FISHBOL Partners
FISH-BOL partners at first initiative meeting, held at the University of Guelph Arboretum, Ontario, Canada June 5-8, 2005.
| Mailing Address: | WorldFish Center, PO Box 500, GPO 10670 Penang |
| Work Phone: | +60 4 6202163 or +604 6261606 ex 163 |
| Work Fax: | +60 4 6265530 |
| Email: | m.ablan@cgiar.org |
Current Position: Head, Molecular Genetics Laboratory
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements:
Initiate and continue to develop the molecular genetics for fisheries management and conservation program of the WorldFish Center; Carry out research projects that demonstrates empirical examples of using the molecular approach to address specific management and conservation issues; Coordinate multi-country projects on specific species or fisheries issues (initially in Southeast Asia) to develop synergy among these projects; Conduct short-term training programs on the applications of genetics to fisheries management.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Reef Fish particularly the Caesionidae and Lutjanidae
Areas of Field Work: Applications of molecular genetics research to fisheries management and conservation of coastal fisheries in developing countries; training
Jesse H. Ausubel
| Mailing Address: | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 630 5th Avenue, Suite 2550 New York, NY 10111 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 212 649 1650 |
| Work Fax: | +1 212 757 5117 |
| Email: | ausubel@sloan.org |
Current Position: Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Helping the research community to conduct the Census of Marine Life and the Barcode of Life Initiative
Nicolas Bailly
| Mailing Address: | FishBase Project WorldFish Center – Philippines Office MCPO Box 2631 Makati City, 0718 Philippines. |
| Work Phone: | +63 49 536 7112 |
| Work Fax: | idem |
| Email: | n.bailly@cgiar.org |
Current Position: Consultant as FishBase Project Leader
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Biodiversity databases, Chair of The FishBase Consortium
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Global (for FishBase)
Eldredge (Biff) Bermingham
| Mailing Address: | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Apartado 2072 Balboa, Panama, Republica de Panama |
| Work Phone: | +507 212 8110 |
| Work Fax: | +507 212 8150 |
| Email: | bermingb@si.edu |
Current Position: Senior Staff Scientist and Deputy Director
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Molecular population genetics and evolutionary biology; historical biogeography and molecular systematics of Neotropical fishes; Co-organizer with Nancy Knowtlon for the Coral Reef Barcode of Life workshop
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Pomacentridae, Characidae
Areas of Field Work: Central America, South America. Our lab carries out studies in the areas of evolutionary biology, genetics and molecular systematics. Our principal research interest is biogeography and history-based analysis of community assembly, diversification and maintenance. We have focused our attention on two regional community assemblages: 1) the Neotropical freshwater fishes of Mesoamerica, and 2) the birds of the Lesser Antilles. The lab uses the tools of molecular biology to infer the phylogenetic and demographic histories of the taxa comprising these avian and freshwater fish communities. Because we are interested in the tempo as well as the mode of evolutionary change in these communities, we also study the behavior of molecular clocks. Our molecular clock studies have tended to focus on the molecular divergence between marine fish species pairs found on either side of the Isthmus of Panama.
Fish Collections suitable for DNA barcoding: Our Neotropical fish specimen and tissue collection includes extensive geographical series of fishes collected from Mesoamerica, based on expeditions to Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and numerous collections in Panama. The size of the collection has more than doubled in the past five years. Our Mesoamerica holdings number 11709 tissues and associated numbered specimens representing 85 families, 213 genera and 476 species and include samples representing 47 Caribbean and 60 Pacific slope drainages. In addition, many of the numbered specimens represent larger lots of unnumbered fishes in series of sufficient quantity for morphological analysis. Our collection also includes modest holdings from the following South American locations: 1) Trinidad; 2) Rio Cuyabeno, Ecuador; 3) Rio Manu, Peru; and 4) the Parana/Paraguay drainages of Paraguay and Argentina. Holdings representing South America number 1506 tissues and associated numbered specimens representing 27 families, 135 genera and 185 species. In total, our Neotropical fish collection, including marine species, includes 18894 tissues and associated numbered specimens representing 130 families, 374 genera and 814 species.
Dietmar Blohm
| Mailing Address: | University of Bremen FB2-UFT, Biotechnology and Molecular Genetics Leobener Straβe, D-28359 Bremen |
| Work Phone: | +49 0 421 218 4780 |
| Work Fax: | +49 0 421 218 7578 |
| Email: | dhb@biotec.uni-bremen.de |
Current Position: Head of Department Biotechnology and Molecular Genetics, Speaker of the Centre of Applied Gene Sensor Technology (CAG)
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: DNA-analytics by microarray and gene sensor technology; Co-ordinator of the EU-financed project "Towards DNA chip technology as a standard analytical tool for the identification of marine organisms (fish&chips)"
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Serranidae (M. Kochzius, co-worker)
Areas of Field Work: Near East and Indonesia (M. Kochzius and other co-worker)
James A. Boutillier
| Mailing Address: | Pacific Biological Station 3190 Hammond Bay Rd Nanaimo, B.C. V9T 6N7 Canada |
| Work Phone: | +1 250 756 7048 |
| Work Fax: | +1 250 756 7053 |
| Email: | boutillierj@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca |
Current Position: Head Shellfish Section & Head Conservation Biology Section within the Marine Ecosystem and Aquaculture Division
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Research conducted in these two groups include assessment of all marine invertebrates and marine mammals within the Pacific Region of Canada. The information and advise provided through these studies goes to developing decision rules with respect to fisheries management, aquaculture impact management, and aquaculture development. I am also responsible for the coordination of the Pacific regions science responsibilities as they relate to all species at risk including fresh water and marine fish.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Marine Crustaceans mainly decapods
Areas of Field Work: We work everywhere on the B.C. coast from intertidal to the deep abyss depending on the issue.
