Dr Emma Sherratt

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2020 - 2024	ARC Future Fellow	University of Adelaide
  2019 - 2019	Lecturer (Teaching-Research Academic)	University of Adelaide
  2017 - 2019	Research Fellow	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  2016 - 2017	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Australian National University, Canberra
  2014 - 2016	Lecturer in Zoology	University of New England
  2013 - 2014	Postdoctoral Research Assistant	Iowa State University, Ames
  2011 - 2013	Postdoctoral Research Assistant	Harvard University, Cambridge
  2006 - 2007	Research Technician	University of Manchester, Manchester

• Awards and Achievements

  Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
  2020	Fellowship	ARC Future Fellowship	The University of Adelaide	Australia	$681,697
  2019	Award	Women’s Research Excellence Award	The University of Adelaide	Australia	$5000
  2018	Award	Travel Award from Society for the Study of Evolution	Society for the Study of Evolution	France	US $5,000
  2017	Award	Early Career Researcher International Conference Travel Award	The University of Adelaide	Australia	$2000
  2017	Fellowship	Early Career Research Fellowship	The University of Adelaide	Australia	$20,000 plus salary
  2017	Recognition	Best talk	Australian National University	Australia
  2012	Award	Postdoctoral Award for Professional Development	Harvard University	United States	US$1,000
  2007	Scholarship	PhD Scholarship, National Environmental Research Council (NERC) industrial collaborative awards in science and engineering (CASE)	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
  2006	Award	Zoology Prize of Excellence	University of Manchester	United Kingdom

• Language Competencies

  Language	Competency
  French	Can read, write, speak and understand spoken
  German	Can read, write, speak and understand spoken

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2007 - 2011	University of Manchester, Manchester	United Kingdom	Ph.D. Animal Biology
  2002 - 2006	University of Manchester, Manchester	United Kingdom	B.Sc. Zoology with Industrial Experience

• Research Interests

  Anatomy & Morphology Animal Structure and Function Biostatistics Evolutionary Biology Paleontology Statistics & Probability Vertebrate Biology Zoology

