Leadership Team

W. Joe Jones, Ph. D.

2001

Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Dissertation: DNA sequence divergence and speciation in two California minnows (Cyprinidae: Lavinia exilicauda and L. (=Hesperoleucus) symmetricus. Advisor: Dr. Giacomo Bernardi.

1997

M.S. Marine Science (Biology), University of South Carolina. Thesis: Genetic structure of summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) populations north and south of Cape Hatteras. Advisor: Dr. Joe Quattro.

1995

B.S. Marine Science (Biology), cum laude, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.

Appointments

2007-present

Director, Environmental Genomics Core facility, University of South Carolina SC

2003- 2007

Research Associate, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing CA

2002

Postdoctoral Researcher, Universitat Konstanz, Germany.

1997-2001

Teaching Assistant, Biology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

1997

Research Assistant, Marine Science Program, University of South Carolina, S.C.

1995-1997

Teaching Assistant, Marine Science Program, University of South Carolina, S.C.

1995

Visiting Research Scientist, Netherland Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Holland.

1994

Summer Fellow, Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Program, University of South Carolina, S.C.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards

2001

Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation.

1999-2001

Genetic Resource Conservation Program Award, UC Davis

2000

David Gaines Memorial Award, UCSC

1999

Earl and Ethyl Myers Trust Fund Award, UCSC

1999

Raney Award, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

1999-2000

Theodore Roosevelt Award, American Museum of Natural History

1996-1997

Lerner Gray Award, American Museum of Natural History

10 most recent publications (in chronological order)

Jones, W., S. Johnson, G. Rouse, and R. Vrijenhoek. 2008. Marine worms (genus Osedax) colonize cow bones. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275:387-391.

Jones, W., C. Preston, R. Marin, III, C. Scholin, and R. Vrijenhoek. 2008. A robotic molecular method for in situ detection of marine invertebrate larvae. Molecular Ecology Resources 8:540-550.

Rouse, G., K. Worsaae, S. Johnson, W. Jones, and R. Vrijenhoek. 2008. Acquisition of dwarf male “harems” by recently settled females of Osedax roseus n. sp. (Siboglinidae; Annelida). Biological Bulletin 214:67-82.

Won, Y.-J., W. Jones, and R. Vrijenhoek. 2008. Absence of cospeciation between deep-sea mytilids and their thiotrophic endosymbionts. Journal of Shellfish Research 27:129-138.

Aguilar, A., and W. Jones. 2009. Nuclear and mitochondrial diversification in two native California minnows: insights into taxonomic identity and regional phylogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51:373-381.

Hamp, T., W. Jones, and A. Fodor. 2009. Effects of Experimental Choices and Analysis Noise on Surveys of the “Rare Biosphere”. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75:3263-3270.

Jones, W. 2009. High-throughput sequencing and metagenomics. Estuaries and Coasts 10.1007/s12237-009-9182-8.

Scholin, C., G. Douchette, S. Jensen, B. Roman, P. D, R. Marin, III, C. Preston, W. Jones, J. Feldman, C. Everlove, A. Harris, N. Alvarado, Massion, E, J. Birch, Greenfield, D, K. Wheeler, R. C. Vrijenhoek, C. Mikulski, and K. Jones. 2009. Remote detection of marine microbes, small invertebrtaes, harmful algae and biotoxins using the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP). Oceanography.

Turnbaugh, P., M. Hamady, T. Yatsunenko, B. Cantarel, A. Duncan, R. Ley, M. SOgin, W. Jones, B. Roe, J. Affourtit, B. Henrissat, A. Heath, R. Knight, and J. Gordon. 2009. A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins. Nature 457:480-484.

Holland, N., J. Ellena, W. J. Jones, H. Ruhl, and K. Smith. in press. Tergivelum baldwini gen. n., sp. n., an epibenthic acorn worm (Hemichordata: Enteropneusta) living in the deep sea. Zoosystema.