ROBERT WEINTRAUB PROGRAM

IN SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

 

REF PRODUCTIVITY 1999 – 2002

(alphabetical by faculty members)

 

MARC W. ALLARD

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Turano, F., G. R. Panta, M. W. Allard, and P. Van Berkum.  2001.  The putative glutamate receptors from plants are related to two superfamilies of animal neurotransmitter receptors via distinct evolutionary mechanisms. Mol. Biol. And Evol 18:108-111.

Shevchuk, N. and M. W. Allard.  2001. Sources of incongruence among mammalian mitochondrial sequences: COII, COIII, and ND6 genes are main contributors.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evol. 21:43-54.

Allard, M. W., S. D. Baker,­G. Emerson,  J. Ottenwalder, and C. W. Kilpatrick.  2001.  Characterization of the mitochondrial control region in Solenodon paradoxus  and the implications for biogeography, systematics, and conservation managment. Pp. 329-332  in C. A. Woods (ed.).  Biogeography of the West Indies: New Patterns and Perspectives.  CRC Press LLC, New York.

Emerson, G., C. W. Kilpatrick, B. McNiff, J. Ottenwalder, and M. W., Allard.  1999.  Phylogenetic relationships of the order Insectivora based on complete 12S rRNA sequences from mitochondria.  Cladistics15:221-230.  Special issue: Hennig XVI Symposium on Mammal Phylogeny.  Guest editors: Marc W. Allard and Rodney L. Honeycutt.

Allard, M. W., R. L. Honeycutt, and M. J. Novacek.  1999.  Introduction: Advances in higher level mammalian relationships.  Cladistics 15:213-219.   Special issue: Hennig XVI Symposium on Mammal Phylogeny.  Guest editors: Marc W. Allard and Rodney L. Honeycutt.

Allard, M. W., J. S. Farris,  and J. M. Carpenter.  1999.  Congruence among mammalian mitochondrial genes.  Cladistics 15:75-84.

 

Special volumes (edited)

Allard, M. W. and R. L. Honeycutt eds.  1999.  Special Issue: Hennig XVI Symposium on Mammal Phylogeny, Guest Editors: Marc W. Allard and Rodney L. Honeycutt.  one volume of the journal will be dedicated to this published symposium on mammalian systematics and includes both molecular and morphological projects.  Cladistics 15(3). 158 pp.

 

Reviews

Allard, M. W.  2001.  Review of MacClade 4.02, Syllabus Magazine. www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/mag_archive.asp in press.

Allard, M. W.  2000.  Biodiversity and molecular systematic databases.  Proceedings of the First International Conference on Biodiversity and Natural Resources preservation, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco.

Allard, M. W., M. Kearney, K. Lindholm Kivimaki, A. Downing Meisner  and E. E. Strong (review).  1999.  The Random Cladist:  A review of the software package RANDOM CLADISTICS.    Cladistics, 15:183-190.

 

Presentations (Invited)

2002  M.W. Allard.  Phylogenetic Applications in the Forensic Sciences. City University of New York, Queens College NY.

2002  M.W. Allard.  Phylogenetic Applications in the Forensic Sciences. The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago IL.

2002  M.W. Allard.  Characterization of the Caucasian haplogroups present in the SWGDAM forensic mtDNA database for 1771 human control region sequences. National Cancer Institute.

2001  M.W. Allard.  Characterization of the Caucasian haplogroups present in the SWGDAM forensic mtDNA database for 1771 human control region sequences. George Washington University, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics Interest Group.

2001  M.W. Allard.  Characterization of the Caucasian haplogroups present in the SWGDAM forensic mtDNA database for 1771 human control region sequences.  DNA Unit II Laboratory, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Head Quarters, Washington DC.

2001  M.W. Allard.  Characterization of the Caucasian haplogroups present in the SWGDAM forensic mtDNA database for 1771 human control region sequences.  Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy, Forensic Science Research Unit, Quantico VA.

2001  M.W. Allard.  "Mammalian molecular systematics: Searching for the closest relative to the Primates. Department of Anatony, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD.

2001  M.W. Allard.  Testing congruence among linked genes and multigene families.  US Food and Drug Admin., Center for Food Saftey and Applied Nutrition, Division of Molecular Biology. Washington, DC.

2001 Allard, M. W., S. D. Baker,­G. Emerson*,  J. Ottenwalder, and C. W. Kilpatrick. Characterization of the mitochondrial control region in Solenodon paradoxus  and the implications for biogeography, systematics and conservation managment (Poster). Presented at   Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics, jointly sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation and the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society.

2001  Asher R.J.*, G.L. Emerson, and M.W. Allard. 2001. “Morphology, DNA, and the Insectivora: A grade or a clade?”. 6th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, University of Jena, Germany, July 2001 (Abstract, J. Morph., 248(3): 203).

2000  M.W. Allard. “Determining Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms for forensic identification using phylogenetic analysis.  DNA Unit II Laboratory, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Head Quarters, Washington DC. Also, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Academy Research and Training Center, Quantico VA

2000  M.W. Allard.   "Mammalian molecular systematics: Searching for the closest relative to the Primates. Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington.