Christian Burks
| Mailing Address: | Ontario Genomics Institute Suite 500, 149 College Street Toronto, Ontario M5T 1P5 Canada |
| Work Phone: | +1 416 977 9582 ex 269 |
| Work Fax: | +1 416 977 8342 |
| Email: | cburks@ontariogenomics.ca |
Current Position: President and CEO, Ontario Genomics Institute
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Prior to joining OGI in 2004, Dr. Christian Burks was a founder and principal of Scienega, which provided consulting services for life sciences start-up companies. He was previously Chief Scientific Officer with Affinium Pharmaceuticals in Toronto. Dr. Burks has also served as Vice-President and Chief Informatics Officer with Exelixis, a global biotechnology company in South San Francisco. Prior to that at Los Alamos National Laboratory he led GenBank (the global database for DNA sequences, including the human genome), was Group Leader for the Theoretical Biology & Biophysics Group, and served as laboratory-wide Program Leader for Computational Biology. Dr. Burks has co-authored numerous publications and served on a number of national and international editorial, review, and advisory boards, including most recently the Scientific Advisory Board of Cognia in New York and the Advisory Board for ITI Life Sciences in Scotland. He received his B.A. in the Great Books Program from St. John's College and his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: All
Kent E. Carpenter
| Mailing Address: | Department of Biological Sciences Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23529 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 757 683 4197 |
| Work Fax: | +1 757 683 5283 |
| Email: | kcarpent@odu.edu |
Current Position: Associate Professor
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Primary research interests are the morphological and molecular systematics of percoid fishes; and the biogeography, phylogeography, and conservation of SE Asia 4marine fishes with a special interest in the Philippines.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Percoid fishes, Sparidae, Lethrinidae, Nemipteridae, Lutjanidae, Caesionidae, Carangidae.
Areas of Field Work: SE Asia, primarily in the Philippines.
Gary Carvalho
| Mailing Address: | School of Biological Sciences University of Wales Bangor Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW, UK |
| Work Phone: | +44 1248 382100 (Secretary: +44 1248 388131) |
| Work Fax: | +44 1248 371644 |
| Email: | g.r.carvalho@bangor.ac.uk |
Current Position: Professor of Molecular Ecology
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Research interests have focused on the molecular analysis of population and species biodiversity of aquatic animals, with studies aimed at understanding the evolutionary and ecological forces that shape genetic structure in the wild, and how such structure may influence adaptation, population persistence and distribution. Notable areas of activity include: the evolution and ecological significance of population differentiation, phylogeography and phylogenetics of aquatic taxa, speciation of fishes in the Great African lakes, the genetics of introductions and biological invasions, the molecular analysis of past populations using PCR-based recovery of DNA (ancient DNA) from resting eggs and preserved material (e.g. fish otoliths and scales), the evolutionary genetics of clonal animals, the evolution of adaptive traits using molecular and quantitative genetic analysis, and fisheries and conservation genetics of exploited fish and squid in temperate, tropical and Antarctic waters. Fisheries genetics interests include stock structure analysis, estimates of effective population size, impacts of harvesting, influence of supplemental stocking, links between recruitment and demographic variability in the wild.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Particular interest in population genetics and genetic management of fishes of commercial interest, including salmonids, gadoids, clupeids and Notothenioids (Antarctic), as well as fundamental evolutionary biology of guppies and African cichlids
Areas of Field Work: Contacts and involvement in sampling in African Great Lakes, Antarctic marine system, Northern European waters (North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Baltic).
Seinen Chow
| Mailing Address: | Nagai 6-31-1 Yokosuka 238-0316, Japan |
| Work Phone: | +046 856 9408 |
| Work Fax: | +046 857 3075 |
| Email: | chow@affrc.go.jp |
Current Position: Chief, Coastal Ecosystem Section, Coastal Fisheries and
Aquaculture Division
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Ecology, Population Genetics
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Decapod, Crustacea
Areas of Field Work:
Bruce B. Collette
| Mailing Address: | National Marine Fisheries Service National Systematics Laboratory Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012 National Museum of Natural History, MRC-0153 Washington, D.C. 200013-7012 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 202 633 1287 |
| Work Fax: | +1 202 357 2986 |
| Email: | collettb@si.edu |
Current Position: Senior Scientist
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Research on the taxonomy, anatomy, and zoogeography of fishes of the orders and suborders listed in the next category and I have students and former students studying molecular phylogeny of these and other groups of fishes. The National Systematics Laboratory is the focal point for taxonomic research within the National Marine Fisheries Service so we should be able to assist in obtaining tissue samples and voucher material from all six of the regional Fisheries Science Centers.
I am the NOAA member of the Steering Committee for ITIS. Among my goals for ITIS are to insure that the correct scientific name of all taxa of interest to NOAA are contained in ITIS, including all species of fishes.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Orders Batrachoidiformes and Beloniformes; suborders Scombroidei and Xiphioidei; families Coryphaenidae, Echeneidae, and Ammodytidae.
Areas of Field Work: I have collected worldwide particularly coral-reef and mangrove fishes around islands such as Bermuda, Navassa, Cuba, New Guinea, Tonga, etc.; also epipelagic fishes collected with night light/dip nets and long-lines; and bottom-trawling throughout much of the western North Atlantic.
Allan D Connell
| Mailing Address: | 301 Graypark Road Brighton Beach, 4052 DURBAN South Africa |
| Work Phone: | +027 31 4677801 |
| Work Fax: | +027 31 4677801 |
| Email: | allan@artisteoils.co.za |
Current Position: Recently retired, but operating as a consultant marine ecologist, and as an Honorary Research Associate, South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity (formerly JLBSmith Institute of Ichthyology in Grahamstown).