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2022	Onley, I., Moseby, K., Austin, J., & Sherratt, E. (2022). Morphological variation in skull shape and size across extinct and extant populations of the greater stick-nest rat (Leporillus conditor): implications for translocation. Australian Mammalogy, 44(3), 12 pages. DOI
  2022	Patterson, M., Wolfe, A., Fleming, P., Bateman, P. W., Sherratt, E., & Warburton, N. (2022). Ontogenetic shift in diet of a large elapid snake is facilitated by allometric change in skull morphology. Evolutionary Ecology, 36(4), 21 pages. DOI Scopus1 WoS2
  2022	Chatterji, R., Sherratt, E., Hipsley, C., Hutchinson, M., & Jones, M. (2022). Ontogenetic allometry underlies trophic diversity in sea turtles (Chelonioidea). Evolutionary Ecology, 36(4), 1-30. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
  2022	Martin, E., Young, J., Fellman, C., Kraatz, B., & Sherratt, E. (2022). Anatomical correlates of cursoriality are compromised by burrowing behaviour and body size in a group of small mammals (Lagomorpha). Evolutionary Biology.
  2022	Latimer, A., Sherratt, E., Bonnet, T., & Scheyer, T. (2022). Semicircular canal shape diversity among modern lepidosaurs – Life habit, size, allometry. BMC Ecology and Evolution.
  2022	Geiger, M., Sánchez-Villagra, M., & Sherratt, E. (2022). Cranial shape variation in domestication: a pilot study on the case of rabbits. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 10 pages. DOI
  2022	Sherratt, E., McCullough, E. L., & Painting, C. J. (2022). Commentary: The ecological and evolutionary implications of allometry. Evolutionary Ecology, 36(4), 431-437. DOI
  2021	Scarsbrook, L., Sherratt, E., Hitchmough, R. A., & Rawlence, N. J. (2021). Skeletal variation in extant species enables systematic identification of New Zealand’s large, subfossil diplodactylids. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 21(1), 1-10. DOI Scopus4 WoS4
  2021	Weisbecker, V., Rowe, T., Wroe, S., Macrini, T., Garland, K., Travouillon, K., . . . Sherratt, E. (2021). Global elongation and high shape flexibility as an evolutionary hypothesis of accommodating mammalian brains into skulls. Evoution, 75(3), 625-640. DOI Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC2
  2021	Kraatz, B., Belabbas, R., Fostowicz-Frelik, L. A., Ge, D., Kuznetsov, A. N., Madlen, L., . . . Ruf, I. (2021). Lagomorpha as a model morphological system. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 636402-1-636402-26. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
  2020	Puckett, E., Sherratt, E., Combs, M., Carlen, E. J., Harcourt-Smith, W., & Munshi-South, J. (2020). Variation in brown rat cranial shape shows directional selection over 120 years in New York City. Ecology and Evolution, 10(11), 4739-4748. DOI Scopus4 WoS6 Europe PMC2
  2020	Guillerme, T., Cooper, N., Brusatte, S., Davis, K., Jackson, A., Gerber, S., . . . Donoghue, P. (2020). Disparities in the analysis of morphological disparity. Biology Letters, 16(7), 1-8. DOI Scopus19 WoS18 Europe PMC4
  2020	Sherratt, E., & Sanders, K. (2020). Patterns of intracolumnar size variation inform the heterochronic mechanisms underlying extreme body shape divergence in microcephalic sea snakes. Evolution & Development, 22(3), 283-290. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
  2020	Marcy, A. E., Guillerme, T., Sherratt, E., Rowe, K., Phillips, M., & Weisbecker, V. (2020). Australian Rodents Reveal Conserved Cranial Evolutionary Allometry across 10 Million Years of Murid Evolution. American Naturalist, 196(6), 755-768. DOI Scopus9 WoS14 Europe PMC1
  2020	Mitchell, D. R., Sherratt, E., Sansalone, G., Ledogar, J. A., Flavel, R. J., & Wroe, S. (2020). Feeding biomechanics influences craniofacial morphology at the subspecies scale among Australian pademelons (macropodidae: thylogale). Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 27(2), 199-209. DOI Scopus4 WoS4
  2019	Gallaher, T. J., Adams, D. C., Attigala, L., Burke, S. V., Craine, J. M., Duvall, M. R., . . . Clark, L. G. (2019). Leaf shape and size tracks habitat transitions across forest-grassland boundaries in the grass family (Poaceae). Evolution, 73(5), 927-946. DOI Scopus32 WoS30 Europe PMC10
  2019	Sherratt, E., Sanders, K., Watson, A., Hutchinson, M., Lee, M. S. Y., & Palci, A. (2019). Heterochronic shifts mediate ecomorphological convergence in skull shape of microcephalic sea snakes. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59(3), 616-624. DOI Scopus15 WoS15 Europe PMC6
  2019	Bardua, C., Marshall, A., Gower, D. J., Wilkinson, M., Sherratt, E., & Goswami, A. (2019). Morphological evolution and modularity of the caecilian skull. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19(1), 1-23. DOI Scopus42 WoS47 Europe PMC20
