CURRENT POSITION
Director of Accreditation and Continuous Quality Improvement (2022 - present)
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Medical Education (2021 - present)
Medical Education Administration, Duke University School of Medicine
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Research Scholar (2018 - 2021)
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University
Postdoctoral Researcher (2017 - 2018)
Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina State University
EDUCATION
Doctorate of Philosophy in Evolutionary Anthropology (2017)
Dissertation title: Body mass prediction from dental and postcranial measurements in primates and their nearest relatives
Duke University, Durham, NC
Advisor: Doug M. Boyer
Bachelor of Arts in Evolutionary Biology of the Human Species (2011)
Columbia University, New York, NY
Bachelor of Science in English (2004)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
FUNDING, AWARDS and HONORS
External Grants
NSF BCS Collaborative Research Grant 2020434 (2021 - 2024)
“Measuring leaping performance, evaluating its anatomical correlates, and reconsidering the importance of leaping in primate origins and early evolution”. Co-PI with Doug M. Boyer, Daniel Schmitt, and Angel Zeininger.
NSF BCS Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant 1540421 (2015 - 2016)
“Generation and evaluation of body mass prediction equations using articular surface areas of the primate tarsus”. Co-PI with Doug M. Boyer.
Internal Grants
Duke AHEAD teaching innovation grant - Duke University School of Medicine, 2024
Arts & Sciences Council Committee on Faculty Research Award - Duke University, 2019
Trinity Research Enhancement Award - Duke University, 2014
Duke Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship - Duke University, 2014
Other Awards
Pollitzer Travel Award - American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2014
Enhanced Chancellor's Fellowship - Brooklyn College, 2011-2012
Phi Beta Kappa - Columbia University, 2011
Summa cum laude - Columbia University, 2011
John Angus Burrell Scholarship - Columbia University, 2009-2011
General Studies Honor Society - Columbia University, 2009
PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
Boulinguez-Ambroise G, Boyer DM, Dunham NT, Yapuncich GS, Bradley-Cronkwright MM, Boyer DM, Zeininger A, Schmitt D, Young JW. Biomechanical and morphological determinants of maximal jumping performance in callitrichine monkeys (in revision). Journal of Experimental Biology.
Boulinguez-Ambroise G, Dunham NT, Phelps T, Mazonas T, Nguyen P, Bradley-Cronkwright MM, Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Zeininger A, Schmitt D, Young JW. Leaping performance in tree squirrels: insights into primate evolution. Journal of Human Evolution. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103386
Pampush JD, Fuselier EJ, Yapuncich GS. 2021. Using BayesModelS to provide Bayesian- and phylogenetically-informed primate body mass predictions. Journal of Human Evolution. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103077
Yapuncich GS, Granatosky MC. 2021. Footloose: Articular surface morphology and joint movement potential in the ankles of lorisids and cheirogaleids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24298
Harrington AR, Yapuncich GS (co-authors), Boyer DM. 2020. The endocast of Necrolemur antiquus. Palaeovertebrata. doi: 10.18563/pv.43.2.e1
Yapuncich GS, Bowie A, Belais R, Churchill SE, Walker CS. 2020. Predicting body mass of bonobos (Pan paniscus) with human-based morphometric equations. American Journal of Primatology. doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23088
Yapuncich GS, Kemp AD, Griffith DM, Gladman JT, Ehmke E, Boyer DM. 2019. A digital collection of rare and endangered lemurs and other primates from the Duke Lemur Center. PLoS ONE. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219411
Yapuncich GS, Feng HJ, Dunn RH, Seiffert ER, Boyer DM. 2019. Vertical support use and primate origins. Scientific Reports. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48651-x
Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Dunham NT, McNamara A, Shapiro L, Hieronymus TL, Young JW. 2019. My branch is your branch: Talar morphology correlates with relative substrate size in platyrrhines at Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. Journal of Human Evolution. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.05.012
Walker CS, Cofran ZD, Grabowski M, Marchi D, Cook RW, Churchill SE, Tommy KA, Throckmorton Z, Ross AH, Hawks J, Yapuncich GS, Van Arsdale AP, Rentzeperis FI, Berger LR, DeSilva JM. 2019. Morphology of the Homo naledi femora from Lesedi. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23877
Yapuncich GS, Churchill SE, Cameron N, Walker CS. 2018. Morphometric panel regression equations for predicting body mass in immature humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23422
Yapuncich GS. 2018. Alternative methods for calculating percentage prediction error and their implications for predicting body mass in fossil taxa. Journal of Human Evolution. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.03.001
Walker CS, Yapuncich GS (co-authors), Sridhar S, Cameron N, Churchill SE. 2018. Evaluating morphometric body mass prediction equations with a juvenile test sample: accuracy and applicability to small-bodied hominins. Journal of Human Evolution. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.03.009
Yapuncich GS, Seiffert ER, Boyer DM. 2017. Quantification of the position and depth of the flexor hallucis longus groove in euarchontans, with implications for the evolution of primate positional behavior. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23213
Gao T, Yapuncich GS (co-authors), Daubechies I, Mukherjee S, Boyer DM. 2017. Development and assessment of fully automated and globally transitive geometric morphometric methods, with application to a biological comparative dataset with high interspecific variation. The Anatomical Record. doi: 10.1002/ar.23700
Griffin RH, Yapuncich GS. 2017. A critical comment on the ‘multiple variance Brownian motion’ model of Smaers et al. (2016). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blw030
Patel BA, Yapuncich GS, Tran C, Nengo IO. 2017. Catarrhine hallucal metatarsals from the early Miocene site of Songhor, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 108:176-198.
