Juniper Koehler
Lab Manager
College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Biography
Juniper Koehler serves as the Anatomy Lab Manager in the School of Physical Therapy at Belmont University. They earned their Bachelor of Arts in Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology and their Master of Science in Biological Sciences from Vanderbilt University. They have a background as an interdisciplinary biologist, researcher, educator and creative. Their existing research spans across biology, ecology, paleontology, anthropology and anatomy. Juniper has over 15 years of classical ballet training, and loves to apply anatomical knowledge to the arts. As a skilled artist, they have created numerous scientific illustrations for anatomical, ecological and paleontological projects.
- Biology
- Ecology
- Palenontology
- Anthropology
- Anatomy
- Koehler, J., Faith, J. T., Braun, D. R., Schwartz, A. F., O’Brien, K., Sokolowski, K., Kurre, A., Davies, B., Stynder, D., Louys, J., DeSantis, L. Submitted April 2026. Comparative dental microwear texture analysis of Pleistocene carnivores from the southwestern Cape of South Africa. Quaternary Research.
- Schwartz, A., DeSantis, L., Koehler, J., Scott, R. 2025. Historical dietary ecology of black-backed jackals (Lupulella mesomelas) based on dental microwear texture analysis. Journal of Mammalogy106, 479–490. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae134.
- Schroeder, K. M., Smith, F. A., Koehler, J., Mueller, E., DeSantis, L. Forthcoming. Sinking teeth into ontogeny: dental microwear analysis quantifies dietary niche partitioning between and within tyrannosaurs.
- Sokolowski, K., Koehler, J., Tuck, C., DeSantis, L., Faith, J. T. Submitted April 2026. Dental microwear texture analysis of extinct Pleistocene caprin from South Africa. Quaternary Research.
- Koehler, J., Irmis, R. Forthcoming. Brain anatomy of a sub-adult Gryposaurus monumentensisfrom the Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase–Escalante, Utah.
- DeSantis, L., Stynder, D., O’Brien, K., Koehler, J., Sokolowski, K., Mueller, E., Powell. K., Johnson, S., Braun, D.R., Faith, J.T. Forthcoming. What were all those grazers eating? Dental microwear texture analysis of Pleistocene herbivores from the southwestern Cape, South Africa.
- Pirlo, J., Koehler, J., DeSantis, L. Forthcoming. Dental microwear texture analysis of gomphotheres (Rhynchotherium) from the Montbrook fossil site.
- Guest Lecturer, Biological Systems, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2025
- Guest Speaker, Curb Scholars Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, January, 2025
- Vanderbilt University, “Third Spaces and Trait Transmission: An Agent-Based Model of Adolescent Cultural Dynamics,” April 2025
- Vanderbilt University, “Contextualizing African Carnivore Conservation and Anthropogenic Impacts through a Paleoecological Lens,” April 2025
- "Comparative Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Pleistocene Carnivores on the West Coast of South Africa," December 2024
- Vanderbilt University, “Drought and human health in Turkana, Kenya over time,” November 2024
- Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, "Comparative Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Pleistocene Carnivores on the West Coast of South Africa," oral presentation, October 2023
- Vanderbilt University, "Re-evaluating the Paleoecology of the West Coast of South Africa through Dental Microwear Analysis of Bovids," oral presentation, September 2022