  2019	Marshall, A. F., Bardua, C., Gower, D. J., Wilkinson, M., Sherratt, E., & Goswami, A. (2019). High-density three-dimensional morphometric analyses support conserved static (intraspecific) modularity in caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) crania. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 126(4), 721-742. DOI Scopus23 WoS22
  2019	Gray, J. A., Sherratt, E., Hutchinson, M., & Jones, M. E. H. (2019). Changes in ontogenetic patterns facilitate diversification in skull shape of Australian agamid lizards. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19(7), 1-10. DOI Scopus17 WoS17 Europe PMC3
  2019	Hipsley, C., & Sherratt, E. (2019). Psychology, not technology, is our biggest challenge to open digital morphology data. Scientific Data, 6(1), 41-1-41-5. DOI Scopus9 WoS10 Europe PMC4
  2019	Gray, J., Sherratt, E., Hutchinson, M. N., & Jones, M. (2019). Evolution of cranial shape in a continental-scale evolutionary radiation of Australian lizards. Evolution, 73(11), 2216-2229. DOI Scopus9 WoS9 Europe PMC5
  2019	Weisbecker, V., Guillerme, T., Speck, C., Sherratt, E., Abraha, H. M., Sharp, A., . . . Panagiotopoulou, O. (2019). Individual variation of the masticatory system dominates 3D skull shape in the herbivory-adapted marsupial wombats. Frontiers in Zoology, 16(1), 41-1-41-14. DOI Scopus9 WoS10
  2019	Martin, M. L., Travouillon, K. J., Sherratt, E., Fleming, P. A., & Warburton, N. M. (2019). Covariation between forelimb muscle anatomy and bone shape in an Australian scratch-digging marsupial: comparison of morphometric methods. Journal of Morphology, 280(12), 1900-1915. DOI Scopus11 WoS11 Europe PMC1
  2019	Sherratt, E., Coutts, F., Rasmussen, A., & Sanders, K. (2019). Vertebral evolution and ontogenetic allometry: the developmental basis of extreme body shape divergence in microcephalic sea snakes. Evolution and Development, 21(3), 135-144. DOI Scopus6 WoS7 Europe PMC1
  2018	Sherratt, E., Rasmussen, A., & Sanders, K. (2018). Trophic specialization drives morphological evolution in sea snakes. Royal Society Open Science, 5(3), 172141-1-172141-8. DOI Scopus26 WoS24 Europe PMC12
  2018	Attard, M., Sherratt, E., McDonald, P., Young, I., Vidal-García, M., & Wroe, S. (2018). A new, three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach to assess egg shape. PeerJ, 6(6), 5052. DOI Scopus14 WoS12 Europe PMC1
  2018	Mitchell, D., Sherratt, E., Ledogar, J., & Wroe, S. (2018). The biomechanics of foraging determines face length among kangaroos and their relatives. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1881), 1-10. DOI Scopus14 WoS14 Europe PMC3
  2018	Sherratt, E., Anstis, M., & Keogh, J. S. (2018). Ecomorphological diversity of Australian tadpoles. Ecology and Evolution, 8(24), 12929-12939. DOI Scopus15 WoS16 Europe PMC1
  2017	Esquerré, D., Sherratt, E., & Keogh, J. (2017). Evolution of extreme ontogenetic allometric diversity and heterochrony in pythons, a clade of giant and dwarf snakes. Evolution, 71(12), 2829-2844. DOI Scopus44 WoS45 Europe PMC15
  2017	Sherratt, E., Serb, J., & Adams, D. (2017). Rates of morphological evolution, asymmetry and morphological integration of shell shape in scallops. BMC evolutionary biology, 17(1), 248-1-248-11. DOI Scopus18 WoS18 Europe PMC6
  2017	Serb, J., Sherratt, E., Alejandrino, A., & Adams, D. (2017). Phylogenetic convergence and multiple shell shape optima for gliding scallops (Bivalvia: Pectinidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(9), 1736-1747. DOI Scopus21 WoS23 Europe PMC5
  2017	Sherratt, E., Vidal-García, M., Anstis, M., & Keogh, J. (2017). Adult frogs and tadpoles have different macroevolutionary patterns across the Australian continent. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1(9), 1385-1391. DOI Scopus47 WoS48 Europe PMC12
  2017	Barak, M., Sherratt, E., & Lieberman, D. E. (2017). Using principle trabecular orientation to differentiate joint loading orientation in the 3rd metacarpal heads of humans and chimpanzees. Journal of Human Evolution, 113, 173-182. DOI Scopus17 WoS20 Europe PMC5
  2017	Dickson, B., Sherratt, E., Losos, J., & Pierce, S. (2017). Semicircular canals in Anolis lizards: ecomorphological convergence and ecomorph affinities of fossil species. Royal Society Open Science, 4(10), 170058-1-170058-15. DOI Scopus16 WoS16 Europe PMC9
  2017	Attard, M., Medina, I., Langmore, N., & Sherratt, E. (2017). Egg shape mimicry in parasitic cuckoos. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(11), 2079-2084. DOI Scopus14 WoS15 Europe PMC5
  2017	Garland, K., Marcy, A., Sherratt, E., & Weisbecker, V. (2017). Out on a limb: bandicoot limb co-variation suggests complex impacts of development and adaptation on marsupial forelimb evolution. Evolution and Development, 19(2), 69-84. DOI Scopus9 WoS11 Europe PMC8
  2016	Klaczko, J., Sherratt, E., & Setz, E. (2016). Are diet preferences associated to skulls shape diversification in xenodontine snakes?. PLoS ONE, 11(2), 1-12. DOI Scopus29 WoS30 Europe PMC14