Harrington AR, Silcox MT, Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM, Bloch JI. 2016. First virtual endocasts of adapiform primates. Journal of Human Evolution 99:52-78.
Boyer DM, Kirk EC, Silcox MT, Gunnell GF, Gilbert CC, Yapuncich GS, Allen KL, Welch E, Bloch JI, Gonzalez LA, Kay RF, Seiffert ER. 2016. Internal carotid arterial canal size and scaling in Euarchonta: Re-assessing implications for arterial patency and phylogenetic relationships in early fossil primates. Journal of Human Evolution 97:123-144.
Griffin RH, Yapuncich GS (co-authors). 2015. The Independent Evolution Method is Not a Viable Phylogenetic Comparative Method. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0144147. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144147
Yapuncich GS, Gladman JT, Boyer DM. 2015. Predicting euarchontan body mass: A comparison of tarsal and dental variables. American Journal of Physical Anthropology DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22735
Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Butler JE, Dunn RH, Seiffert ER. 2015. Evolution of postural diversity in primates as reflected by the size and shape of the medial tibial facet of the talus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22702
Boyer DM, Puente J, Gladman JT, Glynn C, Mukherjee S, Yapuncich GS, Daubechies I. 2015. A new fully automated approach for aligning and comparing shapes. The Anatomical Record 298:249-276.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. 2014. Interspecific scaling patterns of talar articular surfaces within primates and their closest living relatives. Journal of Anatomy 224:150-172.
Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Chester SGB, Bloch JI, Godinot M. 2013. Hands of early primates. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 152:33-78.
Book chapters
Yapuncich GS, Chester SGB, Bloch JI, Boyer DM. 2022. Feet of Paleogene Primates. In: The Evolution of the Primate Foot (pp. 277-319). Springer New York.
Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Chester SGB, Bloch JI, Godinot M. 2016. Hands of Paleogene Primates. In: The Evolution of the Primate Hand (pp. 373-419). Springer New York.
ABSTRACTS and PRESENTATIONS
Whitman KL, Riddle C, Mazza A, Heritage S, Neely K, Yapuncich GS, Borths MR. Activating the paleontological research potential of life history data in
living collections: a case study at the Duke Lemur Center (accepted abstract). Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists Annual Meeting, November 2024.
Yapuncich GS, Velkey JM, Carbrey JM. Benefits of summarizing biomedical science curriculum using large-language generative models
(poster presentation). International Association of Medical Science Educators Anatomy Meeting, June 2024.
Bradley-Cronkwright MM, Yapuncich GS, Boulinguez-Ambroise G, Dunham NT, Zeininger A, Schmitt D, Young JW, Boyer DM. Vertical jumping agility as a key measure of performance in strepsirrhine primates (podium presentation). Association of Biological Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2024.
Yapuncich GS, Wood JL, Arkus Gardner KAJ, Velkey JM. Separating process and content improves the learner experience in basic science laboratories (poster presentation). American Association for Anatomy "Anatomy Connected" Meeting, March 2023.
Holmes MA, Yapuncich GS, Horn ME. Clinical anatomy as early collaborative learning for health professions students (podium presentation). American Association for Anatomy "Anatomy Connected" Meeting, March 2023.
Boyer DM, Borths MR, Bradley-Cronkwright MM, Dunn RH, Harrington AR, Gonzales LA, Morse PE, Seiffert ER, Stone JE, Yapuncich GS, Bloch JI. New Eocene euprimate fossils: morphological patterns and evolutionary implications (accepted abstract). American Association of Biological Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2023.
Boulinguez-Ambroise G, Dunham NT, Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Zeininger A, Schmitt D, Young JW. How to surpass yourself at jumping: a lesson from zoo living bicolor tamarins and Goeldi’s monkeys (accepted abstract). American Society of Primatologists Annual Meeting, June 2023.
