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Dennis E. Slice

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Photo
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Biography
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Education
Ph.D. 1993. State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, NY; Department of Ecology and Evolution. Extensions, Comparisons, and Applications of Superimposition Methods for Morphometric Analysis.

B.S. 1984. College of Charleston, Charleston, SC; Major in Marine Biology.

Research
My latest research project involves the development of methods, tools, and reference data to use geometric morphometrics to characterize unidentified human remains. This work is in collaboration with Ann Ross at North Carolina State University and the University of Florida's C. A. Pound Human Identification Lab. It is funded by the U.S. National Institute of Justice.

My other research includes the development of biofidelic head models for engineering studies and the modeling of age- and disease-related changes in the geometry of the human thorax.

In addition, I am involved in many collaborative projects with students and researchers in the fields of forensics, physical and paleo- anthropology, vertebrate biology, and entomology.

Selected Publications
Dujardin, J-P. and D. E. Slice. (To Appear 2005). Contributions of Morphometrics to Medical Entomology. IN Tibayrenc M., ed. Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases - Modern Methods. John Wiley & Sons.

Slice, D. E., ed. 2005. Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Ross, C. F., B. A. Patel, D. E. Slice, D. S. Strait, P. C. Dechow, B. G. Richmond, M. A. Spencer. 2005. Modeling masticatory muscle force in finite-element analysis: sensitivity analysis using principal coordinates analysis. Anat. Rec. Part A 283A:288--299.

Cevidanes, L. H. S., A. A. Franco, G. Gerig, W. R. Proffit, D. E. Slice, D. H. Enlow, H. K. Yamashita, Y. J. Kim, M. A. Scanavini, J. W. Vigorito. 2005. Mandibular Growth and Response to Orthopedic Treatment in 3D Magnetic Resonance Images. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics 128: 16-26. (LHSC awarded the 2004 Thomas M. Graber Award of Special Merit by the American Association of Orthodontists and recipient of the 2006 B. F. and Helen Dewel Award for best clinical paper(s) of 2005 published in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.)

Cevidanes, L. H., A. A. Franco, G. Gerig, W. R. Proffit, D. E. Slice, D. H. Enlow, H. M. Lederman, L. Amorim, M. A. Scanavini, J. W. Vigorito. 2005. Relative Mandibular Growth Vectors using High-Resolution 3D Imaging. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics 128: 27-34. (LHC awarded the 2004 Thomas M. Graber Award of Special Merit by the American Association of Orthodontists and recipient of the 2006 B. F. and Helen Dewel Award for best clinical paper(s) of 2005 published in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.)

Slice, D. E. and J. Stitzel. 2004. Landmark-based Geometric Morphometrics and the Study of Allometry. S.A.E. conference on Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering (DHM) June, 2004, Oakland University, Rochester, MI. Pub. No.: 04DHM-36. (Republished in June, 2005 by the S.A.E. in the 2004 Transactions Journal of Aerospace: 199-207.)

Adams, D. C., F. J. Rohlf, and D. E. Slice. 2004. Geometric morphometrics: Ten years of progress following the revolution. Italian Journal of Zoology 71: 17-25.

Ross, A., D. E. Slice, D. H. Ubelaker, A. Falsetti. 2004. Population Affinities of 19th Century Cuban Crania: Implications for Identification Criteria in Cuban Americans in South Florida. Journal of Forensic Sciences 49: 11-16. (AR awarded the Ellis R. Kerley Award for outstanding research in forensic anthropology.)

Slice, D. E. 2001. Landmark configurations aligned by Procrustes analysis do not lie in Kendall's shape space. Systematic Biology 50(1)141-149.

Gharaibeh, W., F. J. Rohlf, D. E. Slice, and L. E. DeLisi. 2000. A geometric morphometric assessment of change in midline brain structural shape following a first episode of schizophrenia. Biol. Psychiatry 2000:398-405.

Bookstein, F. L., K. Schafer, H. Prossinger, H. Seidler, M. Fieder, C. Stringer, G. W. Weber, J. L. Arsuaga, D. E. Slice, F. James Rohlf, W. Reicheis, A. J. Mariam, and L. F. Marcus. 1999. Comparing frontal cranial profiles in archaic and modern Homo by morphometric analysis. The Anatomical Record - The New Anatomist 257(6):217-224.

Marcus, L. F., M. Corti, A. Loy, G. Naylor, and D. E. Slice, eds. 1996. Advances in Morphometrics. Proceedings of the 1993 NATO Advanced Studies Institute Workshop on Morphometrics. July, 1993. Il Ciocco, Italy. Plenum Press.