Biology

Lauren Price

Chair Email Hale Hall

Courses Taught

BIO 170T/L Human Anatomy & Physiology I

BIO 171T/L Human Anatomy & Physiology II

BIO 451      Human Evolutionary Anatomy

Education

  • BA, New York University, 2004 – Magna cum Laude
  • PhD, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2012

Publications

  • Lauren Halenar-Price, Zachary S. Klukkert, Juan Almonte, Phillip Lehman, Zana Sims and Siobhan B. Cooke, Craniomandibular variation in the endemic Hispaniolan primate, Antillothrix bernensis, Journal of Human Evolution, 196 2024, 1-21.
  • Lauren B. Halenar-Price, Cranial variation among Caribbean primates, University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology, 39 2024, 213.
  • Jeffrey K. Spear, Lauren B. Halenar-Price, Scott A. Williams and Thomas C. Prang, An investigation of the understudied skeletal elements of the Brazilian subfossil platyrrhines: The talus, American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 183(S77) 2024, 172-173.
  • Andre Vieira Araujo, Mario Andre Trindade Dantas, Mario Alberto Cozzuol, Herminio Ismael Araujo-Junior, Alexadre Liparini, Rodrigo Martins Ribeiro, Fernando Henrique de Souza Barbosa and Lauren Halenar-Price, Paleopathology in an extinct giant platyrrhine primate from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil, American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 180(S75) 2023, 185-186.
  • Lauren B. Halenar-Price, Claire A. Kirchhoff, Claire E. Terhune and Siobhan B. Cooke, Potential association between pterion suture pattern and incidence of craniodental lesions in platyrrhines, American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 177(S73) 2022, 78.
  • Lauren Halenar-Price, Siobhan B. Cooke, Zachary S. Klukkert, Zana Sims, Juan Almonte, Phillip Lehman and Melissa Tallman, Quantifying intraspecific variation in a Caribbean fossil primate, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, S69 2020, 111-112.
  • Leandro Aristide, Andre Strauss, Lauren B. Halenar-Price, Emmanuel Gilissen, Francisco Cruz, Castor Cartelle, Alfred Rosenberger, Ricardo Lopes, Sergio dos Reis and S. Ivan Perez, Cranial and endocranial diversity in extant and fossil atelids (Platyrrhini: Atelidae): A geometric morphometric study, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 169(2) 2019, 322-331.
  • Zachary Klukkert, Lauren B. Halenar-Price, Juan Almonte, Oleg Shevchuk, Phillip Lehman and Siobhan Cooke, Newly-discovered craniomandibular remains preserve the first known incisors of the extinct Dominican monkey Antillothrix bernensis, The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Journal, 33(1S) 2019, 612.
  • Lauren B. Halenar-Price, Brian Shearer, Claire E. Terhune, Caitlin Yoakum and Siobhan Cooke, Get an eyeful of this: Gross anatomy and morphometrics of the squirrel monkey (Saimiri) interorbital region, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, S68 2019, 95.
  • Siobhan B. Cooke, Lauren B. Halenar-Price, Laura Stroik, Andres Link, Gustavo A. Giraldo Correa, Brian Shearer, Ryan Knigge and Melissa Tallman, First complete primate skull from La Venta, Colombia, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, S68 2019, 48.
  • Lauren B. Halenar-Price and Melissa Tallman, Investigating the effect of endocranial volume on cranial shape in platyrrhines and the relevance of this relationship to interpretations of the fossil record, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 169(1) 2019, 12-30.
  • Brian M. Shearer, Siobhan B. Cooke, Lauren B. Halenar, Samantha L. Reber, Jeanette E. Plummer, Eric Delson and Melissa Tallman, Evaluating causes of error in landmark-based data collection using scanners, PLoS One, 12(11) 2017, 1-37.
  • Lauren B. Halenar, Siobhan B. Cooke, Alfred L. Rosenberger and Renato Rimoli, New cranium of the endemic Caribbean platyrrhine, Antillothrix bernensis, from La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic, Journal of Human Evolution, 106 2017, 133-153.
  • Lauren Halenar and Siobhan Cooke, What is a genus? Understanding craniodental diversity in Callicebus, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, S64 2017, 207.
  • Alfred Rosenberger, Tim Smith, Valerie DeLeon, Anne Burrows, Rob Schenck and Lauren Halenar, Eye size and set in small-bodied fossil primates: a three-dimensional method, The Anatomical Record, 299 2016, 1671-1689.
  • Siobhan Cooke, Justin Gladman, Lauren Halenar, Zachary Klukkert and Alfred Rosenberger, The paleobiology of the recently-extinct platyrrhines of Brazil and the Caribbean in M. Ruiz-Garcia and J. Shostell (Eds.), Phylogeny, Molecular Population Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, and Conservation of the Neotropical Primates, New York: Nova Science (2016), pp. 41-90.
  • Brian Shearer, Lauren Halenar, Zachary Klukkert, Anthony Pagano, CY Tang and Joy Reidenberg, New insights into Alouatta vocal tract anatomy and functional morphology via CT and MRI, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, S62 2016, 289.
  • Jacob C. Dunn, Lauren B. Halenar, Thomas G. Davies, Jurgi Cristobal-Azkarate, David Reby, Dan Sykes, Sabine Dengg, W. Tecumseh Fitch and Leslie A. Knapp, Evolutionary Trade-Off between Vocal Tract and Testes Dimensions in Howler Monkeys, Current Biology, 25 2015, 2839-2844.