Yapuncich GS, Hegarty E, Bradley-Cronkwright MM, Boulinguez-Ambroise G, Dunham NT, Zeininger A, Schmitt D, Young JW, Boyer DM. Relative hindlimb length and hindlimb segmental proportions as indicators of locomotor category in primates, rodents, and tree shrews (poster presentation). American Association of Biological Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2022.
Fulwood EL, Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. Trends in North American primate ecomorphological disparity in response to climate fluctuations over the Eocene. Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists Annual Meeting, November 2021.
Yapuncich GS. Longitudinal body mass variation of individuals from 20 strepsirrhine populations at the Duke Lemur Center (podium presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2021.
Yapuncich GS, Schmitt D, Wunderlich RE, Zeininger A. Using thin plate splines to statistically compare force curves produced by western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2020.
Kemp AD, Yapuncich GS, Zeininger A. Mechanics of leaping between supports in a small arboreal quadruped (Cheirogaleus medius) (podium presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2020.
Zeininger A, Yapuncich GS, Schmitt D, Wunderlich RE. The role of manual and pedal fat pads in moderating ground reaction forces and pressure patterns in knuckle-walking African apes (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2020.
Pampush JD, Yapuncich GS, Fuselier EJ. Applying BayesModelS to body mass prediction: Comparisons with traditional approaches and recommendations for future paleontological reconstructions (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2019.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. 2018. Scaling relationships of axonic patterning in the hands and feet of primates (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2018.
Cook RW, Yapuncich GS, Thompson IJ, Walker CS, Churchill SE. 2018. A comparison of lateral iliac flare measurement methods and their correlation with lesser gluteal moment arms (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2018.
Feng HJ, Yapuncich GS, Dunn RH, Seiffert ER, Boyer DM. 2018. Evolutionary and functional implications of the development of the talar posterior trochlear shelf in euprimates (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2018.
Walker CS, Yapuncich GS, Bowie A, Belais R, Churchill SE. 2018. Accuracy of human-based morphometric equations for predicting bonobo body mass (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2018.
Lyu I, Perdomo J, Yapuncich GS, Paniagua B, Boyer DM, Styner MA. 2018. Group-wise shape correspondence of variable and complex objects (poster presentation). International Society for Optics and Photonics Medical Imaging Meeting, February 2018.
Yapuncich GS, Griffith DM, Boyer DM. 2017. Digitization of strepsirrhine primates from the Duke Lemur Center (poster presentation). iDigBio Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, June 2017.
Yapuncich GS, Williams BA, Boyer DM. 2017. Phenetic affinities of Teilhardina (Primates, Omomyidae) from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming reveal the first known occurrences of Teilhardina brandti outside the Bighorn Basin (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2017.
Gladman JT, Yapuncich GS, Cooke SB. 2017. Combining 3DGM analyses from multiple anatomical regions improves phylogenetic interpretations of phenetic data in Platyrrhini (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2017.
Yapuncich GS, Granatosky MC. 2016. Curvature of articular surfaces corresponds with dynamic range of motion in the ankle joints of lorises and mouse lemurs (podium presentation). Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Regional Meeting, November 2016.
Yapuncich GS, Harrington AR, Bloch JI, Gunnell GF, Boyer DM. 2016. Ecological inferences of early euprimates of the Bridger Basin: an evaluation of craniodental and postcranial body mass predictions from associated skeletons (poster presentation). Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists Annual Meeting, October 2016.
Yapuncich GS, Granatosky MC. 2016. Congruence of articular surface curvature and dynamic range of motion in the subtalar joints of lorisids and cheirogaleids (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2016.
Laub EC, Yapuncich GS, Glander KE, Pusey AE. 2016. Longitudinal body mass variation in wild primate populations: are individuals or populations more variable? (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2016.
Boyer DM, Bloch JI, Kirk EC, Gilbert CC, Allen KL, Gunnell GF, Yapuncich GS, Kay RF, Seiffert ER. 2015. Re-evaluation of promontory arterial dominance in early primates (podium presentation). Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists Annual Meeting, October 2015.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. 2015. Allometric shape change in the talar articular surfaces of euarchontans (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2015.
Boyer DM, Bloch JI, Gunnell GF, Yapuncich GS, Alexander JP. 2015. First complete, articulated hand of an adult Eocene primate with 3D preservation (podium presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2015.
Harrington AR, Silcox MT, Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM, Bloch JI. 2015. First virtual endocasts of North American adapiform primates (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2015.
Morse PE, Bloch JI, Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM, Strait SG. 2015. Dental topography and dietary ecology of the first North American euprimates (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2015.
