Thomas Dahlgren

Education and degree

2000 Ph.D. Göteborg University. Zoological morphology and systematics. “From individuals to deep metazoan branches: relationships and delineation of Recent and Fossil Chrysopetalidae (Annelida)”. Supervisors: Fredrik Pleijel and Per Sundberg. Faculty opponent: Danny Eijbye-Jacobsen.
1994 B. Sc. Göteborg University. Biology and Chemistry.
 

Appointments and Teaching

2000 - 2001 Postdok at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
1997 - 2000 Ph.D. student Göteborg University.
1998 Invited Lecturer. Molecular techniques in polychaete systematics. Part of course in polychaete phylogeny. Centro de Estudos do Mar, Brazil.
1993 - 1999 Assistant lecturer, demonstrator and lecturer, at Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory and Department of Zoology, Göteborgs University. As a Ph.D. student teaching at courses in Marine Invertebrate Taxonomy, Invertebrate Zoology and Molecular Systamatics.
1993 Project assistant (part time). Marine bentic fauna survey for Østfolds Fylke, Norway.
1991 - 1992 Fishing technologist (Associate Professional Officer), Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN. Stationed in Madras (Chenai), India, evaluation and development of a large pelagic species fishery program in the Bay of Bengal.
1988 - 1990 Fishing technologist (part time). Swedish Board of Fisheries. Fishery and statistics of the freshwater crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus in Sweden.
 

Assignments

2000 - present Member of the reference scientist board developing the government funded research program “Marine biodiversity patterns and processes (MARBIPP) - a research program aimed to increase knowledge and develop tools for the management of coastal zone biodiversity”.
1997 - 1998 Member of the board of the Department of Zoology, Göteborg University.
1995 - 1998 Member of the board of Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, Göteborg University.
 

Publications

2000 Dahlgren, T. G., Weinberg, J. R. & K. M. Halanych. Phylogeography of the ocean quahog (Arctica islandica): influences of paleoclimate on genetic diversity and species range. Marine Biology 137, 487-495.
2000 Dahlgren, T. G., Lundberg, J., Pleijel, F. & P. Sundberg. Molecular phylogeny of Nereidiformia. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 00, 00-00 (in press)
1998 Pleijel, F. & T. G. Dahlgren. Phylogeny of Phyllodocida and Nereidiformia (Polychaeta, Annelida). Cladistics 14: 129-150.
1996 Dahlgren, T. G. Two new species of Dysponetus (Polychaeta: Chrysopetalidae) from Italy and Papua New Guinea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 109 (3): 575-585.
1995 Dahlgren, T. G. & F. Pleijel. On the generic allocation of Chrysopetalum caecum (Polychaeta: Chrysopetalidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut 92:159-173.
1992 Dahlgren, T. G. Sharkfishing in Orissa. Bay of Bengal News. Quarterly publication of the Bay of Bengal Program. FAO, Rome. 46: 15-21.
 

Submitted

Tzetlin, A. B., Dahlgren, T. G., & G. Purschke. Ultrastructure of the body wall, body cavity, nephridia and spermatozoa in four species of the Chrysopetalidae (Annelida)
Dahlgren, T. G., Åkesson, B., Schander, C., Halanych, K. M. & P. Sundberg. Molecular phylogeny of the model annelid Ophryotrocha.
 

Abstracts

1997 Dahlgren, T. G. & J. Lundberg. Extracting phylogenetic signal from highly divergent mtDNA sequences. Abstracts from the First Biennual Conference in Systematics. Oxford. p 16
1997 Dahlgren, T. G. Two new species of Dysponetus (Polychaeta; Chrysopetalidae) from Italy and Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of Marine Sciences. 60, 611.
1995 Dahlgren, T. G. The phylogeny and taxonomy of Polychaeta. In E. Grönlund and O. Melander (eds), Swedish-Russian Tundra Ecology-Expedition -94. A Cruise Report. Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Stockholm.
 

Referee Assignments

Ophelia
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
Biological Bulletin from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole
 

Conferences and Workshops

  2000 The 11th Annual New England Molecular Evolutionary Biologists Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. 14 October. Poster Presentation.
  1999 Molecular Phylogeny. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA. 1-6 August.
  1998 Sixth International Polychaete Conference. Curituba, Brazil. 2-6 August.
  1997 Seminar in systematics. Zoologica Scripta. Swedish Royal Academy of Science.
  1995 Fifth International Polychaete Conferencee. Qing Dao, Kina. 2-7 July.
  1997 First Biennual Conferens in Systematics. Oxford 19-21 August.
  1995 Cladistics: A practical course in systematics. British Museum of Natural History, London.
  1994 Polychaete autoecology: evolutionary trends and adaptive significance of life history traits. Stazione Zoologica "Anton Dohrn", Italy.
  1994 BIOICE, Annelid workshop: Sandgerdi Marine Biological Station, Iceland.
 

Guest Research

  1999 Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. November 26 - December 5.
  1999 Smithsonian Institution. U.S. Museum of Natural History. 4-7 September.
  1999 Smithsonian Institution. U.S. Museum of Natural History. 3-6 April.
  1998 - present Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, USA.
  1998 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. 20-27 November.
  1997 Laboratory ARAGO, Banyuls-Sur-Mer, France. 12-22 May.
  1996 One Tree Island Research Station, University of Sydney. 15-28 November.
  1995 Biologisk Fältstation, Trondhjems Universitet, Norway. 20-27 August.
  1995 The Swire Institute of Marine Science, University of Hong Kong. 8-15 July.
 

Scientific Expeditions

  1999 NMFS/NOAA Cruise 9903. R/V Delaware II. Western North Atlantic. 990706 - 990723.
  1996 Arctic Ocean Expedition. Icebraker Oden. 960712 - 960928.
  1994 Swedish-Russian Tundra Ecology-Expedition. R/V Akademik Fedorov. 940806 - 941008.
 

Selected awards

  1999 Sweden-America Foundation. One year grad student visiting scholarship
  1998 Uppsala University. Lennanders Stiftelse Research Grant
  1997 Göteborg University. Graduate student scholarship
 

Recent collaboration

Ken Halanych, Leslie Harris, Tatiana Menchini Steiner, Fredrik Pleijel, Günter Purschke, Greg Rouse, Christoffer Schander, Per Sundberg, Clint Turbeville, Alexander Tzetlin, Jim Weinberg, and Bertil Åkesson.

Last revised 10 January 2001

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