Biographic Sketch - Joe Staton

Joe Staton

Research Experience

October 1998 to present- Research Assistant Professor:
Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research, Laboratory of Bruce C. Coull in collaboration with G. Thomas Chandler and Joseph M. Quattro

Present research Project: Development of a Cross-Linked Copepod Life-Cycle and Molecular-Genetic Assay for Examining Exposure and Effects of Coastal Use Insecticides: A Case Study with the Persistent Organochlorine Fipronil
SC Sea Grant funded research (March 2002-February 2004)

Past research Project: DNA analysis of pesticide resistance in marine benthic nematodes.
SC Sea Grant funded research

1997-1998 - Mar-Craig Post-doctoral Research Fellow:

Harvard University, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Laboratory of Dr. Damhnait McHugh and in collaboration with Edward B. Cutler

Research Project: Systematics and Evolution in the Echiura:
Investigation of phylogenetic relationships at the intra- and inter-phylum levels and a morphologic re-evaluation of echiurans worldwide.

NASA Post-doctoral Research Fellow

U.C. - Los Angeles, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Dr. David K. Jacobs

Research Project: Developmental Genes and the Cambrian Radiation:
Investigation of engrailed gene sequence and expression in the Mollusca.

Previous Positions:

NSF Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Biology

University of Michigan, Laboratory of Wesley M. Brown

Research project: Molecular systematics of the Sipuncula.

Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow

Smithsonian Marine Station, Ft. Pierce, FL, Laboratory of Mary E. Rice

Research project: The use of allozymes for the genetic identification of marine species.

Academic Background:

Ph.D. Environmental and Evolutionary Biology (1992) - University of Louisiana, Lafayette.

Dissertation Title:
Patterns of differentiation among nearshore
decapod crustacean complexes of the western Atlantic.

Dissertation advisor Darryl L. Felder, PhD

M.S. Zoology (1986) - Horn Point Laboratories, University of Maryland, College Park.

Thesis Title:
Impact of starvation on early and late development in
larval marsh crabs, Sesarma spp. (Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae).

Thesis advisor

Stephen D. Sulkin, PhD

B.S. Zoology (1982) - North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Society Affiliations:

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Society of Systematic Biologists
The Crustacean Society

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