Neu RJ, Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. 2015. Quantification of the position of the flexor fibularis groove of the euarchontan talus (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2015.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. 2014. Talar articular surface curvature decreases allometrically among primates (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2014.
Butler JE, Yapuncich GS, Seiffert ER, Boyer DM. 2014. Quantification of talar medial tibial facet variation among primates (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2014.
Welch EC, Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Gunnell GF, Seiffert ER, Bloch JI. 2014. Re-evaluation of promontorial arterial dominance in fossil adapiforms (podium presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2014.
Yapuncich GS, Gladman JT, Boyer DM. 2013. Estimating body mass of fossil primates: A comparison of dental and tarsal variables (poster presentation). Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, October 2013.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. 2013. Scaling patterns of talar articular surfaces within Euarchonta (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2013.
Yapuncich GS, Maiolino S, Minjin B, Boyer DM. 2012. New data for evaluating functional morphology in Ptilodontidae (Allotheria, Multituberculata) using digital preparation (podium presentation). Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, October 2012.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM, Secord R, Bloch JI. 2011. The first dentally associated skeleton of Plagiomenidae (Mammalia, ?Dermoptera) from the late Paleocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (podium presentation). Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, November 2011.
TEACHING and WORK EXPERIENCE
2023
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Histology (Fall 2023).
2022
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Histology (Fall 2022).
2021
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Histology (Fall 2021).
2020
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Human Gross Anatomy (Fall 2020).
Co-course director - Duke University School of Medicine, Master of Biomedical Sciences program. Human Structure (Summer 2020).
2019
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Human Gross Anatomy (Fall 2019).
Co-course director - Duke University School of Medicine, Master of Biomedical Sciences program. Human Structure (Summer 2019).
Instructor - Duke University School of Nursing. Advanced Principles of Anesthesia (Summer 2019).
2018
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Human Gross Anatomy (Fall 2018).
Co-course director - Duke University School of Medicine, Master of Biomedical Sciences program. Human Structure (Summer 2018).
Instructor - Duke University School of Nursing. Advanced Principles of Anesthesia (Summer 2018).
2017
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Human Gross Anatomy (Fall 2017).
Instructor - Duke University School of Nursing. Advanced Principles of Anesthesia (Summer 2017).
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. The Human Body (EVANTH 333, Spring 2017).
2016
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology (EVANTH 101, Fall 2016).
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. The Human Body (EVANTH 333, Spring 2016).
2015
Teaching Assistant - Duke University School of Medicine. Human Gross Anatomy (Fall 2015).
Adjunct Professor - Duke University. Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology (EVANTH 101, Summer 2015).
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology (EVANTH 101, Spring 2015).
2014
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. The Human Body (EVANTH 333, Fall 2014).
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology (EVANTH 101, Spring 2014).
2013
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. Primate Anatomy (EVANTH 235, Fall 2013).
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology (EVANTH 101, Spring 2013).
2012
Adjunct Professor - Brooklyn College, CUNY. Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (ANTH 1002).
Teaching Assistant - Brooklyn College, CUNY. Primate Ecology and Behavior (ANTH 3230).
Teaching Assistant - Brooklyn College, CUNY. Darwin, Missing Links, and Living Fossils (CORC 3306).
Teaching Assistant - Brooklyn College, CUNY. Paleontology and Geology of the American West (ANTH 3015).
2011
Teaching Assistant - Brooklyn College, CUNY. Paleontology and Geology of the American West (ANTH 3015).
Fossil Preparator - Brooklyn College, CUNY. Prepared and identified fossils embedded in limestone for Dr. Doug Boyer's lab.
2010-2014, 2016
Field Research Assistant - Duke University/Brooklyn College. Field crew member on fossil expeditions in Bighorn and Bridger Basins of Wyoming, and Eastern Crazy Mountains Basin of Montana.
2009-2011
Research Assistant - NYCEP, American Museum of Natural History. Data processing for morphometric database.
2009-2010
Research Assistant - Primate Cognition Lab, Columbia University. Responsible for daily operations and management of other research assistants.