2000  M.W. Allard.   "Mammalian molecular systematics: Searching for the closest relative to the Primates. Department of Anatomical Sciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook.

2000  M.W. Allard.   "Molecular systematics of mammalia with emphasis on the Archonta:

measuring support for determining the closest relative to the Primates.” Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

1999  M.W. Allard.   "Mitochondrial database for HV1 and HV2 regions in thirteen human populations and the structure observed among these populations."  Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University.

1999  M.W. Allard.  Molecular systematics of Mammalia.  Are Insectivores monophyletic and where do they place on the mammalian tree?  Department of Biological Sciences, Howard University, Washington DC.  (Topics in Evolutionary Biology 201, guest lecturer).

 

National and International Meetings

2002  M.W. Allard, M.W. Wilson, K. Monson, and B. Budowle.  Characterization of the Caucasian haplogroups present in the SWGDAM forensic mtDNA database for 1771 human control region sequences.  American Academy of Forensic Sciences 54th annual meeting, Atlanta GA.

2002 R. McCarthy*, M. W. Allard and B. Woods.  Incongruence and homoplasy in the mammalian skeleton. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Buffalo, New York, April.

2001 Asher*, R.J., G.L. Emerson, and M.W. Allard. 2001.  Insectivoran phylogeny:

how do extinct groups relate to living ones?  Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Oct. Montana, (Abstract, J. Vert. Paleo., 21(3): 29A).

2001  M.W. Allard, R.C. McCarthy*, B.A. Wood. Incongruence and homoplasy in the mammalian skeleton.  American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Human Biology Association Meeting:

2001 Shevchuk N and M.W. Allard*.  Congruent and incongruent mammalian mitochondrial genes.  Willi Hennig Society XX meetings in Corvallis OR (Abstract).

2001 Marc W. Allard. Testing congruence among linked genes and multigene families.  Willi Hennig Society XX, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon (Abstract).

2001 Frank J. Turano*, Ganesh R. Panta,1 Marc W. Allard, and Peter van Berkum

Genetic and pharmacological evidence for the presence of GABA-like receptors in Arabidopsis thaliana.  American Society of Plant Physiologists and the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists. Providence, Rhode Island, July

2000 Emerson*, G.E. and M.W. Allard (poster).  Molecular systematics of Insectivora based on a large data set of 12S rRNA gene sequences from 264 mammalian taxa.  Willi Hennig Society XIX, National Museum of natural History, Leiden, Nederland.

2000 Thomas J. Parsons*, Whitney E. Dimling, Mandi A. Hornickel, and Marc W. Allard.  Analysis of Population Structure in Caucasian mtDNA Sequence Databases.  52nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 2/25/00                       

1999             Emerson, G.E. and M.W. Allard (poster, published abstract).  Phylogenetic instability of the eutherian mammal phylogeny: sampling effects and inclusion/exclusion of variable characters.  Willi Hennig Society XVIII, Zoological Museum (Institut fur Erziehungswissenschaften), Gottingen Germany.

1999    G.E. Emerson* and M.W. Allard.  (published abstract).  Molecular systematics of lipotyphlan insectivores.  Willi Hennig Society XVIII, Zoological Museum (Institut fur Erziehungswissenschaften), Gottingen Germany.

1999    G.E. Emerson* and M.W. Allard.  (poster).  Phylogenetic relationships of lipotyphlan insectivores based on sequences from mitochondria.  Poster presented to the Society of Systematic Biologists, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

1999     M.W. Allard (published poster).  Biodiversity and molecular systematic databases.  First International Conference on Biodiversity and renewable Natural Resources preservation, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco.

1999    “The Robert Weintraub Research Program in Biodiversity, Systematics and Evolution” (Lipscomb, Clark, Burns, Allard*, Hormiga, Herendeen, Smith, and Knowlton.  Poster presented at the First International Conference on Biodiversity and renewable Natural Resources preservation, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco.

1999    T.J. Parsons*, W. E. Dimling, M. A. Hornickel, and M. W. Allard.  Analysis of population structure in Caucasian mtDNA Sequence Databases.  Amer. Acad. Forensic Sci., Reno Nevada.

 

Funding

Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, (2002, $55,500)

The Field Museum of Nat. History, R. O. Bass Visiting Scientist Fund. Chicago IL. (2002,   $905)

U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Visiting Scientist Program, (2001, $20,000)

U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Visiting Scientist Program, (2000, $15,120)

American Registry of Pathology, Armed Forces DNA Identification Lab., Visiting Research Scientist program (1999, $12,000)

National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology, Research experiences for undergraduates, (1999, supplement to DEB9629319  $6,000).

