Alana Sharp

📣ONE WEEK left to apply for this PhD on the #biomechanics of mandibular implants, working with clinicians and engineers to improve patient outcomes.

📍 @livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @livevobiomech.bsky.social in Liverpool, UK
🥼 @clairebrockett.bsky.social @ukshaq.bsky.social and me!

ACCE+ DLA Programme: Morphological Trait Evolution in Isolated Populations of Large Mammals and its Implications for Rewilding in the UK at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA Programme: Morphological Trait Evolution in Isolated Populations of Large Mammals and its Implications for Rewilding in the UK at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.co...

Anyone interested in applying for PhDs at #2025SVP, email or find me or @tguillerme.bsky.social for a chat if you’re interested in morphological trait evolution with a conservation theme:
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Interested in implants and dental rehabilitation?

I have a fully funded PhD available on modelling mandibular implants after oral cancer.
Apply now or email me 🙂
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

(BBSRC NWD) Fibrillin-1: a master regulator of skeletal muscle function? at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - (BBSRC NWD) Fibrillin-1: a master regulator of skeletal muscle function? at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD advert 🥳

BBSRC studentship focusing on the role of fibrillin-1 on the microvascular and mechanical function of skeletal muscle - potential for a whole range of interdisciplinary research techniques 💪🦴🧬🩸

All info at the link below - come join us!

Biomechanical impact of tooth root morphology to inform dental implant design Using finite element analysis (FEA), this study aims to investigate the impact of different tooth root morphologies and implant designs, including a s…

🦷 We saw that implants that mimic natural root morphology demonstrated more favourable stress distribution.

🦷 Standard single-root implants may lead to poor load distribution and increased failure risk in posterior locations.

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📣 📃 New paper out in press!

🦷 We look at the biomechanical impact of #tooth root morphology to inform #dental implant design.

👩‍💻We use finite element modelling to compare single vs. multiple roots on strain across the mandible.

@apwoodbailey.bsky.social @livevobiomech.bsky.social

ACCE+ DLA Programme: Morphological Trait Evolution in Isolated Populations of Large Mammals and its Implications for Rewilding in the UK at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA Programme: Morphological Trait Evolution in Isolated Populations of Large Mammals and its Implications for Rewilding in the UK at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.co...

📍 Project based in Liverpool in @livevobiomech.bsky.social

🥼 The team includes @tguillerme.bsky.social @toriherridge.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social and me!

🔗 Project description: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📣Another exciting PhD available!

Partnered with @nottswildlife.bsky.social and fully funded by the ACCE+ NERC Doctoral Landscape Award.

We will look at morphological trait evolution, isolation and environment change, and rewilding of large herbivores.

#evolution #WilderFuture #rewilding #PhD

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Improving success of mandibular reconstruction after oral cancer: novel finite element methods for better patient outcomes at University of Liverpool on FindAP... PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Improving success of mandibular reconstruction after oral cancer: novel finite element methods for better patient outcomes at University of Liver...

💷 The project is fully funded by the MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership

How to apply 🔗 www.dimen.org.uk/how-to-apply
Project description 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

👩‍⚕️ Working directly with surgeons, this project will provide clinically relevant information to prevent failure of jaw implants and improve patient outcomes following head & neck #cancer.
We will use #CT scanning 🩻 #biomechanics and modelling #FEA

📣 Funded PhD combining anatomy, surgery and engineering!

💀 This project aims to characterise the biomechanical behaviour of jaw implants following mandibulectomy.

📍@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social Liverpool, UK
🥼@ukshaq.bsky.social @clairebrockett.bsky.social and me!

With the high detail from the scans, we can reconstruct the muscles in 3D to learn more about their function and how flight evolved in bats
📃🔗 doi.org/10.1111/joa....

It's spoooky season! 🎃🦇 👻
Check out is video of our Egyptian Fruit Bat, stained with iodine and CT scanned to visualise the muscles

Taking over #3DThursday while Brandy Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social is out of office for some adventures!

