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My name is Michael D'Antonio, and I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. I research the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems over the past 400 million years. I focus on three areas: the evolution of plant structure, development, and physiology; the description of extinct plant taxa using state-of-the-art methods; and the co-evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle. I conduct field work and museum specimen work, and use advanced imaging and analytical techniques including X-ray micro-CT scanning.