  2016	Kraatz, B., & Sherratt, E. (2016). Evolutionary morphology of the rabbit skull. PeerJ, 4(9), 1-23. DOI Scopus14 WoS13 Europe PMC6
  2016	Marcy, A., Hadly, E., Sherratt, E., Garland, K., & Weisbecker, V. (2016). Getting a head in hard soils: convergent skull evolution and divergent allometric patterns explain shape variation in a highly diverse genus of pocket gophers (Thomomys). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16(1), 1-16. DOI Scopus23 WoS23 Europe PMC6
  2016	Sherratt, E., Alejandrino, A., Kraemer, A., Serb, J., & Adams, D. (2016). Trends in the sand: directional evolution in the shell shape of recessing scallops (Bivalvia: Pectinidae). Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 70(9), 2061-2073. DOI Scopus26 WoS28 Europe PMC8
  2015	Hetherington, A., Sherratt, E., Ruta, M., Wilkinson, M., Deline, B., & Donoghue, P. (2015). Do cladistic and morphometric data capture common patterns of morphological disparity?. Palaeontology, 58(3), 393-399. DOI Scopus37 WoS36
  2015	Kraatz, B., Sherratt, E., Bumacod, N., & Wedel, M. (2015). Ecological correlates to cranial morphology in Leporids (Mammalia, Lagomorpha). PeerJ, 3(3), 1-20. DOI Scopus16 WoS14 Europe PMC7
  2015	Leamy, L., Klingenberg, C., Sherratt, E., Wolf, J., & Cheverud, J. (2015). The genetic architecture of fluctuating asymmetry of mandible size and shape in a population of mice: Another look. Symmetry, 7(1), 146-163. DOI Scopus18 WoS19
  2015	Sherratt, E., Del Rosario Castañeda, M., Garwood, R., Mahler, D., Sanger, T., Herrel, A., . . . Hillis, D. (2015). Amber fossils demonstrate deep-time stability of Caribbean lizard communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(32), 9961-9966. DOI Scopus36 WoS35 Europe PMC12
  2014	Sherratt, E., Gower, D., Klingenberg, C., & Wilkinson, M. (2014). Evolution of Cranial Shape in Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Evolutionary Biology, 41(4), 528-545. DOI Scopus84 WoS85
  2014	Tschopp, P., Sherratt, E., Sanger, T., Groner, A., Aspiras, A., Hu, J., . . . Tabin, C. (2014). A relative shift in cloacal location repositions external genitalia in amniote evolution. Nature, 516(7531), 391-394. DOI Scopus53 WoS52 Europe PMC37
  2014	Del Rosario Castañeda, M., Sherratt, E., & Losos, J. (2014). The Mexican amber anole, Anolis electrum, within a phylogenetic context: Implications for the origins of Caribbean anoles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 172(1), 133-144. DOI Scopus11 WoS10
  2014	Maddin, H., & Sherratt, E. (2014). Influence of fossoriality on inner ear morphology: Insights from caecilian amphibians. Journal of Anatomy, 225(1), 83-93. DOI Scopus22 WoS25 Europe PMC13
  2014	Wilkinson, M., Presswell, B., Sherratt, E., Papadopoulou, A., & Gower, D. (2014). A new species of striped Ichthyophis Fitzinger, 1826 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from Myanmar. Zootaxa, 3785(1), 45-58. DOI Scopus12 WoS12 Europe PMC3
  2013	Sanger, T., Sherratt, E., Mcglothlin, J., Brodie, E., Losos, J., & Abzhanov, A. (2013). Convergent Evolution Of Sexual Dimorphism In Skull Shape Using Distinct Developmental Strategies. Evolution, 67(8), 2180-2193. DOI Scopus65 WoS63 Europe PMC29
  2013	Wilkinson, M., Sherratt, E., Starace, F., & Gower, D. (2013). A new species of skin-feeding caecilian and the first report of reproductive mode in Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae). PLoS ONE, 8(3), e57756-1-e57756-11. DOI Scopus37 WoS32 Europe PMC7
  2012	Kamei, R., San Mauro, D., Gower, D., Van Bocxlaer, I., Sherratt, E., Thomas, A., . . . Biju, S. (2012). Discovery of a new family of amphibians from northeast India with ancient links to Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1737), 2396-2401. DOI Scopus97 WoS90 Europe PMC22
  2011	Wilkinson, M., Mauro, D., Sherratt, E., & Gower, D. (2011). A nine-family classification of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Zootaxa, (2874), 41-64. Scopus110 WoS102
  2010	Gower, D. J., Wilkinson, M., Sherratt, E., & Kok, P. J. R. (2010). A new species of Rhinatrema Duméril & Bibron (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Rhinatrematidae) from Guyana. Zootaxa, 2391(2391), 47-60. DOI Scopus24 WoS22
  2008	Leamy, L. J., Klingenberg, C. P., Sherratt, E., Wolf, J. B., & Cheverud, J. M. (2008). A search for quantitative trait loci exhibiting imprinting effects on mouse mandible size and shape. Heredity, 101(6), 518-526. DOI Scopus41 WoS44 Europe PMC36
  2007	Poynton, J. C., Loader, S. P., Sherratt, E., & Clarke, B. T. (2007). Amphibian diversity in East African biodiversity hotspots: Altitudinal and latitudinal patterns. Biodiversity and Conservation, 16(4), 1103-1118. DOI Scopus29 WoS28 Europe PMC7
  	Todorov, O. S., Hird, C., Kraatz, B., Sherratt, E., Hill, N., de Sousa, A. A., . . . Weisbecker, V. (n.d.). Down a Rabbit Hole: Burrowing Behaviour and Larger Home Ranges are Related to Larger Brains in Leporids. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. DOI

