Research Technician (1996-2003, 2006-)

I think of myself as the lab "Jane-of-all-trades." I'm responsible for the benchwork element of Shaw research, and for keeping everyone else supplied with the things they need in the lab. I also instruct incoming novices in the ways of DNA, and enforce the occasional lab clean-up! My educational background is in invertebrate zoology and marine science, and I've worked as a technician on projects ranging from the identification of oyster parasites to studies of "systemic acquired resistance" in plants. My practical expertise and interest in molecular systematics seem to serve me well in the bryology lab, and I've been happily employed at Duke for the past five years.

Education:

B.A., Biology, Reed College, 1990
M.A., Biological Oceanography, College of William and Mary, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 1994

Publications:

J. Shaw, C. J. Cox, & S. B. Boles. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships among Sphagnum sections, Hemitheca, Isocladus, and Subsecunda., Bryologist, 107: 189-196.

Cox, C. J., B. Goffinet, A. J. Shaw & S. B. Boles. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships among the mosses based on heterogeneous Bayesian analysis of multiple genes from multiple genomic compartments. Systematic Botany 29: 234-250.

Vanderpoorten A., S. Boles and A.J. Shaw. 2003. Patterns of Molecular and Morphological variation in Leucobryum albidum, L. glaucum, and L. juniperoideum (Bryopsida). Systematic Botany 28: 651-656.

Shaw, A. J., C. J. Cox, & S. B. Boles. 2003. Polarity of peatmoss (Sphagnum) evolution: who says mosses have no roots? American Journal of Botany 90: 1777-1787.

Shaw, A.J., C. J. Cox, S. B. Boles & B. Goffinet. 2003. Phylogenetic evidence for a rapid radiation of pleurocarpous mosses (Bryopsida). Evolution 57: 2226-2241.

Matthysse, A.G., H. Yarnall, S. B. Boles & S. McMahan. 2000. A region of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens chromosome containing genes required for virulence and attachment to host cells. Biochimica Biophysica Acta 1490(1-2): 208-212.

Patterson, E., S. B. Boles & A.J. Shaw. 1998. Nuclear ribosomal DNA variation in Leucobryum glaucum and L. albidum (Leucobryaceae): a preliminary investigation. The Bryologist. 101: 272-277.

Blake, S.G., N.J. Blake, M.J. Oesterling & J.E. Graves. 1997. Genetic divergence and loss of diversity in two cultured populations of the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians (Lamarck, 1819). J. Shellfish Research. 16: 55-58.

Blake, S.G. & J.E. Graves. 1995. Mitochondrial DNA variation in the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians (Lamarck), and the calico scallop, Argopecten gibbus (Dall). J. Shellfish Research. 14:79-85.

Shaw Laboratory
139 Biological Sciences Bldg.
Box 90338
Department of Biology
Duke University
Durham
North Carolina 27708
U.S.A.

Phone: (+1) 919 660-7345
Fax: (+1) 919 660-7293