CURRICULUM VITAE MARIANNE KLAUSER LITVAITIS Department of Zoology Rudman Hall University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 Phone: (603) 862-2102 E-mail: m.litvaitis@unh.edu http://zoology.unh.edu/faculty/litvaitis/index.htm

• Ph.D. Zoology, University of Maine, Orono, 1985
• M.S. Zoology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 1982
• B.S. cum laude, Zoology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 1980

Teaching:

• Professor, University of New Hampshire (7/07-present): Teaching courses in the Biology of Animals, Conservation Genetics, Professional Perspectives in Zoology, Molecular Systematics and Evolution of Invertebrates, Molecular Techniques
• Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire (7/00-6/07): Teaching courses in the Biology of Animals, Conservation Genetics, Marine Invertebrate Ecology and Evolution, Biogeography, Professional Perspectives in Zoology, Molecular Systematics and Evolution of Invertebrates, Molecular Techniques
• Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire (8/94-6/00): Teaching courses in the Biology of Animals, Conservation Genetics, Marine Invertebrate Ecology and Evolution, Evolution and Systematics of Invertebrates
• Instructor, University of New Hampshire (1/86-7/94): Teaching courses in Anatomy and Physiology
• Teaching Assistant, University of Maine and Clemson University (1981-1985): Introductory Biology, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy

• Associate Scientist, Max-Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Seewiesen, Germany (March 1994-June 1997)
• Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Seewiesen, Germany (July and August 1993)
• Research Associate, University of New Hampshire (summer 1986)
• Research Assistant, University of Maine (spring and summer semesters 1984, 1/857/85)
• Research Assistant, Clemson University, SC (summer 1981 and 1982)

• Inventory of the polyclad fauna of the Caribbean. Status: data collection and database development in progress
• Systematics of the Polycladida. Status: species descriptions published, in press, submitted and in progress, appropriate gene identified, data collection in progress
• Reproductive strategies and development of polyclad flatworms. Status: data collection in progress
• Molecular barcoding of polyclads. Status: DNA isolated, comparison of ITS, cytochrome oxidase I, and 28S rDNA genes in progress
• Barcoding the macroinvertebrates of the Gulf of Maine. Status: preliminary sample collection in progress, funding secured

University related:

• University of New Hampshire: Marine Program Director, search committee (2001); Center for Marine Biology Advisory Committee (1995); International Research Opportunities for Undergraduates (IROP) Committee (1999-2002); Bookstore Advisory Committee (1995-1996); Committee for Campus Aesthetics (1997-1998); mentor for Links to Leadership Program (1997-1998)
• Graduate School: Graduate Council (2007/08); Dissertation Fellowship Committee (1997-2000)
• College of Life Sciences and Agriculture: iNquiry Steering Committee (2006present); Promotion and Tenure Committee (2002-2006); College Reorganization, Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution Subcommittee, Chair (2005-present); Biology Program Executive Committee - Option Coordinator for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (2002-2003); Task Force on Student Development (1994-1995); Faculty Advisor for COLSA Honorary, Alpha Zeta (1988-1997); Pre-medical Advisory Committee (1988-1992)
• Department of Zoology: Undergraduate Coordinator (2004-present); Graduate Admissions Committee (1994-1996, chair in 1994/95, 1997-1998; 2000-2001); Executive Committee (1995-1997, 1999-2004); Curriculum Review Committee, chair (2002); Graduate Academic Policy Committee (spring 1996-2000, 2003-2004); Undergraduate Academic Policy Committee (1998-2000, 2002-present; chair), Departmental Web Page Development Committee (2004-2005); Departmental Seminar Series (1994-1995); Language Committee (1986-1997); Library Representative (1989-1996)
• Initiated and maintained the departmental newsletter (1989-1993)
• Initiated and maintained a departmental electronic bulletin board (1994-1997)

• Editorial Board, Meiofauna Marina
• UNH representative to the Consortium for Barcoding of Life (CBOL)
• Referee and panel member for National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution Office of Fellowships and Grants, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Marine Biology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Belgian Journal of Zoology, Journal of Wildlife Management, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Invertebrate Biology, Journal of Natural History, Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK, and Academic Press (book proposals)
• Consultant for the estuarine monitoring project of the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve (1991-1992)
• Initiated and maintained an international, electronic bulletin board for scientists interested in all aspects of flatworm biology (1994-present)
• Commissioner Water Board (elected office), Town of Madbury, NH (1999-2001)
• Web page development of K-12 Primer on Marine Flatworms (2004-present)