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: My career was in marine pollution research, primarily around the environmental impact of marine outfalls and urban spread. Research on the use of pelagic fish larvae as toxicity testing organisms, both in the lab and within mixing zones at sea, initiated an interest in pelagic fish eggs and larvae, which has now extended into a 19 year data set on fish spawning patterns, off a small portion of the east coast of South Africa. While I successfully reared about 65 species to larvae of 30 days plus, and identified many from the literature, there are many that remain unknown. The barcoding initiative has offered the opportunity to confirm most of the egg/larvae to adult links within my data. In addition, I am currently conducting research into recruitment of juvenile marine fishes into small, temporarily open estuaries.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Mysid shrimps
Areas of Field Work: Kwazulu-Natal (east) coast of South Africa. My fish eggs and larvae sampling entails launching to sea once or twice per week. Sampling begins about 5km offshore over ca 40m water depth, where we also usually conduct a SCUBA dive, and line-fish for DNA material. During the dive, I collect mysids and juvenile fish using a handnet. Eggs are collected with a surface-towed plankton net.
J. Andrew Cooper
| Mailing Address: | Fisheries Research Branch 12032 Fisheries and Oceans Canada 200 Kent Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E6 Canada |
| Work Phone: | +1 613 991 6951 |
| Work Fax: | +1 613 954 0807 |
| Email: | coopera@dfo-mpo.gc.ca |
Current Position: Advisor, Population Status
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Science advisor to the Minister for Fisheries and Oceans for stock status of Atlantic invertebrate fisheries, and analyst for the Fisheries Research program which includes modernization in fisheries monitoring and research.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Fishes, Pleuronectiformes
Areas of Field Work: Systematics, biogeography, and evolution of the Pleuronectidae.
Systematic work for Gulf of Maine Discovery Corridor.
Angelique Corthals
| Mailing Address: | American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 212 496 3389 |
| Work Fax: | +1 212 496 3380 |
| Email: | corthals@amnh.org |
Current Position: Curatorial Associate
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Angelique Corthals started working for the Ambrose Monell Cryo Collection (AMCC) since December 2000, and helped in the development and expansion of the collection from the beginning of the operations under the leadership of Drs. Desalle and Hanner. She worked first as Collection Manager and, as off April of 2003, has been director of the Collection. She has been active in creating research programs involving undergraduate students with the Barcode of Life plans. Her role at the AMCC is to reach out to academic institutions about the need for long term biological repository in the age of the ‘genomic revolution’. With Mark Breedlove, she built the online database of the collection, and is currently developing research programs in tissue preservation, quantification of DNA damage in ancient and fresh tissue, and forensic protocols. She earned her DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford (Michaelmas 2003), and is specialized in biological anthropology.
Filipe Costa
| Mailing Address: | Instituto do Mar, DCEA Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal. |
| Work Phone: | +351 212948300 ex 10113 |
| Work Fax: | +351 212948554 |
| Email: | fjc@fct.unl.pt |
Current Position: Researcher at the Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), node of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Coordination of the recently established research network Fish-BoL Portugal (Fish-Bol.pt). This network involves several University-based research institutes, the National Museum of Natural History of Portugal, and the Portuguese governmental agency in charge of marine research and fisheries (IPIMAR). Fish-BoL.pt is part of the broader scope network Barcoding Aquatic Life – Portugal (BAL.pt). For the last one half years developed barcoding project within the University of Guelph team, dedicated to barcoding of crustaceans, namely decapods and amphipods.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: The ultimate goal of our project is to barcode all fish, marine and freshwater, occurring in Portugal. So far we have been focusing mostly on commercially-exploited fish species.
Areas of Field Work: Our primary interest is on fishes of the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean, particularly on species occurring in the Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The Portuguese EEZ spreads for an area of 1,6 million squared km, and it is one of the largest in Europe. It is composed of the mainland EEZ together with the Atlantic archipelagos of Azores and Madeira. We would also be interested in extending the network scope to barcode of fishes from Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP).
Alexis Crête-Lafreniè;re
| Mailing Address: | Department of Biology, Pavillon Marchand, Université Laval Québec, Qc G1K 7P4 Canada |
| Work Phone: | +1 418 656 3402 |
| Work Fax: | +1 418 656 7176 |
| Email: | alexis.crete-lafreniere@giroq.ulaval.ca |
Current Position: MSc student in Louis Bernatchez’s laboratory (louis.bernatchez@bio.ulaval.ca)
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Molecular Phylogenetics and DNA bar-coding of Salmonidae; Canadian Research Chair in Conservation Genetics of Aquatic Resources (LB)
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Freshwater Fishes, Salmonidae, Osmeridae, Gasterosteus aculeatus, Anguilla spp.
Areas of Field Work: North America, Europe
Nelson F. Díaz
| Mailing Address: | Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas Universidad de Chile Casilla 1004, Santiago, Chile |
| Work Phone: | +56 2 6785706 |
| Work Fax: | +56 2 6785802 |
| Email: | ndiaz@uchile.cl |
Current Position: Professor. Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas. Universidad de Chile.
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Genetics and Biotechnology in Aquaculture
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Fish
Areas of Field Work: Molecular markers
Juan M. Díaz de Astarloa
| Mailing Address: | Depto. de Ciencias Marinas, Fac. de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Funes 3350 B7602AYL, Mar del Plata, Argentina. |
| Work Phone: | +54 223 4751107 |
| Work Fax: | +54 223 4753150 |
| Email: | astarloa@mdp.edu.ar |
Current Position: Professor Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET).
