Announcement of Honorary International Associates of the Editorial Board
At the board meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology in January 2006, it was decided to expand the editorial board to include associates to the Editorial Board in addition to the representative nominated by each of the SICB divisions. Such appointment is made in recognition of sustained meritorious achievement by eminent persons in the field of integrative and comparative biology and although it is an honorific, it is presumed that the associates will lend their expertise to the board and to the Executive of the Society as requested. The intent is to have no more than one Associate from any one country and to have a wide geographical spread among the appointees. Appointment is made for 1, 2, 3, or 4 years at the discretion of the Editorial Board and SICB Executive, and with the agreement of the honoree. All appointments arise from nominations from the Editorial Board and/or Executive of SICB and are approved by vote of the membership of those two bodies. Associates receive an honorary membership in SICB for the duration of their appointments. I take great pleasure in announcing the Associates for the period 2007–2010.
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Guy Charmantier: Professor of Animal Ecophysiology, Université Montpellier, France. Professor Charmantier obtained both his masters degree and doctorate from the Université Montpellier. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the University of Liege, Belgium, the Biological Station at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, the Centre Océanologique du Pacifique, Tahiti, the Marine Biological Laboratories at Woods Hole and the University of Connecticut, USA and the Meeresstation at Helgoland, Germany. He is Erasmus Lecturer in Animal Ecophysiology at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has served with NATO and the French Foreign Office.
His teaching is at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and involves courses in cell biology, developmental biology, animal ecophysiology, and adaptations of crustaceans to salinity.
Professor Charmantier's research is in the area of ecophysiology of crustaceans and fish and treats such topics as hydromineral metabolism, osmotic and ionic regulations, endocrinal and neuroendocrinal control of water and ion balance, the ontogeny of euryhalinity and osmoregulation, expression of transporters, the ontogeny of neuroendocrinal centers, and the control of metamorphosis. He has applied his research to aquaculture and ecotoxicology. His bibliography consists of over 160 scientific articles and book chapters.
He is active in a number professional societies and served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Crustacean Biology. He organized a symposium in 2001 for SICB, entitled "Ontogenetic Strategies of Invertebrates in Aquatic Environments."
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Yoshitaka Nagahama: Professor, Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan. Professor Nagahama obtained his bachelors and masters degrees and his doctorate from the Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Japan, and then was a Postdoctoral Fellow successively at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has also been a Research Associate at those two institutions. He served successively as Chairman and Vice Director of the National Institute for Basic Biology at the National Institute of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan. He has had wide editorial experience, having served on the editorial boards of 14 scientific journals, and was Editor in Chief of Zoological Science. He was recipient of the Japan Society of Fisheries Prize (1987), The Grace Pickford Medal of the International Federation of Comparative Endocrinological Studies (1988), the Inoue Science Foundation Award (1989), the Prize of the Zoological Society of Japan (1980) and the Howard A. Bern Lecture Award of SICB (2004).
Dr Yoshitaka Nagahama's main interest centers around the understanding of various molecular events related to sex determination/differentiation and gametogenesis. His major contributions include the first identification of spermatogenesis-inducing hormone and oocyte/sperm maturation-inducing hormones in fish. The achievement of complete spermatogenesis from spermatogonia to mature sperm under in vitro organ culture provided extensive insights into entire events of spermatogenesis for the first time. The most important contribution of Dr Nagahama in the field of sex determination was the identification of sex-determining genes in medaka, the second gene of its kind in any vertebrate.
Dr. Nagahama has published more than 340 scientific papers, mostly in the fields of reproductive physiology and endocrinology of marine fish.