Peer Reviewed:

• Klauser MD, Smith JPS, Tyler S. 1986. Ultrastructure of the frontal organs in Convoluta sp. and Macrostomum spp.: Significance for models of the turbellarian archetype. Hydrobiologia 132:47-52
• Klauser MD. 1986. Mucous secretions in the acoel turbellarian Convoluta sp.: A functional and ecological approach. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 97:123-133
• Klauser MD, Tyler S. 1987. Frontal gland and frontal sensory structures in the Macrostomida (Turbellaria, Platyhelminthes). Zool Scr 16:95-110
• Litvaitis JA, Verbyla DL, Litvaitis MK. 1992. A field method to differentiate New England and eastern cottontails. Trans Northeast Sect Wildl Soc 48:11-14
• Litvaitis MK, Nunn G, Thomas K, Kocher TD. 1994. A molecular approach for the identification of meiofaunal turbellarians (Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria). Mar Biol 120: 437-442
• Litvaitis MK, Curini-Galletti MC, Martens PM, Kocher TD. 1996. A reappraisal of the systematics of the Monocelididae (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata): Inferences from molecular data. Mol Phylog Evol 6: 150-156
• Litvaitis MK, Litvaitis JA. 1996. Using mitochondrial DNA to inventory the distribution of remnant populations of New England cottontails. Wildl Soc Bull 24: 725-730
• Litvaitis MK, Litvaitis JA, Lee W-J, Kocher TD. 1997. Variation in the mitochondrial DNA of the Sylvilagus complex in the eastern United States: Implications to current taxonomy and conservation. Can J Zool 75: 595-605
• Litvaitis MK, Rohde K. 1999. A molecular test of platyhelminth phylogeny: Inferences from partial 28S rDNA sequences. Invert Biol 118: 42-56
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK. 2000. Phylogeny of Gastrotricha: A morphology-based framework of gastrotrich relationships. Biol Bull 198: 299-305
• Litvaitis MK, Bates JW, Hope WD, Moens T. 2000. Inferring a classification of the Adenophorea (Nematoda) from nucleotide sequences of the D3-expansion segment (26/28S rDNA). Can J Zool 78: 911-922
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK. 2000. Hexamethyldisilazane for scanning electron microscopy of Gastrotricha. Biotech Histochem 75: 41-44
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK. 2000. Functional morphology of the muscles in Philodina sp. (Rotifera: Bdelloidea). Hydrobiologia 432:57-64
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK. 2001. Macrodasyida (Gastrotricha): A cladistic analysis of morphology. Invert Biol 120: 124-135
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK. 2001. A muscular double helix in Gastrotricha. Zool Anz 240: 59-66
• Litvaitis MK, Newman LJ. 2001. A molecular frame work for the phylogeny of the Pseudocerotidae (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida). Hydrobiologia 444: 177-182
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK. 2001. Functional Morphology of muscles in Tetranchyroderma papii (Gastrotricha). Zoomorphology 121: 37-43
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK. 2001. The musculature of Draculiciteria tessalata (Chaetonotida, Paucitubulatina): Implications for the evolution of dorsoventral muscles in Gastrotricha. Hydrobiologia 452: 155-161
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK. 2001. The musculature of Dactylopodola baltica and other macrodasyidan gastrotrichs in a functional and phylogenetic perspective. Zoologica Scripta 30: 325-336
• Litvaitis MK. 2002. A molecular test of cyanobacterial phylogeny: Inferences from constraint analyses. Hydrobiologia 468: 135-145
• Hooge M, Haye PA, Tyler S, Litvaitis MK, Kornfield I. 2002. Molecular systematics of the Acoela (Acoelomorpha, Platyhelminthes) and its concordance with morphology. Mol Phylog Evol 24: 333-342
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK. 2003. Organization of muscles in Chaetonotida Paucitubulatina (Gastrotricha). Meiofauna Marina 12:41-52
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK. 2003. Ultrastructural and immunohistochemical observations of the nervous systems of three macrodasyidan gastrotrichs. Acta Zoologica 84: 171-178
• Kovach AI, Litvaitis MK, Litvaitis JA. 2003. Evaluation of fecal DNA analysis as a method to determine the geographic distribution of a rare lagomorph. Wildlife Society Bulletin 31: 1061-1065
• Quiroga SY, Bolaños DM, Litvaitis MK. 2004. A checklist of polyclad flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, South America. Zootaxa 633: 1-12
• Quiroga SY, Bolaños M, Litvaitis MK (2004) Policládidos (Platyhelminthes: "Turbellaria") del Atlántico Tropical Occidental. Polyclads (Platyhelminthes: "Turbellaria") from the Tropical Western Atlantic. Biota Colombiana 5: 159-172
• Bolaños DM, Quiroga SY, Litvaitis MK (2006) A new acotylean flatworm, Armatoplana colombiana n sp (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida: Stylochoplanidae) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, South America. Zootaxa 1162: 53-64
• Litvaitis JA, Tash JP, Litvaitis MK, Marchand MN, Kovach AI, Innes R (2006) A range-wide survey to determine the current distribution of New England cottontails. Wildlife Soc Bull 34: 1190-1197
• Quiroga S, Bolaños M, Litvaitis MK. First description of deep-sea polyclad flatworms from the North Pacific: Anocellus nov gen profundus nov sp (Anocellidae, nov fam) and Oligocladus voightae nov sp (Euryleptidae). Zootaxa 1317: 1-19
• Rawlinson KA, Litvaitis MK. Polycladida, Cotylea: A cladistic analysis of morphology. Invert Biol (in press)
• Liana MK, Litvaitis MK. Comparative spermatology of selected polyclad flatworms (Platyhelminthes). J Morph (in press)
• Bolaños DM, Quiroga SY, Litvaitis MK. Five new species of cotylean flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the wider Caribbean. Zootaxa (in press)

