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Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Title: Associate Professor
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E-mail: alida.bailleul@ivpp.ac.cn
EDUCATION
2015 Ph.D., Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
"Osteohistology of cranial sutural fusion in the skulls of archosaurs: implications for maturity assessment in non-avian dinosaurs and for the evolution of skeletal tissues."
Advisor : Dr. John R. Horner.
2010 M.S., Systematics-Evolution-Paleobiodiversity, Université Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
2008 B.S., Biology of the Organisms and Ecosystems-Ecology, Université Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2021-Present Associate Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
2020-2021 Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
2018-2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences - President’s International Fellowship Initiative (CAS-PIFI). Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Advisors: Dr. Zhou Zhonghe and Dr. Jingmai O’Connor.
2015-2018 Postdoctoral Research Associate (funded by the National Science Foundation-IOS to CMH and KM), Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri. Advisors: Dr. Casey Holliday and Dr. Kevin Middleton.
2015 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Museum of the Rockies & Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Montana State University. Advisors: Dr. Dana Rashid and Dr. John R. Horner.
Evolutionary Cellular Paleontology in Archosaurs (Dinosaurs, Birds, Crocodiles)
Molecular Paleontology & Taphonomy of vertebrate cartilage
Evolution of archosaur tissues
2022. Award of Important Scientific Achievement of IVPP for 2021
Preservation of cell nuclei, chromatin and DNA fossilization products in the cartilage of Mesozoic birds and dinosaurs.
2021 CAS-PIFI Fellowship for Young Staff 2021
Chinese Academy of Sciences – President’s International Fellowship Initiative
2020 Award of Major Scientific Achievement (Top 5) of IVPP for 2020
Tissues, cells and biomolecules in fossil birds and dinosaurs.
2019 Award of Major Scientific Achievement (Top 5) of IVPP for 2019
2019 Outstanding Achievement of the Center of Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
An Early Cretaceous enantiornithine (Aves) preserving an unlaid egg and probable medullary bone.
2018 CAS-PIFI Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018-2020.
Chinese Academy of Sciences – President’s International Fellowship Initiative
2017 Postdoctoral Fellow Platform/Oral Presentation Award
2nd place (American Association of Anatomists)
2016 Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Presentation Award
2nd place (American Association of Anatomists)
2014 Brian K. Hall Award
Best Oral Presentation - Canadian Society of Zoologists
2014 Harold T. Stearns Fellowship Award
Geological Society of America
2023
Alida M. Bailleul, Qian Wu, Dongsheng Li, Zhiheng Li, Zhonghe Zhou. A preliminary histotaphonomy experiment suggests chondrocytes within calcified cartilage have a higher preservation potential than osteocytes. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 61, 2, 108-122. 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.230309.
2021
Zhiheng Li, Alida M. Bailleul, Thomas A. Stidham, Min Wang, Tao Deng. Exceptional preservation of an extinct ostrich from the Late Miocene Linxia basin of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica. doi: 10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.210309
2020
Alida M. Bailleul*, Wenxia Zheng, John R. Horner, Brian K. Hall, Casey M. Holliday, Mary H. Schweitzer. Evidence of proteins, chromosomes and chemical markers of DNA in exceptionally preserved dinosaur cartilage. National Science Review, nwz206, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwz206
2019
Alida M. Bailleul*, Zhiheng Li, Jingmai O'Connor, Zhonghe Zhou*. 2019. Origin of the avian predentary and evidence of the unique form of cranial kinesis in Cretaceous ornithuromorphs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911820116
Alida M. Bailleul*, Jingmai O'Connor, Shukang Zhang, Zhiheng Li, Qiang Wang, Matthew C. Lamanna, Xufeng Zhu, Zhonghe Zhou. 2019. An Early Cretaceous
enantiornithine (Aves) preserving an unlaid egg and probable medullary bone. Nature Communications 10: 1275. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09259-x
2016
Alida M. Bailleul*, John B. Scannella, John R. Horner, David C. Evans. 2016. Fusion patterns in the skulls of modern archosaurs reveal that sutures are ambiguous maturity indicators for the Dinosauria. Plos One 11(2) : e0147687.
2027-2023 PI-Youth Innovation Promotion Association of China Grant (number 2023078)
2026-2024 PI-National Natural Science Foundation of China RFIS-II Grant (number 42350610256) -
2022 Co-PI-National Natural Science Foundation of China - 650,000RMB (~€96,580)
"Bird evolution from the Linxia basin with key implications of the Late Miocene climate change." Grant number 42172029.
2016 AAA Short-term Visiting Scholarship (PI)-American Association of Anatomists-US$1000
2014 Evolving Earth Foundation Research Grant (PI) (PhD Research) - US$2870
2014 Geological Society of America Research Grant (PI) (PhD Research) - US$2500
2014 Jurassic Foundation Research Grant (PI) (PhD Research) - US$2280
2013 Sigma-Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research (PI) (PhD Research) - US$400