The Echinoderm Newsletter - Current Research Interests of Echinoderm Scientists

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Al-Rashdi, Khalfan M.  - Holothuroids: Fisheries, Ecology, Aquaculture.

Alvarado, Juan José – Costa Rican Echinoderms diversity and ecology.

Ameziane, Nadia - systematics of crinoids.

Anderson, Owen - Echinoidea: taxonomy, biology, fisheries.

Arumugam, Preyan – Holothuroidea: taxonomy, Dendrochirotida.Master’s dissertation: “Critical analysis of the subfamilies Sclerodactylinae and Thyoninae, with notes on the taxonomic management of the “super genus” Thyone”

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Baumiller, Thomasz - crinoids: paleobiology, functional morphology, biotic interactions, taphonomy.

Becker Pierre - Bacterial diseases in reared echinoderms: characterization and etiology of "skin" lesions.

Benavides-Serrato, Milena – Colombian Echinoderms: taxonomy, systematics, ecology
and zoogeography. Echinoderms Curator.

Berents, Penelope - Collection Manager, Marine Invertebrates.

Bigatti, Gregorio - reproductive biology and ecology of sea urchins

Billett, David - Deep-sea biology and ecology. Long-term change. Seasonality. Holothurian taxonomy.

Bonnet, Stéphanie - Echinoderms ecology, biomechanics and climate change effects.

Brogger, Martín - Ophiuroidea: reproduction, growth, regeneration, taxonomy. Echinoderms biodiversity from Patagonia and Buenos Aires coasts.

BUNDRICK BENEJAM, CARLA - Defining range of amphiurid brooding brittlestar from Monterey Bay and studying its development. Factors of life history and embryology in sympatric species evolution in ophiuroids and echinoids. Role of development in speciation.

Byrne, Maria - Development, Reproduction, Evolution, Larvae, Fisheries

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Cameron, R. Andrew - Developmental Biology and Reproductive Biology of Marine Invertebrates.  Larval Ecology and Settlement.  Biological Imaging.  Population genetics of indirect developing marine invertebrates

Catarino, Ana Isabel - Echinoderms ecology, biomineralization and climate change effects

Chenuil, Anne – Phylogeography, Comparative phylogeography, Population genetics, Molecular evolution, Cryptic species, Bindin, Mode of reproduction, Molecular genetic markers, Paracentrotus, Echinocardium, Abatus, Schizasteridae, Lovenidae, Spatangoida, Amphipholis, Ophioderma, Ophiuroidea

Christensen, Ana - echinoderm hemoglobins and ophiuroid physiology

Cisternas. Paula - larval development and life history evolution in ophiuroids.

Clements, Lee Ann - Ophiuroidea: regeneration, habitat selection of amphiurids, heavy metals toxicology

Conand, Chantal - sea cucumber taxonomy, biology, fisheries, management; indo-Pacific sea urchins; sea stars: Acanthaster and Asterina

Coppard, Simon - Echinoidea: cryptic speciation, systematics, morphology and ecology of diadematid echinoids

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Dahlberg, Carl - I am working with regeneration trying to characterise it genetically and cellularly.One of my model systems is the brittle star Amphiura filiformis which regenerates its arm after amputation.

Davey, Niki - Holothuroidea: taxonomy, systematics, aquaculture, ecology

David, Bruno - Echinoidea: evolution, biodiversity, morphometry, systematics.

Dilman, Anna - Asteroid fauna of the North Atlantic and Norwegian Sea: systematics and biogeography.

Dornbos, Stephen Q. - Evolutionary paleoecology of early echinoderms.

Drumm, Darrin - holothurian reproduction & fisheries. Interested in branching into aquaculture

Dupont, Sam - I am currently working on genes and proteins expression during arm regeneration in the brittle star Amphiura filiformis and consequences on individual fitness and populations.

Dynowski, Janina - Crinoidea: palaeobiology, ecophenotypes, functional morphology, encrinites.

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Eléaume, Marc - Systematics, biogeography, evolution and ecology of extant crinoids (feather-stars)

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Fell, Julian - Echinoid morphology, systematics

Flammang, Patrick - Adhesion and adhesive substances in echinoderms. Biomechanical, morphological and biochemical studies on the adhesion of tube feet, larvae and Cuvierian tubules. Material properties of the tube foot stem, including mutable collagenous tissue. Structure, body distribution and biological functions of saponins.

Franco, Catarina - Asteroidea: Proteomics based approach to understand tissue regeneration – sea star as a model organism.

Fujita, Toshihiko - Ecology of Recent and fossil Ophiura sarsii; Ophiuroid's ossicle morphology; Taxonomy of ophiuroids and asteroids in Japanese and Southeast Asian waters; Biology of animals associated with echinoderms; Food web analysis of coral reef communities; Investigation and reexamination of Ludwig Doderlein's and Franz Doflein's collections from Japan.

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Gaymer, Carlos - Community ecology, seastar behavioral ecology, sublethal predation, predator-prey interactions. I am studying temperate subtidal communities from northern Chile.

Gil, Damian G. - Ecology and biology of starfishes and sea urchins from Patagonia.

Glass, Alexander - Phylogeny, systematics, and functional morphology of Paleozoic ophiuroids; deposits of exceptional preservation; pyritization; non-mineralized tissue preservation; Cyclocystoidea; crinoid functional morphology

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Hadel, Valéria Flora - Ecological aspects and behaviour of echinoderms.

Hamel, Jean-François - Gametogenesis, spawning and settlement cues, larval development, symbioses and aquaculture (mainly holothurians).

Harper, Fiona – Asteroid phylogenetics, phylogeography, larval biology, hybridization

HIRATSUKA, Yuji - Echinoidea: Comparative studies on feeding habits of regular sea urchins in Okinawa.

Huggett, Megan - Invertebrate larval settlement and recruitment in response to bacterial biofilms; biofouling; larval development

Hughes, Adam - Trophic ecology of sea urchin

Hunter, Rebecca - Phylogeography and population genetic structure of marine invertebrates; evolutionary history of Antarctic benthic marine invertebrates; systematics of the Ophiuroidea

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Ishida, Yoshiaki – fossil Ophiuroidea: taxonomy, palaeoecology, Taphonomy

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Jaeckle, Will - larval development, asexual reproduction of asteroid larvae, nutrient distribution in larvae, maternal investment in eggs.

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Knott, K. Emily - Asteroidea, systematics & taxonomy, larval cloning, population genetics

KOHTSUKA, Hisanori - Crinoidea: embryological. postlarva development. taxonomy, biological geography, ecology,

Kroh, Andreas - Neogene Echinoids of the Central Paratethys and the Mediterranean, Systematics, Taxonomy, Palaeoecology; occasionally older Echinoid faunas (Palaeogene and Cretaceous) of Austria and neighbor countries; occasionally other Neogene Echinoderms (Gorgonocephalids, Comatulids,…)

Kyte, Michael - Ophiacanthidae taxonomy, ecology, Ophiuroidea ecology, Brooding in ophiuroids