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Anusha RAMDARSHAN
Section of Vertebrate Paleontology
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080
E-mail: [email protected]
Position : Fyssen Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Research interests : Extant and fossil primates, adaptive radiation, ecological diversity, diet,
dental microwear analysis, dental morphology
EDUCATION
2011
2008
2003
Ph.D., Vertebrate Paleontology, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
Thesis title: “Adaptive radiations and ecological diversity of Primates
during the early Tertiary.” PhD advisors: Laurent Marivaux and Gildas
Merceron
M.A., Paleontology, Paleobiology and Phylogeny, Université Montpellier 2,
Montpellier, France
B.S., Earth Sciences, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
FELLOWSHIPS
2011-2012
2008-2011
2008-2011
Fyssen Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
French Government Research Fellowship (MENRT, Ministry of national
education, research and technology)
French Government Teaching Fellowship (Université Montpellier 2)
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Ramdarshan A, Merceron G, Marivaux L. 2012. Spatial and temporal ecological diversity
amongst Eocene Primates of France: evidence from teeth. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology, 147(2):201-216.
Ramdarshan A, Alloing-Séguier T, Merceron G, Marivaux L. 2011. The primate community of
Cachoeira (Brazilian Amazonia): a model to decipher ecological partitioning among extinct
species. PlosOne, 6:e27392.
Ramdarshan A, Merceron G, Tafforeau P, Marivaux L. 2010. Diet reconstruction of the
Amphipithecidae (Primates, Anthropoidea) from the Paleogene of South Asia and
paleoecological implications. Journal of Human Evolution, 59(1):96-108.
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS
Ramdarshan A, Marivaux L, Merceron G. 2011. Dental microwear texture analysis of three
large bodied adapids from the late Eocene of the Quercy fissure fillings. The World At The
Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment and the History of Early
Primates. 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, November 1-5, 2011 (Frankfurt Am
Main). Abstract Volume: 137-138.
Ramdarshan A, Marivaux L, Merceron G. 2010. Dental microwear analysis reveals spatial and
temporal variability in the diet of two Eocene primates from France. 70th annual meeting of
the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (Pittsburgh, USA). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
30 (suppl.): 148A.
Ramdarshan A, Marivaux L, Merceron G. 2009. Paleoecology of south asian primates:
paleoenvironmental implications. 69th annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate
Paleontology (Bristol, UK). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (suppl.): 169A.
Adaci M, Ramdarshan A, Mebrouk F, Bensalah M, Mahboubi M, Zaoui D, Marivaux L, Tabuce
R. 2009. Extension géographique de la formation continentale éocène du Glib Zegdou et
reconstitution paléoenvironnementale de sa faune de mammifères (Eocène inférieur à
moyen, Algérie). First International Congress on North African Vertebrate Palaeontology,
May 25-27, 2009, Marrakech, Maroc.
Tabuce R, Adaci M, Bensalah M, Jaeger J.-J, Marivaux L, Mebrouk F, Ramdarshan A,
Mahboubi M. 2007. The afrotherian mammals from the Gour Lazib area (Algerian Sahara):
phylogeny, paleobiogeography, and paleoenvironmental context. Colloque Éclipse II:
Environnement et CLImat du Passé: hiStoire et Évolution, Paris.
PRESENTATIONS
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual meeting 2009 – Oral Presentation: Paleoecology
of south Asian primates: paleoenvironmental implications
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, paleontology seminar: « Radiations adaptatives et
diversité écologiques des Primates au début du Tertiaire »
WORK EXPERIENCE
July – August 2008 : Preparator and lab technician at the Paleontology department of the
Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier.
FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE
2010 :
Late Miocene, Dytiko, Thessaloniki region, Greece (with Gildas Merceron,
Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France).
2009 :
Early Eocene-Middle Oligocene, Quercy fissure-fillings, France (with the Muséum
National d’Histoire Naturelle and the Université Montpellier 2).
2008 :
Eocene – Oligocene, Kasserine region, Tunisia (with Rodolphe Tabuce and Laurent
Marivaux, Université Montpellier 2, France)
2007 :
Permian, Lodève basin, France (with Jean Sébastien Steyer, Muséum National
d’Histoire Naturelle)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2008-2011: Teaching assistant at the Université Montpellier II ; undergraduate courses
included : introduction to paleontology, history of vertebrates, history and evolution of the
biosphere (lab sessions on invertebrate paleontology)
2010: Co-supervisor Thomas Alloing-Seguier (masters research internship), project entitled:
“Niche partitioning in an extant primate community from South America”.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
High precision molding and casting; preparation of fossil material (recovery and preparation
of microvertebrate and macrovertebrate fossils), Optical Microscopy, Scanning electron
microscopy.
LANGUAGES
English (maternal); French (Bilingual); Spanish (university level)
COMPUTER SKILLS
Tools and software program : Adobe photoshop et Illustrator, CorelDRAW, R, Statistica,
PAST, Optimas, imageJ ;
Systems: Linux, Unix, Windows.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
Member of the society of vertebrate paleontology since 2009.
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
Co-founder of a non-profit organization (“des pois et des girafes”) aimed at popularizing and
demystifying evolutionary sciences for the general public, as well as offering guidance to
students looking into this field as a potential career path.