CURRICULUM VITAE
GERRY CASSIS, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
Phone: +61-2-93853438
Cellular: +61-0418163188
E-mail: gcassis@unsw.edu.au
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1984 Entomology - Oregon State University
BSc (Hons) 1979 Science (Zoology and Botany Majors) - University of Sydney
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007 to date: Professor of Biology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2003 to 2006: Principal Research Scientist, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
2004 to 2005: Research Scientist representative, Executive Board of Management, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
2004 to 2005: Head, Terrestrial Invertebrates Branch, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
2003 to 2004: Branch Head, Integrative Science, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
1995 to 2004: Head, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Research, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
1989-1995: Research Scientist, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
1984-1989: Scientific Officer, Division of Entomology, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
1980-1984: Research Assistant, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
OTHER APPOINTMENTS
2006: President-Elect of the International Heteropterists Society
2006: Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of New South Wales
2003: Program Director, Australian Museum-Rio Tinto Business with Communities Partnership
2003: Member, Partnership Committee, Western Australian Rio Tinto Future Fund Committee
2003: Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History
2002: Member, Commonwealth Biological Diversity Advisory Committee
2002: Member, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Australian Working Group
1996: Deputy Chair, NSW Biological Diversity Advisory Council
2001: Member, Implementation Task Force, Online Zoological Collections of Australia
2001: Member, NSW Biodiversity Information Working Group
2000: Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney
2000: Mentor, Museum Zoology, LIPI, Bogor, Indonesia (World Bank)
1998: Founding Life Member and Secretary, International Heteropterists Society
1998: Community Biodiversity Network, Management Board
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (past five years)
Books (refereed)
- Cassis, G. and Gross 2002 Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Heteroptera. Pentatomomorpha. Volume 27.3B.
CSIRO, Canberra 732 pages.
Book Chapters (refereed)
- Cassis, G., Wall, M. and Schuh, R.T. 2007. Insect Biodiversity and Industrializing the Taxonomic Process: The Plant
Bug Case Study (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae). In: Taxonomy and Systematics of Species Rich Taxa: Towards the Tree
of Life. (Hodkinson T.R., Parnell J., Waldren S., eds), pp. 193-212. CRC, Boca Raton.
Journal Articles (refereed)
- Tatarnic, N. and Cassis, G. (in press). Revision of the plant bug genus Coridromius Signoret (Insecta:
Heteroptera: Miridae). American Museum Novitates. [acceptance 29 January 2007]
- Cassis, G. and Weirauch, C. (in press). A new species and first record of Dilatops (Insecta: Heteroptera:
Miridae) from New Caledonia. Memoirs Queensland Museum. [acceptance 6 December 2006]
- Cassis, G. and Vanags, L. 2006. Shield Bugs of Australia (Insecta: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae): Generic Conspectus,
New Species, Host Plants and Classification. Denisia 19: 275-398.
- Cassis, G. and Silveira, R. 2006. A new species and first record of toadbug (Gelastocoridae) from New Caledonia
and Zoogeography. Russian Entomological Journal 15: 1-6.
- Cassis, G. and Eyles, A. 2006. An overview of New Zealand Deraeocorinae with descriptions of a new genus and a new species
of Termatophylini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Deraeocorinae). Tuhinga 17: 39-48.
- Cassis, G. and Monteith, G.B. 2006. A new genus and species of Cylapinae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae:
Cylapinae) from New Caledonia, with re-analysis of the genera. Memoirs Queensland Museum 52: 13-26.
- Tatarnic, N., Cassis, G. and Hochuli, D. 2006. Sexual conflict and traumatic insemination in plant bugs.
Biology Letters 2: 58-61.
- Wilkie, L., Cassis, G. and Gray, M. 2006. The effects on terrestrial arthropod communities of invasion of a coastal
heath ecosystem by the exotic weed bitou bush (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. rotundata L.)" Biological Invasions
[online publication in 2006; hard copy publication pending for 2007, pagination currently unknown].
- Sanchez, J.A., Cassis, G. & Martinez-Cascales, J.I. 2006. Description of a new species of Dicyphus Fieber
(Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) from Portugal based on morphological and molecular data. Insect Systematics and
Evolution 37: 281-300.
- Martinez-Cascales, J. I., Cenis, J. L., Cassis, G. and Sanchez, J. A. 2006. Species identity of Macrolophus melanotoma
(Costa 1853) and Macrolophus pygmaeus (Rambur 1839) (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) based on morphological and molecular
data and bionomic implications. Insect Systematics and Evolution 37: 385-404.
- Weirauch, C. and Cassis, G. 2006. Attracting ants: the trichome and novel glandular areas on the sternum of
Ptilocnemus lemur (Insecta: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Holoptolinae). Journal of New York Entomological Society 114: 28-37.
- Schuh, R.T., Cassis, G. and Guilbert, E. 2006. First macropterous Viannaidae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Tingoidea).
Journal of New York Entomological Society 114: 38-53.
- Moulds, T. and Cassis, G. 2006. Review of Australian species of Peritropis (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae:
Cylapinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52: 171-190.
- Flemons, P. and Cassis, G. 2006. The Role of GIS in Systematic Conservation Planning. In: Evolution and
Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates (Merrick, J.R., Archer M., Hickey, G.M., and Less, M.S.Y, eds.), pp.
873-889. Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney.
- Harris, R., Cassis, G., Auld, T. and Hutton, I. 2005. Patterns in floristic composition and structure in the
mossy cloud forest of Mt Gower summit, Lord Howe Island. Pacific Biology Conservation 11: 246-256.
