Dr. AURORE CANOVILLE
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Outreach experiences

Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
  • Guided tour at the Bromacker excavation site (07/2024)
  • Long Night of Science (06/2023)
  • Berlin Science Week (11/2023)
 
Stiftung Friedenstein Gotha, Germany
  • Science Live: ‘Sampling 290 Myo-specimens from the Bromacker Locality’ (02/2022)
  • Official opening event of the exhibit: ‘Bromacker Lab – Discovering Prehistoric Times!’ (06/2022)
 
NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh NC, USA
  • Girls in Science – Guest Speaker: ‘The Life of a Palaeontologist’ (2021)
  • Adult Nights: Wild Love (2020)
  • Girls in Science - Guest Speaker: ‘The Life of a Palaeontologist’ (2018)
  • Adult Nights: Throwback Thursday 90’s (2017)
 
NC State University, Raleigh NC, USA
  • State of the Sciences: Live! at the Library (2018, 2017)
  • Postdoc Pop Talks - visually immersive research talk (2018)
 
North Carolina, USA
  • Invited speaker for Chapel Hill Bird Club: ‘Can we determine the sex of dinosaurs by looking into their bones?’ (2017, Chapel Hill)
  • STEM goes RED (2017, SAS Executive Briefing Centre, Cary)
 
South Africa
  • Public lecture at West Coast Fossil Park: ‘Origin and evolution of birds (living dinosaurs – the deep origins of birds’ (2013, Langebaan)
Public Lecture for Cape Bird Club courses: ‘Origin and evolution of birds (living dinosaurs – the deep origins of birds’ (2012, Cape Town)


Teaching experiences

2022/2023/2024
  • Short Course on bone (Paleo)histology - Principal Instructor (Master's students). 2 days, ~ 15 students
2021
  • BIO 181 Introductory Biology: Ecology, Evolution & Biodiversity – Teaching assistant (undergrad students). Summer II
  • BIO 181 Introductory Biology: Ecology, Evolution & Biodiversity – Principal Instructor (undergrad students). Spring semester, 169 students
2020
  • BIO 181 Introductory Biology: Ecology, Evolution & Biodiversity – Principal Instructor (undergrad students). Fall semester, 220 students
  • Archosaurian Anatomy - Guest Lecturer on Bone Tissues (under/postgrad students). 2 days, 10 participants.
2019
  • Short Course on (Paleo)histology & Workshop on Petrographic thin-sections (NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh NC, USA). 3 days, 16 participants.
2016
  • Lecture on Bone microanatomy, secondary aquatic adaptations, non-destructive techniques to study bone tissues (micro-CT, synchrotron), for the Short Course Paleohistology, Biology and Paleontology. Master’s and PhD international students (Steinmann Institute, University of Bonn, Germany). 4h – 7 students.
 2015
  • Lecture on Origin and diversification of amniotes / marine reptiles for the Vertebrate Paleontology Module (M60), first year Geology Master’s students (University of Bonn, Germany). 3h – 12 students.
  • Lecture on Non-mammalian synapsids (Pelycosauria, Therapsida) for the Vertebrate Paleontology Module (OEP35), first year Organismic Biology, Evolutionary Biology and Paleobiology (OEP) Master’s students (University of Bonn, Germany). 1h – 8 students.
  • Lecture on Early amniotes for the Vertebrate Paleontology Module (OEP35), first year OEP Master’s students (University of Bonn, Germany). 2h – 8 students.
  • Lecture on Bone microanatomy and paleobiological inferences/ new techniques used in paleohistology (micro-CT, synchrotron) for the short course Fossil Hard Tissue Histology (M63), Biology and Paleontology Master’s students (Steinmann Institute, University of Bonn, Germany). 3h – 12 students.
 2014
  • Lecture on Early amniotes / marine reptiles for the Vertebrate Paleontology Module (M60), first year Geology Master’s students (University of Bonn, Germany). 3h – 10 students.
 2013
  • Cell biology practical demonstrator for first-year students (BIO1000F, Biological Sciences Department, University of Cape Town). 40h – 12 students.
 2011/2012/2103
  • Organization of the Paleobiology Module for the biological sciences honours students (Biological Sciences Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa) and contribution to 1 week of lectures – 10 students.

Supervision of students
Professional development:
  • Since 2011: Training of students and colleagues on thin-sectioning protocols and bone histological interpretations.
  • 2020 – present: Mentoring of Rebekah RHODES, PhD Student of Paleo3 Research Group, NCSU (as part of the joint Paleosciences Peer Mentoring Program, NC State University, USA & Stellenbosch University, South Africa).
  • 2021 – 2022: Mentoring of Silvia KOLOMAZNIK, Masters Student (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena) on bone (paleo)histological techniques.

Research projects:
2022 – present
Saskia NIEKE, Masters student (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany).
Project title: Paleobiological and biomechanical investigations of the first hypothesized arboreal anomodont Suminia getmanovi (Upper Permian of Russia) by means of bone microstructural analysis

2022 – present
Rebecca LELLAU, Masters student (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany).
In co-supervision with P. FRENZEL, PhD.
Project title: Isotopic and chemical analyses of the bones of different tetrapods recovered from the Early Permian Bromacker Locality of Germany

2015
Kayleigh WIERSMA, Masters student (University of Bonn, Germany).In co-supervision with Prof. Martin SANDER.
Project title: Histology of the sauropod long bones from the Howe-Stephens Quarry (Morrison Formation, Wyoming): testing hypotheses of skeletal unity.
Publication of Wiersma-Weyand et al. 2021

2013
Vidushi DABEE, 4th year Honours student (Biological Sciences Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa).
In co-supervision with Prof. Anusuya CHINSAMY-TURAN
Project title: Biological interpretations from long bone microstructure of marine birds.
2011
Tobias NASTERLACK, 4th year Honours student (Biological Sciences Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa) 
In co-supervision with Prof. Anusuya CHINSAMY-TURAN
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Project title: New insights into the biology of the Permian genus Cistecephalus (Therapsida, Dicynodontia).
Publication of Nasterlack et al., 2012


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