 

 

JOHN R. BURNS

Peer-reviewed publications

Burns, J. R., S. H. Weitzman, L. R. Malabarba and A. D. Meisner. 2000. Sperm modifications in inseminating ostariophysan fishes, with new documentation of inseminating species, p. 255. In: Proc. Sixth Inter. Symp. Reprod. Physiol. Fish. B. Norberg, O.S. Kjesbu, G.L. Taranger, E. Andersson and S.O. Stefansson (Eds.). Inst. Mar. Res. and Univ. Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Meisner, A. D., J. R. Burns and M. J. Ghedotti. 2000. Mode of embryonic nutrition in four species of Jenynsia (Teleostei: Atherinomorpha: Anablepidae), p. 178. . In: Proc. Sixth Inter. Symp. Reprod. Physiol. Fish. B. Norberg, O.S. Kjesbu, G.L. Taranger, E. Andersson and S.O. Stefansson (Eds.). Inst. Mar. Res. and Univ. Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Meisner, A. D., J. R. Burns, S. H. Weitzman and L R. Malabarba. 2000. Morphology and histology of the male reproductive system of two species of internally inseminating South American catfishes, Trachelyopterus lucenai and T. galeatus (Teleostei: Auchenipteridae).  Journal of Morphology 246:131-141.

Burns, J. R., A. D. Meisner, S. H. Weitzman and L. R. Malabarba.  2002.  Sperm and spermatozeugma ultrastructure in the inseminating catfish, Trachelyopterus lucenai (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae).  Copeia  2002:173-179.

Bushmann, P. J., J. R. Burns and S. H. Weitzman.  2002.  Gill-derived glands in glandulocaudine fishes (Teleostei: Characidae: Glandulocaudinae).  Journal of Morphology  (in press)

 

Presentations at meetings

1999, 24-30 June, University Park, Pennsylvania (Penn State). Annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Downing-Meisner, A., J. R. Burns, S. H. Weitzman and L. R. Malabarba, “Testis structure in two species of auchenipterid catfishes, Trachelyopterus lucenai and T. galeatus (Teleostei: Auchenipteridae).”

1999, 4-9 July, Bergen, Norway. Sixth International Symposium on Reproductive Physiology of Fish. Burns, J. R., S. H. Weitzman, L. R. Malabarba and A. D. Meisner, “Sperm modifications in inseminating ostariophysan fishes, with new documentation of inseminating species.”

1999, 4-9 July, Bergen, Norway. Sixth International Symposium on Reproductive Physiology of Fish. A. D. Meisner, J. R. Burns and M. J. Ghedotti, “Mode of embryonic nutrition in four species of Jenynsia (Teleostei: Atherinomorpha: Anablepidae).

2000, 14-20 June, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Burns, J. R., A. D. Meisner, S. H. Weitzman and L. R. Malabarba, “Sperm and spermatozeugma ultrastructure in the inseminating auchenipterid catfish, Trachelyopterus lucenai.”

2000, 14-20 June, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Meisner, A. D., J. R. Burns, S. H. Weitzman and L. R. Malabarba, “Exploring use of reproductive characters in the phylogenetic analysis of the genera of the subfamilies Glandulocaudinae and Cheirodontinae.”

2000, 14-20 June, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Bushmann, P. J., J. R. Burns and S. H. Weitzman, “Gill glands in glandulocaudine fishes (Teleostei: Characidae: Glandulocaudinae).”

2001, 5-10 July, State College, Pennsylvania.  Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.  Menezes, N. A., S. H. Weitzman and J. R. Burns, “A phylogenetic diagnosis of Planaltina (Teleostei: Characidae: Glandulocaudinae), a genus restricted to the upper Paraña basin, Brazil, and of the tribe Diapomini.”

2001, 21-26 July, Jena, Germany.  Sixth International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology.  Burns, J. R., P. J. Bushmann, A. D. Meisner and S. H. Weitzman, “Gill-derived glands in fishes of the family Characidae.”

 

Students receiving current REF support

Renie Daniel (M.S. program)

 

JAMES M. CLARK

Peer reviewed publications

Clark, J., H.-D. Sues, and D. Berman 2000 A new specimen of Hesperosuchus agilis from the Upper Triassic of New Mexico and the interrelationships of basal crocodylomorph archosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(4):583-704.

Norell, M.A., J. Clark, and L.M. Chiappe 2001 An embryonic oviraptorid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 3315, 1-17.

Clark, J.M, M. Norell, and R. Barsbold.  2001  Two new oviraptorids (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria), Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21:209-213.

Clark, J.M., M. Norell, R. Barsbold, and T. Rowe.  In press.  The skull of Citipati osmolskae (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria) and a reinterpretation of the Oviraptor philoceratops holotype.  American Museum Novitates. 

 

Other publications

Norell, M., J.M. Clark, and P. Makovicky.  2001.  Relaionships among Maniraptora: Problems and Prospects.  In: Papers from a Symposium Honoring John Ostrom, Yale University Press.

Clark, J.M., M. Norell, and P. Makovicky.  In press.  Cladistic approaches to relationships of birds to other theropod dinosaurs.  In: Mesozoic Bird Evolution, L. Chiappe and L. Witmer, eds.  Univ. California Press, Berkeley.

