EDUCATION

     2005 - 2006        PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY                                                        Oregon, USA.
                        Post Doctoral Fellow. ‘Mitogenomic analysis of Arachnids’.
                      NSF Grant: Principal Investigator(s): Drs. Susan Masta, Jeffrey Boore.

     2001 - 2005        IMPERIAL COLLEGE & THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM          London, UK.
                        Ph.D. Supervisors: Drs. Alfried Vogler. Peter Foster.
                             ‘Phylogenomic approaches to Arthropod Systematics’.
                     BBSRC Studentship. Examiners: Drs. Max. Telford, James McInerney.

     2000 - 2001        IMPERIAL COLLEGE                                                                              London, UK.
                       M.Sc. Distinction. Advanced Methods in Taxonomy and Biodiversity.
                            ‘Genetic evaluation of CITES II spiders of the genus Brachypelma’

     1997 - 2000       SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY                                                             Hampshire, UK.
                        B.Sc. Zoology. 1st class Honours.

     PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

       Jun. 2006: Ameliorating the Effects of Mutation Biases in Phylogenetic Analyses of Arachnid Mt.Genomes
       (Speaker & Symposium Chair: SMBE, Arizona, USA).

      Apr. 2006: Substitution Dynamics of Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Arachnids
       (Poster: EVO-WIBO Conference, Washington, USA).

      Mar. 2006: Codon usage of Insect Ribosomal Proteins, and the Enigmatic Order Strepsiptera
      (Speaker: Phylogenomic Conference, Quebec, Canada).

      Nov. 2005: Arthropod Diversity: Understanding Patterns of Bio-diverse Fauna
      (Invited seminar speaker: Portland State University, Oregon, USA).

      July 2005: Phylogenetic Implications of Mutation Biases in Arachnid Mitochondrial Genomes
      (Speaker: American Arachnological Society, Ohio. USA).

      Feb. 2005: Understanding Tarantulas using DNA
       (Invited Speaker: 3rd conference of the British Tarantula Society, Bristol, UK).

      Sept 2005: A foundation for insect phylogenomics: Shallow EST sampling for 34 species.
       (Poster: 8th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseille [J. Hughes Presenting])

      Aug. 2004: Conservation Genetics of CITES II Protected Tarantula Spiders
      (Speaker: 16th International Congress of Arachnology, Ghent, Belgium).

      July 2004: Building trees from ESTs: What can Ribosomal Proteins Tell us about Metazoan Phylogenies?
       (Speaker: Hennig Society XXIII, MNH, Paris, France). In: Cladistics (2004) 20(6):583-608
       www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2004.00035.x

      Mar. 2004: Phylogenies from ESTs. (Poster: Imperial College, London, UK).

      Feb. 2004: Phylogenomic Analysis of Nuclear Genes of Arthropoda’
      (Invited Speaker: London Research Network, University College London, UK).

      Dec. 2003: Phylogenomic Analysis of the Translational Machinery: Ribosomal Proteins in Arthropoda.
       (Speaker: 5th Systematists forum, Kew, Richmond, UK).

      Oct. 2003: Expressed Sequence Tags to Establish Basal Relationships in Coleoptera
      (Co-author [A.P. Vogler Presenting]: Entomological Society of America, Cincinnati, OH, USA).

      July 2003: Ribosomal Proteins in Systematics (Poster: NHM, London, UK).

     PUBLICATIONS AND THESES

     Longhorn, S.J., J.L. Boore and S.E. Masta.(In Prep).Ameliorating the effects of unusual amino acid exchanges
      in phylogenetic analyses of complete arachnid mitochondrial genomes

     Longhorn, S.J., A. Papadopoulou, H.W. Pohl and A.P Vogler (In Prep). Phylogenomics of holometabolan insects:
      Flying across extreme codon usage in ribosomal proteins

     Longhorn, S.J., P.G. Foster and A.P. Vogler (2006). The nematode-arthropod clade revisited: Phylogenomic
     analyses from ribosomal protein genes misled by shared evolutionary biases. Cladistics. (In Press).

     Longhorn, S.J., M. Nicholas, J. Chuter and A.P. Vogler (2006). Utility of molecular markers from non-lethal
     DNA samples of the CITES II protected tarantula Brachypelma vagans (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Journal
      of Arachnology. (Accepted).

     Fererra, I., S.J. Longhorn, A. Banta, Y. Liu, D. Preston and A.-L. Reysenbach (2006). Diversity of 16S gene,
     ITS region and aclB gene of the Aquificales. Extremophiles. (In Press).

     Longhorn, S.J. (2006). Phylogenomic Approaches to Arthropod Systematics (Ph.D. Thesis. Imperial College, London
     and The Natural History Museum, U.K).

     Hughes*, J., S.J. Longhorn*, A. Papadopoulou, K. Theodorides, A. de Riva, M. Meija-Chang, P.G. Foster and
      A.P. Vogler (2006). Dense taxonomic EST sampling and its applications for molecular systematics of the
      Coleoptera (beetles). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(2): 268-278. [Co-1st Authors*].

     Longhorn, S.J. (2004). Tarantulas of Belize, Reichling, Systematic Entomology. 29: 133-134.

     Longhorn, S.J. (2002). Non-lethal DNA sampling from CITES II protected tarantula spiders of Belize.
     Las Cuevas Bulletin 9: 8-9.

     Longhorn, S.J. (2001). Genetic evaluation of CITES II spiders in the genus Brachypelma including an outline
      of non-lethal tissue sampling (MSc Thesis. Imperial College, U.K)

     Longhorn, S.J. (2000). The application of molecular techniques for phylogenetic reconstruction of the
     lepidopteran genus Danaus (BSc Thesis. Southampton, U.K).

     Clark, B., Holt, J., Kirby-French, S., Longhorn, S., and Ready, J. (1999). Brazil '99 Expedition Report;
      Royal Geographic Society (RGS-IBG), London).

      COMMENTARIES

      Pickrell, J. (2003). "Radio-tagged tarantulas help track deforestation". National Geographic news. 06: 0609
        (Commentary Here)
 
      Nicholas, M. (2002). Hunting the Mexican red-rumped tarantula in Belize; BTS Journal 18(1): 9-20.
        Field observations and natural history from our joint expedition to Belize in 2001.