The Echinoderm Newsletter - Current Research Interests of Echinoderm Scientists

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Lambert, Philip – Documenting deep-sea echinoderms off British Columbia, Canada. Systematics of west coast North American holothuroids.

Lefebvre, Bertrand - Stylophora: phylogeny, palaeoecology, palaeogeography, disparity, functional morphology.

Lyskin, Sergey - multispecies associations (crinoids, holothurians and their symbionts): 1) ecology of hosts and symbionts, their intra- and interspecific interactions; 2) cryptic coloration of symbionts

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Maheshkumar, K. - Echinoidea : Stomopneustus variolaris - Culture, Biochemistry and larval development.

Manni, Riccardo - Crinoidea: mesozoic crinoids, taxonomy, systematics, functional morphology

Manso, Cynthia L.C. - Ophiuroidea, taxonomy; systematics. Fossil Echinoderm, sistematic paleontology, paleoecology, paleogeography.

Martinez, Mariano Ignacio - Psolus patagonicus: taxonomy, systematics, reproduction.

Martinez, Sergio - South American fossil echinoids

Marzinelli, Ezequiel M. - I am working with Lic. Gregorio Bigatti, under the direction of Dr. Pablo E. Penchaszadeh. We are very interested in reproductive biology and ecology of sea urchins. We  are working with Pseudechinus magellanicus, one of the most abundant species from the Argentinean Sea, describing the reproductive cycle and studying larval development.

Mercier, Annie - Holothuroids and asteroids: gametogenesis, spawning, chemical ecology, larval development, feeding, symbioses.

Messing, Charles - systematics, biogeography & ecology of extant crinoids; ecology of deep-water hard substrates.

Minsuk, Sharon B. - Evolution of development, of body plans, & of novelty (currently using computer simulations of simple multicellular organisms, rather than echinoderms)

Moore, Abigail - Currently working on a project which involves some work relating to fish-sea urchin interations.

Muthiga, Nyawira - Echinoidea and Holothuroidae: reproduction, ecology, fisheries

MUTHS, Delphine – population genetics

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Nair, J. Rekha – echinoderm –preliminary work.

Nardin, Elise - Blastozoa: biodiversity, systematics, phylogeny, morphometry, paleoecology & paleogeography.

Nebelsick, James - echinoids, palaeontology, ecology, taphonomy, biogeography

Neill, Kate - Asteroidea: New Zealand and Antarctic taxonomy and identifications.

Netto, Luiz Fernando -  Echinodermata: threatened species list for environmental protection; taxonomy; systematics.

Neumann, Christian – Echinoidea, Crinoidea, Asteroidea: taxonomy, systematics, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Palaeoecology

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Oji, Tatsuo - Crinoidea: systematics, ecology, paleontology, biogeography.

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Paulay, Gustav - pursuing large-scale, collaborative student training, revisions, phylogenetics, and nomenclator for the Holothuroidea, funded by the NSF-PEET program (see: http://www.guammarinelab.com/peetcukes/index.html).  Focus is on tropical, shallow-water Aspidochirotida.

Pearse, John - I continue to have interests in reproduction of Antarctic echinoderms and hybridization in species of Echinometra, as well as the biology of the rocky intertidal.

Pérez-Ruzafa, Angel - Holothuroidea: taxonomy, systematics, ecology, biogeography, population genetics.

Piepenburg, Dieter - Ophiuroidea: ecology, distribution, ecophysiology.

Pomory, Christopher – Ophiuroidea, taxonomy, regeneration, invertebrate ecophysiology.

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Rahman, Imran – ‘Carpoids’: taxonomy, palaeobiology, phylogeny.

Reich, Mike - Phylogeny, evolution, taxonomy and systematics of fossil and modern holothurians; Palaeozoic echinoids; fossil Palaeozoic Ophiocistioidea and Cyclocystoidea; History of “echinodermology” and “echinodermologists”

Rogacheva, Antonina - Holothuroidea taxonomy, biogeography, phylogeny.

Roux, Michel - Modern stalked Crinoidea: taxonomy, ontogeny, functional morphology.

Rubilar, Tamara - asteroids: reproduction, fission, regeneration.

Russell, Michael P. – Echinoidea, Asteroidea, larval ecology, population biologyt.

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Santos, Romana - Biomechanical and morphological study of adhesion in sea urchins and its relationship with species distribution in the wave-swept environment.

Sewell, Mary A. - Reproduction and larval development, maternal investment in echinoderms, lipid, protein

Sevastopulo, George D. – Fossil crinoids, ontogeny of Pelmatozoans, Palaeozoic echinoids, isotopic composition of crinoid skeletons

Spain, Diara D. - functional morphology and locomotion of sea cucumbers

Starmer, John - Holothuroidea: taxonomy, systematics. Tropical echinoderm ecology.

Stöhr, Sabine - Ophiuroidea: taxonomy, systematics, postlarval development.

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TADDEI, DOROTHEE - Ecology and feeding of Holothuria on coral reef.

Thandar, Ahmed - Taxonomy, biodiversity and biogeography of the West Indian Ocean and southern African holothuroid echinoderms

Thorndyke, Mike - Development and regeneration in echinoderms especially its cellular,molecular and genetic regulation. Evolution. Nervous system structureand function.

Thuy, Ben - Ophiuroidea: palaeobiology, taxonomy, systematics, evolution, fossil deep-sea ophiuroids.

Tolosano, Javier Alejandro - biology and ecology of the sea urchin Abatus cavernosus.

Turner, Richard L. - Echinoderm zoogeography, systematics, morphology, physiological ecology, reproduction.

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Verling, Emma - Invasive species biology, echinoid behavioural ecology.

Villier, Loïc - Post-Paleozoic Asteroidea and Echinoidea, systematics, evolution, taphonomy.

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Webster, Gary D. - Paleozoic crinoids: taxonomy, systematics, paleogeography, bibliography, index

Williamson, Jane - Echinoidea: chemical ecology, larval biology, herbivory, life history, aquaculture

Wirtz, Peter - Zoogeography of the area Azores to Gulf of Guinea.

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Zachos, Louis G. - Echinoidea: paleontology, taxonomy, theoretical morphology.

Zulliger, Deborah - Asteroidea, Phylogeny of sea stars of the genus Astropecten, molecular genetics