 

 

Abstracts

Clark, J.M. and H.-D. Sues.  2001.  New basal crocodylomorphs and the question of sphenosuchian monophyly.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21 supplement to 3, p. 41a.

 

Web site

www.gwu.edu/~clade/faculty/clark/china.html, a web page displaying the results of an expedition to Xinjiang, China, in search of dinosaurs.

 

Presented Talks and Seminars

*Virginia Museum of Science, Richmond April 2001

*Arkansas Technical University, March 2002

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting, October 2001

 

Symposium publication

          Editing papers presented at a symposium on missing data in paleontology at the 2000 annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology for publication in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

 

Funding

National Geographic Society, $19,100, for dinosaur exploration in China.

UFF, $10,300, for field work in China

Private donor (the estate of Hillmar Sallee), $10,000, for field work in China.

Jurassic Foundation, $4,000, for field work in China.

Pending: National Geographic Society ($35,000) and National Science Foundation ($300,000).

 

PATRICK HERENDEEN

Peer-reviewed Publications

Lupia, R., P. S.  Herendeen, and J. A. Keller, in press. A new fossil flower and associated coprolites: evidence for angiosperm-insect interactions in the Santonian (late Cretaceous) of Georgia, U.S.A. International Journal of Plant Sciences.

Takahashi, M., P. S. Herendeen, and P. R. Crane. (In Press). Lauraceous fossil flowers from the Kamikitaba Locality (Lower Coniacian; Upper Cretaceous) in northeastern Japan. Journal of Plant Research.

Bruneau, A., F. Forest, P. S. Herendeen, B. B. Klitgaard, and G. P. Lewis. 2001. Phylogenetic Relationships in the Caesalpinioideae (Leguminosae) as Inferred from Chloroplast trnL Intron Sequences. Systematic Botany 26: 487-514.

Magallón, S., P. S. Herendeen, and P. R. Crane. 2001. Floral diversity in Hamamelidoideae (Hamamelidaceae): Androdecidua endressi gen. et sp. nov. from the late Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Georgia, U.S.A. International Journal of Plant Sciences 162: 963-983.

Herendeen, P. S. 2000. Structural evolution in Caesalpinioideae. In P. S. Herendeen and A. Bruneau, Editors. Advances in legume systematics, part 9, pp. 45-64.  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Herendeen, P. S. and R. B. Miller. 2000. The application of wood anatomical characters in cladistic phylogenetic analyses.  IAWA Journal 21: 247-276.

Herendeen, P. S. and B. F. Jacobs. 2000. Fossil Legumes from the Middle Eocene (46.0 Ma) Mahenge Flora, Singida, Tanzania. American Journal of Botany 87: 1358-1366.

Herendeen, P. S. 2000. In search of the first flowers.  Newton. Graphic Science Magazine 20(1): 96-103. [in Japanese]

Herendeen, P. S., E. A. Wheeler, and P. Baas. 1999.  Angiosperm wood evolution and the potential contribution of paleontological data.  Botanical Review 65: 278-300.

Sims, H. J., P. S. Herendeen, R. Lupia, R. A. Christopher, and P. R. Crane. 1999. Fossil flowers with Normapoles pollen from the Upper Cretaceous of southeastern North America. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 106: 131-151.

Herendeen, P. S., S. Magallón-Puebla, R. Lupia, P. R. Crane and J. Kobylinska. 1999. A preliminary conspectus of the Allon flora from the Late Cretaceous (Late Santonian) of central Georgia, USA. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86: 407-471.

Magallón-Puebla, S., P. R. Crane, and P. S. Herendeen. 1999. Phylogenetic pattern, diversity and diversification of eudicots. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86: 297-372.

 

Edited Books

Herendeen, P. S. and A. Bruneau, Editors. 2000. Advances in legume systematics, part 9.  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Crane, P. R. and P. S. Herendeen, Editors 1999. The origin of modern terrestrial ecosystems: fossils, phylogeny and biogeography. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86(2).

 

Abstracts

Jacobs, B. F. and P. S. Herendeen. 2001. Evidence for dry climate at the Eocene Mahenge site, north-central Tanzania. Botany 2001 abstract. http://www.botany2001.org/section7/abstracts/27.shtml.

Herendeen, P. S and B. F. Jacobs. 2001. Fossil legumes from the Eocene of Tanzania. Botany 2001 abstract. http://www.botany2001.org/section7/abstracts/16.shtml.

Herendeen, P. S. and S. Wing. 2001. Papilionoid legume fruits and leaves from the Paleocene of northwestern Wyoming. Botany 2001 abstract. http://www.botany2001.org/section7/abstracts/26.shtml.

Herendeen, P. S. 2001. The fossil record of the Leguminosae: recent advances. Abstracts, International Legume Conference, Canberra, Australia. July 2001.

Bruneau, A., P. S. Herendeen and G. P. Lewis. 2001. Phylogenetic relationships in the Caesalpinioideae: a preliminary synthesis of morphological and molecular data. Abstracts, International Legume Conference, Canberra, Australia. July 2001.