MENTORSHIPS
Henry Feng (Duke University, 2016-2017) - Functional morphology of the talar posterior trochlear shelf
Emily Laub (Duke University, 2014-2016) - Longitudinal body mass variation in wild primate populations
Ryan Neu (Duke University, 2013-2015) - Functional morphology of the astragalar flexor fibularis groove in primates
Jared Butler (Brooklyn College, 2012) - Functional morphology of the astragalar medial tibial facet in primates
Stacey McCarthy (Brooklyn College, 2012) - Primate behavior and ecology
Director of Accreditation and Continuous Quality Improvement (2022 - present)
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Medical Education (2021 - present)
Medical Education Administration, Duke University School of Medicine
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Research Scholar (2018 - 2021)
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University
Postdoctoral Researcher (2017 - 2018)
Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina State University
EDUCATION
Doctorate of Philosophy in Evolutionary Anthropology (2017)
Dissertation title: Body mass prediction from dental and postcranial measurements in primates and their nearest relatives
Duke University, Durham, NC
Advisor: Doug M. Boyer
Bachelor of Arts in Evolutionary Biology of the Human Species (2011)
Columbia University, New York, NY
Bachelor of Science in English (2004)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
FUNDING, AWARDS and HONORS
External Grants
NSF BCS Collaborative Research Grant 2020434 (2021 - 2024)
“Measuring leaping performance, evaluating its anatomical correlates, and reconsidering the importance of leaping in primate origins and early evolution”. Co-PI with Doug M. Boyer, Daniel Schmitt, and Angel Zeininger.
NSF BCS Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant 1540421 (2015 - 2016)
“Generation and evaluation of body mass prediction equations using articular surface areas of the primate tarsus”. Co-PI with Doug M. Boyer.
Internal Grants
Duke AHEAD teaching innovation grant - Duke University School of Medicine, 2024
Arts & Sciences Council Committee on Faculty Research Award - Duke University, 2019
Trinity Research Enhancement Award - Duke University, 2014
Duke Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship - Duke University, 2014
Other Awards
Pollitzer Travel Award - American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2014
Enhanced Chancellor's Fellowship - Brooklyn College, 2011-2012
Phi Beta Kappa - Columbia University, 2011
Summa cum laude - Columbia University, 2011
John Angus Burrell Scholarship - Columbia University, 2009-2011
General Studies Honor Society - Columbia University, 2009
PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
Boulinguez-Ambroise G, Boyer DM, Dunham NT, Yapuncich GS, Bradley-Cronkwright MM, Boyer DM, Zeininger A, Schmitt D, Young JW. Biomechanical and morphological determinants of maximal jumping performance in callitrichine monkeys (in revision). Journal of Experimental Biology.
Boulinguez-Ambroise G, Dunham NT, Phelps T, Mazonas T, Nguyen P, Bradley-Cronkwright MM, Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Zeininger A, Schmitt D, Young JW. Leaping performance in tree squirrels: insights into primate evolution. Journal of Human Evolution. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103386
Pampush JD, Fuselier EJ, Yapuncich GS. 2021. Using BayesModelS to provide Bayesian- and phylogenetically-informed primate body mass predictions. Journal of Human Evolution. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103077
Yapuncich GS, Granatosky MC. 2021. Footloose: Articular surface morphology and joint movement potential in the ankles of lorisids and cheirogaleids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24298
Harrington AR, Yapuncich GS (co-authors), Boyer DM. 2020. The endocast of Necrolemur antiquus. Palaeovertebrata. doi: 10.18563/pv.43.2.e1
Yapuncich GS, Bowie A, Belais R, Churchill SE, Walker CS. 2020. Predicting body mass of bonobos (Pan paniscus) with human-based morphometric equations. American Journal of Primatology. doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23088
Yapuncich GS, Kemp AD, Griffith DM, Gladman JT, Ehmke E, Boyer DM. 2019. A digital collection of rare and endangered lemurs and other primates from the Duke Lemur Center. PLoS ONE. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219411
Yapuncich GS, Feng HJ, Dunn RH, Seiffert ER, Boyer DM. 2019. Vertical support use and primate origins. Scientific Reports. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48651-x
Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Dunham NT, McNamara A, Shapiro L, Hieronymus TL, Young JW. 2019. My branch is your branch: Talar morphology correlates with relative substrate size in platyrrhines at Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. Journal of Human Evolution. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.05.012
Walker CS, Cofran ZD, Grabowski M, Marchi D, Cook RW, Churchill SE, Tommy KA, Throckmorton Z, Ross AH, Hawks J, Yapuncich GS, Van Arsdale AP, Rentzeperis FI, Berger LR, DeSilva JM. 2019. Morphology of the Homo naledi femora from Lesedi. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23877
Yapuncich GS, Churchill SE, Cameron N, Walker CS. 2018. Morphometric panel regression equations for predicting body mass in immature humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23422
Yapuncich GS. 2018. Alternative methods for calculating percentage prediction error and their implications for predicting body mass in fossil taxa. Journal of Human Evolution. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.03.001
Walker CS, Yapuncich GS (co-authors), Sridhar S, Cameron N, Churchill SE. 2018. Evaluating morphometric body mass prediction equations with a juvenile test sample: accuracy and applicability to small-bodied hominins. Journal of Human Evolution. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.03.009
Yapuncich GS, Seiffert ER, Boyer DM. 2017. Quantification of the position and depth of the flexor hallucis longus groove in euarchontans, with implications for the evolution of primate positional behavior. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23213
Gao T, Yapuncich GS (co-authors), Daubechies I, Mukherjee S, Boyer DM. 2017. Development and assessment of fully automated and globally transitive geometric morphometric methods, with application to a biological comparative dataset with high interspecific variation. The Anatomical Record. doi: 10.1002/ar.23700
Griffin RH, Yapuncich GS. 2017. A critical comment on the ‘multiple variance Brownian motion’ model of Smaers et al. (2016). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blw030
Patel BA, Yapuncich GS, Tran C, Nengo IO. 2017. Catarrhine hallucal metatarsals from the early Miocene site of Songhor, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 108:176-198.
