Introduction to the Editorial Board
The Editorial Board of Integrative and Comparative Biology plays an important role in the life of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology. This year has seen greater involvement of the board in policy decisions relating to the journal and in the review process than ever before. For that reason, it seems appropriate to introduce them to the readership, particularly in light of the expansion of the board by the addition of Associate Members (see Announcement of International Associates of the Editorial Board, this issue).Divisional Representatives
Charles Booth (DCPB)
Charles Booth is a Professor of Biology at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is a graduate of the College of Wooster (BA 1974), the College of William and Mary in Virginia (MA 1977) and the University of Calgary (PhD 1983). Following a postdoctoral research fellowship at McMaster University he joined the ECSU biology department in 1984. He has been a member of the American Society of Zoologists/SICB since 1975. His research examines the mechanisms of ion and acid–base regulation in crustaceans, and physiological adaptations to swimming in brachyuran crabs.
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David Borst (DCE)
David Borst, BA (Reed, 1969); MSc, PhD (UCLA, 1970 and 1973), is a post-doctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA (1973–76). Faculty positions: Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut (1976–85); Associate and Full Professor (Illinois State University, 1985–2005); Professor (University of Central Florida, 2005–present). Honors: Fogarty International Fellow (1997–98); Distinguished Professor (Illinois State University, 2003). Member SICB (1972–present); activities include: Chair, Division of Comparative Endocrinology (2004–06); Chair, Graduate Student Awards Committee (1996–2000); Chair, Graduate Student Postdoctoral Affairs Committee (1990-1994), Editorial Board, Integrative and Comparative Biology (1997–present).
I am interested in how arthropods (e.g., lobsters and grasshoppers) regulate their development, growth, and reproduction. My current research focuses on the role(s) of the juvenile hormone (JH) and methyl farnesoate (MF) in this process. In addition, I am investigating the role of neuropeptides in the control of JH and MF secretion.
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Paulyn Cartwright (DEDB)
Dr Paulyn Cartwright obtained her PhD in 1997 from Yale University, where she investigated the role of Hox genes in the development of colonial hydrozoans. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the University of Kansas. Dr Cartwright is involved with various projects surrounding the evolutionary patterns and developmental processes in cnidarians. She is a principal investigator for the Cnidarian Tree of LIfe project and is also involved in describing cnidarian Cambrian fossils, investigating the genetics of the sea anemone Nematostella, and studying the role of developmental gene expression in hydrozoan life cycle evolution. She has been an active member of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology since 1999.
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Robert Full (DCB)
Chancellor's and Goldman Professor of Integrative Biology and Director of the Poly-PEDAL Laboratory and the Center for Bio-inspiration in Education and Research, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Professor Full completed his undergraduate studies at SUNY Buffalo in 1979. He also did his graduate work at SUNY Buffalo, receiving a master's degree in 1982 and a doctoral degree in 1984. He held a research and teaching post-doctoral position at The University of Chicago from 1984 to 1986. In 1986, he joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley as an Assistant Professor of Zoology. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Integrative Biology in 1991, and to Full Professor of Integrative Biology in 1995, a position he holds today. In 1990, he received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigators Award. In 1996, Professor Full was given Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award. In 1997, Professor Full became a Chancellor's Professor at Berkeley, awarded for "distinguished achievement of the highest level in research, teaching and service". In 1998, Professor Full received a Goldman Professorship for innovative teaching. He has mentored over 100 undergraduate researchers who have received more than 50 awards/fellowships. For these efforts, he recently was named Mentor in the Life Sciences by the National Academy of Sciences.
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Professor Full directs the Poly-PEDAL Laboratory, which studies the Performance, Energetics and Dynamics of Animal Locomotion (PEDAL) in many-footed creatures (Poly). His research program in comparative physiology and biomechanics has shown how examining a diversity of animals can lead to the discovery of general principles of locomotion. His programmatic theme is Diversity Enables Discovery. Professor Full has led an effort to demonstrate the value of integrative biology and biological inspiration by the formation of 14 interdisciplinary collaborations and five new design teams composed of biologists, engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists from academia and industry. His fundamental discoveries in animal locomotion have inspired the design of novel neural control circuits, artificial muscles, eight autonomous legged robots, and the first self-cleaning dry adhesive. Professor Full has authored over 200 contributions and has delivered an equal number of national and international presentations. To further his efforts, Professor Full has just created a new center at Berkeley called CIBER, the Center for Interdisciplinary Bio-inspiration in Education and Research focused on training the next generation of scientists and engineers to collaborate in mutually beneficial relationships.