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2020	Gray, J. A., Sherratt, E., Hutchinson, M. N., & Jones, M. E. H. (2020). Dragons of the trees, the rocks, and the ground: the evolution of cranial shape in a continental-scale evolutionary radiation of lizards (Lepidosauria: Agamidae). In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY Vol. 60 (pp. E89). Austin, TX: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC.
  2020	Kraatz, B., FRANKENBERG, L., Sherratt, E., & SCHMITZ, L. (2020). A link between orbital convergence and locomotor behavior in leporids and its implications for the evolution of the primate visual system. In American Journal of Physical Anthropology Vol. 117 (pp. 148-149). Los Angeles, CA USA: Wiley.
  2019	Sherratt, E., & Sanders, K. L. (2019). Tiny heads: the evolution of microcephalic sea snakes. In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY Vol. 59 (pp. E212). Tampa, FL: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC.
  2016	Barak, M. M., Sherratt, E., & Lieberman, D. E. (2016). Trabecular orientation in the 3rd metacarpal head of humans and chimps reveals their difference in locomotion behavior. In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Vol. 159 (pp. 86). Atlanta, GA: WILEY-BLACKWELL. WoS1
  2015	Sherratt, E., Adams, D. C., & Serb, J. M. (2015). Macroevolution, phylomorphospace and directional evolution in recessing scallops. In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY Vol. 55 (pp. E166). West Palm Beach, FL: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC.
  2012	Sherratt, E., Wilkinson, M., Gower, D. J., & Klingenberg, C. P. (2012). Evolution of Cranial Modularity in Caecilians. In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY Vol. 52 (pp. E159). Charleston, SC: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC. WoS1

