearchGate Profile – CV
Adjunct Professor – Biology, the University of Ottawa
Adjunct Professor – Earth Sciences, Carleton University
Chicago Fellow (2018–2020) – Organismal Biology & Anatomy, the University of Chicago
Ph.D. (2018) & M.Sc. (2012) – Biological Sciences, the University of Alberta
— Major Awards and Recognitions —
Chicago Fellow (2018–2020)
The University of Chicago
Whitman Center Fellow (2020)
Marine Biological Laboratory
Erik Stensiö Award (2019)
International Symposium on Early and Lower Vertebrates
T.W.M. Cameron Outstanding PhD Thesis Award (2019)
William S. Hoar Award (Honourable Mention) (2018)
Brian K. Hall Award (2015)
Canadian Society of Zoologists
Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize (2018)
Richard Estes Memorial Grant (2014)
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Robert Lynn Carroll Prize (2017)
Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Izaak W. Killam Memorial Scholarship (2015–2017)
Killam Foundation
Vanier CGS (2012–2015)
NSERC
Commonwealth Science Conference
Invited speaker (2014)
Follow-on Grant (2015)
The Royal Society, London
— Major Visiting Fellowships —
Travelling Fellowship (2017)
The Company of Biologists
Destination: Bronner Lab, California Institute of Technology
Globalink Research Award (2015)
Mitacs Foundation
Destination: Janvier Lab, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
CGS Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement (2014)
NSERC
Destination: Bronner Lab, California Institute of Technology