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Responsibilities include: planning, conducting, and writing taxonomic revisions and systematic studies of pleuronectiform fishes applied to fisheries biology. Responsibilities also include: flatfish biology (reproduction and description of early life history of commercial important Paralichthyid species, trophic ecology, identification of flatfish fishing stocks by means of meristic and morphometric analyses. Preparation of identification guides of fishes in form of keys, illustrations, descriptions, charts, and tables based on specimens and literature intended for a variety of users, including professional taxonomists, fisheries workers, and others. Participation in and direction of field activities with national and international scientific research programs. Identification of specimens submitted by federal, state, and private institutions and providing information on systematic, and biology of commercial important fishes. Collection and identification of Argentine marine fishes aboard research cruises carried out by the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP).
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes), soft-nose skates, Bathyraja spp. (Rajidae)
Areas of Field Work: Ichthyology, Biology of Fishes, Ecology, distribution and diversity of southwestern Atlantic fishes.
Scott Federhen
| Mailing Address: | National Center for Biotechnology Information National Library of Medicine, NIH, Building 45 Bethesda, MD 20894 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 301 435 5757 |
| Work Fax: | +1 301 480 2981 |
| Email: | federhen@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |
Current Position: Staff Scientist
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Head of GenBank, Taxonomy Group
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Arthropods, Amphibians
Ricardo A. Galleguillos González
| Mailing Address: | Universidad de Concepción Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas Departamento de Oceanografía Casilla 160 C. Concepcióan, Chile |
| Work Phone: | +56 41 203532 or +56 41 203882 |
| Work Fax: | +56 41 256571 |
| Email: | rgalleg@udec.cl |
Current Position: Associate Profesor, Department of Oceanaography.
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: The primary research is related with population genetics and microevolutionary process in fishes that are important in terms of fisheries. The first estudies involved protein as molecular markers applied to pelagic fishes like anchovy, common sardine, jack mackerel.and flatfishes. The objectives in this studies was the identification of stocks. In demersal fishes mainly in the Merluccius genus, phylogenetics relationships were studied in species of South Pacific and South Atlantic.
In the sapecies Xiphias gladius, we studied different populations from the Pacific Ocean, with genetic markers from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. We applied DNA markers in others species, Macruronus magellanicus, Brama australis, Engraulis ringens. During 2005 we are doin a research in populations of Genypterus blacodes. With microsatellites and Merluccius australis, comparing populations using Citochrome B, and Dloop.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest:
Areas of Field Work: South eastern Pacific . Austral Region of Chile and Subantartic.
Bob Hanner
| Mailing Address: | Barcode of Life Initiative Biodiversity Institute of Ontario University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada |
| Work Phone: | +1 519 824 4120 ex 56393 |
| Work Fax: | +1 519 767 1656 |
| Email: | rhanner@uoguelph.ca |
Current Position: Associate Director, Canadian Barcode of Life Network
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Chair, Database Working Group, Consortium for the Barcode of Life Initiative Curation and molecular characterization of genetic resource collections.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Sturgeons and paddlefishes
Phil Hastings
| Mailing Address: | Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093-0208 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 858 822 2913 |
| Work Fax: | +1 858 822 3310 |
| Email: | phastings@ucsd.edu |
Current Position: Professor and Curator of Marine Vertebrates
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: As Curator of the SIO Marine Vertebrates Collection, I oversee one the world’s major collections of marine fishes. The MVC’s coverage is worldwide, with special emphasis on global pelagic and deep-sea fishes and coastal fishes of the eastern Pacific (Alaska to Chile). Our tissue archive (95% ethanol) includes over 600 species (with vouchers) and continues to grow. Barcoding projects underway include the marine fishes of California (800+ species), funded by California Sea Grant. As per our original proposal, we are currently sequencing 16s and Cytochrome B, but have applied for funds to also sequence COI from the same specimens. This will provide a test of the efficacy of each of these genes in discriminating among species from a diverse ichthyofauna.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Blennioidei, Serranidae, Gobiidae, Gobiesocidae
Areas of Field Work: Eastern Pacific especially California, Mexico and Central America; Caribbean
Paul Hebert
| Mailing Address: | Department of Integrative Biology University of Guelph Guelph, ON N1G 2W1 Canada |
| Work Phone: | +1 519 824 4120 ex 56668 |
| Work Fax: | +1 519 767 1656 |
| Email: | phebert@uoguelph.ca |
Current Position: Canada Research Chair, Molecular Biodiversity
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: I currently serve as Scientific Director for the Canadian Barcode of Life Network (BOL.ca). This Network involves more than 35 researchers based in University and governmental laboratories across Canada. Over the next 5 years, the Network will assemble barcode records for at least 10,000 Canadian species including all marine and freshwater fishes. Aside from my involvements with BOL.ca, I lead a laboratory that is deeply involved in the optimization of protocols for DNA barcode assembly and analysis.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: zooplankton
Areas of Field Work: My past work on fishes has focused on taxa from arctic marine and freshwaters and from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. However, we are now collaborating with varied researchers to sample the Pacific fish fauna of Canada.
Bronwyn Holmes (Innes)
| Mailing Address: | CSIRO Marine Research GPO Box 1538 Hobart 7001 Tasmania, Australia |
| Work Phone: | +61 0 3 6232 5222 |
| Work Fax: | +61 0 3 6232 5000 |
| Email: | bronwyn.holmes@csiro.au |
Current Position: Research assistant
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Research assistant to Bob Ward on barcoding of Australian fishes and undertake all experimental work and sequence analysis for this project. Previously I have worked on population genetics studies of Atlantic salmon, Pacific oysters and various tunas using microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA markers.
