Conferences

Invited symposia

●   Saers, J.P.P. (2023). Trabecular bone ontogeny as an indicator of brain maturation, life history, and locomotor development in extant primates and fossil hominins. International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

●   Saers, J.P.P. (2022). Trabecular bone growth is linked to brain development, locomotor ontogeny, and body size. American Association of Biological Anthropologists meeting 2022, Denver Colorado, USA.

●   Saers, J.P.P., Shaw, C.N., Ryan, T.M., & Stock, J.T. (2016). Trabecular bone structural variation throughout the lower limb in three human populations. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 85th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA.

Podium presentations

●   Saers, J.P.P. (2022). Trabecular bone ontogeny as an indicator of brain maturation and life history in human evolution. European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Tübingen, DE. Pecha Kucha presentation

●   Saers, J.P.P., Ryan, T.M. & Stock, J.T. (2019). Trabecular and cortical bone structure correlate differently with terrestrial mobility in the human first metatarsal. European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Liege, BE. Pecha Kucha presentation

●   Saers, J.P.P., Ryan, T.M. & Stock, J.T. (2018). Linking calcaneal trabecular bone ontogeny and the development of bipedal human gait. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 87th Annual Meeting, Austin Texas, USA.

●   Saers, J.P.P., Shaw, C.N., Ryan, T.M., & Stock, J.T. (2017). Terrestrial mobility and trabecular bone variation in the human foot. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 86th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA. Awarded best student presentation prize.

●   Saers, J.P.P. (2012). Sexual division of labour in nineteenth century Holland: a study of limb bone cross-sectional geometry. Meeting of the Dutch Association of Physical Anthropologists. Leiden, the Netherlands.

Poster presentation

●   Saers, J.P.P., DeMars, L.J., Stephens, N.B., Jashashvili, T., Carlson, K.J., Gordon, A.D., Ryan, T.M., Stock J.T. (2020). Combinations of trabecular and cortical bone properties distinguish various loading modalities between athletes and controls. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 89th Annual Meeting, digital meeting.

●   Saers, J.P.P., Doershuk, L.J., Stephens, N.B., Jashashvili, T, Carlson, K.J., Gordon, A.D., Ryan, T.M., Stock, J.T. (2019). Comparisons of pQCT and µCT scanning of trabecular bone: what can we learn from living people? American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

●   Saers, J.P.P., Ryan, T.M. & Stock, J.T. (2017). Trabecular and cortical bone structure in the human first metatarsal in relation to terrestrial mobility. Human Diversity & Adaptation Meeting, Oxford, UK.

●   Saers, J.P.P., Shaw, C.N., Pomeroy, E., Ryan, T.M., & Stock, J.T. (2017). Talar trabecular structure strongly correlates with locomotor mode and terrestrial mobility level in modern humans, nonhuman apes, and a Neandertal. European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Leiden, NL.

●   Saers, J.P.P., Shaw, C.N., Ryan, T., Stock, J.T. (2015). Linking calcaneal ontogeny and locomotor development: A potential tool for inferring hominin neuromuscular development. European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, London, UK.

●   Saers, J.P.P., Waters-Rist, A., Hoogland, M.L.P., van Rijn, R.R. (2012). Limb Bone Morphology in an Archaeological Case of Achrondroplastic Dwarfism. 19th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Lille, France.

Selected co-authored conference papers

●   Kuo, S., Saers, J.P.P., Green, S., Scott, R.S., Ryan, T.M. (2022). Trabecular and cortical bone morphology of the distal radius in humans, chimpanzees, cercopithecids, and anteaters. Experimental Biology meeting 2022, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

●   DeMars, L.J., Saers, J.P.P., Kuo, S., Stock, J.T., Ryan, T.M. (2022). Trabecular Bone Structural Variation of the Human Distal Tibia, Talus, and Calcaneus. Experimental Biology meeting 2022, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

●   Nishimura, T., Dunn, J.C., Saers, J.P.P, Shintaku, Y. (2020) An anatomical study of primate glottis by using iodine-enhanced microCT. 74th Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Society of Nippon.