• Litvaitis JA, Barbour MS, Brown AL, Kovach AI, Oehler JD, Probert BL, Smith DF, Tash JP, Villafuerte R, Litvaitis MK. 2005. Testing multiple hypotheses to identify the causes of the range-wide decline of New England cottontails. In press. Part of Biology of lagomorphs - evolution, ecology and conservation. P. Alves & K. Hackländer, eds.

• Liana M, Litvaitis MK. Anatomy and ultrastructure of the male reproductive system of Pleioplana atomata (Müller, 1776) Faubel 1983 (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida: Acotylea). Zoomorphology (in review)
• Liana M, Litvaitis MK. Anatomy and ultrastructure of the female reproductive system of Pleioplana atomata (Müller, 1776) Faubel 1983 (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida: Acotylea). Zoomorphology (in review)
• Rawlinson KA,, Bolanos DM, Liana MK, Litvaitis MK. A comparsions of reproduction, development, and parental care in polyclad flatworms (Platyhelminthes). Biol Bull (in prep)
• Litvaitis MK, Bolaños DM, Quiroga SY, Rawlinson KA, Liana MK. A survey of the polyclad fauna of the Caribbean. Biol J Linnean Soc

• Litvaitis JA, Litvaitis MK. 1995. Development of a method to index the distribution of New England cottontails using mitochondrial DNA. US Fish and Wildlife Service, pp. 17
• Litvaitis JA, Johnson B, Kovach A, Jenkins R, Litvaitis MK. 2002. Manual of sampling protocols for a regional inventory of New England cottontails, pp. 53
• Litvaitis JA, Johnson B. Jenkins R, Kovach A, Litvaitis MK. 2002. Interim progress report for a regional inventory of New England cottontails. US Fish and Wildlife Service, pp. 50
• Litvaitis JA, Marchand MN, Tash JP, Oberkrieser M, Johnson VS, Litvaitis MK. 2003. Interim Progress Report II: A regional inventory of New England cottontails. Prepared for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Concord, NH
• Litvaitis MK. 2003. Identification of rabbit tissue samples using restriction enzyme digests. Final Report to State of Connecticut, Department of Environmental Protection Wildlife Division
• Litvaitis MK. 2004. Molecular typing of rabbit tissues. Final Report to State of Connecticut, Department of Environmental Protection ­ Wildlife Division
• Boland K, Litvaitis JA, Litvaitis MK. 2005. Inventory of cottontails on Cape Cod National Seashore. Final Report to the Cape Cod National Seashore, Wellfleet, MA
• Litvaitis JA, Litvaitis MK, Pannacionne J, Tash J. 2005. Status of New England cottontails along the planned corridor for Route 11 in southern Connecticut. Final report to Maguire Group, New Britain, CT

