Department of Evolutionary Paleobiology


Justyna SŁOWIAK, Ph.D.


Dinosaur paleobiology

Bone histology of reptiles

Reserachgate: Justyna Słowiak
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4166-6963


CURRICULUM VITAE



Personal data

Justyna Słowiak
Born in 1991, Opole, Poland


Academic degrees
  • 2021 – Ph.D. in biological sciences, in the discipline of biology; Dental evolution in duplicidentate Glires (Mammalia); Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS.
  • 2016–2021 – Ph.D. student at the International Doctoral Studies Course in the Biological Sciences with the PAS in Warsaw; Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS; scientific supervisor Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik Ph.D, D.Sc.
  • 2016 – Ph.D. student at the International Doctoral Studies Course in the Biological Sciences with the PAS in Warsaw; Institute of Paleobiology PAS, scientific supervisor: Ph.D., D.Sc. Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik
  • 2016 – MSc in Geology within College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw; New specimens of Saurolophus angustirostris (Dinosauria, Hadrosauridae) from the Nemegt Formation, Mongolia: morphology and histology
  • 2015 – MSc in Biology within College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw; The structure of pelvic girdle and hindlimbs of Protoceratops andrewsi
  • 2014 – BSc in Geology within College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw; Evolution and behavior of the Maniraptora
  • 2013 – BSc in Biology within College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw; Evolution of the skeleton in the Agnatha

Awards and scholarschips
  • 2019 – Award of the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 2016 – best oral presentation of the 8th Conference Young in Paleontology
  • 2010 – second prize winner in the XXII European Union Contest For Young Scientists, Lisboa, Portugal; Biodiversity, palaeoecology and taxonomical position  of vertebrates of the Middle Triassic sea ecosystem from Silesia (SW Poland)
  • 2010 – Nomination for participation in international finals of the XXII European Union Contest For Young Scientists, Warsaw, Poland; Biodiversity, palaeoecology and taxonomical position  of vertebrates of the Middle Triassic sea ecosystem from Silesia (SW Poland)
  • 2010 – first prize winner in national finals of Polish preliminaries of the XXII European Union Contest For Young Scientists, Warsaw, Poland; Biodiversity, palaeoecology and taxonomical position  of vertebrates of the Middle Triassic sea ecosystem from Silesia (SW Poland)
  • 2010 – grant holder of Opolskie Orły award recommended by the mayor of Opole city, Poland
  • 2009/2010 – grant holder of the Polish Children`s Fund, Warsaw, Poland
  • 2009 – grant holder of the project Pearl Divers, Cracow, Poland

Scientific meetings

  • 2017 – 77th Annual Meeting of Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Calgary, Canada
  • 2017 – XV Annual Meeting of European Association of Vertebrate Palaentologists, Munich, Germany
  • 2015 – The XIII Annual Meeting of European Association of Vertebrate Palaentologists, Opole, Poland
  • 2015 – Conference Progressive Paleontology, Bristol, England

Field work/expeditions
  • 2020 – Internship at Jurassica Museum, Porrentruy, Switzerland
  • 2019 – Participation in scientific expedition to Russian North
  • 2018 – Comparative study of the lagomorph collection in the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany
  • 2018 – Comparative study of the dinosaur collection in the Orlov Museum of Paleontology, Moscow, Russia
  • 2016, 2015 – participation in excavations in Miedary, Poland
  • 2016 – Comparative study of the ceratopsian collection in the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria
  • 2015 – participation in course: Geology and Palaeontology of the Molasse, the Eisenstadt Basin and the Northern Calcareous Alps in Austria
  • 2014 – participation in excavations in Woźniki, Poland
  • 2013 – participation in scientific expedition to Vyazniki, Russia
  • 2013 – participation in excavations in Poręba, Poland
  • 2012, 2009 – participation in excavations in Krasiejów, Poland
  • 2010 – Internship at International Wildlife Research Week, Valchawa, Switzerland

