Welcome to the Coates Lab!
We sit at the crossroads of evolutionary developmental biology, paleobiology, and anatomy. Our research interests are wide-ranging, and broadly fall under the evolution and diversity of early vertebrates, as well as adding paleontological and comparative anatomy perspectives to evo-devo. We are also very interested in the use of new imaging and visualization technologies in our work, such as CT scanning and 3D printing.
NEWS
Tetsuto presents at SICB 2020!
The Coates lab postdoc Tetsuto Miyashita traveled to Austin, TX for the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), where he delivered a talk "The evolutionary origin of the filter-feeding larval phase in lampreys." When Chicago...
“Great” trip to Great Lakes Student Paleoconference!
Members of the Coates Lab traveled to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to present at the Great Lakes Student Paleoconference which hosted students from 7 institutions. Talks ranged from topics including reconstructing ecological communities, applying geometric...
Coates Lab attends SVP 2019!
We had a successful and fun trip to SVP in Brisbane this year! Ben Otoo presented a poster, "New Diversity in Early Tetrapod Hind Limbs" and Mike enraptured audiences with his talk, "Rethinking the Assembly of Chimaeroid Fishes." Rumor has it that both presentations...
Recent Publications
The postcranial anatomy of Whatcheeria deltae and its implications for the family Whatcheeriidae
Benjamin K A Otoo, John R Bolt, R Eric Lombard, Kenneth D Angielczyk, Michael I Coates. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa182