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Background
Dr. Devlin is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School . She has an interdisciplinary background in biological anthropology and evolutionary and developmental biology, and her research focuses on testing questions about human skeletal variation using experimental, comparative, and molecular techniques. In her PhD research with Dan Lieberman at Harvard University , which was supported by an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, she tested how the hormone estrogen affects exercise-induced bone growth, in order to understand patterns of skeletal robusticity in human evolution. At the Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory, she is studying how variation in the perinatal and postnatal energetic environment affects bone growth and maintenance in mice, as a way to understand how early life conditions affect osteoporosis risk in humans. Another project involves measuring how trabecular bone changes with aging in various strains of mice from the Jackson Laboratory Shock Aging project.
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Selected Publications
Devlin MJ,
Lieberman
DE
. (2007) Variation in estradiol level affects cortical bone growth in response to
mechanical loading in sheep. Journal of Experimental Biology 210:602-613.
Pontzer H,
Lieberman
DE
, Momin E, Devlin MJ, Polk JD, Hallgrimsson B, Cooper DM. (2006) Trabecular bone in the
bird knee responds with high sensitivity to changes in load orientation. Journal
of Experimental Biology 209(Pt 1):57-65.
Lieberman DE, Krovitz GE,
Yates FW, Devlin MJ, St. Claire M. (2004) Effects of food processing on masticatory strain and craniofacial growth in a retrognathic face. Journal of Human Evolution 46(6):655-77.
Lieberman
DE
, Devlin MJ, Pearson OM.
(2001) Articular surface
area responses to mechanical loading: effects of exercise, age and skeletal
location. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 116(4):266-277.
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