Talia Lowi-Merri

Postdoctoral Fellow
Scott Edwards Lab
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Museum of Comparative Zoology
tlowimerri@fas.harvard.edu
Talia Lowi-Merri's personal website

Talia is an evolutionary biologist and NSERC postdoctoral fellow in the Edwards lab at Harvard University. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto, based in the Royal Ontario Museum, in 2023 investigating the dinosaur-bird transition through ecomorphology of the avian sternum. She then completed a postdoctoral position at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, studying form-function, integration, and evolution in avian neuroanatomy. In the Edwards lab, Talia is expanding into genomic methods to study the evolution of flightlessness. In addition to research, Talia is an avid science communicator, having hosted the YouTube show ‘Paleologic’ on the Animalogic channel, and regularly engaging in museum-based programming and outreach.