• Klauser MD, Ruppert EE. 1981. Non-flagellar motility in the phylum Placozoa: Ultrastructural analysis of the terminal web of Trichoplax adhaerens. Am Zool 21:1002
• Klauser MD. 1985. Mucous secretions of Convoluta "pulchra": A functionalecological approach. Am Zool 25:89A
• Litvaitis MK, Ecker MM, Walker CW. 1989. Light and electron microscopy of the alveolar pedicellariae of the asteroid Hippasterias phrygiana (Echinodermata). Am Zool 29:115A
• Litvaitis MK, Litvaitis JA. 1991. Using mitochondrial DNA for resolving the systematics of the Sylvilagus complex. Am Zool 31:106A
• Litvaitis MK, Rohde K 1997. A new systematization of the phylum Platyhelminthes. Am Zool 37: 52A
• Bates JW, Hope WD, Litvaitis MK 1997. A revised phylogeny of the Adenophorea (Nematoda). Am Zool 37: 52A
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK 1999. Gross morphology of the gastrotrich neural and muscular systems revealed with fluorescence microscopy. Western Society of Naturalists (Abstracts).
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK 1999. Fluorescent microscopy: A new tool in taxonomic and evolutionary studies of Gastrotricha. Am Zool 39:44A
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK. 1999. Gross morphology of the gastrotrich neural and muscular systems revealed by fluorescent microscopy. Western Society of Naturalists, Monterey, California.
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK 2000. Fluorescent Microscopy: A New Tool in Taxonomic and Evolutionary Studies of Gastrotricha. Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting Atlanta, Georgia.
• Litvaitis JA, Barbour MS, Brown AL, Probert BL, Oehler JD, Smith DF, Villafuerte R, Johnson BD, Litvaitis MK. 2001. Testing multiple hypotheses to explain the decline of New England cottontails. Annual meeting American Society of Mammalogists, Missoula, Montana, June 2001
• Hochberg R, Litvaitis MK. 2001. The nervous and muscular systems of Dactylopodola baltica from a phylogenetic perspective, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting, Chicago.
• Bolaños MD, Quiroga SY, Ardila NE, Litvaitis MK. 2004. An initial survey of the polyclad fauna of the Caribbean Coast of Colombia, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting, New Orleans
• Rawlinson KA, Litvaitis MK. 2006. Polycladida, Cotylea: A cladistic analysis of morphology. International Symposium of Flatworm Biology. Innsbruck, Austria, July/Aug 2006
• Liana MK, Litvaitis MK. 2006. Ultrastructure of the spermatozoa of select Polycladida (Platyhelminthes: Rhabditophora): Phylogenetic implications. International Symposium of Flatworm Biology. Innsbruck, Austria, July/Aug 2006

• Honorable mention, Sigma Delta Epsilon, June 1990
• Honorable mention for best student paper, American Society of Zoologists, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Baltimore, Maryland, December 1985
• Honorable mention for best student paper, Southeastern Estuarine Research Society, Columbia, SC, May 1982
• Member, Delta Alpha Phi (Honorary Society for German Language Studies)

