Christina Nicholas, PhD
Associate Professor
College of Dentistry, Department of Orthodontics
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
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College of Denstistry 419C
Address:
801 S. Paulina St.
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About
I'm a biological anthropologist by training, though my primary appointment is in the College of Dentistry. I completed my PhD in Anthropology at the University of Iowa, where I also did a postdoc in the Iowa Institute for Oral Health Research. My background is in paleoanthropology and human variation. My research focuses on factors, genetic and environmental, which influence craniofacial growth and development. I am particularly interested in how obesity affects dental development and eruption - we know that children with obesity erupt their teeth at younger ages, but we don't know why. My lab has a new NIJ-funded project aimed at developing improved dental age estimation formulae. My lab is actively recruiting PhD students (for more information, please visit my lab website).
Education
PhD in Biological Anthropology from University of Iowa, 2015
MA in Biological Anthropology from University of Iowa, 2009
BS in Anthropology from Michigan State University, 2006