Grant Personnel

Dr. Jacqueline F. Webb, Associate Professor of Biology, Villanova University

Dr. Timothy Tricas, Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Hawaii

Collaborators:

Dr. Darlene Ketten, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Director, WHOI

                    CT Imaging Facility.

Dr. Mardi Hastings, Program Officer, ONR and University of Maryland.

Graduate Students (M.S.)

Christopher Woods (B.Sc., Portsmouth University, UK)  MS May 2006 

                     “Swim bladder morphology in chaetodontid butterflyfishes with a discussion of its bioacoustic significance”

J. Lucas Herman (B.A., Franklin and Marshall College), MS Jan. 2005.

                    “Ear morphology associated with the laterophysic connection in butterflyfishes”

                     Worked with Tim Tricas in Hawaii in June 2003.  

Wm. Leo Smith (B.S., University of California, San Diego), MS 2001.

         “Comparative morphology and evolution of the laterophysic connection in butterflyfishes" [now  a Ph.D.student at Columbia Univ. and American Museum of Natural History in Systematic Ichthyology; recipient of the American Museum Fellowship; Ph.D. Dissertation Title:  Systematics of Scorpaeniform Fishes".         

Undergraduate Thesis Students

Ryan M. Walsh (2001-2005; Class of 2005) – “Development of the ear in the butterflyfish, Chaetodon ocellatus, and its relationship to the ontogeny of the laterophysic connection”.  Ryan also complete the Woods Hole SEA Semester in fall 2003 and while aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer,  carried out a research project on the role of myctophid fishes in midwater food webs. 

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Melissa Hardy (2004-2006, Class of 2006) Histological analysis of chaetodontid ear development. Working as a lab technician at U. Penn Medical School

Sandra Castelli (2002-2003) Histological analysis – Working as a lab tech at Sloan Kettering in NY. Hheaded for Medical School.  Sandra has completed two summer REU programs, including one at the American Museum of Natural History (NY) where she did a phylogenetic analysis of leiognathid fishes (bioluminescent ponyfishes) using light organ characters.

Erin Shearman (2002-2004) CT and histological analysis of butterflyfish swimbladders – working in industry.  Erin has also completed the Villanova Summer Business Institute, earning a minor in Business. Working in a biology research laboratory.

Mary Turnipseed (summer 1998, visiting student from Haverford College) Histological analysis of LC – Now a Ph.D. student at College of William and Mary (Marine biology)

Nicole Cicchino (1998-2000) Histological analysis of LC, ontogeny of the LC – Now attending NY College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Natasha Kelly (1998-2000).  Histological analysis of LC, ontogeny of the LC – Now working in pharmaceutical industry

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