Yuri Ph. Kartavtsev
| Mailing Address: | Lab of Genetics Institute of Marine Biology 17 Paltchevsky St., Vladivostok 690041, Russia |
| Work Phone: | +7 4232 311 138 |
| Work Fax: | +7 4232 310 900 |
| Email: | kartavtsev_yu48@hotmail.com |
Current Position: Leading Science Researcher
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: 2002-2006 - Head of the grant project in the frame of the State Program "Integration among Universities and Academy of Science Institutions" (award No P0008). Title: "Investigation of Taxonomic Similarity and Microevolution in Marine Fish and Shellfish Taxa" (Cooperative project Russia-Japan-Korea).
2002-2006 - Head of the official theme at the Institute of Marine Biology (4.2.2), Russian Academy of Science Program. Title: Investigation of genetic aspects of microevolution in some species of mollusks and fishes.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Marine fish and Shellfish.
Areas of Field Work: Russian Far East, Japan, Korea.
Choong-Gon Kim
| Mailing Address: | Ansan P.O. BOX 29 Kyounggi-do, 425-600, South Korea |
| Work Phone: | +82 31 400 7731 |
| Work Fax: | +82 31 406 2495 |
| Email: | kimcg@kordi.re.kr |
Current Position: Senior Research Scientist in Marine Living Resources Research Division, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Molecular phylogenies of invertebrates (ground beetles; Carabidae); Genome research of Ape (Chimpanzee genome project)
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Skate fish (Rajidae), Molecular marker of fishes
Areas of Field Work: nearshore waters of the Korean peninsula, Yellow sea, East-china sea, East/Japan sea
Fang Fang Kullander
| Mailing Address: | Department of Vertebrate Zoology Swedish Museum of Natural History SE104 05, Stockholm, Sweden. |
| Work Phone: | +46 8 51954123 |
| Work Fax: | +46 8 51954212 |
| Email: | fang.kullander@nrm.se |
Current Position: Curator for FishBase Sweden
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: My research projects are focused on both morphological and molecular systematics and phylogeny of South and Souteast Asian cyprinid species, especially the danionin and rasboines, and also Chinese and Burmese freshwater fishes.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Cyprinid fishes, especially the danionin and rasborine species. Also freshwater fishes from China and Myanmar.
Areas of Field Work: Myanmar, China, Viet Nam, India, Sweden
Wazir S. Lakra
| Mailing Address: | Department of Fish Genetics and Biotechnology Central Institute of Fisheries Education National Fisheries University Versova, Mumbai-400 061, India |
| Work Phone: | +91 22 26361446 ex 244 |
| Work Fax: | +91 22 26361573 |
| Email: | lakraws@hotmail.com |
Current Position: Professor and Chair
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Population genetics of Penaeus monodon and Macrobrachium rosenbergii, Genetic improvement of Penaeus monodon through selective breeding, Human Resource Development in Coastal and Marine Bioresources Management and Conservation Phylogenetics of Peneaid shrimps, Sea horse, Puffer fish and Sciaenids based on mitochondrial DNA sequencing. Development of cell lines from fish species used in aquaculture. Supervision of graduate and Ph. D. students working on aspects related to population genetics, molecular genetics and genetic conservation of finfish and shellfish species. Research planning and management involving prioritization, project formulation, obtaining grants from both domestic and foreign funding agencies, networking and collaborations with national and international scientists /organizations, policy decisions for the academic and research programs on fish genetics and biotechnology at CIFE and national level.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Both finfish and shellfish, currently marine with a plan for freshwater fishes also.
Areas of Field Work: Presently all coastal states of India
Peter Last
| Mailing Address: | CSIRO Marine Research GPO Box 1538 Hobart 7001 Tasmania, Australia |
| Work Phone: | +61 362 325222 |
| Work Fax: | +61 362 325000 |
| Email: | peter.last@csiro.au |
Current Position: Senior Principal Research Scientist
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Ichthyology, taxonomic, biogeographic research and management. Conservation biology. Seafood naming standards. Indo-West Pacific fishes
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: sharks and rays
Areas of Field Work: Research cruises, fish market, and reef fish surveys (South-East Asia, Australia, Western Pacific)
Youn-Ho Lee
| Mailing Address: | Ansan P.O. Box 29, Kyounggi-do, 425-600, South Korea |
| Work Phone: | +82 31 400 6428 |
| Work Fax: | +82-31 406 2495 |
| Email: | ylee@kordi.re.kr |
Current Position: Principal Research Scientist in Marine Living Resources Research Division, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute; Professor, Division of Earth Environment System, University of Science and Technology, Korea
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Molecular phylogenies of marine invertebrates (sea urchins, abalones, krills); Population genetics of marine fishes (salmons, rockfishes); Molecular ecology of marine organisms
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Salmons (Oncorhynchus spp.); Rockfishes (Sebastes spp.); Classification of fish larvae
Areas of Field Work: Nearshore waters of the Korean peninsula, Yellow sea, East-china sea, East/Japan sea
Jake Lowenstein
| Mailing Address: | c/o Frank Joyce Apdo. 32-5655 Monteverde, Puntarenas, Costa Rica |
| Work Phone: | +11 506 679 1052 |
| Work Fax: | |
| Email: | jhlowenstein@hotmail.com |
Current Position: Researcher within the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG).
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Assisting the Sector Marino of the ACG make the transition from a "paper park" to a de facto conservation area. Collecting specimens for BoLD.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Fish of the Tropical Eastern Pacific.
Areas of Field Work: Costa Rica.