Presentations

  • Andre V. Araujo, Herminio I. Araujo Junior, Fernando Henrique de Souza Barbosa, Mario Andre Trindade Dantas, Mario Alberto Cozzuol, Lauren B. Halenar-Price, Alexandre Liparini, Jeffrey K. Spear, Daniel M. Casali and John Fleagle, “Pathological and morphological analysis of Cartelles coimbrafilhoi from the Pleistocene of Bahia, Brazil: Implications for locomotion and taxonomy.” Paper presented to the XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Paleontologia, Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil on October 16, 2024.
  • Lauren Halenar-Price, “Cranial variation among Caribbean primates.” Forum presentation at the 12th North American Paleontological Convention, Ann Arbor, MI on June 18, 2024.
  • Axel Ekstrom, Margarita Briseno-Jaramillo, Carla Pascual-Guardia, Melissa Berthet, Lara Nellissen, Julia Fischer, Adrian Soldati, Alban Lemasson, Franziska Wegdell, Kayla Sward, Auriane Le Floch, Lauren Halenar-Price, Daniel Friedrichs, Serge Wich, Sonja Holmer, Alexandra Bosshard, Adwait Desphande, Brian Shearer, Steven Moran and Jens Edlund, “Why only a "great" primate discovered speech: A progress report on evolving vocal repertoires.” Paper presented to the Fonetik 2024, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden on June 3, 2024.
  • Jeffrey K. Spear, Lauren Halenar-Price, Scott A. Williams and Thomas C. Prang, “An investigation of the understudied skeletal elements of the Brazilian subfossil platyrrhines: The talus.” Poster presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Los Angeles, CA on March 23, 2024.
  • Lauren Halenar-Price, Resource Faculty Lightning Talk: The Fossil Platyrrhines of Brazil and the Greater Antilles, Invited Lecture presented to the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP) Seminar Series, CUNY Graduate Center, on February 2, 2024.
  • Siobhan Cooke, Lauren Halenar-Price, Zachary Klukkert, Juan Almonte Milan, Lazaro Willian Vinola-Lopez and Phillip Lehman, “New fossils shed light on primate diversity in the Caribbean.” Forum presentation at the 13th International Mammalogical Conference, Anchorage, Alaska on July 15, 2023.
  • Andre Vieira Araujo, Mario Andre Trinidade Dantas, Mario Alberto Cozzuol, Herminio Ismael Araujo-Junior, Alexandre Liparini, Rodrigo Martins Ribeiro, Fernando Henrique de Souza Barbosa and Lauren Halenar-Price, “Paleopathology in an extinct giant platyrrhine primate from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil.” Poster presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Reno, NV on April 20, 2023.
  • Lauren B. Halenar-Price, Siobhan B. Cooke, Zachary S. Klukkert, Zana Sims, Juan Almonte, Phillip Lehman and Melissa Tallman, “Quantifying intraspecific variation in a Caribbean fossil primate.” Poster presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Denver, CO on March 26, 2022.
  • Lauren B. Halenar-Price, Claire A. Kirchhoff, Claire E. Terhune and Siobhan B. Cooke, “Potential association between pterion suture pattern an incidence of craniodental lesions in platyrrhines.” Poster presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Denver, CO on March 25, 2022.
  • Siobhan Cooke and Lauren Price, The New World Monkey Fossil Record, Webinar presented to the NYCEP Primate Evolution course, CUNY/AMNH, on March 17, 2021.
  • Lauren Price, Skeletal Biology of Living and Fossil New World Monkeys, Webinar presented to the NYCEP Evolutionary Morphology core course, CUNY/AMNH, on November 11, 2020.
  • Lauren Halenar-Price and Siobhan Cooke, “Primates of the Caribbean: an Overview and New Research.” Presentation to the Baltimore Symposium on Caribbean Natural History, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine on December 16, 2019.
  • Lauren Price, Paleobiology of the Pleistocene Fossil Monkeys of the Caribbean and Brazil, Seminar presented to the Farmingdale State College Bioscience Research Seminar, on November 19, 2019.
