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Name & contact Research area Representative publications
Dr. Karen Chan,
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology
(karenchan%ust*hk)
How small planktonic organisms interact with their fluid environment, ecological and evolutionary implications of these interactions, & how changing climate may affect them. # Chan, K.Y.K, Jiang, H.S., Padilla, D.K., (2013) Swimming speed of larval snail is independent of size and ciliary beat frequency. PLoS-One. 8: e82764
# Chan, K.Y.K. 2012. Biomechanics of larval morphology affect swimming: insights from the sand dollars Dendraster excentricus. Intr. Comp. Biol. 52:458-469
Dr. Megan Dethier, Research Professor, U. of Washington (mdethier%uw*e/d/u) Marine community ecology, especially of shorelines; shoreline monitoring; and assessment of certain types of human impacts. #Dethier, M.N., S.L. Williams and A. Freeman. 2005. Seaweeds under stress: manipulated stress and herbivory affect critical life history functions. Ecological Monographs 75:403-418.
# Dethier, M.N., J. Ruesink, H. Berry, A. G. Sprenger. 2012. Decoupling of recruitment from adult clam assemblages along an estuarine shoreline. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 422:48-54.
Dr. Jason Hodin,
Independent Researcher (seastar%stanford*e/d/u)
Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Larval biology. Metamorphosis. Insect Biology. Invertebrate biology especially echinoderms. For publications please see http://www.stanford.edu/~seastar/publications.html
Sönke Johnsen, Ph.D.
Professor, Duke University (sjohnsen%duke*e/d/u)
Visual ecology: pelagic camouflage & countermeasures, transparency mechanisms, ecology of polarization & UV vision, sexual signaling, evolution of vision, & vision in non-cephalized animals. # Johnsen, S. (2012). The Optics of Life: A Biologist’s Guide to Light in Nature. Princeton University Press.
# Johnsen, S. (2013). Hide and seek in the open sea: Pelagic camouflage and visual countermeasures. Annual Review of Marine Science 9, (corrected proofs on-line).
Richard Morley, Ph.D.
Senior Statistics Lecturer, Texas State Univ. (rmorley76%hotmail*c/o/m)
Culture, Human Development, and Learning with an emphasize on Quantitative Methods. # Morley, R. (2013) Cerebello-striatal connectivity and implicit learning in autism spectrum disorders. Ph.D. Dissertation.
# I am familiar with a variety of software packages, including STATA, SPSS, Mplus, & AFNI, and methods, including Multivariate, Structural Equation Modeling, Bayesian, Bootstrapping, and Hierarchical Linear Modeling.
Dan Rittschof, Ph.D.
Professor, Duke University (ritt%duke*e/d/u)
Marine ecological interactions & evolutionary concepts of chemical communication in biofouling, environmental toxicology, ecology, larval settlement, & reproduction of invertebrates. Please see: http://nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/rittschof
Dr. Daniel Speiser
Assistant Professor, U. of South Carolina (dispeiser%gmail*c/o/m)
Comparative physiology, with a focus on the structure, function, and evolution of the visual systems of marine invertebrates. # Speiser, D.I, D. Eernisse, and S. Johnsen (2011). A chiton uses aragonite lenses to form images. Current Biology 21: 665-670.
# Speiser, D.I, E.R. Loew, and S. Johnsen (2011). Spectral sensitivity of the concave mirror eyes of scallops: Potential influences of habitat, self-screening and longitudinal chromatic aberration. Journal of Experimental Biology. 214: 422-431.
Adam Summers, Ph.D.
Professor, U. of Washington (fishguy%uw*e/d/u)
I am a comparative biomechanist interested in how physics and engineering principles govern biological processes. I primarily work in aquatic systems and am very interested in new types of biomaterials. Please see https://faculty.washington.edu/fishguy/
Andrew D. Thaler, Ph.D. (andrew*david*thaler%gmail*c/o/m) Andrew specializes in population and conservation genetics. He is interested in how marine populations interact with each other at local and global scales. # Thaler, Andrew D., et al. "The spatial scale of genetic subdivision in populations of Ifremeria nautilei, a hydrothermal-vent gastropod from the southwest Pacific." BMC evolutionary biology 11.1 (2011): 372.
# Thaler, Andrew David, et al. "Characterization of 12 polymorphic microsatellite loci in Ifremeria nautilei, a chemoautotrophic gastropod from deep-sea hydrothermal vents." Conservation Genetics Resources 2.1 (2010): 101-103.
George von Dassow, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate,
Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, (dassow%uoregon*e/d/u)
Cell biology of embryos and larvae, especially cell division and the organization of the cytoskeleton. # von Dassow G, Emlet RB, Maslakova SA. How the pilidium larva feeds. Front Zool. 2013 Aug 9;10(1):47. doi: 10.1186/1742-9994-10-47. PubMed PMID: 23927417;
# von Dassow G, Verbrugghe KJ, Miller AL, Sider JR, Bement WM. Action at a distance during cytokinesis. J Cell Biol. 2009 Dec 14;187(6):831-45. doi: 10.1083/jcb.200907090. PubMed PMID: 20008563
Mickey von Dassow, Ph.D.
Guest researcher, Duke Marine Lab
(mvondass%gmail*c/o/m)
Developmental biomechanics of (primarily) invertebrates # von Dassow, M., Function-dependent development in a colonial animal. The Biological Bulletin, 2006. 211(1): p. 76-82 DOI: 10.2307/4134580.
# von Dassow, M. and L.A. Davidson, Natural variation in embryo mechanics: Gastrulation in Xenopus laevis is highly robust to variation in tissue stiffness. Developmental Dynamics, 2009. 238(1): p. 2-18 DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21809.
Yasmin von Dassow, M.S.
Graduate student, Duke Marine Lab
(yasmin*vondassow%duke*e/d/u)
Ecology and evolution of marine invertebrates # von Dassow, Y. J., & Strathmann, R. R. (2005). Full of eggs and no place to lay them: hidden cost of benthic development. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 294, 23-34.
# Rahman, Y. J., Forward Jr, R. B., & Rittschof, D. (2000). Responses of mud snails and periwinkles to environmental odors and disaccharide mimics of fish odor. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 26(3), 679-696.
Lindsay Waldrop, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill
(lwaldrop%email*unc*e/d/u)
Fluid dynamics in the insides and outsides of invertebrate animals, especially tunicate hearts & crab noses; how the function of appendages changes during growth and evolution. # Please see http://lwaldrop.web.unc.edu



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