Grants and international projects
  • 2016 – Leader of a student project: Ontogenetic changes in the appendicular skeleton of Protoceratops andrewsi form the Djadokhta Formation (Mongolia); American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Signature: I/5/2016 (Found by: Consultative Council of the University of Warsaw, Second pillar of Student Government of the University of Warsaw, Universitatis Varsoviensis Fund)

Teaching
  • 2016 – Leading an internship for a stipendist of the Polish Children`s Fund in the Department of Paleobiology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland
  • 2016 – Field trip (Bukowa Góra, Iłża) in the course: History of Life for students of the University of Warsaw, Poland
  • 2016 – Lecture for stipendists of the Polish Children`s Fund, Serock, Poland
  • 2015 – Guest in the conference panel: Young and Talented organized by Centre for Education Development, Warsaw, Poland
  • 2014 – Lecture about dinosaurs in the subject: Historical Geology for students of the Geology Faculty, University of Warsaw, Poland

Other
  • 2018 – co-organizer of the IX Conference of Young in Paleontology in Warsaw
  • 2015 – Scientific commentator of two games for children: My Dinosaurs and Dino versus Dino, publisher: Granna, Warsaw
  • 2011-2016 – Membership in Students' Society of Evolutionary Biology, Warsaw University, Faculty of Biology (2014/2015 – Secretary of the Society)
  • 2010-2016 – Membership in Students' Society of Field Paleontologist, Warsaw University, Faculty of Geology (2013/2014 – Vice-President of the Society; 2014-2016 – President of the Society)




Publications

Scientific papers


Słowiak J, Brusatte S.L., Szczygielski T. (2024) Reassessment of the enigmatic Late Cretaceous theropod dinosaur, Bagaraatan ostromi, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: zlad169. [text-journal site]

Surmik D., Słowiak-Morkovina J., Szczygielski T., Wojtyniak M., Środek D., Dulski M., Balin K., Krzykawski T., Pawlicki R. (2023) The first record of fossilized soft parts in ossified tendons and implications for the understanding of tendon mineralization, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: zlad001. [text-journal site]

Szczygielski T., Klein N., Słowiak-Morkovina J., Scheyer T. M. 2023. Limb histology of the Triassic stem turtles Proterochersis porebensis Szczygielski & Sulej, 2016 and Proganochelys quenstedtii Baur, 1887 with insights into growth patterns of early turtles. [text-journal site]

Lee S., Słowiak-Morkovina J. (2023) The Resting Breathing Rate of the Dinosaur Plateosaurus trossingensis via Conservation of Energy. The Physics Teacher 61, 166-169. [text-journal site]

Surmik, D., Szczygielski, T., Słowiak-Morkovina, J., Sander, M., Rothschild, B., Duda, P., & Klein, N. (2023). Bone abnormalities in the middle Anisian marine sauropsids from Winterswijk. Journal of Morphology, 284, e21550. [text-journal site]

Surmik D., Słowiak-Morkovina J., Szczygielski T., Kamaszewski M., Kalita S., Teschner E. M., Dróżdż D., Duda P., Rothschild B. M., Konietzko-Meier D. 2022. An insight into cancer palaeobiology: does the Mesozoic neoplasm support tissue organization field theory of tumorigenesis? BMC Ecology & Evolution 22: 143. [text-journal site]

Szczygielski T., Słowiak J. 2022. Shell histology of the Triassic turtle, Proterochersis porebensis Szczygielski & Sulej, 2016, provides novel insights about shell ankylosis. Comptes Rendus Palevol 21 (29): 619-679. [text-journal site]

Kraatz B., Belabbas R., Fostowicz-Frelik Ł., Ge D., Kuznetsov A. N., Lang M., López-Torres S., Mohammadi Z., Racicot R. A., Ravosa M. J., Sharp A. C., Sherratt E., Silcox M. T., Słowiak J., Winkler A. J., Ruf I. 2021. Lagomorpha as a model morphological system. Frontiers Ecology and Evolution – Phylogenetics, Phylogenomics, and Systematics 9(636402): 1-26. [text-journal site]

