Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Research Interest
My research aims to understand how the integration of soft- and hard-tissue is achieved, leading to increased fitness, niche partitioning, and ultimately, contributing to extant vertebrate ecomorphological diversity. Utilizing the crania, an important housing for various sensory apparatuses, as my study system, my research focuses on inter- and intraspecies variations using (1) functional morphology and (2) allometry across developmental and geological time.
Publication
To, KHT; Nesbitt, SJ; Stocker, MR. An early-diverging crocodylomorph from the Early Norian (Late Triassic) of Texas demonstrates a wide distribution of early members across low latitude Pangea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Short Notes. doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.2075752
To, KHT; O’Brien, HD; Stocker, MR; Gignac, PM. Cranial Musculoskeletal Description of Black-Throated Finch (Passeriformes: Estrildidae). Integrative Organismal Biology. April 2021. doi.org/10.1093/iob/obab007
Presentation
To, KHT; Cerio, DG. Eye spy the raptor os opticus: Anatomy, morphometry, and variation influenced by ecology & phylogeny. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. January 2025. Atlanta, GA
To, KHT; Stocker, MR; Hieronymus, TL. Is it that simple? Heterogeneous relative hardness of keratin in simple rhamphotheca in chickens. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. January 2023. Austin, TX
To, KHT; Green, T; Witmer, L; Stocker, MR. Drivers of ontogenetic changes in emu skulls, Dromaius novaehollandiae (Palaeognathae: Casuariidae). Experimental Biology. April 2022. Philadelphia, PA.
To, KHT; Stocker, MR; Nesbitt, SJ. Tracing the archosaurian beak using the Late Triassic Archosauromorph, Trilophosaurus buettneri. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. November 2021. Online.
To, KHT; Nesbitt, SJ; Stocker, MR. An early-diverging crocodylomorph from the early Norian (Late Triassic) of Texas. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. October 2019. Brisbane, Australia.
To, KHT; O’Brien, HD; Stocker, MR; Gignac, PM. Cranial musculoskeletal study of black-throated finch (Aves: Passeriformes: Estrildidae). Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology. January 2019. Tampa, FL.
To, KHT; Gignac, PM. Examining the Musculoskeletal Ontogeny of Cranial Kinesis in Birds Along the Precocial-altricial Spectrum. Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology. January 3-7, 2018. San Francisco, CA.