John G. Lundberg
| Mailing Address: | Department of Ichthyology Academy of Natural Sciences 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19103 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 215 405 5069 |
| Work Fax: | +1 215 405 5080 |
| Email: | lundberg@acnatsci.org |
Current Position: Curator and Chair of Ichthyology
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Taxonomy, Phylogenetic Systematics, Paleontology and Biogeography
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Siluriformes (catfishes) and Gymnotiformes (electric eels and knife fishes)
Areas of Field Work: South and Central America; Africa
Richard L. Mayden
| Mailing Address: | Department of Biology, Saint Louis University 3507 Laclede Ave St. Louis, Missouri 63103 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 314 977 3900 |
| Work Fax: | +1 314 977 3658 |
| Email: | maydenrl@slu.edu |
Current Position: Professor & Chair, Department of Biology; Director, Integrated Genomics, Biodiversity, and Conservation;
Endowed Chair of Natural Sciences
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Systematics, evolution, and biodiversity of fishes; morphological and molecular divergences; species concepts; diagnostics of species, especially fishes; Cypriniformes Tree of Life initiative
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: All of North American freshwater fishes; Cypriniformes, Acipenseriformes, Petromyzontidae, Percidae, Cottidae
Areas of Field Work: North America, Central America, Russia, Central Asia
Masaki Miya
| Mailing Address: | 955-2 Aoba-cho Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8682, Japan |
| Work Phone: | +81 43 265 3111 |
| Work Fax: | +81 43 266 2481 |
| Email: | miya@chiba-muse.or.jp |
Current Position: Senior Research Scientist
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Molecular phylogeny and evolution
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: all fishes
Areas of Field Work: western North Pacific Ocean
Mutsumi Nishida
| Mailing Address: | epartment of Marine Bioscience Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo 1-15-1 Minamidai Nakano, Tokyo 164-8639, Japan |
| Work Phone: | +81 3-5351 6329 |
| Work Fax: | +81 3 5351 6579 |
| Email: | mnishida@ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
Current Position: Professor and Vice Director
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Molecular phylogenetics of fishes; Molecular evolutionary genetics of aquatic organisms
Michael Noren
| Mailing Address: | Swedish Museum of Natural History Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology PO Box 50007 SE-104 05 Stockholm, SWEDEN |
| Work Phone: | +46 8 51955263 |
| Work Fax: | +46 8 51954212 |
| Email: | michael.noren@nrm.se |
Current Position: Senior assistant.
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: FISHTRACE, a european, EU funded, project aimed at establishing a database for molecular characterization and identification of commercially or scientifically important marine species of fish. I am in charge of collecting and sequencing species from the Skagerrack and Baltic Sea.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Cyprinidae.
Areas of Field Work: Tjärnö and Klubban marine biological stations on the west coast of Sweden.
Jim Omura
| Mailing Address: | Moore Foundation 38 Keyes Avenue The Presidio of San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94129-0910 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 415 561 7526 |
| Email: | jimomura@moore.org |
Current Position: Technology Strategist
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Grant lead
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest:
Areas of Field Work:
Thomas M. Orrell
| Mailing Address: | Smithsonian Institution PO Box 37012 National Museum of Natural History, CE-236, MRC-153 Washington, DC 20013-7012 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 202 633 2151 |
| Work Fax: | +1 202 786 2934 |
| Email: | orrellt@si.edu |
Current Position: Research Biologist and Program Manager, ITIS
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Evolutionary history, biogeography and diversity of fishes - with emphasis on molecular systematics.; invasive fish species. I serve as the Smithsonian Institution liaison to Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) and serve as an authoritative advisor on taxonomic problems to the ITIS program. I am the point of contact and expert advisor on professional matters in this area to Smithsonian colleagues, Federal agencies, other governments, institutions, organizations, and the general public.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Sparidae and close relatives; Moronidae, Channidae; and suborders Scombroidei and Xiphioidei.
Areas of Field Work: Past field work includes surveys of freshwater fishes in the southern United States and in marine collecting in the Chesapeake Bay, Western Atlantic, Belize, and Panama. I have contributed numerous specimens and tissue samples to ichthyological collections.
Ciro Oyarzun
| Mailing Address: | Dept. Oceanography University of Concepcion POB 160-C, Concepcion, Chile |
| Work Phone: | +56 41 204502 |
| Work Fax: | +56 41 225400 |
| Email: | coyarzun@udec.cl |
Current Position: Staff member and Chairman of Dept. Oceanography
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Microevolutive process and fisheries
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Notothenioidei, Clupeidae, Ophidiidae
Areas of Field Work: Trophic and reproductive ecology
Serge Planes
| Mailing Address: | EPHE - UMR CNRS 8046 Université de Perpignan 52, Avenue Paul Alduy 66860 Perpignan Cedex - France |
| Work Phone: | +33 4 68 66 20 55 |
| Work Fax: | +33 4 68 50 36 86 |
| Email: | planes@univ-perp.fr |
Current Position:Principal research Scientist CNRS (Directeur de recherche au CNRS)
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Population genetic, MPA, molecular biology. In charge of a genetic lab for the EPHE - UMR CNRS 8046.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Fish
Areas of Field Work: Pacific Ocean, Mediterrranean Sea
Sujeevan Ratnasingham
| Mailing Address: | Biodiversity Institute of Ontario University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario N1G2W1 Canada |
| Work Phone: | +1 519 824 4120 ex 53831 |
| Work Fax: | +1 519 767 1656 |
| Email: | sratnasi@uoguelph.ca |
Current Position: Lead Programmer
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Design and construction of BOLD (Barcodes Of Life Data systems), a management and analytical platform to facilitate to barcoding of life.