Słowiak J., Szczygielski T., Rothschild B. M., & Surmik D. 2021. Dinosaur senescence: a hadrosauroid with age‑related diseases brings a new perspective of “old” dinosaurs. Scientific Reports 11: 11947. [text-journal site]

Słowiak J., Szczygielski T., Ginter M., & Fostowicz‐Frelik Ł. (2020). Uninterrupted growth in a non‐polar hadrosaur explains the gigantism among duck‐billed dinosaurs. Palaeontology 63(4): 579-599.[text-journal site]

Słowiak J., Tereshchenko V.S., Fostowicz-Frelik Ł. 2019. Appendicular skeleton of Protoceratops andrewsi (Dinosauria, Ornithischia): comparative morphology, ontogenetic changes, and the implications for non-ceratopsid ceratopsian locomotion. PeerJ 7:e7324. [text-journal site]

Szczygielski T., Słowiak J., Dróżdż D. 2018. Shell variability in the stem turtles Proterochersis spp. PeerJ 6: e6134. [text-journal site]

Fostowicz-Frelik Ł., Słowiak J. 2018. Bone histology of Protoceratops andrewsi from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and its biological implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63(3): 503-517. [text-journal site]



Conference abstracts and chapters in guide books

J. Slowiak, T. Szczygielski, B.M. Rothschild, D. Surmik. 2021. A hadrosauroid with agerelated diseases brings a new perspective on dinosaur senescence. The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology virtual meeting conference program: 237. 1-5.11.2021.

J. Slowiak, T. Szczygielski. 2021. Shell histology of the triassic turtle, Proterochersis porebensis, provides novel insights about shell ankylosis. Poster. The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology virtual meeting conference program: 237. 1-5.11.2021.

D. Surmik, J. Slowiak, T. Szczygielski, D. Srodek, M. Wojtyniak, R. Pawlicki. 2021. Multi-scale study of ossified tendons of late cretaceous ornithischians. The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology virtual meeting conference program: 246. 1-5.11.2021.

B. Morkovin , J. Slowiak, A. Podlesnov, I. Morkovin. New localities of the Early Triassic terrestrial vertebrates of the upper part of Luza River (Komi Republic, Russia). Kazan Golovkinsky Stratigraphic Meeting 2021, celebrating the 180th anniversary of the establishment of the Permian system “Sedimentary Earth Systems: Stratigraphy, Paleoclimate, Geochronology, Petroleum Resources” Sixth All-Russian Conference “Upper Paleozoic of Russia” 18-22.10.2021, Kazan, Russia.

Słowiak J., Szczygielski T., Rothschild B. M., Surmik D. 2021. How to identify a senile dinosaur? The importance of age-related diseases for the age determination in non-avian dinosaurs. Progressive Palaeontology 2021 Abstrakt Book: 41. 17-19.06.2021.

Szczygielski T., Słowiak J., Surmik D. 2021. Work in progess: shell pathology in Jurassic marine turtles. Poster. 9th International Meeting on the Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water. Virtual Meeting 19-21 IV 2021, Chile.

Szczygielski T., Słowiak J., Sulej T. 2018. New data on the shell structure of the basalmost true turtles, Proterochersis spp. Poster. 78th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Meeting Program and Abstracts: 225. 19 IX 2018 r., Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, USA.

Świś P., Słowiak J., Fostowicz-Frelik Ł. (2018) Bone microstructure of Osmolskina czatkowicensis, an Early Triassic archosauriform from Poland. Poster. XVI Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, Abstract book: 182. 26.06-1.07.2018, Lisbon, Portugal.
 