• Hubbard Endowment Fellowship, University of New Hampshire, Durham, $4000, August 1990-July 1991. The use of molecular genetic methods for the reconstruction of phylogenies of free-living marine nematodes.
• Save Our Seacoast Fund - Piscataqua Garden Club of York, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine, $6500, March 1990-March 1992. Meiofauna monitoring project.
• NSF, $18,000, September 1991-February 1994. A molecular approach to the systematics of the Turbellaria (Platyhelminthes).
• NOAA/Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, $20,000, September 1992August 1993. Monitoring proposal: Survey of meiobenthos, microplankton, zooplankton and ichthyoplankton in two contrasting estuaries at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve. Collaborative study involving the Wells Reserve.
• Faculty Development Grant, University of New Hampshire, $500, summer 1993. To cover travel costs to work at the Max-Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen, Germany.
• US Fish and Wildlife Service, $10,000, October 1993-December 1994. Method to index the distribution of New England cottontails. Co-PI with John A. Litvaitis, Department of Natural Resources, UNH.
• NATO Collaborative Research Grants, $6500, January 1995-December 1996. Gene flow among diploid/polyploid populations of Dugesia polychroa.
• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), July 1995-July 1996. Gene flow among mixed populations of Dugesia polychora. (declined)
• AES Hatch, $17,000, April 1995-June 1997. The use of nematodes for biomonitoring in Great Bay Estuary.
• University of New Hampshire, Vice President for Research Discretionary Funds, $7500, May 1995-June 1996. A molecular approach to the systematics of the Acoela (Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria).
• Faculty Development Grant, University of New Hampshire, $840, summer 1996. To cover travel costs to a workshop on Conservation Genetics in Front Royal, Virginia (declined)
• University of New Hampshire Summer Faculty Fellowship, $3500, Summer 1997. Development of a nucleotide-based test for the detection of cyanobacteria in water supplies.
• AES Hatch, $15,000, July 1997-June 2000. Development of a nucleotide-based method for the detection of cyanobacteria in water supplies.
• Faculty Development Grant Program, $940, July 1999. "Workshop on the interrelationships of Platyhelminthes".
• Hubbard Endowment Fellowship, University of New Hampshire, Durham, $10,000, July 1999-June 2000. Differentiation of body wall musculature and peripheral nervous system in the polyclad flatworm, Notoplana atomata.
• AES Hatch, $18,000, July 2000-Sept 2003. Tardigrade biodiversity as an indicator of sulfur dioxide pollution.
• Whiting Foundation, $7,000, 2001/02. Understanding large-scale differences in biogeography and biodiversity.
• Center for International Education, University of New Hampshire, $750, 2001/02, sabbatical support
• State of Connecticut, Department of Environmental Protection - Wildlife Division, $3,600, 2001/02. Identification of rabbit tissue samples using restriction enzyme digests.
• State of Connecticut, Department of Environmental Protection - Wildlife Division, $3,920, 2002/03. Identification of rabbit tissue samples using restriction enzyme digests.
• NSF Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship: Comparative morphology of American and Australian Gastrotricha: The muscular system as a source of taxonomic and phylogenetic characters. $6513, June 2002 to May 2003
• SeaGrant Development Grant. Development of microsatellites for a flatworm pest species of bivalves. $3500, Oct 2002-Jan 2004
• USDA-NRI Managed Ecosystems: Genetic analysis of amphibian dispersal in a forested landscape. $73,804, Sept 2003-Dec 2006 (Dr. A.Kovach, co-PI)
• AES Hatch, $18,000, Oct 2003-Sept 2006. Development of molecular markers for understanding the population genetics of two flatworm pests of marine molluscs.
• NSF-Biodiversity Surveys and Inventories: A modern inventory of the polyclad fauna of the Caribbean. $588,787, Oct 2004-Sept 2007
• State of Connecticut, Department of Environmental Protection ­ Wildlife Division, $2165, May ­ Dec 2004. Molecular typing of rabbit tissues.
• State of Connecticut, Department of Environmental Protection ­ Wildlife Division, $3000, July 2005 ­ May 2006. Molecular typing of rabbit tissues.
• AES Hatch, $27,000, Oct 2006-Sept 2009. Cataloguing marine invertebrates with molecular barcodes.

