LAZZARI Vincent
Assistant professor
Main research question
My research aims at identifying and interpreting the mechanisms (function, adaptation, development…) which drive tooth morphological evolution in mammals.
Topics of study
Notably, I focus on the adaptive and functional signal carried by extinct mammal dental morphology – including primates – through topographical analyses of dental archives.
During the last decade I also took part in the study of Paleogene anthropoid primates from South-East Asia.
I also occasionally join projects testing the influence of phylogeny and development on dental evolution in rodents.
Fieldworks
In the framework of the study of the Paleogene asian anthropoids, I participate in the fieldworks led by the Myanmar-French Primate Pondaung Expedition in western Myanmar.
Project management
- Coordination project ANR Jeunes Chercheur/Jeunes Chercheuses DieT-PrimE de 2018 à 2021
- Co-coordination project PHC PROCOPE « LOCOMOTION IN FOSSIL SMALL MAMMALS » de 2016 à 2018
Other responsibilities
- Deputy director of the Training Unit in Geosciences de la Faculté des Sciences Fondamentales (SFA) et Appliquées de l’University of Poitiers de 2013 à 2015
- Director of International Relations of the Training Unit in Geosciences de SFA de 2012 à 2017
- Director of the Mention to Earth Science Licence de SFA à partir de 2018
- Responsable of the Licence 2 Earth Science de SFA depuis 2016.
Contact
- Build. B35 – 3rd floor, south wing – Room 420
- vincent.lazzari@univ-poitiers.fr
Iconic publications
Jean-Jacques Jaeger, Olivier Chavasseau, Vincent Lazzari, Aung Naing Soe, Chit Sein, Anne Le Maître, Hla Shwe & Yaowalak Chaimanee – New Eocene primate from Myanmar shares dental characters with African Eocene crown anthropoids – Nature Communicationsvolume 10, Article number: 3531 (2019).
Renvoisé E, Kavanagh KD, Lazzari V, Häkkinen TJ, Rice R, Pantalacci S, Salazar-Ciudad I, Jernvall J. 2017. Mechanical constraint from growing jaw facilitates mammalian dental diversity. PNAS 114 (35): 9403-9408. doi:10.1073/pnas.1707410114/-/DCSupplemental.
Thiery G, Guy F and Lazzari V. 2017a. Investigating the dental toolkit of primates based on food mechanical properties: Feeding action does matter. Am J Primatol. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22640.
Thiery G, Gillet G, Lazzari V, Merceron G and Guy, F. 2017b. Was Mesopithecus a leaf eating colobine? Assessment of cracking, grinding and shearing ability using dental topography. J Human Evol 112: 79-92.
Pagès M, Fabre P-H, Chaval Y, Mortelliti, Nicolas V, Wells K, Michaux J, and Lazzari V. 2016. Molecular phylogeny of Southeast Asian arboreal murine rodents. Zoologica Scripta 45: 349-364.
Lazzari V, Guy F, Salais PE, Euriat A, Charles C, Viriot L, Tafforeau P, Michaux J. 2015. Convergent Evolution of molar topography in Muroidea (Rodentia, Mammalia): connections between chewing movements and crown morphology. In Philip G. Cox & Lionel Hautier (eds), Evolution of the Rodents. Advances in Phylogeny, Functional Morphology and Development. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp.448-477.
Chaimanee Y, Lazzari V, Benammi M, Euriat A, Jaeger J-J. 2015. A new small pliopithecoid primate from the Middle Miocene of Thailand. Journal of Human Evolution 88:15-24.
Guy F, Lazzari V (first co-authors), Gilissen E, Thiery G. 2015. To What Extent is Primate Second Molar Enamel Occlusal Morphology Shaped by the Enamel-Dentine Junction? PLoS One 10(9): e0138802.
Guy F, Gouvard F, Boistel R, Euriat A, Lazzari V. 2013. Prospective in (Primate) Dental Analysis through Tooth 3D Topographical Quantification. PloS One 8(6): e66142.
Chaimanee C, Chavasseau O, Lazzari V, Euriat A, Jaeger JJ. 2013. A new Late Eocene primate from the Krabi Basin (Thailand) and the diversity of Palaeogene anthropoids in southeast Asia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 2013-2268.
Coillot T, Yaowalak C, Charles C, Gomes-Rodrigues H, Michaux J, Tafforeau P, Vianey-Liaud M, Viriot L and Lazzari V. 2013. Correlated changes in occlusal pattern and diet in stem murinae during the onset of the radiation of old world rats and mice. Evolution 67: 3323-3338.