Herendeen, P. S. 1999. Structural evolution in the Caesalpinioideae. International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Missouri.

Lupia, R., P. R. Crane and P. S. Herendeen. 1999. Late Cretaceous floras from the eastern USA and their implications for eudicot evolution.  International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Missouri.

 

Conferences Organized

Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium, June 2001. George Washington University.

3rd International Legume Conference, Canberra, Australia. July, 2001.  Co-organizer with Anne Bruneau, Gwilym Lewis,  “Phylogenetic relationships in Caesalpinioideae”

16th International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, MO. August, 1999.  Co-organizer with Anne Bruneau,“Phylogenetic relationships in Caesalpinioideae: evidence from multiple sources of characters”

 

Invited seminars

Department of Geography, George Washington University, “Biogeography of Leguminosae in Africa,” 6 March, 2001.

Institut de recherché en biologie végétale (Univ. Montréal), “Early evolutionary history of flowering plants”, 2 February 2001.

Harvard University Herbaria, “Early evolution of flowering plants”, 1 February, 2000.

Department of Geology, The George Washington University, ”Fossil flowers from the Atlantic Coastal Plain”, 3 March, 1999.

Department of Paleontology, National Museum of Natural History, “Fossil flowers from the Atlantic Coastal Plain”, 25 March, 1999.

 

Presented Talks

Jacobs, B. F. and P. S. Herendeen. 2001. Evidence for dry climate at the Eocene Mahenge site, north-central Tanzania. Botany 2001 abstract. http://www.botany2001.org/section7/abstracts/27.shtml.

Herendeen, P. S and B. F. Jacobs. 2001. Fossil legumes from the Eocene of Tanzania. Botany 2001 abstract. http://www.botany2001.org/section7/abstracts/16.shtml.

Herendeen, P. S. and S. Wing. 2001. Papilionoid legume fruits and leaves from the Paleocene of northwestern Wyoming. Botany 2001 abstract. http://www.botany2001.org/section7/abstracts/26.shtml.

Herendeen, P. S. 2001. The fossil record of the Leguminosae: recent advances. Abstracts, International Legume Conference, Canberra, Australia. July 2001.

Bruneau, A., P. S. Herendeen and G. P. Lewis. 2001. Phylogenetic relationships in the Caesalpinioideae: a preliminary synthesis of morphological and molecular data. Abstracts, International Legume Conference, Canberra, Australia. July 2001.

Herendeen, P. S. 1999. Structural evolution in the Caesalpinioideae. International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Missouri.

Lupia, R., P. R. Crane and P. S. Herendeen. 1999. Late Cretaceous floras from the eastern USA and their implications for eudicot evolution.  International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Missouri.

 

Funding

National Science Foundation, Pending 2002. Phylogeny and evolution of the legume subfamily Caesalpinioideae.

National Science Foundation, Pending 2001. Dissertation Improvement Grant proposal with John Clark.

National Science Foundation, Pending, 2001. Sequencers for the Biological Sciences. P.I.s: C. Smith, P. S. Herendeen, M. Allard, F. Turano, D. L. Lipscomb.

George Washington University Junior Scholar Award, 2000, 2001.

National Science Foundation (RCN-0090283), 2001-2006. Research Coordination Network: "Deep Time" – A Comprehensive Phylogenetic Tree of Living and Fossil Angiosperms. P.I.s: D. Soltis, P. Soltis, P. Herendeen, D. Dilcher. $498,829.

National Science Foundation, 1999. Scanning Electron Microscope for Systematic Biology. P.I.s: G. Hormiga, P. S. Herendeen, J. M. Clark, D. E. Lieberman, D. L. Lipscomb. $118,274.

George Washington University: University Facilitating Fund and Junior Scholar Award, 1999.

National Science Foundation (DEB-9527673), 1996-2001. Systematics and Paleobotany of the Legume Subfamily Caesalpinioideae. P.I.: P. S. Herendeen. $99,705.

 

Students receiving REF support

John Clark, Kathleen Johnson

 

 

GUSTAVO HORMIGA

Peer-reviewed Publications

Hormiga, G., M.A. Arnedo, and R. Gillespie.  Submitted.  Speciation on a conveyor belt: sequential colonization of the Hawaiian Islands by Orsonwelles spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Systematic Biology.  51 mss. pages, 8 figures. Accepted pending minor revision.

Hormiga, G.  In press.  Orsonwelles, a new genus of giant linyphiid spiders from Hawaii (Araneae, Linyphiidae).  Invertebrate Taxonomy.  88 mss. pages, 59 plates. 

Kuntner, M. and G. Hormiga.  In press.  The African Spider Genus Singafrotypa Benoit 1962 (Araneae, Araneoidea, Araneidae).  Journal of Arachnology.  21 mss. pages, 17 figs.

Hormiga, G. and J. Coddington. 2001. Patrones filogenéticos de dimorfismo sexual de tamaño en las arañas tejedoras de telas orbiculares (Araneae, Orbiculariae). In "Enfoques contemporáneos para el estudio de la biodiversidad," H.M. Hernández, A.N. García Aldrete, F. Alvarez & M. Ulloa, Eds., Fondo Universitario de Cultura, UNAM, México, pp. 149-168.