Harrington AR, Silcox MT, Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM, Bloch JI. 2016. First virtual endocasts of adapiform primates. Journal of Human Evolution 99:52-78.
Boyer DM, Kirk EC, Silcox MT, Gunnell GF, Gilbert CC, Yapuncich GS, Allen KL, Welch E, Bloch JI, Gonzalez LA, Kay RF, Seiffert ER. 2016. Internal carotid arterial canal size and scaling in Euarchonta: Re-assessing implications for arterial patency and phylogenetic relationships in early fossil primates. Journal of Human Evolution 97:123-144.
Griffin RH, Yapuncich GS (co-authors). 2015. The Independent Evolution Method is Not a Viable Phylogenetic Comparative Method. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0144147. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144147
Yapuncich GS, Gladman JT, Boyer DM. 2015. Predicting euarchontan body mass: A comparison of tarsal and dental variables. American Journal of Physical Anthropology DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22735
Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Butler JE, Dunn RH, Seiffert ER. 2015. Evolution of postural diversity in primates as reflected by the size and shape of the medial tibial facet of the talus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22702
Boyer DM, Puente J, Gladman JT, Glynn C, Mukherjee S, Yapuncich GS, Daubechies I. 2015. A new fully automated approach for aligning and comparing shapes. The Anatomical Record 298:249-276.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. 2014. Interspecific scaling patterns of talar articular surfaces within primates and their closest living relatives. Journal of Anatomy 224:150-172.
Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Chester SGB, Bloch JI, Godinot M. 2013. Hands of early primates. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 152:33-78.
Book chapters
Yapuncich GS, Chester SGB, Bloch JI, Boyer DM. 2022. Feet of Paleogene Primates. In: The Evolution of the Primate Foot (pp. 277-319). Springer New York.
Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Chester SGB, Bloch JI, Godinot M. 2016. Hands of Paleogene Primates. In: The Evolution of the Primate Hand (pp. 373-419). Springer New York.
ABSTRACTS and PRESENTATIONS
Whitman KL, Riddle C, Mazza A, Heritage S, Neely K, Yapuncich GS, Borths MR. Activating the paleontological research potential of life history data in
living collections: a case study at the Duke Lemur Center (accepted abstract). Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists Annual Meeting, November 2024.
Yapuncich GS, Velkey JM, Carbrey JM. Benefits of summarizing biomedical science curriculum using large-language generative models
(poster presentation). International Association of Medical Science Educators Anatomy Meeting, June 2024.
Bradley-Cronkwright MM, Yapuncich GS, Boulinguez-Ambroise G, Dunham NT, Zeininger A, Schmitt D, Young JW, Boyer DM. Vertical jumping agility as a key measure of performance in strepsirrhine primates (podium presentation). Association of Biological Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2024.
Yapuncich GS, Wood JL, Arkus Gardner KAJ, Velkey JM. Separating process and content improves the learner experience in basic science laboratories (poster presentation). American Association for Anatomy "Anatomy Connected" Meeting, March 2023.
Holmes MA, Yapuncich GS, Horn ME. Clinical anatomy as early collaborative learning for health professions students (podium presentation). American Association for Anatomy "Anatomy Connected" Meeting, March 2023.
Boyer DM, Borths MR, Bradley-Cronkwright MM, Dunn RH, Harrington AR, Gonzales LA, Morse PE, Seiffert ER, Stone JE, Yapuncich GS, Bloch JI. New Eocene euprimate fossils: morphological patterns and evolutionary implications (accepted abstract). American Association of Biological Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2023.
Boulinguez-Ambroise G, Dunham NT, Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Zeininger A, Schmitt D, Young JW. How to surpass yourself at jumping: a lesson from zoo living bicolor tamarins and Goeldi’s monkeys (accepted abstract). American Society of Primatologists Annual Meeting, June 2023.
