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Kristina Aldridge, PhD

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Assistant Professor
phone: 573-882-8910 (office) 573-882-8922 (lab)
email: aldridgek@missouri.edu
web: http://web.missouri.edu/~aldridgek/
Biographical sketch

Degrees:
B.A. cum laude, Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1996

Ph.D., Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore

Additional study:
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University

NIMH Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine.

Academic Appointments:
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri School of Medicine.

Interests:

neuroanatomy
craniofacial phenotypes
morphometrics

Research description
Dr. Aldridge is doing research focused on the development, evolution, and variation of brain morphology. At the center of this research is the relationship between the various component structures of the brain and factors influencing those relationships, both normal and pathological. She uses an integrative approach to the study of morphology, using 3D morphometric methods in analysis of medical imaging data from infant, juvenile, and adult humans, non-human primates, and other animal models. She is also involved in studying the relationship between the developing face and developing brain in various neurodevelopmental disorders, including craniosynostosis and autism spectrum disorders.

Representative Publications

Aldridge K, Reeves RH, Olson LE, Richtsmeier JT (2007) "Differential effects of trisomy on brain shape and volume in related aneuploid mouse models." American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A: 143A: 1060-1070.
Aldridge K, Boyadjiev SA, Capone GT, DeLeon VB, Richtsmeier JT (2005) Precision and error of three-dimensional phenotypic measures acquired from 3dMD photogrammetric images. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A 138A: 247-253.
Aldridge K, Kane AA, Marsh JL, Panchal J, Boyd SA, Yan P, Govier D, Ahmad W, Richtsmeier JT (2005) Brain Morphology in Non-Syndromic Unicoronal Craniosynostosis. Anatomical Record Part A: Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology 285A: 690-698.
Aldridge K, Kane AA, Marsh JL, Govier D, Richtsmeier JT (2005) Relationship of brain and skull in pre- and postoperative sagittal synostosis. Journal of Anatomy 206: 373-385.

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