• Original Creative Works

  Year	Citation
  2012	Authors: Sherratt E. Title: They've Kept On Keeping On. Description: N/A. Extent: N/A. DOI

• Datasets

  Year	Citation
  2020	Marcy, A., Guillerme, T., Sherratt, E., Rowe, K., Phillips, M., & Weisbecker, V. (2020). Data for: Australian rodents reveal conserved craniofacial evolutionary allometry across 10 million years of murid evolution. DOI
  2018	Sherratt, E., Anstis, M., & Keogh, S. K. (2018). Ecomorphological diversity of Australian tadpoles. DOI
  2018	Attard, M., Sherratt, E., McDonald, P., Young, I., Vidal-García, M., & Wroe, S. (2018). Data for: A new, three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach to assess egg shape. DOI
  2018	Sherratt, E., Rasmussen, A., & Sanders, K. (2018). Data for: Trophic specialisation drives morphological evolution in sea snakes. DOI
  2017	Sherratt, E., Vidal-García, M., Anstis, M., & Keogh, S. (2017). Data for: Adult frogs and tadpoles have different macroevolutionary patterns across the Australian continent. DOI
  2017	Esquerré, D., Sherratt, E., & Keogh, J. S. (2017). Data for: Evolution of extreme ontogenetic allometric diversity and heterochrony in pythons, a clade of giant and dwarf snakes. DOI
  2017	Attard, M., Medina, I., Sherratt, E., & Langmore, N. (2017). Data for: Egg shape mimicry in parasitic cuckoos. DOI
  2015	Sherratt, E., Castañeda, M. D. R., Garwood, R., Mahler, D. L., Sanger, T., Herrel, A., . . . Losos, J. (2015). Data for: Amber fossils demonstrate deep-time stability of Caribbean lizard communities. DOI
  2014	Castañeda, D., Sherratt, S., & Losos, B. (2014). The Mexican amber anole, Anolis electrum, within a phylogenetic context: implications for Caribbean anoles origins (project). DOI
  	Sherratt, E., Sanders, K. L., Watson, A., N, H. M., Lee, M. S. Y., & Palci, A. (n.d.). Data for: Heterochronic shifts mediate ecomorphological convergence in skull shape of microcephalic sea snakes. DOI
  	Sherratt, E., & Sanders, K. (n.d.). Data for: Patterns of intracolumnar size variation inform the heterochronic mechanisms underlying extreme body shape divergence in microcephalic sea snakes. DOI

• Software

  Year	Citation
  2017	Adams, D. C., Collyer, M., Kaliontzopoulou, A., & Sherratt, E. (2017). geomorph: Software for geometric morphometric analyses (Version 3.0.5) [Computer Software]. CRAN.

• Filesets

  Year	Citation
  	Sherratt, E., Coutts, F., Rasmussen, A. R., & Sanders, K. (n.d.). Data for: Vertebral evolution and ontogenetic allometry: The developmental basis of extreme body shape divergence in microcephalic sea snakes. DOI

Coordinator

Principles & Practices of Research (Advanced) (SCIENCE 1300, 2300, 3100) 

• Ecology & Evolutionary Biology discipline                                                                                                           

Guest Lecturer

Research Methods in Evolutionary Biology III (ENV BIOL 3535 Sem 1)

• Trait evolution lecture

Evolutionary Biology III (ENV BIOL 3590 Sem 2)

• Snake practical class

University of California, Merced, CA USA

• Online discussion about my research for Herpetology (BIO 158 Spring)

University of Idaho, ID USA

• Online discussion about my research for Herpetology (BIOL 489 Fall)                               

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2022	Principal Supervisor	Evolutionary Constraints and Trade-Offs in the Locomotor Morphology of Birds and Mammals	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Ellen May Martin
  2022	Principal Supervisor	Dimensions of bony foramina as an indirect measure of blood flow rate: Inferences across phylogenetic and ontological sequences	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Thomas Jack Nelson
  2022	Principal Supervisor	An exploration of sexual dimorphism within Australian snakes	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Tamika Jayne Nash-Hahn
  2021	Principal Supervisor	To advance knowledge on the phylogenetic status of the Australian hare and investigate changing morphologies involved in locomotion and dispersal ability of this species.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Nuttakorn Taewcharoen
  2020	Co-Supervisor	Morphology and ecology of Ediacaran fossils from Nilpena Station (Ediacara Conservation Park, Flinders Ranges, South Australia)	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Tory Lyn Botha

