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Allen G. Collins
Zoologist, National Systematics Lab
of NMFS/NOAA Smithsonian Institution - MRC 163 |
Curriculum Vitae
(last
update: February, 2005)
CollinsA@SI.edu | http://PaleoBio.org/agc/ |
202-633-0645
EDUCATION
University of California Berkeley
Department
of Integrative Biology Major
Professor: James W. Valentine
Dissertation
Title: The Early History of Animals Degree
and Date: PhD, 1999
Marine
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Molecular
Evolution Workshop Summer
1995
Amherst College
Majors:
Mathematics and Economics Degree
and Date: BA, 1987
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Collins AG Bentlage B, Lindner A, Lindsay D, Haddock D, Jarms G, Norenburg JL, Jankowski T & P Cartwright (in press) Phylogenetics of Trachylina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) with new insights on the evolution of some problematical taxa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK.
Kilvington CC, Collins AG, Kowevich IA, Pyataeva SV & EA Robson (in press) Protohydra leuckarti near Plymouth. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK.
Dohrmann M, Janussen D, Reitner J, Collins AG & G Woerheide (in press) Phylogeny and evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). Systematic Biology.
Lewis C, Kubota S, Migotto AE & AG Collins (in press) Clarification of development, morphology, and sexual behaviour in Carybdea sivickisi (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) in Seto, Wakayama, Japan. Proceedings of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory
Tabachnick KR & AG Collins. 2008. Glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Marine Biology Research 4: 25-47.
Jankowski T, Collins AG & R Campbell. 2008. Global diversity of inland water cnidarians. Hydrobiologia 595: 35-40.
Cartwright P, Halgedahl SL, Hendricks JR, Jarrard RD, Marques AC, Collins AG & BS Lieberman. 2007. Exceptionally Preserved Jellyfishes from the Middle Cambrian. PLOS One 2: 1-7.
Daly M, Brugler MR, Cartwright P, Collins AG, Dawson MN, Fautin DG, France SC, McFadden CS, Opresko DM, Rodriguez E, Roman SL & JL Stake. 2007. The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Zootaxa 1668: 127-182.
Cartwright P & AG Collins. 2007. Fossils and phylogenies: Integrating multiple lines of evidence to investigate the origin of early major metazoan lineages. Integrative and Comparative Biology 47: 744-751.
Collins, AG & M Daly. 2005. A new deepwater
species of Stauromedusae, Lucernaria janetae (Cnidaria, Staurozoa,
Lucernariidae), and a preliminary investigation of stauromedusan phylogeny
based on nuclear and mitochondrial rDNA data. Biological Bulletin 208:
221-230
Voigt, O, Collins AG, Pearse VB, Pearse JS, Hadrys H & B Schierwater. 2004. Placozoa
– no longer a phylum of one. Current
Biology 14: R944-R945.
Collins AG, Winkelmann S, Hadrys H & B Schierwater. 2005. Phylogeny of Capitata
(Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) and Corynidae in light of mitochondrial 16S rDNA data. Zoologica Scripta 34:
91-99.
Silberman JD, Collins
AG, Gershwin L, Johnson PJ & AJ Roger. 2004. The ellobiopsid Thalasomyces is an alveolate. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 51:
246-252.
Marques AC & AG
Collins. 2004. Cladistic analysis of Medusozoa
and cnidarian evolution. Invertebrate
Biology. 123(1): 23-42.
Waggoner BM & AG
Collins. 2004. Reductio ad absurdum: Testing the evolutionary relationships of Ediacaran and Paleozoic problematic fossils using molecular
divergence dates. Journal of Paleontology
78: 51-61.
Medina M, Collins AG, Taylor J,
Valentine JW, Lipps JH, Amaral-Zettler L
& ML Sogin. 2003. Phylogeny of Opisthokonta and the evolution of multicellularity
and complexity in Fungi and Metazoa. International
Journal of Astrobiology 2: 203-211.
Winkel KD, Hawdon G, Fenner
P, Gershwin L, Collins AG & J Tibballs.
2003. Jellyfish antivenoms: past, present and future.
Journal of Toxicology–Toxin Reviews 22:
115-127.
Roy K, Collins AG,
Becker BJ &
Collins AG. 2002. Phylogeny of
Medusozoa and the evolution of cnidarian life cycles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15: 418-432.
Castilla
JC, Collins AG, Meyer C, Guiñez PR & DR Lindberg.
2002. Recent Introduction of the ecologically dominant tunicate Pyura praeputialis (Urochordata, Pyuridae) to
Gershwin L & AG
Collins. 2002. A preliminary phylogeny of Pelagiidae (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa), with new observations of Chrysaora colorata comb.
nov. Journal of Natural History 36: 127-148.
Collins AG & JW
Valentine. 2001. Defining phyla: evolutionary
pathways to metazoan body plans. Evolution
& Development 3(6): 432-442.
Medina M, Collins AG,
Silberman JD & ML Sogin.
2001. Evaluating hypotheses of basal animal phylogeny using complete sequences
of large and small subunit rRNA. Proceedings of the National
Hamilton H, Caballero
S, Collins AG & RL Brownell, Jr. 2001. Evolution of river dolphins. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 268: 549-556.
Collins AG. 2000. Towards
understanding the phylogenetic history of Hydrozoa: hypothesis testing with 18S
gene sequence data. Scientia Marina 64 (Sup. 1): 5-22.
Collins AG, Lipps JH & JW Valentine.
2000. Modern mucociliary gliding trails and the body
plans of Neoproterozoic trace-makers. Paleobiology 26: 47-55.
Valentine JW & AG
Collins. 2000. The significance of moulting in ecdysozoan evolution.
Evolution & Development 2(3):
152-156.