Brent Graves (DAB)
Brent Graves is the editorial board member representing the Division of Animal Behavior. He is professor of Biology at Northern Michigan University. Over the years, he has studied rattlesnakes in Wyoming, toads in South Dakota, salamanders and garter snakes in northern Michigan, and poison dart frogs in Costa Rica. Recent work has focused on effects of sexual selection on evolution of senescence.
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Melina Hale (DVM)
Melina Hale, BS 1992, Duke University; PhD 1998, University of Chicago; obtained postdoctoral fellowship at SUNY Stony Brook 1998–2001; Grass Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, 2000. Faculty Positions: Assistant Professor, 2002–present, University of Chicago in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and the Committees on Neuroscience and Computational Neuroscience. Associate Position: Research Associate, Field Museum of Natural History 2003–present. With the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, I have served one term on the Division of Vertebrate Morphology Nominating Committee and Davis Prize Award Committee as well as a member of the Editorial Board from 2003–present.
I am interested in how the central nervous system controls and coordinates movement and how motor systems evolve and develop. I address these topics by studying locomotion in fishes. My laboratory uses the startle behavior as a simple model in motor control. We examine evolution of the startle neural circuit comparatively across actinopterygian fishes and use the zebrafish, an important genetic and developmental model species, to manipulate the startle circuit and examine function. We also study rhythmic locomotion and its neural basis in research on axial and pectoral fin swimming. Our work on rhythmic swimming focuses on understanding organization and function of spinal interneurons. In the pectoral fins, we are particularly interested in changes in morphology, neural control and function through development.
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Thomas Scott Klinger (DIZ)
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Eduardo Rosa-Molinar (DDCB)
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Richard Mooi (DSEB)
Richard Mooi, born 1958; MSc 1983; PhD 1987; Postdoctoral appointment Smithsonian Institution, 1987–1990; is a Curator, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, California Academy of Sciences, 1990–present; Research Professor, San Francisco State University, 1997–present; Curriculum Coordinator, Summer Systematics Institute, 1995–present; NSF REU Site Director, 2004–present; Scientific Coordinator, SFBay:2K benthic survey, 2000–present; was elected Chair, Division of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2003; Editorial Board, Integrative and Comparative Biology; Chair, Curators Forum, CAS, 2003–present.
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My major research interest is the origin of evolutionary novelty, which I analyze in the context of phylogenetic systematics and evolutionary biology of echinoderms (sea lilies, seastars, brittlestars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins). My first scientific love is, and always will be the sand dollars. I often employ morphometric and comparative techniques, in order to explore alterations in shape and size of a wide variety of sea urchins. Because these animals fossilize well, I have become increasingly involved in paleontological projects that add measures of real time to the study of evolutionary relationships and change. Lately, my work has broadened to other echinoderm groups besides the urchins, and incorporated elements of the relatively new but growing field of "evo-devo," the integration of phylogenetics with developmental studies. This has permitted important advances in our understanding of the relationships among the major extant groups of echinoderms as well as important reinterpretations of the most enigmatic and bizarre of the fossil forms. My field work has taken me to the Antarctic, Alaska, the Caribbean, and into submersibles off the Bahamas.
Richard Satterlie (DNB)
Richard Satterlie is Frank Hawkins Kenan Professor of Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He earned a BS degree from Sonoma State University (California,1973), a PhD degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1978), and completed 2 years of postdoctoral training at the University of Alberta, Canada. He was Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor at Arizona State University from 1980to 2004, where he was awarded five teaching awards, including the Parents Association Professorship (1994–96), the Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award, and selection to the Teaching Academy of ASU. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland in 1994, and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2002–03. His research area is Neurobiology, with a specialization in Neural Control of Locomotion, and he has published over 60 articles in scientific journals and edited books.
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Robert Thacker (DEE)
Dr Robert W. Thacker received his doctorate from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1995. Bob conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Guam and the University of Hawaii before joining the Department of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor, teaching courses in Ecology, Limnology, and Molecular Ecology. Bob's research focuses on the ecology and evolution of sponges and their symbiotic microbial communities. His projects integrate molecular phylogenetics with field-based ecological experiments; recent field locations include Guam, Palau, and Panama. Bob also teaches a field course on the Taxonomy and Ecology of Caribbean Sponges at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Bocas Research Station in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Bob has previously served as Secretary of SICB's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.
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