Julia Zichello, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biology
Ph.D. The Graduate Center, City University of New York
M.Phil. The Graduate Center, City University of New York
B.F.A, Pratt Institute

julia.zichello@mountsaintvincent.edu

Areas of Interest

• Vertebrate evolution
• Population genetics
• Human and primate evolution
• The Hominin fossil record
• How population size changes impact variation within a species
• Invasive species as models of rapid adaptation and evolution
• Historical DNA from museum specimens

Courses

• BIOL 109 Anatomy and Physiology I
• BIOL 110 Anatomy and Physiology II

Professional Affiliations
American Museum of Natural History – Research Associate
American Association of Physical Anthropologists

Publications
Bodt, L.H., Rollins, L.A. & J.M. Zichello (2020).
Contrasting Mitochondrial Diversity of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) across three invasive continental distributions. Ecology & Evolution, accepted August 2020.

Zichello, J.M., Baab, K.L., McNulty, K.P., Raxworthy, C.J, & M.E. Steiper (2018). Hominoid intraspecific cranial variation mirrors neutral genetic diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(45), 11501-11506.

Zichello, J.M. (2018). Look in the Trees: Hylobatids as Evolutionary Models for
Extinct Hominins. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News and Reviews, 27(4), 142-146.

Kheng. V., Zichello, J.M., Lumbantobing, D.N. Lawalata, S.Z.S., Andayani, N., and D.J. Melnick (2017). Phylogeography and population structure of the Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch). International Journal of Primatology. 39(1), 5-26.

Steiper, M. E., Walsh, F. W., and J.M. Zichello (2012).
The SLC4A1 gene is under differential selective pressure in primates infected by Plasmodium falciparum and related parasites. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 5:1037-1045.

Steiper, M.E., Parikh, S.J., and J.M. Zichello (2008).
Phylogenetic Analysis of the Promoter Region of the CD40L Gene in Primates and other Mammals. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 8:406-413.