Hormiga, G.  2000.  Higher level phylogenetics of erigonine spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae).  Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 609: 1-160.

Hormiga, G., N. Scharff, and J. Coddington.  2000.  The Phylogenetic Basis of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Orb-Weaving Spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae).  Systematic Biology 49(3):435-462.

Griswold, C.E., C. Long, and G. Hormiga.  1999.  A new spider of the Genus Pimoa from the Gaoligongshan Mts., Yunnan, China (Araneae, Pimoidae).  Acta Botanica Yunnanica, Suppl. 11:91-97.

Hormiga, G.  1999.  Cephalothoracic sulci in linyphiine spiders (Araneae, Araneoidea, Linyphiidae).  Journal of Arachnology, 27:94-102.

 

Other publications

Hormiga, G.  2000.  Review of F. Punzo, 1998, “The Biology of Camel-Spiders (Arachnida, Solifugae).”  Systematic Biology 49(3):613-614. (Solicited by Journal Editor)

 

Abstracts

Hormiga, G.  1999.  On a newly discovered radiation of Hawaiian linyphiid spiders.  American Arachnology, 60:4.

Agnarsson, I., Arnedo, M. A., Gillespie, R., Coddington, J. A. & Hormiga, G.  1999.  Theridiid systematics, a preliminary molecular and morphological phylogenetic analysis.  American Arachnology, 60:1.

 

Web Sites

http://www.gwu.edu/~spiders/ (a web site to disseminate information on the research carried out in my lab)

www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/batfly/index.html, developed by Jeremy Miller, based on research he did for his OTS Tropical Biology course on the Bat Flies of La

          Selva (Costa Rica). This project was accomplished with the help of Marco Tschapka

          (University of Ulm, Germany) and F. Chris Thompson (SEL, USDA)

 

Electronic Publications

Buckle, D.J. and G. Hormiga. 2000.  A catalog of the linyphiid spiders of South America, Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies (Araneae, Linyphiidae).  http://www.gwu.edu/~spiders/SA-LIN.3.htm

Hormiga, G., J. Miller, and F. Alvarez-Padilla. Linyphioid genera of the world.  An illustrated catalog of the genera and type species of the spider family Linyphiidae (pending Copyright Authorization, it will be distributed free of charge via the WWW and in CD format)

 

Presented Talks and Seminars

(* invited presentations):

1999. * Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.  * Instituto de Biología, UNAM, Mexico, D.F.  American Arachnological Society, University of West Indies, Trinidad (two oral presentations).

2000. Society of Systematic Biology and Society for the Study of Evolution, annual meeting, Indiana University, Bloomington (two oral presentations).

2001. XV International Congress of Arachnology, Badplaas, South Africa (three oral presentations).

2002. III Encuentro de Aracnologos del Cono Sur, Cordoba, Argentina (three oral presentations, one invited).

 

Advisory Panels

National Science Foundation- Review Panel Member (1999, 2001); Site Visit Review Panel Member (2001).

 

Funding

National Science Foundation, Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI-0070362), ‘Scanning Electron Microscope for Systematic Biology’ (G. Hormiga PI; P. Herendeen, D. Lipscomb, J. Clark, D. Lieberman, Co-PIs, $118,274, 2000-2001)

National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology, (PEET DEB-9712353), ‘Monographic Research in Araneoid Spider Systematics’ (G. Hormiga PI, J. Coddington, Co-PI; $415,480; 1997-2002)

National Geographic Society, (6138-98), ‘Systematics and Biogeography of the Radiation of Hawaiian Labulla Spiders’ ($22,654; 1998-2000).

Smithsonian Institution, Biological Diversity of the Guianas Program, ‘Spider Diversity of Guyana: Reconnaissance and Preliminary Sampling’ ($10,000; co-PI; J. Coddington PI; 1999)

 

Students receiving REF support

I. Agnarsson, F. Alvarez-Padilla, M. Kuntner, J. Miller.

 

ROBERT E. KNOWLTON

Peer-reviewed publications:

Gross, P. S., and R. E. Knowlton, 1999.  Variation in larval size after eyestalk ablation in larvae of the snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis.  Journal of Crustacean Biology, 19: 8-13.

Merchant, H. C., R. N. Khan, and R. E. Knowlton, 2001.  The effect of macrophytic cover on survival of Palaemonetes pugio and P. vulgaris. (grass shrimp) in the presence of predatory Fundulus heteroclitus (killifish).  Contributions to Zoology. 70: 61-71.

Gross, P. S., and R. E. Knowlton, 2002.  Morphological variations among larval-postlarval intermediates produced by eyestalk ablation in the snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis Say.  Biological Bulletin, 202: 43-52.

Ganz, H. H., and R. E. Knowlton, in press.  Reproductive differences among populations of grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio and P. vulgaris) in Delmarva bays.  Virginia Journal of Science. 

