{"id":551,"date":"2021-01-30T18:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T01:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/?page_id=551"},"modified":"2022-04-12T11:04:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:04:35","slug":"leon-claessens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/members\/leon-claessens\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Claessens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201996 MSc<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Leon studied the anatomy and functional morphology of theropod dinosaur gastralia with Phil at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller from 1995\u20131996. This was associated with Leon\u2019s master\u2019s research at Utrecht University, Netherlands around the same time. His work on dinosaur gastralia and potential respiratory functions has led to broader research on aspiration systems in modern-day crocodylians and birds. Leon received a PhD in Biology at Harvard University, and is now Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution at Maastricht University, Netherlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">LAB-RELATED PUBLICATIONS<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Claessens, L.P.A.M.<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\"> 2004. Dinosaur gastralia; origin, morphology, and f<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">unction. <i>Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology<\/i> 24(1): 89\u2013106. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1671\/A1116-8\">10.1671\/A1116-8<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">OTHER LINKS<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1873-6070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-296\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/ORCiD.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/ORCiD.png 500w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/ORCiD-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/11\/ORCiD-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201996 MSc Leon studied the anatomy and functional morphology of theropod dinosaur gastralia with Phil at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller from 1995\u20131996. This was associated with Leon\u2019s master\u2019s research at Utrecht University, Netherlands around the same time. His work on dinosaur gastralia and potential respiratory functions has led to broader research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-551","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551\/revisions\/552"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}