Yapuncich GS, Hegarty E, Bradley-Cronkwright MM, Boulinguez-Ambroise G, Dunham NT, Zeininger A, Schmitt D, Young JW, Boyer DM. Relative hindlimb length and hindlimb segmental proportions as indicators of locomotor category in primates, rodents, and tree shrews (poster presentation). American Association of Biological Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2022.
Fulwood EL, Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. Trends in North American primate ecomorphological disparity in response to climate fluctuations over the Eocene. Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists Annual Meeting, November 2021.
Yapuncich GS. Longitudinal body mass variation of individuals from 20 strepsirrhine populations at the Duke Lemur Center (podium presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2021.
Yapuncich GS, Schmitt D, Wunderlich RE, Zeininger A. Using thin plate splines to statistically compare force curves produced by western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2020.
Kemp AD, Yapuncich GS, Zeininger A. Mechanics of leaping between supports in a small arboreal quadruped (Cheirogaleus medius) (podium presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2020.
Zeininger A, Yapuncich GS, Schmitt D, Wunderlich RE. The role of manual and pedal fat pads in moderating ground reaction forces and pressure patterns in knuckle-walking African apes (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2020.
Pampush JD, Yapuncich GS, Fuselier EJ. Applying BayesModelS to body mass prediction: Comparisons with traditional approaches and recommendations for future paleontological reconstructions (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2019.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. 2018. Scaling relationships of axonic patterning in the hands and feet of primates (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2018.
Cook RW, Yapuncich GS, Thompson IJ, Walker CS, Churchill SE. 2018. A comparison of lateral iliac flare measurement methods and their correlation with lesser gluteal moment arms (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2018.
Feng HJ, Yapuncich GS, Dunn RH, Seiffert ER, Boyer DM. 2018. Evolutionary and functional implications of the development of the talar posterior trochlear shelf in euprimates (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2018.
Walker CS, Yapuncich GS, Bowie A, Belais R, Churchill SE. 2018. Accuracy of human-based morphometric equations for predicting bonobo body mass (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2018.
Lyu I, Perdomo J, Yapuncich GS, Paniagua B, Boyer DM, Styner MA. 2018. Group-wise shape correspondence of variable and complex objects (poster presentation). International Society for Optics and Photonics Medical Imaging Meeting, February 2018.
Yapuncich GS, Griffith DM, Boyer DM. 2017. Digitization of strepsirrhine primates from the Duke Lemur Center (poster presentation). iDigBio Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, June 2017.
Yapuncich GS, Williams BA, Boyer DM. 2017. Phenetic affinities of Teilhardina (Primates, Omomyidae) from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming reveal the first known occurrences of Teilhardina brandti outside the Bighorn Basin (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2017.
Gladman JT, Yapuncich GS, Cooke SB. 2017. Combining 3DGM analyses from multiple anatomical regions improves phylogenetic interpretations of phenetic data in Platyrrhini (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2017.
Yapuncich GS, Granatosky MC. 2016. Curvature of articular surfaces corresponds with dynamic range of motion in the ankle joints of lorises and mouse lemurs (podium presentation). Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Regional Meeting, November 2016.
Yapuncich GS, Harrington AR, Bloch JI, Gunnell GF, Boyer DM. 2016. Ecological inferences of early euprimates of the Bridger Basin: an evaluation of craniodental and postcranial body mass predictions from associated skeletons (poster presentation). Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists Annual Meeting, October 2016.
Yapuncich GS, Granatosky MC. 2016. Congruence of articular surface curvature and dynamic range of motion in the subtalar joints of lorisids and cheirogaleids (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2016.
Laub EC, Yapuncich GS, Glander KE, Pusey AE. 2016. Longitudinal body mass variation in wild primate populations: are individuals or populations more variable? (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2016.
Boyer DM, Bloch JI, Kirk EC, Gilbert CC, Allen KL, Gunnell GF, Yapuncich GS, Kay RF, Seiffert ER. 2015. Re-evaluation of promontory arterial dominance in early primates (podium presentation). Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists Annual Meeting, October 2015.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. 2015. Allometric shape change in the talar articular surfaces of euarchontans (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2015.
Boyer DM, Bloch JI, Gunnell GF, Yapuncich GS, Alexander JP. 2015. First complete, articulated hand of an adult Eocene primate with 3D preservation (podium presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2015.
Harrington AR, Silcox MT, Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM, Bloch JI. 2015. First virtual endocasts of North American adapiform primates (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2015.
Morse PE, Bloch JI, Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM, Strait SG. 2015. Dental topography and dietary ecology of the first North American euprimates (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2015.
Neu RJ, Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. 2015. Quantification of the position of the flexor fibularis groove of the euarchontan talus (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, March 2015.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. 2014. Talar articular surface curvature decreases allometrically among primates (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2014.
Butler JE, Yapuncich GS, Seiffert ER, Boyer DM. 2014. Quantification of talar medial tibial facet variation among primates (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2014.