Słowiak J. (2018) Growth dynamics of the Late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur Protoceratops andrewsi. Oral presentation. Conference of Young Evolutionary Biologists, Abstract book: 25. 25-27.05.2018, Kraków, Poland.

Szczygielski T., Słowiak J. (2018) Shell variability and sexual dimorphism in the earliest turtles. Oral presentation. 6th Turtle Evolution Symposium, Program & Abstracts: 6-8. 26.05.2018, Tokyo, Japan.

Słowiak J. (2018) Dynamika wzrostu Saurolophus angustirostris (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) [Growth dynamics of Saurolophus angustirostris (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae)]. Oral presentation. Young in Paleontology 9, Abstract book: 30. 21-22.04. 2018, Warsaw, Poland.

Surowski M., Słowiak J., Owocki K. (2018) Mikrostruktura kości Tarbosaurus bataar na tle innych przedstawicieli Tyrannosauridae [Bone microstructure of Tarbosaurus bataar in comparison to other representatives of Tyrannosauridae]. Poster. Young in Paleontology 9, Abstract book: 40. 21-22.04. 2018, Warsaw, Poland.

Szczygielski T., Słowiak J. (2018) Zmienność pancerza i dymorfizm płciowy u najwcześniejszych żółwi (Testudinata: Proterochersidae) [The variability of the shell and sexual dimorphism in the earliest turtles (Testidinata: Proterochersidae)]. Oral presentation. Young in Paleontology 9, Abstract book: 26. 21-22.04.2018, Warsaw, Poland.

Fostowicz-Frelik Ł., Słowiak J., Meng, J. (2017) Enamel Microstructure in Lagomorpha (Mammalia: Glires): in the search of functional and phylogenetic implications. Poster. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 77th Annual Meeting, Program & Abstracts: 113. 23-26.08.2017, Calgary, Canada.

Słowiak J., Fostowicz-Frelik Ł., Ginter, M. (2017) Ontogenetic changes in bone tissue of Saurolophus angustirostris (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Poster. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 77th Annual Meeting, Program & Abstracts: 195. 23-26.08.2017, Calgary, Canada.

Fostowicz-Frelik Ł., Słowiak J. (2017) An overview of the postcranial skeleton in basal Glires (Mammalia). Oral presentation. XV Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists Zitteliana 91: 36. 1-3.08.2017, Munich, Germany.

Słowiak J. (2017) Heterochronic changes in the cranial geometry of Saurolophini (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae). Poster. XV Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists. Zitteliana 91: 83. 1-3.08.2017, Munich, Germany.

Słowiak J. (2016) Zmiany ontogenetyczne w szkielecie kończyn Protoceratops andrewsi oraz ich implikacje lokomotoryczne [Ontogenetical changes in the limb skeleton of Protoceratops andrewsi and its locomotion implications]. Oral presentation. Young in Paleontology 8, Opole, Poland.

Słowiak J.
(2015). Ontogenetic modifications of the pelvic girdle and hindlimb revealed by an subadult specimen of Protoceratops andrewsi. The XIII Annual Meeting of European Association of Vertebrate Palaentologists, Opole, Poland.

Słowiak J. (2015). Ontogenetic modifications of the pelvic girdle and hindlimb revealed by an subadult specimen of Protoceratops andrewsi. Conference Progressive Paleontology, Bristol, England.


Popular and review articles

Słowiak J. (2015). Early Evolution of the Vertebrate Skeleton. Ewolucja 5: 28-33.

Słowiak J. (2013). Jurassic Park and other myths about dinosaurs. UW 1 (61): 34-35.

Mazurek D., Słowiak J. (2009). Silesaurus in relevance to a dinosaur. Przeglad Geologiczny 57 (7): 569-571.





Contact


Justyna Słowiak
Institute of Paleobiology PAS
ul. Twarda 51/55
PL-00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e–mail: justyna.slowiak@twarda.pan.pl

phone: (+4822) 697 8854; room 632