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Patrick Kociolek

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I was born in Maryland, and attended both Anne Arundel Community College and St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where I graduated with a BS in Biological Sciences. I became excited about algae, and diatoms in particular, during amazing field experiences at the University of Michigan Biological Station and Iowa Lakeside Lab. I received a MS degree (Biological Sciences) from Bowling Green State University and a Ph.D. (Natural Resources) from the University of Michigan, where I also did a post-doctoral fellowship.
I held the G Dallas Hanna Chair in Diatom Studies at the California Academy of Sciences for 20 years, where I also was the Director of Research and Executive Director. Currently I am the Director of the Natural History Museum and Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and I teach at the University of Michigan Biological Station during summers.

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Our University of Hawaii colleagues

Posted Sat, 07/25/2009 - 02:49 by Patrick Kociolek

Dr. Alison Sherwood is the PI on the grant, and after organizing the PSA meeting held in Waikiki, she is also organizing the fieldwork from her home base at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Alison is an Associate Professor at UH, and is interested in algal taxonomy and systematics; her training is in the red algae but she works on a variety of groups. Her lab website can be found at http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/Sherwood/projects.htm

Alison convened our first team meeting, with other team members Dr. Amy Carlile (who just arrived from UDub in Washington).

and Dr. Gernot Presting (his research lab website is: http://genomics.hawaii.edu/prestinglab/). Gernot brings bioinformatics expertise to the team, while Amy is a specialist in the molecular biology of algae.