 

Ph.D. dissertation

Gallin, R. B., 2001.  The effects of salinity and temperature on survival and behavior of two sympatric species of grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio and Palaemonetes vulgaris, and implications of these effects on their distribution at Point Lookout State Park, Maryland.

 

Workshops

 “Biology of Coastal North Carolina” at Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC

 

Students receiving REF support

Daniel Basinger, Daniel Marshalonis

 

 

DIANA LIPSCOMB

Peer-reviewed Publications

Daly, M., Lipscomb D., and Allard, M.  (in press). A simple test: evaluating explanations for the relative simplicity of the Edwardsiidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa).  Evolution.

Lipscomb, D.L. and G.P. Riordan (in press). Ultrastructure of the real Placus striatus. J. of Eukaryotic Microbiology.

Strong, E. & D. Lipscomb. 1999. Character coding and inapplicable data. Cladistics 15:363-371.

Tehler, A., Lipscomb, D., J.S. Farris , M. Kallersjo. 2000. Support, ribosomal sequences, and the phylogeny of the fungi.  Mycologia 91:231-245.

 

Web sites

http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~biodl/

 

Funding

National Science Foundation, Bringing the Phylum Nemertea and Its Taxonomy into the 20th and 21st Centuries by Means of Morphological and Molecular Phylogenetic Studies and Electronic Media. ($749,975)

National Science Foundation, Division of Biological Infrastructure. Scanning Electron Microscope for Systematic Biology G. Hormiga; PI & P. Herendeen, D. Lipscomb, J. Clark, D. Lieberman, Co-PIs, $118,274

 

 

L. COURTNEY SMITH

Peer-reviewed publications

Smith, L.C.  Thioester function is conserved in SpC3, the sea urchin homologue of the complement compoent C3.  in revision.

Clow, L.A., P.S. Gross, C.-S. Shih & L.C. Smith.  2000.  Expression of SpC3, the sea urchin complement component, in response to lipopolysaccharide.  Immunogenetics, 51:1021-1033.

Gross, P.S., L.A. Clow & L.C. Smith.  2000.  SpC3, the complement homologue from the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, is expressed in two subpopulations of the phagocytic coelomocytes.  Immunogenetics, 51:1034-1044.

 

Invited Reviews

Smith, L.C., L.A. Clow & D.P. Terwilliger  2001.  The ancestral complement system in sea urchins.  Immunological Reviews, 180:16-34.

Smith, L.C.  2001.  The complement system in sea urchins.  In Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Vertebrate Immune Systems.  (G. Beck, M. Sugumaran, E. Cooper, eds.)  Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 484:363-372.  Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing Co. New York, NY.

Smith, L.C., K. Azumi & M. Nonaka.  1999.  Complement systems in invertebrates.  The ancient alternative and lectin pathways.  Immunopharmacology, 42:107-120.

Gross, P.S., W.Z. Al-Sharif, L.A. Clow & L.C. Smith.  1999.  Echinoderm immunity and the evolution of the complement system.  Developmental and Comparative Immunology, 23:439-453.

 

Book Review

Smith, L.C.  2001.  Review of “Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Immune System”.  (L. Du Pasquier & G.W. Litman, eds.)  Quarterly Review of Biology 76:79.

 

Invited seminars by PI

Conferences and Symposia

NSF Workshop on the “Evolutionary Immunobiology: New Approaches, New Paradigms”, Feb, 22-25, 2002, MUSC, Charleston SC.  “A Genomics Approach to Understanding the Sea Urchin Immune System.”

International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, Eighth Congress.  Cairns Australia, July 2-6, 2000.  “SpC3, the Sea Urchin Complement Component Homologous to Vertebrate C3, Undergoes Autolysis and may be Regulated through Controlled Degradation.”

      Session Co-Chair, Evolution of the Complement System.

Comparative Immunology Group Mini-Symposium.  Immunodiversity in Defense Mechanisms.  Florida International University, Miami, FL.  April 6, 2000.  “Production, Function and Degradation of SpC3, the Sea Urchin Homologue of the Vertebrate Complement Component C3.”

New England Immunology Conference.  Innate Immunity.  Woods Hole, MA  November 6-7, 1999.  “The Ancient Complement System in Sea Urchins.”

FASEB Summer Research Conference.  Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Vertebrate Immune System.  Copper Mountain, CO.  July 11-16, 1999.  “The Complement System in Sea Urchins.”

Experimental Biology ‘99.  Early Origins of the Vertebrate Immune System.  Washington DC.  June 19-24, 1999.  “The Complement System: An Evolutionary Link Between Vertebrate and Invertebrate Immunity.”

 

Seminars at Institutions

Ohio University, Department of Biology.  Athens OH  April 9, 2001.  “The ancestral innate immune system in sea urchins”

Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Microbiology.  Charleston SC  February 8, 2001.  “The ancestral innate immune system in sea urchins”

George Washington University Medical School, Department of Immunology.  Washington DC  November 21, 2000.  “The ancestral innate immune system in sea urchins”

American Red Cross Holland Research Laboratory.  Rockville MD  September 16, 1999.  “Origin and Evolution of the Complement System, a Central Component of Innate Immunity.”

