Nadia Fröbisch
{{short description|German vertebrate paleontologist and developmental biologist}}
Nadia Belinda Fröbisch (née Stöcker) is a German vertebrate paleontologist and developmental biologist who specializes in the evolution and development of amphibians. She is currently a professor at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin in the Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-23|title=Prof. Nadia Fröbisch, Ph.D.|url=https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/about/team/nadia.froebisch|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}
Academic and professional background
Fröbisch obtained her vordiplom (B.Sc. equivalent) at the University of Bonn in Germany (1996-1999), after which she spent a year as a visiting student at the University of Calgary and volunteered at the Royal Tyrell Museum.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-23|title=2006 (Romer Prize) - Nadia Fröbisch|url=http://vertpaleo.org/the-Society/Awards/Past-Award-Winners/2006-(Romer-Prize)-Nadia-Frobisch.aspx|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-23|title=Nadia Stoecker CV|url=http://redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/larsson/personalpages/nadia_froebisch/nadia_froebisch_cv.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}} Following that, she pursued her diploma (M.Sc. equivalent) at the University of Bonn (2000-2003) under the supervision of Martin Sander, where she studied Middle Triassic ichthyosaurs. Fröbisch then went on to pursue her doctoral studies at McGill University (2003-2008) under the supervision of Robert Carroll and Hans Larsson, where she studied the extinct dissorophoid temnospondyls, a close relative of modern amphibians.{{Cite book|last=Fröbisch|first=Nadia|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/30003398|title=Ontogeny and phylogeny of small dissorophoid amphibians|publisher=McGill University|year=2008|isbn=|location=Montreal|pages=1–360}} She went on to hold postdoctoral positions at the University of Toronto Mississauga (supervised by Robert Reisz) and the University of Chicago (supervised by Neil Shubin). She is currently a professor at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and is technically affiliated with Humboldt University.{{Cite web|title=Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Professorin N. Fröbisch|url=https://agnes.hu-berlin.de/lupo/rds;jsessionid=2C39B344344E82AECCF4CCA1A32DF5F6.angua_root?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfoPerson&publishSubDir=personal&keep=y&purge=y&personal.pid=26396|access-date=2021-01-02|website=agnes.hu-berlin.de}}
She won the Canadian Paleontology Conference's Bolton Award in 2006, given to the best student presentation, and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's Romer Prize in 2006, a prestigious award given for the best student talk based on doctoral research.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-23|title=SVP - Past Award Winners|url=http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Past-Award-Winners.aspx|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}} She appeared in an episode of National Geographic's TV series "Naked Science"{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-23|title=Nadia Fröbisch|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4205593/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=IMDb}} and was a Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Distinguished Lecturer from 2018 to 2020; this program was originally an initiative of the Paleontological Society to make accomplished scientists available for public lectures.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-23|title=Distinguished Lecture Program|url=https://www.paleosoc.org/distinguished-lecturer-program|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-23|title=SVP/Paleo Society Distinguished Lecturer Program|url=http://vertpaleo.org/What-is-Vertebrate-Paleontology/SVP-Paleo-Society-Distinguished-Lecturer-Program.aspx|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}
Academic contributions
Fröbisch's research focuses primarily on the evolution and development of extinct and extant amphibians through the combined use of paleontological and modern developmental approaches. In particular, she is well known for her work examining patterns of limb development{{Cite journal|last1=Fröbisch|first1=Nadia B.|last2=Carroll|first2=Robert L.|last3=Schoch|first3=Rainer R.|date=2007-01-12|title=Limb ossification in the Paleozoic branchiosaurid Apateon (Temnospondyli) and the early evolution of preaxial dominance in tetrapod limb development|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-142x.2006.00138.x|journal=Evolution & Development|volume=9|issue=1|pages=69–75|doi=10.1111/j.1525-142x.2006.00138.x|pmid=17227367|s2cid=10644859|issn=1520-541X}}{{Cite journal|last1=Fröbisch|first1=Nadia B.|last2=Shubin|first2=Neil H.|date=2011-04-04|title=Salamander limb development: Integrating genes, morphology, and fossils|journal=Developmental Dynamics|volume=240|issue=5|pages=1087–1099|doi=10.1002/dvdy.22629|pmid=21465623|issn=1058-8388|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last=Fröbisch|first=Nadia B.|date=2008-10-20|title=Ossification patterns in the tetrapod limb - conservation and divergence from morphogenetic events|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185x.2008.00055.x|journal=Biological Reviews|volume=83|issue=4|pages=571–600|doi=10.1111/j.1469-185x.2008.00055.x|pmid=18947337|s2cid=9148543|issn=1464-7931}}{{Cite journal|last1=Fröbisch|first1=Nadia B.