Welch EC, Boyer DM, Yapuncich GS, Gunnell GF, Seiffert ER, Bloch JI. 2014. Re-evaluation of promontorial arterial dominance in fossil adapiforms (podium presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2014.
Yapuncich GS, Gladman JT, Boyer DM. 2013. Estimating body mass of fossil primates: A comparison of dental and tarsal variables (poster presentation). Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, October 2013.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM. 2013. Scaling patterns of talar articular surfaces within Euarchonta (poster presentation). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April 2013.
Yapuncich GS, Maiolino S, Minjin B, Boyer DM. 2012. New data for evaluating functional morphology in Ptilodontidae (Allotheria, Multituberculata) using digital preparation (podium presentation). Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, October 2012.
Yapuncich GS, Boyer DM, Secord R, Bloch JI. 2011. The first dentally associated skeleton of Plagiomenidae (Mammalia, ?Dermoptera) from the late Paleocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (podium presentation). Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, November 2011.
TEACHING and WORK EXPERIENCE
2023
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Histology (Fall 2023).
2022
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Histology (Fall 2022).
2021
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Histology (Fall 2021).
2020
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Human Gross Anatomy (Fall 2020).
Co-course director - Duke University School of Medicine, Master of Biomedical Sciences program. Human Structure (Summer 2020).
2019
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Human Gross Anatomy (Fall 2019).
Co-course director - Duke University School of Medicine, Master of Biomedical Sciences program. Human Structure (Summer 2019).
Instructor - Duke University School of Nursing. Advanced Principles of Anesthesia (Summer 2019).
2018
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Human Gross Anatomy (Fall 2018).
Co-course director - Duke University School of Medicine, Master of Biomedical Sciences program. Human Structure (Summer 2018).
Instructor - Duke University School of Nursing. Advanced Principles of Anesthesia (Summer 2018).
2017
Instructor - Duke University School of Medicine. Human Gross Anatomy (Fall 2017).
Instructor - Duke University School of Nursing. Advanced Principles of Anesthesia (Summer 2017).
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. The Human Body (EVANTH 333, Spring 2017).
2016
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology (EVANTH 101, Fall 2016).
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. The Human Body (EVANTH 333, Spring 2016).
2015
Teaching Assistant - Duke University School of Medicine. Human Gross Anatomy (Fall 2015).
Adjunct Professor - Duke University. Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology (EVANTH 101, Summer 2015).
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology (EVANTH 101, Spring 2015).
2014
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. The Human Body (EVANTH 333, Fall 2014).
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology (EVANTH 101, Spring 2014).
2013
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. Primate Anatomy (EVANTH 235, Fall 2013).
Teaching Assistant - Duke University. Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology (EVANTH 101, Spring 2013).
2012
Adjunct Professor - Brooklyn College, CUNY. Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (ANTH 1002).
Teaching Assistant - Brooklyn College, CUNY. Primate Ecology and Behavior (ANTH 3230).
Teaching Assistant - Brooklyn College, CUNY. Darwin, Missing Links, and Living Fossils (CORC 3306).
Teaching Assistant - Brooklyn College, CUNY. Paleontology and Geology of the American West (ANTH 3015).
2011
Teaching Assistant - Brooklyn College, CUNY. Paleontology and Geology of the American West (ANTH 3015).
Fossil Preparator - Brooklyn College, CUNY. Prepared and identified fossils embedded in limestone for Dr. Doug Boyer's lab.
2010-2014, 2016
Field Research Assistant - Duke University/Brooklyn College. Field crew member on fossil expeditions in Bighorn and Bridger Basins of Wyoming, and Eastern Crazy Mountains Basin of Montana.
- PIs: Dr. Doug Boyer, Dr. Jon Bloch, Dr. Mary Silcox, Dr. Gregg Gunnell
2009-2011
Research Assistant - NYCEP, American Museum of Natural History. Data processing for morphometric database.
- PI: Dr. Eric Delson
2009-2010
Research Assistant - Primate Cognition Lab, Columbia University. Responsible for daily operations and management of other research assistants.
- PI: Dr. Herbert Terrace
MENTORSHIPS
Henry Feng (Duke University, 2016-2017) - Functional morphology of the talar posterior trochlear shelf
Emily Laub (Duke University, 2014-2016) - Longitudinal body mass variation in wild primate populations
Ryan Neu (Duke University, 2013-2015) - Functional morphology of the astragalar flexor fibularis groove in primates
Jared Butler (Brooklyn College, 2012) - Functional morphology of the astragalar medial tibial facet in primates
Stacey McCarthy (Brooklyn College, 2012) - Primate behavior and ecology