- Lassau, S., Hochuli, D.F., Cassis, G. and Reid, C.A.M. 2005. Effects of habitat complexity on forest beetle diversity:
do functional groups respond consistently? Diversity & Distributions 11: 73-82.
- Lassau, S., Cassis, G., Flemons, P.K.J., Wilkie, L. and Hochuli, D.F. 2005. Using high-resolution multi-spectral
imagery to estimate habitat complexity in open canopy forests: can we predict ant community patterns? Ecography 28: 495-504.
- Ferrier, S., Powell, G.V.N., Richardson, K.S., Manion, G., Overton, McC., J., Allnutt, T.F., Cameron, S.E., Mantle,
K., Burgess, N.D., Faith, D.P., Lamoreux, J.F., Kier, G., Hijmans, R.J., Funk, V.A., Cassis, G., Fisher, B.L., Lees,
D., Lovett, J.C., Van Rompaey, R.S.A.R. and Solomon, J.C. 2004. Mapping More of Terrestrial Biodiversity for Global
Conservation Assessment: A New Approach to Integrating Disparate Sources of Biological and Environmental Data.
BioScience 54: 1001-1109.
- Cassis, G. and Silveira, R. 2004. A redescription of Nerthra tuberculata (Montandon) (Heteroptera: Gelastocoridae:
Nerthrinae) and a discussion of its phylogenetic position Journal of the New York Entomological Society 111: 194-201.
- Austin, A.D., Yeates, D.K., Cassis, G., Fletcher, M.J., La Salle, J., Lawrence, J.F., McQuillan, P.B., Mound,
L.A., Bickel, D.J., Gullan, P.J. Hales, D.F. and Taylor, G.S. 2004. Insects 'Down Under'- Diversity, endemism and
evolution of the Australian insect fauna: examples from select orders. Australian Journal of Entomology 43: 216-234.
- Cassis, G., Schwartz, M.D. and Moulds, T. 2003. Systematics and new taxa of the Vannius complex (Hemiptera:
Miridae: Cylapinae) from the Australian Region. Memoirs of Queensland Museum 49: 125-143.
- Schwartz, M.D. and Cassis, G. 2003. New genus and new species of myrmecomorphic bug from Australia (Heteroptera:
Miridae: Mirini). Australian Journal of Entomology 42: 254-259.
- Wall, M.A. and Cassis, G. 2003. Diabolocoris, a new genus in the Tribe Ploiariolini (Hemiptera: Reduviidae:
Emesinae) from New Caledonia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49: 482-483.
- Faith, D. P., Carter, G., Cassis, G., Ferrier, S., Wilkie, L. 2003. Complementarity, biodiversity viability analysis,
and policy-based algorithms for conservation. Environmental Science and Policy 6: 311-328.
- Major, R.E., Christie, F.J., Gowing, G., Cassis G. and Reid, C.A.M. 2003. The effect of habitat configuration on
arboreal insects in fragmented woodlands of south-eastern Australia. Biological Conservation 113: 35-48.
- Colgan, D.J., Cassis, G. and Beacham, E. 2003. Setting the Molecular Phylogenetic Framework for the Dermaptera.
Insect Systematics and Evolution 34: 65-79
- Cassis, G. and Silveira, R. 2002. A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Nerthra elongata species-group
(Heteroptera: Gelastocoridae: Nerthrinae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 110: 143-181.
- Wilkie, L., Cassis, G. & Gray, M.R. 2002. A Quality Control Protocol for Terrestrial Invertebrate Biodiversity
Assessment. Biodiversity and Conservation 12: 121-146.
- Cassis, G. & Moulds 2002. A systematic revision of the plantbug genus Kirkaldyella Poppius (Heteroptera: Miridae:
Orthtotylinae: Austromirini). Insect Systematics and Evolution 33: 53-90.
- Colgan, D.J., Brown, S., Major, R.E., Christie, F., Gray, M.R. and Cassis, G. 2002. Population genetics of wolf
spiders of fragmented habitat in the wheatbelt of New South Wales. Molecular Ecology 11: 2295-2305.
- Wall, M.A. and Cassis, G. 2002. Evidence for a pronotal exocrine gland in the Heteroptera. Journal of the New York
Entomological Society 110: 263-269.
WEB PUBLICATIONS
- Cassis, G. & Gross, G. 2002. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). In ABRS Australian Faunal Directory.
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/tree.pl?pstrVol=PENTATOMOMORPHA&pintMode=1
- Cassis, G., Flemons, P., Elliott, M.G., Donnelly, A., Lane, J., Bulbert, Smith, M., Reid, C.A.M., Harris, R.,
Carter, G. & Silveira, R. 2002. FaunaNet. http://www.faunanet.gov.au/keys/index.htm
- Cassis, G. Betts, E., and Elliott, M.G. 2003. The stinkbugs of Australia (Insecta: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). A
key to the genera of Australia. http://www.faunanet.gov.au/keys/index.htm
- Cassis, G. & Bulbert, M. 2004. The Lacebugs of Australia. A key to the genera of Australia.
http://www.faunanet.gov.au/keys/index.htm
- Schuh, RT, Cassis, G., Weirauch, C., Schwartz, MD, Henry, TJ, Wall, M., Weirauch, C., Konstantinov, F.,
Tatarnic, N., Ferero, D., Hewson-Smith, S., Symonds, C. and Mututantri, A. 2005. Planetary Biodiversity Inventory:
Plant Bugs. http://research.amnh.org.pbi/
Updated: 20 November, 2007
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