●   Ryan, T.M., Stephens N.B., Doershuk L.J., Saers, J.P.P., Jashashvili T., Carlson K.J., Stock J.T., Gordon, A.D. (2019). Trabecular bone structural variation in the human postcranial skeleton. Experimental Biology meeting 2019, Orlando, Florida, USA.

●   Carlson, K.J., Kolowa, A.A., Kimberleigh, A., Dowdewell, M.R., Stephens, N.B., Doerhsuk, L.J., Saers, J.P.P., Stock, J.T., Ryan, T.M., Gordon, T.M., Jashashvili, T. (2019). Patterns in and determinants of cortical thickness and rigidity in the femoral diaphysis of Holocene Homo sapiens. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

●   Doershuk, L.J., Stephens, N.B., Saers, J.P.P., Jashashvili, T, Carlson, K.J., Gordon, A.D., Stock, J.T., Ryan, T.M. (2019). Variation in the human calcaneus: investigating the relationship between skeletal phenotype and behaviour. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

●   Gordon, A.D., Carlson, K.J., Doershuk, L.J., Jashashvili, T., Saers, J.P.P., Stephens, N.B., Stock, J.T., Ryan, T.M. (2019). Population-specific trabecular variation patterns drive heterogeneity in modern human phenotypic covariance matrices of trabecular and cortical bone properties. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

●   Stephens, N.B., Saers, J.P.P., Doershuk, L.J., Jashashvili, T., Carlson, K.J., Gordon, A.D., Stock, J.T., Ryan, T.M. (2019). Trabecular patterning in the human skeleton: vertebral, humeral, femoral, and tibial variation. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

●   Sorrentino, R., Minghetti, C., Parr, W., Turley, K., Wroe, S., Shaw, C., Saers, J.P.P., Su, A., Fiorenza, L., Feletti, F., Frost, S., Carlson, K., Belcastro, M., Ryan, T., Benazzi, S. (2019). The modern human talus affected by cultural and behavioral factors. Italian anthropological meeting. Padova, Italy.

●   Sorrentino, R., Minghetti, C., Parr, W., Turley, K., Wroe, S., Shaw, C., Saers, J.P.P., Su, A., Fiorenza, L., Feletti, F., Frost, S., Carlson, K., Belcastro, M., Ryan, T., Benazzi, S. (2017). Evaluating behavioral effects on modern human shape tali through GMM. European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Leiden, NL.

●   Doershuk L.J., Saers, J.P.P., Stock, J.T. and Ryan, T.M. (2017). Variation in the trabecular bone structure of the proximal humerus in four human populations. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 86th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA.

●   Thomas, N.R., Jeffery, N., van ‘t Hof, R., Adams, V.L., Saers, J.P.P., Ranganath, L.R., Boyde, A., Gallagher, J.A. (2017). An investigation of high density mineralised protrusions in human cadaveric knees by MRI and microtomography. 2017 World Congress on Osteoarthritis. Las Vegas, USA.

●   Sorrentino, R., Minghetti, C., Parr, W., Turley, K., Wroe, S., Shaw, C., Saers, J.P.P., Su, A., Fiorenza, L., Feletti, F., Frost, S., Carlson, K., Belcastro, M., Ryan, T., Benazzi, S. (2017). Exploring morphological shape variation in modern human tali. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 86th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA.

●   Minghetti, C., Parr, W., Ryan, T., Carlson, K., Turkey, K., Wroe, S., Gruppioni, G., Shaw, C., Saers, J.P.P., Su, A., Fiorenza, L., Frost, S., Benazzi, S. (2015). Exploring morphological difference in hominoid tali based on geometric morphometric methods. 11th Congress of the Italian Anthropological Association, Ravenna, Italy.