• Other Supervision Activities

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Location	Program	Supervision Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2022 - ongoing	Other	Adaptation and constraint in macrostomatan snake jaws	University of Chicago	Ph.D. Evolutionary Biology	Doctorate	Full Time	Danny Rhoda
  2022 - ongoing	Principal Supervisor	Diving in the dark: morphological diversity of subterranean beetles	The University of Adelaide	Bachelor of Science with Honours in Evolution and Palaeobiology	Honours	Full Time	Yuxuan Zhao
  2021 - ongoing	Other	Spatial variability in carapace morphology for Sternotherus carinatus (razor-backed musk turtle).	Stephen F. Austin State University	Master's of Science in Natural and Applied Science	Master	Part Time	Robert Zac Selden, Jr.
  2021 - ongoing	External Supervisor	Cranial evolution in the Pygopodidae – ontogeny, ecology and divergence in skull shape of legless lizards	Murdoch University	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Matthew Patterson
  2021 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Phenotypic plasticity in Tiger Snakes	The University of Adelaide	Bachelor of Science with Honours in Evolution and Palaeobiology	Honours	Full Time	Ammresh
  2021 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Vertebral evolution of snakes	The University of Adelaide	Bachelor of Science with Honours in Evolution and Palaeobiology	Honours	Full Time	Tamika Nash-Hahn
  2021 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Morphological evolution of Diplodactyloid geckos	The University of Adelaide	Bachelor of Science with Honours in Evolution and Palaeobiology	Honours	Full Time	Amy Green
  2021 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Ecomorpholgical diversity of rabbits across South Australia	The University of Adelaide	Bachelor of Science with Honours in Evolution and Palaeobiology	Honours	Full Time	Ellen Martin
  2021 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Morphology and genetics of Australian rabbits	The University of Adelaide	School of Biological Sciences - Undergraduate Summer Scholarship	Other	Full Time	Peter Brownridge
  2020 - 2021	Co-Supervisor	Cranial and dental phenomics associated with Fibroblast Growth Factor gene knockout (FGF10+/-) mutation	The University of Adelaide	Honours Degree of Bachelor of Science in Dentistry	Honours	Full Time	Jenny Tan
  2019 - 2020	Principal Supervisor	Morphological Evolution of Foot Morphology in Australian Passerine Birds	The University of Adelaide	School of Biological Sciences - Undergraduate Summer Scholarship	Other	Full Time	Ellen Martin
  2019 - 2020	Principal Supervisor	Constructing the insect morphospace	The University of Adelaide	School of Biological Sciences - Undergraduate Summer Scholarship	Other	Full Time	Jackson Dann
  2019 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	Eoandromeda, the Ediacaran Fossil	The University of Adelaide	Bachelor of Science with Honours in Evolution and Palaeobiology	Honours	Full Time	Tory Botha
  2019 - 2019	Principal Supervisor	Morphological Evolution of Dung Beetles	University of Adelaide	Bachelor of Science with Honours in Evolution and Palaeobiology	Honours	Full Time	Alex Harvey
  2018 - 2019	Principal Supervisor	Geometric Morphometrics	University of Adelaide	Bachelor Science (Environmental Science and Engineering)	Other	Part Time	Dylan Simunsen
  2018 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	What Makes a Dingo? Investigating the Variation in the Dingoes’ Skeletal Morphology	The University of Adelaide	Bachelor of Science with Honours in Ecology and Environmental Science	Honours	Full Time	Aurelie Kanishka
  2017 - 2018	External Supervisor	Ontogenetic shifts in the diet and skull morphology of the dugite (Pseudonaja affinis)	Murdoch University	Bachelor of Science with Honours	Honours	Part Time	Matthew Patterson
  2015 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	Morphology, Biomechanics and Diet in Anthropoidea (Primates)	University of New England	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Hiu Ying Luk
  2015 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	The cranial mechanics of herbivory in diprotodont marsupials: an integrated geometric morphometric and finite element approach	University of New England	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	David Rex Mitchell

• Mentoring

  Date	Topic	Location	Name
  2019 - 2021	Geometric morphometrics, MSc candidate	University of Otago	Lachie Scarsbrook
  2017 - 2019	Geometric morphometrics, PhD candidate	University of Adelaide	Jaimi A Gray
  2017 - ongoing	Geometric morphometrics, PhD candidate	The University of Adelaide	Ray Chatterji

• Committee Memberships

  Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
  2019 - ongoing	Member	School of Biological Sciences Research Committee	The University of Adelaide	Australia
  2019 - 2020	Council	Royal Society of South Australia	Royal Society of South Australia	Australia

• Editorial Boards

  Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
  2020 - ongoing	Associate Editor	Evolutionary Ecology	Springer Nature Switzerland AG	Australia

• Position: ARC Ext-Funded Rsch Fellow (C)
• Phone: 83131550
• Email: emma.sherratt@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Benham, floor 1
• Org Unit: School of Biological Sciences