Claus Nielsen: Professor of Evolutionary Invertebrate Embryology, Zoological Museum, Copenhagen. Denmark. Prof. Nielsen received both Mag.scient and Dr phil degrees from the University of Copenhagen, has been a Fellow of the Biologisk Stasjon, Bergen, and of the Institute of Marine Science, University of Miami, Florida, as well as Lecturer at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Copenhagen, and a consultant for the Danish Foreign Ministry at Phuket Marine Biological Center, Thailand. He has been Leader of the Zoomorphology Group supported by the Danish Natural Science Research Council. He was Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Dean, Senator and later Director of the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen. He has served in a variety of editorial capacities for Ophelia, Sarsia, Acta Zoologica, Research Bulletin of the Phuket Marine Biological Center, Bulletin de la Société France, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Invertebrate Biology, Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum zu Berlin, Zoologische Reihe, Evolution and Development, Zoomorphology, Evolutionary Biology, BMC Biology, and Frontiers in Zoology and is an author on 90 scientific papers and three books, one of which (Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla; Oxford University Press) was selected for the list of outstanding academic books of 1996 by the journal Choice. He has been a member of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.
His research has dealt with the phylogeny of invertebrates, the larval development of sponges, molluscs, annelids, entoprocts, ectoprocts, turbellarians, nemertines, brachiopods, and echinoderms, the structure and function of ciliary bands used in feeding and locomotion, and the systematics of entoprocts and of coral-boring bivalves. His teaching has included courses in marine zoology, marine biology, zoomorphology, invertebrate embryology, evolutionary development, and molecular approaches to evolution and development at the University of Copenhagen, Duke University Marine Laboratory (USA), Roscoff (France), and Naples (Italy). He has been active in various professional societies and has been President of the Danish Natural History Society and of the International Bryozoology Association.
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Prof. Nielsen's previous awards include the Gold Medal of the University of Copenhagen, President d’Honneur of the Société Zoologique de France, and the Alexander Kowalevsky Medal.
Hans O. Pörtner: Professor and Head, Division of Marine Animal Physiology, Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany. Professor Pörtner earned his diploma, doctorate and habilitation in Animal Physiology from Münster and Düsseldorf universities. He has been a Guest Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Las Cruces, Chile, the Department of Physiology of the Dental School, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, the Lovelace Medical Foundation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Rothera Station of the British Antarctic Survey, Dalhousie and Acadia universities, Nova Scotia, and the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttigen, Germany. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Comparative Physiology, Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, and Polar Biology, has been Guest Editor of Marine Behaviour and Physiology and has edited three books. He is Convenor of the Thermal Biology Group for the Society of Experimental Biology. He is active in a number of professional societies and has organized various symposia and presented several keynote addresses.
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His research interests are the physiological bases of ecological processes and ecosystem functioning, the role of climatic factors in animal evolutionary history, the physiological and biochemical mechanisms setting thermal tolerance as well as temperature-dependent biogeography and evolution in vertebrates and fish, the mechanisms shaping cellular and whole-animal energy budgets under various thermal and carbon-dioxide regimes, and the molecular mechanisms of environmental adaptation and limitation. He has supervised 21 PhD dissertations and one habilitation in these areas, and is author on 175 scientific articles.
Professor Pörtner was coordinator for the project "Effect of Climate Induced Temperature Change on Marine Coastal Fishes" of the EU-Climate and Environment program. He contributed to the IPCC special report "Carbon Capture and Storage" and provided expertise for the report of the German Advisory Board on Global Change (WBGU) on "The Future Oceans-Warming Up, Rising High, Turning Sour." Previous honors include a German Research Council (DFG) Heisenberg Fellowship, a DFG Research Fellowship, Max Planck Scholarship and a Kurt Hansen Fellowship.
Pat Willmer: Professor of Biology, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Professor Willmer holds the degrees of BA (Hons), MA, and PhD from Cambridge University. In addition to her current post, she has been a Research Fellow at Cambridge University, a Lecturer in Invertebrate Zoology at Oxford University, and successively Lecturer, Reader and Professor in Biological Sciences, and Dean of Science at the University of St. Andrews. She was Series Editor for "Oxford Readers in Animal Biology" (OUP) and served on the editorial board of "The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences" (Macmillan).
Professor Willmer has broad research interests encompassing such varied fields as ecology and behavior of insects, insect–plant interactions (especially pollination), invertebrate evolution, and comparative and environmental physiology. In these fields, she has published 72 scientific articles and four books.
Harold Heatwole, Editor in Chief
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