Rafiqul Islam Sarder
| Mailing Address: | Department of Fisheries Biology and Genetics Faculty of Fisheries, Bangladesh Agricultural University Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh |
| Work Phone: | +88 091 55562 |
| Work Fax: | +88 091 55810 |
| Email: | sarderri@royalten.net.bd |
Current Position: Professor
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: At present two research projects are going on and six MS students are involved in the projects. I am doing research on investigation of genetic variation of Indian major carps using allozyme and microsatellite techniques. The project work is being conducted with the collaboration of National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark and funded by DANIDA. The main theme of the project is to identify the inter-specific hybridization and inbreeding that are most common phenomena in the hatcheries in Bangladesh. Research work is also going on indigenous and exotic carps gamete (sperm) cryopreservation and the project is funded by Worldfish Center. Besides these I did work with chromosome manipulation using gynogenesis and androgenesis and produced clonal lines of tilapia. I also produced multiple DNA fingerprinting to verify the success of chromosome manipulation and clone production. I have worked on determination of polymorphism of MHC class I genes in Rainbow trout and sequenced Onmy-UBA alleles using automated sequencer (CEQ 2000 DNA analysis system, Beckman Coulter, Inc.).
Areas of Field Work: Fish breeding and genetics, YY monosex tilapia production, immunological study, fish culture in ponds and cages.
Robert Schelly
| Mailing Address: | American Museum of Natural History Department of Ichthyology Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024 |
| Work Phone: | +1 212 496 3664 |
| Work Fax: | +1 212 769 5642 |
| Email: | schelly@amnh.org |
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Biodiversity of African Fishes
David E. Schindel
| Mailing Address: | National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC-105 Washington, DC 20013-7012 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 202 633 0812 |
| Work Fax: | +1 202 633 2938 |
| Email: | schindeld@si.edu |
Current Position: Executive Secretary, Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Purely administrative; facilitating the Fish BOL initiative
Kwang-Tsao Shao
| Mailing Address: | Research Center for Biodiversity Laboratory of Fish Ecology & Evolution Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica Nankang, 115 Taipei, Taiwan |
| Work Phone: | +886 932152991 |
| Work Fax: | +886 2 27883463 |
| Email: | zoskt@gate.sinica.edu.tw |
Current Position: Research Fellow & Acting Director, Research Center for Biodiversity Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Fish taxonomy, ecology, evolution and database; Coordinator for National Digital Archive Program, Marine LTER in Taiwan,Taiwan biodiversity information network, Cryobanking & Barcode of Life in Taiwan. Executive Secretary of IUBS/DIVERSITAS/CODATA of Taiwan.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: All fishes: mainly focused on marine, especially coral reef and deep-sea fishes.
Areas of Field Work: Taiwan and Pratas Island
Peter Smith
| Mailing Address: | NIWA Private Bag 14901 Wellington, New Zealand |
| Work Phone: | +64 4 3860 300 |
| Work Fax: | +64 4 3860 574 |
| Email: | p.smith@niwa.co.nz |
Current Position: Biotechnology Group manager
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Evolutionary biology and population genetics of aquatic species. The development and application of biochemical and molecular techniques for stock discrimination of commercially important marine fishes and invertebrates; for molecular taxonomies of "problem" species; and for fish product identification. Techniques include protein iso-electric focusing, allozymes, mtDNA, RAPDs, introns, and microsatellite DNA.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Seaperches (Scorpaenidae: Helicolenus); Longfin perches (Serrandiae: Caprodon); Stargazers (Uranoscopidae: Kathetostoma); Dogfishes (Squalidae: Squalus); Roughies (Trachichthyidae: Hoplostethus); Antarctic skates (Rajidae: Amblyraja and Bathyraja); Freshwater bullies (Eleotridae: Gobiomorphus)
Areas of Field Work: New Zealand EEZ (SW Pacific): research vessels and observers on commercial vessels. Access to Ross Sea (Antarctica): toothfish longline fishery and research trawls.
John S. Sparks
| Mailing Address: | Department of Ichthyology, Division of Vertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 212 313 7791 |
| Work Fax: | +1 212 769 5642 |
| Email: | jsparks@amnh.org |
Current Position: Assistant Curator
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Africa and Madagascar. We have been collecting freshwater fishes extensively in Madagascar for the past decade, and have recently been focusing our attention on Malagasy nearshore marine fishes. These biotic inventories are being expanded to include other localities in the Western Indian Ocean. Researchers in our department are also focusing heavily on the Congo basin.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Cichlids, gobioids, bedotiids, bioluminescent fishes.
Areas of Field Work: Madagascar (freshwater and marine), Indo Pacific, focusing primarily in the Western Indian Ocean (East Africa, Seychelles, Mascarenes).
Dirk Steinke
| Mailing Address: | Institute of Evolutionary Biology Department of Biology Universitaetsstrasse 10 University of Konstanz D-78457 Konstanz, Germany |
| Work Phone: | +49 7531 88 3443 |
| Work Fax: | +49 7531 88 3018 |
| Email: | dirk.steinke@uni-konstanz.de |
Current Position: PhD student
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Comparative genomics of fishes
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Cichlidae
Michael D. Tringali
| Mailing Address: | Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Fish & Wildlife Research Institute 100 8th Avenue SE St. Petersburg, FL 33701 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 727 896 8626 |
| Work Fax: | +1 727 823 0166 |
| Email: | mike.tringali@myfwc.com |
Current Position: Associate Research Scientist
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Program Leader, FWRI Molecular Genetics Laboratory. Genetic stock identification of marine fishes; Genetic risk assessment and management of supplementation hatcheries; Population genetics, biology, molecular ecology, and evolution of marine organisms; Taxonomy and systematics of fishes; Population dynamics and fisheries biology FWRI’s Molecular Genetics Laboratory is outfitted with automated-sequencing and associated equipment, including four ABI genetic analyzers (two 310s & two 3100s) and is staffed by 7 experienced technicians. FWRI also maintains an extensive, curated marine fish collection within a modern Information Science and Management group.
