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Contact Information:
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Mailing Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
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Research Interests
Organismal biology and ecology; application of molecular techniques to traditional ecology, evolution and systematics; marine invertebrate speciation patterns and processes, especially the contribution of larvae to community establishment, population maintenance, and genetic connectivity; deep-sea and hydrothermal vent communities; biogeographic patterns; metapopulation dynamics and response to disturbance events.
Skills
Molecular biology- Isolation, amplification, and sequencing of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA
- Primer design and PCR optimization
- Agarose and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- Direct sequencing, cloning, and plasmid preparation
- Microsatellite repeat enrichment, isolation, and screening
Data analysis- Sequence confirmation and alignment primarily in SEQUENCING ANALYSIS, AUTOASSEMBLER, and SEQUENCHER
- Phylogenetics using CLUSTAL, FASTA, GCG, MACCLADE, PAUP*, and TREEVIEW
- Population genetics in ARLEQUIN, FSTAT, GENALEX, GENEPOP, GENETIX, and MSA
Education
Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography, expected 2008, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. Dissertation: “Spatiotemporal investigation of population genetic dynamics at deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise and Galápagos Rift.” Thesis advisor: Dr. Timothy M Shank.
B.S. Marine Biology, German Minor. 2002, University of Rhode Island, summa cum laude. Honors Thesis: “Two new species of Halosydna Kinberg, 1855 (Annelida: Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from Peru and California/Mexico.” Academic advisor: Dr. J. Stanley Cobb.
SSI Open-Water SCUBA License, 1999, Atlantic Aquasport, Rye, NH.
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