American Microscopical Society, International Association of Meiobenthologists

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

• Non-flagellar motility in the phylum Placozoa, annual meetings of the American Society of Zoologists. Dallas, Texas, December 1981.
• Locomotion in the Placozoa, meetings of the Southeastern Estuarine Research Society. Columbia, South Carolina, May 1982.
• Ultrastructure of the frontal organs of Convoluta "pulchra" and Macrostomum spp.: Significance for models of the turbellarian archetype. IV. International Symposium on the Biology of the Turbellaria. Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, August 1984.
• Mucous secretions of Convoluta "pulchra": A functional-ecological approach, annual meetings of the American Society of Zoologists. Baltimore, Maryland, December 1985.
• Functional morphology of turbellarian frontal glands, Invited speaker, Marine Biological Lab, Nahant, Massachusetts, March 1987.
• Light and electron microscopy of the alveolar pedicellariae in the asteroid Hippasterias phrygiana (Echinodermata), poster presentation at the annual meetings of the American Society of Zoologists. Boston, Massachusetts, December 1989.
• Using mitochondrial DNA for resolving the Sylvilagus complex, annual meetings of the American Society of Zoologists. Atlanta, Georgia, December 1991.
• A molecular approach to the systematics of the Turbellaria (Platyhelminthes). Eighth International Meiofauna Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, August 1992.
• Identification of meiofauna based on the D-3 expansion segment of the 26/28S rRNA, poster presentation at the annual New England Molecular Evolution Meetings, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, November 1992.
• Mitochondrial DNA variation in two species of planarians, Dugesia polychroa and Polycelis tenuis, from the Ammersee and from Lake Garlate, Max-Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Seewiesen, Germany, March 1994.
• Answers to questions in turbellarian systematics: Morphological vs. molecular approaches, Max-Planck Institute for Behavioural Physiology, Seewiesen, Germany, June 1994.
• Use of a mitochondrial DNA marker for resolving the status, genetic variability and conservation of Sylvilagus spp. in the eastern United States, poster presentation at the annual meetings of the American Society of Mammalogy, Burlington, Vermont; June 1995.
• A reappraisal of the systematics of the Monocelididae (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata) using 26/28S rDNA, Ninth International Meiofauna Conference, Perpignan, France, July 1995.
• Invited speaker at ASZ Symposium "Phylogenetic Systematics, Biogeography and Marine Biodiversity", Washington, DC, December 1995.
• A revised phylogeny of the Adenophorea (Nematoda), poster presentation at the annual meetings of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Boston, 1998.
• A new systematization of the phylum Platyhelminthes, poster presentation at the annual meetings of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Boston 1998.
• Gross morphology of the gastrotrich neural and muscular systems revealed with fluorescence microscopy. Western Society of Naturalists, Monterey, Calif. 1999.
• Invited seminar "The phylogenetic utility of the D3-expansion segment (26/28S rDNA)" at Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, 1999.
• Fluorescent Microscopy: A New Tool in Taxonomic and Evolutionary Studies of Gastrotricha, poster presentation at the annual meetings of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Atlanta, Georgia, 2000.
• Development of a sensitive bioassay to detect microcystin-LR (cyanobacterial toxin) using Artemia salina larvae. North Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Contamination, Newport, Rhode Island, April 2000.
• The nervous and muscular systems of Dactylopodola baltica from a phylogenetic perspective, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting, Chicago, 2000, and at the Eleventh International Meiofauna Conference, Boston, July 2001
• Testing multiple hypotheses to explain the decline of New England cottontails. Poster presentation, annual meeting American Society of Mammalogists, Missoula, Montana, June 2001
• Evaluation of fecal mtDNA analysis as a method to determine the geographic distribution of a rare lagomorph" poster presentation, annual meetings of the Wildlife Society, Burlington, VT, 2003, and at the 3d World Lagomorph Conference, Porto, Portugal, July, 2004
• An initial survey of the polyclad fauna of the Caribbean Coast of Colombia, poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, New Orleans, Jan 2004
• Evaluation of fecal DNA analysis as a method to determine the geographic distribution of a rare lagomorph. Poster presentation. Second World Lagomorph Conference, Vairã, Portugal, July 27, 2004.
• Genetic analysis of amphibian dispersal in a forested landscape, poster presentation at annual investigator meeting of USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, Washington, DC, October 2005.
• Invited seminar: "Counting marine flatworms with molecular barcodes: A new tool for biodiversity studies." Genetics Program, UNH, February, 2006.
• Polycladida, Cotylea: A cladistic analysis of morphology. Poster presentation. International Symposium of Flatworm Biology. Innsbruck, Austria, July/Aug 2006
• Ultrastructure of the spermatozoa of select Polycladida (Platyhelminthes: Rhabditophora): Phylogenetic implications. International Symposium of Flatworm Biology. Innsbruck, Austria, July/Aug 2006
• Species identifications of New England Freshwater calanoid and cyclopoid copepods using genetic barcodes. New England Association of Aquatic Biologists. West Dover, Vermont, March 2007.