Areas of Field Work: Primarily estuarine and coastal waters of Florida. Some projects involvement specimen collection throughout the western Atlantic.
Lou Van Guelpen
| Mailing Address: | Atlantic Reference Centre Huntsman Marine Science Centre 1 Lower Campus Road St. Andrews, New Brunswick E5B 2L7 Canada |
| Work Phone: | +1 506 529 1203 |
| Work Fax: | +1 506 529 1212 |
| Email: | arc@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca |
Current Position: Atlantic Reference Centre Curator of Fishes & Collections Manager
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Taxonomy, life history, biogeography, laboratory processing procedures, and preservation of all life stages of Canadian Atlantic fishes; climate change impacts on fish, invertebrate, and plant populations; Internet integration of biodiversity information.
Areas of Field Work: coastal waters of New Brunswick
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Ekaterina D. Vasilieva
| Mailing Address: | Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University Bolshaya Nikitskaya Str. 6 125009 Moscow, Russia |
| Work Phone: | +095 2033640 |
| Work Fax: | +095 2032717 |
| Email: | vas_katerina@mail.ru |
Current Position: Dr. Sc., the Chief of ichthyological department
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: One of the leading specialist in taxonomy of fishes from the continental Eurasian waters, international expert in taxonomy of gobiid, cobitid and acipenserid fishes.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Gobiids, Cobitids, Cyprinids, Acipenserids.
Areas of Field Work: South-western Russia (Don, Kuban, Dnieper and other rivers) and Far East (Amur R.) for the last two years.
Bob Ward
| Mailing Address: | CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMR) GPO Box 1538 Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia |
| Work Phone: | +61 3 6232 5370 |
| Work Fax: | +61 3 6232 5000 |
| Email: | bob.ward@csiro.au |
Current Position: Senior Principal Research Scientist at CMR
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Research into the population genetics of a variety of marine species, using allozymes, mitochondrial DNA and microsatellites. Genetic methods of species identification. Genetic improvement of aquaculture species.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: None in particular, though I have worked more extensively with tunas than other marine species.
Areas of Field Work: Have access to the waters around Australia, including Antarctic waters.
Lee Weigt
| Mailing Address: | Smithsonian Institution, LAB-MSC 4210 Silver Hill Rd Suitland, MD 20746 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 301 238 1110 |
| Work Fax: | +1 301 238 3059 |
| Email: | lweigt@lab.si.edu |
Current Position: Manager, LAB (Laboratories of Analytical Biology, National Museum of Natural History) Smithsonian Institution
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Our lab will be hosting a DNA Barcoding pipeline: a laboratory offering access to high-throughput automation for DNA extraction, amplification and sequencing. We also have a parallel computing cluster for data analysis. We intend to host people and projects who only need to cover their consumable expenses.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Collaborative effort on the reef fishes of Belize and the Caribbean.
Areas of Field Work: I am actively involved with the reef fishes of Belize and the Caribbean, and we are starting collaborations for the Indian River Lagoon in Florida, and the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
Richard Winterbottom
| Mailing Address: | Department of Natural History Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen’s Park Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6 Canada |
| Work Phone: | +1 416 586 5759 |
| Work Fax: | +1 416 586 7921 |
| Email: | rickw@rom.on.ca |
Current Position: Senior Curator
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: The systematics, phylogeny, higher classification, biogeography and macro-evolution of fishes, especially those of Indo-Pacific coral reef and mangroves. Developing a website (PhyloFish) with Prof. D. McLennan of illustrated and documented fish phylogenies, to be linked to FishBase and the Tree of Life.
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Perciforms and their allies, especially the gobioid and acanthuroid fishes.
Areas of Field Work: Throughout the Indo-Pacific (South Africa to Society Islands), most recently in Vietnam (twice) and Palau, making synoptic collections of coral reef and mangrove fishes to enhance museum collections and concomitantly obtain distributional data for incorporation into biogeographic studies and material for other research projects. Building a collection of specimens for subsequent DNA analyses (again, especially gobioids). Documenting freshly collected colouration through extensive field photography (35 mm colour transparencies); archives currently contain photo portraits of about 7,500 specimens.
Haile Yancy
| Mailing Address: | FDA, Center for Veterinary Medicine Office of Research 8401 Muirkirk Road Laurel , Md 20708 USA |
| Work Phone: | +1 301 210 4096 |
| Work Fax: | +1 301 210 4685 |
| Email: | hyancy@cvm.fda.gov |
Current Position: Staff Fellow
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: R&D FDA/CVM
Groups of Special Taxonomic Interest: Mammals, Fish, Insects, and Vertebrates
Tyler S. Zemlak
| Mailing Address: | Department of Integrative Biology University of Guelph Guelph, ON N1G 2W1 Canada |
| Work Phone: | +1 519 824 4120 ex 56393 |
| Work Fax: | +1 519 767 1656 |
| Email: | tzemlak@uoguelph.ca |
Current Position: MSc. Candidate
Primary Research or Administrative Involvements: Testing the efficacy of a DNA barcoding system for marine fishes. Current investigations include the analysis of COI divergences for both larval and adult samples from a wide range of Australian and South African taxa. Recent interests include the potential utility of DNA barcoding for large-scale phylogeographic studies to aid in the understanding of evolutionary patterns and processes governing reef fishes.