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The lab

Dannise and Nick going to the field, La Parguera, November 2006
Dannise and Nick

At Lee Stocking Island, September 2005
Nick Schizas (left) and Hernan Torres-Pratts (right)
Nick on the boat

Nikolaos V. Schizas
Department of Marine Sciences
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Isla Magueyes Laboratories
P.O. Box 908
Lajas, PR 00667

E-mail: n_schizas [at] cima.uprm.edu
Tel (Office): 1-787-899-2048 ext. 242
Tel (Lab) : 1-787-899-2048 ext 225
Fax: 1-787-899-5500
Skype Me: Call me!


C.V.

Curriculum Vitae


Lab People

Hernan Torres-Pratts, Ph.D. candidate (Molecular ecology of benthic invertebrates)
Dannise Ruiz, M.S. candidate (Molecular ecology of Millepora)
Carlos Prada, Research Associate (Patterns of genetic variation in the gorgonian Plexaura flexuosa)
Luis Rodriguez, undergraduate student, University of Puerto Rico, Ponce (Genetic variation in Caribbean Corallimorpharia)
Monica Rojas, M.S. candidate
Alexandre Jassoud, M.S. candidate

Alumni of the Lab

Joselyd Garcia, Awarded M.S. in Spring 2008 (Molecular ecology of Acropora)
Joselyd is the recipient of the 2008 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship (Knauss Alumni)

Tania Insua, visiting student, Universidad de Vigo, Spain (Genetic variation in Caribbean Corallimorpharia)
Currently at the Univ of Rhode Island pursuing a PhD in Marine Engineering

Field Activities

September 22-26, 2005, sampling trip at Lee Stocking Island, Exuma, Bahamas

May 2004 cruise with the R/V Chapman

Lab Instrumentation and Layout


Selected Publications


Papers In Review

Phylogenetic inferences of Tisbe Lilljeborg, 1853 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) with a new species of Tisbe thailandensis from Bangsaen Beach, Thailand. S Chullasorn, H-U Dahms, NV Schizas, P Kangtia

D Ruiz-Ramos, E Hernandez, NV Schizas. Population status of the long-spined urchin Diadema antillarum in Puerto Rico 20 years after a mass mortality event.

H. Torres-Pratts, M. T. Schärer and N. V. Schizas. Mitochondrial DNA from epibiont barnacles does not differentiate sex-specific migration patterns of hawksbill turtles in the Caribbean.

Hans-U. Dahms, NV Schizas, S Chullasorn, P Kangtia, W Anansatitporn, Wan-Xi Yang. Review of naupliar development among Tisbidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) with a phylogenetic analysis and naupliar description of Tisbe thailandensis from Thailand

Andrew L. Rhyne, Dong Zhang, J Lin, NV Schizas. Not any two will do: DNA divergence and interpopulation reproductive compatibility in a simultaneous hermaphroditic shrimp, Lysmata wurdemanni

Published Papers, (*) = Papers with students

V Pesic, T Chatterjee, NV Schizas (2008). Marine water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Pontarachnidae) from the Caribbean Sea, with description of one new species. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 49(3):000-000.

(*)C Prada, NV Schizas, PM Yoshioka (2008). Phenotypic plasticity or speciation? A case from a clonal marine organism. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:47 (Featured article in BMC Evolutionary Biology, February 29 2008) (pdf)

(*)H Torres-Pratts, NV Schizas (2007). Meiofaunal colonization of decaying leaves of the red mangrove Rhizophora mangle, in southwestern Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science, 43 (1): 127-137. (pdf). High resolution pictures of Figure 2 (here) and Figure 3 (here).

NV Schizas, TC Shirley (2006). Apolethon hippoperus (Copepoda, Harpacticoida)- a new species from southeastern Alaska. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 26 (3): 341-354. (pdf)

Hans-Uwe Dahms, NV Schizas, TC Shirley (2005). Naupliar evolutionary novelties of Stenhelia peniculata (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from Alaska affirming taxa belonging to different categorical rank. Invertebrate Zoology, 2(1): 1-14. (pdf)

Reprints of some older papers ... Click here


Teaching

Systematics of Marine Invertebrates (CMOB 8676)

Biological Oceanography (CIMA 6618)

Special Topics: DNA data analysis (CMOB 8998)

Current topics seminar (CMOB 8785)

Useful Links

Caribbean Coral Reef Institute

International Assoc of Meiobenthologists

Bruce Coull's Web site

Todd Oakley's Web site

Dick Hudson's Web site

Jeff Levinton's Marine Biology Web site

Molecular Population Genetics


Last updated: March 13, 2008
Contact Nick Schizas n_schizas [at] cima.uprm.edu