|last2=Olori|first2=Jennifer C.|last3=Schoch|first3=Rainer R.|last4=Witzmann|first4=Florian|date=2010|title=Amphibian development in the fossil record|url=|journal=Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology|language=en|volume=21|issue=4|pages=424–431|doi=10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.11.001|pmid=19913630}} and regeneration.{{Cite journal|last1=Fröbisch|first1=Nadia B.|last2=Bickelmann|first2=Constanze|last3=Olori|first3=Jennifer C.|last4=Witzmann|first4=Florian|date=2015|title=Deep-time evolution of regeneration and preaxial polarity in tetrapod limb development|url=http://www.nature.com/articles/nature15397|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=527|issue=7577|pages=231–234|doi=10.1038/nature15397|pmid=26503047|bibcode=2015Natur.527..231F|s2cid=1717512|issn=0028-0836|via=}}{{Cite journal|last1=Darnet|first1=Sylvain|last2=Dragalzew|first2=Aline C.|last3=Amaral|first3=Danielson B.|last4=Sousa|first4=Josane F.|last5=Thompson|first5=Andrew W.|last6=Cass|first6=Amanda N.|last7=Lorena|first7=Jamily|last8=Pires|first8=Eder S.|last9=Costa|first9=Carinne M.|last10=Sousa|first10=Marcos P.|last11=Fröbisch|first11=Nadia B.|date=2019-07-23|title=Deep evolutionary origin of limb and fin regeneration|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=116|issue=30|pages=15106–15115|doi=10.1073/pnas.1900475116|issn=0027-8424|pmc=6660751|pmid=31270239|bibcode=2019PNAS..11615106D |doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal|last1=Fröbisch|first1=Nadia B.|last2=Bickelmann|first2=Constanze|last3=Witzmann|first3=Florian|date=2014-11-07|title=Early evolution of limb regeneration in tetrapods: evidence from a 300-million-year-old amphibian|url= |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|language=en|volume=281|issue=1794|pages=20141550|doi=10.1098/rspb.2014.1550|issn=0962-8452|pmc=4211449|pmid=25253458}} Although her work primarily utilizes amphibian models, with a secondary eye towards lungfish, she has also published on ichthyosaurs,{{Cite journal|last1=Fröbisch|first1=Nadia B.|last2=Sander|first2=P. Martin|last3=Rieppel|first3=Olivier|date=2006|title=A new species of Cymbospondylus (Diapsida, Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Nevada and a re-evaluation of the skull osteology of the genus|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|language=en|volume=147|issue=4|pages=515–538|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00225.x|issn=1096-3642|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last1=Fröbisch|first1=Nadia B.|last2=Fröbisch|first2=Jörg|last3=Sander|first3=P. Martin|last4=Schmitz|first4=Lars|last5=Rieppel|first5=Olivier|date=2013-01-22|title=Macropredatory ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic and the origin of modern trophic networks|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=110|issue=4|pages=1393–1397|doi=10.1073/pnas.1216750110|issn=0027-8424|pmc=3557033|pmid=23297200|bibcode=2013PNAS..110.1393F|doi-access=free }} pterosaurs,{{Cite journal|last1=Fröbisch|first1=Nadia B.|last2=Fröbisch|first2=Jörg|title=A New Basal Pterosaur Genus from the Upper Triassic of the Northern Calcareous Alps of Switzerland|date=2006|journal=Palaeontology|language=en|volume=49|issue=5|pages=1081–1090|doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00581.x|bibcode=2006Palgy..49.1081F |s2cid=129741535 |doi-access=}} and chondrichthyans.{{Cite journal|last1=Maxwell|first1=Erin E.|last2=Fröbisch|first2=Nadia B.|last3=Heppleston|first3=Audrey C.|date=2008|title=Variability and Conservation in Late Chondrichthyan Development: Ontogeny of the Winter Skate (Leucoraja ocellata)|journal=The Anatomical Record|volume=291|issue=9|pages=1079–1087|doi=10.1002/ar.20719|pmid=18493933|s2cid=7393052|issn=1932-8486|doi-access=free}} Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including Nature, JAMA Oncology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Biological Reviews. She also serves on the editorial board of several paleontological journals, including PalZ,{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-23|title=PalZ - Editors|url=https://www.springer.com/journal/12542/editors|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}} the Journal of Paleontology,{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-23|title=Journal of Paleontology - Editorial Board|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/information/editorial-board|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}} and Paleobiology.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-23|title=Paleobiology - Editorial Board|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/information/editorial-board|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}
Fröbisch has contributed to naming several new species of extinct tetrapods, outlined below:
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!Year !Taxon !Authors |
| 2013
|Reiszerpeton renascentis gen. et sp. nov. |
| 2013
|Thalattoarchon saurophagis gen. et sp. nov. |
| 2012
|Cacops woehri sp. nov. |
| 2008
|Gerobatrachus hottoni gen. et sp. nov. |
| 2008
|Paswioops mayi gen. et sp. nov. |
| 2006
|Caviramus schesaplanensis gen. et sp. nov. |
| 2006
|Cymbospondylus nichollsi sp. nov. |
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