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BIOLOGY

  • Gaytha Langlois (E) -- Professor of Ecology, Bryant College, Smithfield, RI. Ph.D., Biological Sciences, 1971, University of Rhode Island. Outside Investigator, Marine Ecosystems Lab (MERL), University of RI; Member of Society of Protozoologists; Chair, RI Aqua Fund Advisory Commission; Board of Directors, Audubon Society of Rhode Island. Author of peer-reviewed papers in microbial ecology, hazardous waste management, and distance learning. Current research focuses on oil pollution in estuarine microbial communities.
    Please address editorial questions about the Biology category to langlois@bryant.edu.
  • Andre Barreto (PR) -- He teaches Nectology and Scientific Methodology at UNIVALI , Itajai, Brazil. He graduated in Marine Biology, and obtained both his PhD. and MSc. in Biological Oceanography (2000 and 1995) at FURG, Rio Grande. He is the author of peer-reviewed papers dealing mostly with dolphins. Homepage: http://www.cttmar.univali.br/~abarreto/
    E-mail: abarreto@nupedia.com
  • Connie Chow (PR) -- This member has not yet filled out a publicly-viewable bio.  If you are this member, then please, soon, do fill out your name and bio (scroll down to "YOUR BIO").  When you have saved the information, it will be instantly displayed in place of the text you're now reading.
  • Ronaldo Fernandes (PR) -- Adjunct Professor and Curator of Reptiles, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Brazil. Ph.D. Quantitative Biology, 1995, The University of Texas at Arlington. Author of several papers in reptile systematics.
    E-mail: ronnie@acd.ufrj.br
  • Flavia Guzzo (PR) -- Researcher of Plant Biology at Verona University (Italy;)Professor of Plant Development at Verona University; PhD. Plant Biology, 1994, Padua University (Italy); author of 12 papers in International peer reviewed scientific journals, on plant cytology and development, plant tissue culture. Love plants, also as hobbist. Home page in Italian only, sorry.... Homepage: http://profs.sci.univr.it/~guzzo/
    E-mail: guzzo@sci.univr.it
  • Jan T. Kim (PR) -- Postdoc at the Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, University of Lübeck, author of computer models LindEvol (evolution of developmental programs) and transsys (control of plant morphogenesis by regulatory networks). Active in fields of Artificial Life, Bioinformatics and Biosemiotics. Homepage: http://www.inb.mu-luebeck.de/staff/kim.html
  • Dan Leggate (PR) -- Scientist working at BioFocus Discovery Ltd., a drug discovery company in Cambridge, UK. Previously involved in developing a production method for a biological intended for human clinical trials as a Post-Doc scientist at the University of London School of Pharmacy, London, UK and Bowman Research, UK. PhD in Clinical Biochemistry, 2000, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
    E-mail: d.leggate@biofocus.com
  • Phillip Lord (PR) -- Post-doctoral Research Associate. Uni. of Manchester. Now working in bioinformatics.
    E-mail: p.lord@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
  • John M. Lynch (PR) -- Affiliate Professor (Institute of Human Origins) & Lecturer (Barrett Honors College), Arizona State University. Ph.D. Zoology, 1993, National University of Ireland (University College Dublin). Editor of Vestiges and the Debates before Darwin (2000), British Responses to Natural Selection, 1859-1871 (2001) and Creationism and Scriptural Geology (pending). Contributor to The Readers Guide to British History and The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Philosophers. Author of over 20 scientific papers in the field of the evolution of cranial shape in vertebrates. Homepage: http://www.public.asu.edu/~jmlynch
    E-mail: jmlynch@nupedia.com
  • Andrea Maria Marconi (PR) -- Working as scientific consultant at the "Laboratori Agroalimentari - Consorzio ZAI" since June 2000.
    Degree in Chemistry (1991) and a PhD in Medicine (1996). Co-author of 9 publication (international, peer-reviewed scientific journals) and around 20 international congress communication.
    Has collaborated with The University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database .
    Main scientific interests are in microbiology, microbial biotechnology, general biochemistry, and, more recently, plant secondary metabolism.
    Member of the editorial board of Latoserver.it a portal site on server-side programming, and the coordinator of KBasic Documentation Project.
    Hobbies are computer programming, and motorcycling.
    E-mail: andrea@latoserver.it
  • Nagina Parmar (PR) -- Research Associate. Department of Hemataology/Oncology, Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, Ontario. Microbiology, 1995, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India. Author of 12 published papers in different journals. Member of Geological Society of Canada, Member of International Society of Environmental Biogeochemistry, Member of Canadian Society of Microbiology. Mother of four year old. E-mail: nagina.par mar@sickkids.ca
    E-mail:
    nagina.parmar@sickkids.ca
  • Karl J. Roberts (PR) -- Associate Professor of Biology, Prince George's Community College. Ph.D. Biology, 1997, Illinois State University. Coordinator, Life Science Institute, Prince George's Community College. Teacher of secondary courses for six years and twelve years of undergraduate level courses at four institutions of higher learning; Texas Southmost College, The University of Texas at Brownsville, both in Brownsville, Texas, Lincoln College, Normal, Illinois, and Prince George's Community College, Largo, Maryland. Served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. Grand Awards Judge, International Science and Engineering Fair, Fort Worth, TX, Philadelphia, PA, Detroit, MI in the areas of botany and environmental sciences.
    E-mail: robertkj@mail.pg.cc.md.us
  • Claus O. Wilke (PR) -- Claus O. Wilke. Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology. Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Bochum, Germany, in 1999. Works currently on the theory of evolutionary processes, mainly in asexual populations. Homepage: dllab.caltech.edu/~wilke
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