🦇: Rousettus aegyptiacus stained in 10% Lugol’s iodine for 3 months
🔬: PerkinElmer Quantum GX microCT
🥼: @acsharp.bsky.social
🏛️: University of Liverpool’s Centre for Preclinical Imaging

On the 4th December 2025, @eesaupe.bsky.social will be giving an in person lecture at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social as part of the MENDLS series.

There will be tea and cake, a panel discussion, and a reception to follow!

Open to all, more details 👇

Register here:
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Our new MSc is rolling! Semester one provides a solid general background in Biomechanics with some fun practicals. Check out our students have fun learning surface electromyography.

Graphical abstract for A history of human thought on brain injury in head-hitting animals. Humans have hypothesized about headbutting for centuries. Biological misunderstanding has often been the cause of "invulnerability" theories. An accumulation of biological misinterpretation has led to the belief that animals are immune, despite evidence that headbutting causes brain injury.

Violence, scientific DRAMA, and misunderstanding!
Who first asked if woodpeckers get headaches, or if rams are immune to brain damage?
New Paper! I trace the history of human thought on brain injury in head-hitting animals, and it's a wild ride. 🧪 🏺
A thread - 1/🧵
doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

I'm very excited to work on this with an amazing team including @rnf.bsky.social @nathanj.bsky.social @apwoodbailey.bsky.social and @lucyhholmes.bsky.social

Marsupial megafauna might be an extreme example, but we don’t really know 🤷‍♀️ so I’ve been thinking about the relationship between cranial sinuses, brain size, skull shape, and jaw muscles for a long time 👀😬

My PhD was on the cranial sinuses of the largest ever marsupial, Diprotodon - literally airheads. Blue in these figures are sinuses and pink is the brain - the bigger an animal gets, the more of an airhead they become 🤔😅

I’m very excited to welcome @lucyhholmes.bsky.social to the lab! Lucy will be working on Building Giants, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk to investigate cranial sinuses in large mammals 🦓🐘🦛🦏🐪🦒🦬🐂🦌
This project is something I’ve been wanting to do for over a decade …

SVP abstract acceptance email

I’m coming to #SVP2025 in Birmingham! Very excited to see many friends again after so long. My last SVP was 2017 👀🤯
#2025SVP #skulls #biomechanics

BREAKING: Traitorous Liverpool PhD student lured to co-supervising institution with the promise of sloth chat and YouTube views 🦥🎥

📣Postdoc in whale biomechanics and evolution based in Bristol and Oxford, UK, with Dr Katrina Jones and Prof. Erin Saupe 📣🐋 #evolution #biomechanics #CFD

Our new paper led by recent lab alumni Hannah Shideler and postdoc Elska Kaczmarek is out in ICB @sicbjournals.bsky.social! For the first time ever, we reconstructed the volume of the oral cavity during suckling, and found that nipple design impacts tongue function.
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Rare as hen's teeth: an Assistant Curator job, with our fantastic team at National Museums Scotland! Closing date 24th August #museums #museumjobs
careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553

Assistant Teaching Professor - Human Anatomy- Department of Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

The Department of Integrative Biology @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor of Human Anatomy! Open until September 19. Please share with anatomy/paleo/func-morph colleagues and friends. Happy to answer any questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05053

What makes the skulls of rabbits and hares so special? Find out in this new paper from our very own @apwoodbailey.bsky.social @acsharp.bsky.social & others! 💀🐇📝

Factors impacting the complexity of the leporid intracranial joint Anatomy of the intracranial joint and the 2D semi-landmarks used to capture complexity in the intracranial joint. (a) The intracranial joint can be seen here (in red) between the parietal and occipit...

A study (with our @drphilcox.bsky.social) in #rabbits & #hares, found: those adapted for running have greater facial tilt & simpler #skull joints versus those with scrambling or hopping-based #locomotion, which could help with hinge-like mobility. @ucl.ac.uk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Building giants: tissue relationships during skull growth in large mammals at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Building giants: tissue relationships during skull growth in large mammals at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

Last day to apply! 📣
Come and join my lab in Liverpool @livevobiomech.bsky.social for a PhD on the skulls of giant mammals! Full funding for 4 years (UK Home rates) 🐘🦌🦘🐂🐪🦏
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...