 

Presentations by students and research associates

Nair, S.V., P.S. Gross, E. Shephard, R. Chapman, G. Warr & L.C. Smith.  “Macroarray analysis of sea urchin defensive responses to lipopolysaccharide.”  4th Annual Comparative Immunology Symposium, “Immunodiversity in Defense Mechanisms: Recognition & Communication Systems”  Florida International University, Miami Florida, March 1-4, 2002.

Clow, L.A., P.S. Gross, D.A. Raftos & L.C. Smith.  Poster.  “Sea Urchin SpC3, a Homologue of the Complement Component C3, is Expressed in Two Subsets of Phagocytes and Functions as an Opsonin.”  International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, Eighth Congress, Cairns Australia, July 2-6, 2000.

Terwilliger, D.P., L.A. Clow, P.S. Gross, L.C. Smith.  Poster.  “Expression of SpBf, the Homologue of Complement Factor B, and Evidence for Alternative Splicing in the Purple Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.”  International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, Eighth Congress, Cairns Australia, July 2-6, 2000.

Gross, P.S., L.A. Clow, C.-S. Shih & L.C. Smith.  Poster.  “Complement protein C3 (SpC3) from the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, is expressed specifically in a subpopulation of the phagocytic coelomocytes.”  Experimental Biology ’99, Washington DC, June 19-24, 1999.

Gross, P.S., L.A. Clow & L.C. Smith.  Oral Presentation.  “SpC3, a homologue of the complement component, C3, from the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, is expressed specifically in a subpopulation of the phagocytic coelomocytes.”  Mid Atlantic Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, George Washington University, Washington DC, Aug 5-6, 1999,.

Clow, L.A., P.S. Gross, C.-S. Shih & L.C. Smith.  Poster.  “Lipopolysaccharide induces the complement homologue, SpC3, in the purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.”  Experimental Biology ’99, Washington DC, June 19-24, 1999.

Clow, L.A., P.S. Gross, C.-S. Shih & L.C. Smith.  Poster.  “Expression of SpC3, A complement homologue in the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.”  FASEB Summer Research Conference.  Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Vertebrate Immune System.  Copper Mountain, CO.  July 11-16, 1999.

Clow, L.A., P.S. Gross & L.C. Smith.  Oral Presentation.  “SpC3, A Complement Homologue in the Purple Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus: Expression and Opsonization.”  Mid Atlantic Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, George Washington University, Washington DC, Aug 5-6, 1999.

Terwilliger, D.P., L.A. Clow, P.S. Gross, L.C. Smith.  Poster.  “Gene Expression of a Homologue of Complement Factor B (SpBf) in Phagocytes from the Purple Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, in Response to Lipopolysaccharide and Injury.”  Mid Atlantic Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, George Washington University, Washington DC, Aug 5-6, 1999.

 

Conferences Organized

NSF Workshop “Evolutionary Immunobiology: New Approaches, New Paradigms”, Co-Organized with Drs. Greg Warr and Robert Chapman, Feb. 22-25, 2002, MUSC, Charleston SC

Mid Atlantic Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, Aug 6-7, 1999  George Washington University, Washington DC

 

Advisory Panels

National Science Foundation; Review Panel Member, Signal Transduction and Regulation,  Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Spring 2002

 

GW students and research associates who have received support or other benefits from current REF funding between 1999 to 2002

Post doctoral research fellow: Sham Nair, Ph.D.

Visiting research associates: Paul Gross, Ph.D., Eleanor Shepard, Ph.D., David Raftos, Ph.D., Peggy Stevens, Ph.D.

Graduate students: Lori Clow, Megha Shah, David Terwilliger, Keri Fisher, Heather Sinclair

Undergraduate students: Mary Ann McYat, Susan Pesci, Sabina Siddiqui

 

Funding

National Science Foundation (2000-2003),“The Ancient Innate Immune System in Sea Urchins”,$417,315 for three years. Supplement: Research Opportunity Award Dr. Margaret Stevens, Ripon College, Co-I (sabbatical leave),  2001-2002;“The Ancient Immune System in Sea Urchins” - investigations of A cell surface receptor and clotting factors, $14,999,  Supplement: (2002-2003);  Dr. J. Oriol Sunyer, Co-Investigator, Veteranary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania “Activation and regulation of the alternative pathway of complement in the sea urchin” ($30,000).

National Science Foundation MCB-9603086 (1997-2001),“The Complement System in Sea Urchins and the Evolution of the Vertebrate Complement Cascades,” 253,918 for three years with one year extension  NSF Supplement Awards REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates, one student supported) (1997-1998) $3,750; REU (one student supported)(1998-1999); $3,414; Supplement, Dr. Paul S. Gross, Co-PI (1998-1999);  “Expression of the sea urchin complement component, SpC3, during early development”  $21,957; REU (two students supported)(1999-2000) $6,700.