Collins AG. 1999. Molecules and
evolutionary history. In Springer D & J Scotchmoor
(eds.) Evolution: investigating the
evidence. Paleontological Society Papers, vol. 3.
Collins AG. 1998. Evaluating multiple
alternative hypotheses for the origin of Bilateria: An analysis of 18S rRNA molecular evidence. Proceedings of the National
Waggoner BM & AG
Collins. 1995. A new chondrophorine
(Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Cadiz Formation (Middle Cambrian) of
Valentine JW, Collins
AG & CP Meyer. 1994. Morphological complexity
increase in metazoans. Paleobiology 20: 131-142.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS (Invited,
Web Pages with Significant Content, etc.)
Collins, A. G. 2002. Review: Introduction to the Invertebrates by J.
Moore. EcoScience 9: 416-7.
Collins, A. G. and J. Johnson. 2000.
Phylogeny in a Nutshell. (http://paleobio.org/Ed/nutshell/nutshell.html)
Collins, A. G.
Sponges and sponge-like organisms. 1999. In R. Singer (ed.), Encyclopedia
of Paleontology. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers,
Collins, A. G. Evolutionary trends.
1999. In R. Singer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleontology. Fitzroy Dearborn
Publishers,
Lipps,
J. H., Collins. A. G. and M. A. Fedonkin. 1998.
Evolution of biological complexity: Evidence from geology, paleontology, and
molecular biology. In R. B. Hoover (ed.) Instruments,
Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 3441.
Collins, A. G. and K.
Roy. 2002. Conservation and Biodiversity of the Rocky Intertidal
of
Collins, A. G. and
Others. 1994-2000.
Metazoa (/phyla/phyla.html) (with
Waggoner BM & B Speer),
Porifera
(/porifera/porifera.html),
Ctenophora (/cnidaria/ctenophora.html)
(with Waggoner BM & L Gershwin),
Cnidaria (/cnidaria/cnidaria.html)
(with Waggoner BM),
Placozoa
(/phyla/placozoa/placozoa.html),
Brachiopoda
(/brachiopoda/brachiopoda.html),
Phoronida
(/brachiopoda/phoronida.html),
Vendian
animals (/vendian/critters.html) (with Waggoner BM & B Speer),
Phylogenetic Systematics
(/clad/clad4.html) (with Guralnick RP & B Speer),
the
Cambrian Period (/cambrian/camb.html) (with Waggoner BM),
the
Vendian Period (/vendian/vendian.html) (with Waggoner
BM).
POSITIONS HELD
Invertebrate
Zoologist (NOAA, National Marine Fisheries
Service)
National
Systematics Lab 2004
to present
Systematics of sponges and
cnidarians
Research
Scientist and Instructor (TiHo Hannover)
ITZ-Ecology
and Evolution 2002
to 2004
Phylogenetics,
Evolution of Development, and Genomics of Early Diverging Animal Groups
Post-doctoral
Researcher (
Section
of Ecology, Behavior & Evolution 2001
to 2002
Conservation
and Biodiversity of the Rocky Intertidal of
Post-doctoral
Researcher (UC Berkeley)
Department
of Integrative Biology 1999
to 2001
Applying
Knowledge of Extant Animals to Questions of Early Animal Evolution
Instructor
of K-12 Teacher Workshops (UC Berkeley)
"Explorations
Through Time -- On-Line Lessons" February 2002
"Using
Phylogenies to Test Biological Hypotheses" February 2002
"Phylogenies
and Hypotheses" March
2000
Instructor
for Graduate Seminar (Universidade
de
"Phylogenetic
Analysis with Molecular Data" August
2000
Systems
Administrator (UC Berkeley)
Maintenance
and Development of Sun Microsystems Servers
Graduate
Student Instructor (UC Berkeley)
Department
of Integrative Biology
Principles
of Biodiversity Fall
1997
Invertebrate
Zoology Spring
1995
Invertebrate
Paleontology Fall
1992, 1993
Curatorial
Assistant (UC Berkeley)
Organization
of Oversized Vertebrate Collections
Website
Creator (UC Berkeley)
Museum
of Paleontology January
1997
Interactive
Collections Availability List (ICAL)
Web
Page Designer (UC Berkeley)
Creation
of Educational Content
Visiting
Researcher (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods
Hole MA)
Molecular
Phylogenetics with Dr. Mitch Sogin 1995 - 1996
Database
Developer (UC Berkeley)
Survey
and Database
Research
Economist (National Economic Research Associates, Inc.)
Support
for Expert Witness Testimony
1987 – 1992
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES &
SOCIETIES
Editorial
Board Member of Systematic
Biology
Referee
for manuscripts submitted to Proceedings
of the
Member
of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, the Paleontological Society, the Society of Systematic Biologists, the Hydrozoan Society (www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/agc/HS/)
AWARDS
Fellowship for scientists
visiting the Bocas del Toro
Station, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute,
Fellowship for speaker invited to
participate in the symposium “Model Systems for the Basal Metazoa”, Annual
Meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology,
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(German Science Foundation) grant to support participation in the 7th International Conference on
Coelenterate Biology,
Fellowship for speaker invited to participate
in the symposium “Life, the Universe, and Everything”, 6th
International Congress of Evolutionary and Systematic Biology,
Fellowship for speaker invited to participate in the
symposium “The Cambrian explosion: Putting the pieces together
”, Annual Meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology,
NSF Grant EAR-9814845, co-authored with
JW Valentine and JH Lipps, 1999
Mary Otis Clark Award from the UC
Berkeley
Best Student Poster, Integrative
Biology and the Future Meeting at UCMP, 1998
Paleontological
Society Student Award, grant-in-aid of Paleontological
Research, 1998
Numerous small grants and awards to
support travel and research from the UC Berkeley Department of Integrative
Biology and the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology, 1992-1999