  • Zachary Klukkert, Lauren Halenar-Price, Juan Almonte, Oleg Shevchuk, Phillip Lehman and Siobhan Cooke, “Newly-discovered craniomandibular remains preserve the first known incisors of the extinct Dominican monkey Antillothrix bernensis.” Poster presented at the American Association of Anatomists section of the Experimental Biology meetings, Orlando, FL on April 8, 2019.
  • Lauren Halenar-Price, Brian Shearer, Claire Terhune, Caitlin Yoakum and Siobhan Cooke, “Get an eyeful of this: Gross anatomy and morphometrics of the squirrel monkey (Saimiri) interorbital region.” Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland, OH on March 30, 2019.
  • Siobhan Cooke, Lauren Halenar-Price, Laura Stroik, Andres Link, Gustavo Giraldo Correa, Brian Shearer, Ryan Knigge and Melissa Tallman, “First complete primate skull from La Venta, Colombia.” Presentation to the Annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland, OH on March 28, 2019.
  • Lauren Halenar-Price, The Platyrrhine Fossil Record, Invited Lecture presented to the NYCEP Primate Evolution course, CUNY/AMNH, on March 20, 2019.
  • Lauren Price, "Ridgewood Annual Affair Proves Science Isn't Always Pretty", by Owen Proctor, for the North Jersey Record., March 2, 2019.
  • Lauren Halenar-Price, Meet the Scientist! at the 31st Annual Super Science Saturday, Presentation presented to the public, Ridgewood High School, Ridgewood, NJ, on March 2, 2019.
  • Lauren Price, Evolutionary Morphology of the Platyrrhine Primates, Invited Lecture presented to the NYCEP Evolutionary Morphology Core Course, CUNY/AMNH, on May 3, 2018.
  • Lauren Halenar and Siobhan Cooke, “What is a genus? Understanding craniodental diversity in Callicebus.” Poster presented at the Celebration of Scholarship, Farmingdale State College on November 7, 2017.
  • Lauren Halenar and Siobhan Cooke, “What is a genus? Understanding craniodental diversity in Callicebus.” Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New Orleans, LA on April 20, 2017.
  • Lauren Halenar, Who were Protopithecus and Cartelles? What the "giant" platyrrhines can tell us about the evolutionary history of primates in South America, Colloquium presented to the Dr. Eleanor Fapohunda School of Arts & Sciences Colloquium Series at Farmingdale State College, on November 17, 2016.
  • Lauren Halenar, Who were Protopithecus and Cartelles? What the "giant" platyrrhines can tell us about the evolutionary history of primates in South America, Seminar presented to the Department of Anatomical Sciences Paleobiology Seminar Series, Stony Brook University, on October 6, 2016.
  • Brian Shearer, Lauren Halenar, Zachary Klukkert, Anthony Pagano, CY Tang and Joy Reidenberg, “New insights into Alouatta vocal tract anatomy and functional morphology via CT and MRI.” Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Atlanta, GA on April 14, 2016.
  • Jacob Dunn, Lauren Halenar, Thomas Davies, Jurgi Cristobal-Azkarate, David Reby, Dan Sykes, Sabine Dengg, W. Tecumseh Fitch and Leslie Knapp, “Evolutionary trade-off between vocal tract and testes dimensions in howler monkeys.” Paper presented to the V Congreso Mexicano de Primatologia, Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico on June 30, 2015.
  • Siobhan Cooke, A. Mychajliw and Lauren Halenar, “Endemic primate extinctions in the Greater Antilles.” Presentation to the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Jacksonville, FL on June 15, 2015.

Awards & Honors

  • Theresa Patnode Santmann Bioscience Faculty Development Program Award: New insights into howler monkey vocal tract anatomy via 3-dimensional imaging technology, January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2016.
  • Theresa Patnode Santmann Health Science Faculty Development Program Award: What is a genus? Understanding craniodental diversity in Callicebus, January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017.
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