Dr. Katherine Corn

POSTDOCTORAL NETWORK  |   Global Change Center

Postdoctoral Researcher

Faculty Mentor:  Dr. Josef Uyeda

Department of Biological Sciences

kacorn@ucdavis.edu

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Dr. Corn is a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Josef Uyeda at Virginia Tech. Prior to arriving at Virginia Tech, she completed her PhD with Dr. Peter C. Wainwright at University of California, Davis.

Dr. Corn’s research focuses on the intersection of biomechanics and macroevolution, exploring how major transitions in ecology and behavior affect the evolution of morphology and function. She studies these questions in the largest living radiation of vertebrates, teleost fishes.

Major questions that Dr. Corn’s work asks include:

1. How does feeding mode affect the evolution of the prey capture apparatus in fishes?

2. How linked are evolution of form (morphology) and function (kinematics)?

3. How do functional trade-offs mediate adaptive evolution?

To answer these questions, Dr. Corn uses a suite of cutting-edge phylogenetic comparative

methods and geometric morphometrics to study fishes from museum collections as well as live animals in the lab and field.