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Christiane H. Biermann

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Currently (since 2004): Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

 

ACADEMIC DEGREES

Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution (Eanes-lab), State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1997

"Diplom" in Biology, University of Münster, Germany, 1990 (thesis research in Millport, Scotland)
 
 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington (2002-2004, 2006)

Radcliffe Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher, Palumbi-lab, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 2001-2002

Postdoctoral Investigator, Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, 1999-2001

NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Laboratory, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, U.K., 1998

Acted as Reviewer for Marine Biology, Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Reproduction and Development, The Biological Bulletin, USDA, The Smithsonian Institution, The Journal of Experimental Biology

Research Assistant for Dr. W. F. Eanes, SUNY Stony Brook, January 1994 - December 1995, summer 1997

Teaching Assistant in "Statistics for Biologists" (Dr. F. J. Rohlf), SUNY Stony Brook, Fall 1993

Research Assistant for Dr. A. Meyer, SUNY Stony Brook, Summer 1992

Teaching Assistant in "General Ecology" (Dr. C. H. Janson), SUNY Stony Brook, Spring 1992

Teaching Assistant in "Statistics for Biologists" (Dr. J. S. Farris), SUNY Stony Brook, Fall 1991
 
 

EDUCATION

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA: Advances in Genomics and Bioinformatics, 2004

NATO Advanced Study Institute in Molecular Ecology, Erice, Italy, 1998

Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, 1990 - 1997

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA: Molecular Evolution Workshop, 1997

United States Antarctic Program, McMurdo Station, Antarctica: field course, 1996

Friday Harbor Laboratories, WA: field course, 1991; research, 1995

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, CO: field course, 1991

University Marine Biological Station Millport, Scotland: research, Jan.-Aug. 1990

University of Münster, Germany, 1988-1989

King's College, University of London, England, 1987-1988

University of Münster, Germany, 1985-1987
 
 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2001-2002

Research Grant, Marine Ecosystem Health Program (now SeaDocs), Wildlife Health Center, University of California at Davis, 2000

Prize for Best Poster Presentation by a Young Scientist, International Symposium on Fertilization and Development of Sea Urchin and Marine Invertebrates, Tokyo, Japan, 1999

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, 1999-2000

Small Ecological Project Grant, British Ecological Society, 1998

NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship (administered by the German Academic Exchange Service), 1997/98

Walter Fitch Prize for best student presentation, International Conference on Molecular Biology and Evolution, Germany, 1997

Research Travel Award, Stony Brook Chapter of Sigma Xi, 1997

U.S. National Science Foundation Antarctic Biology Training Course, 1996

Quadrille Ball Committee of the Germanistic Society of America Fellowship, NY, 1995-1996

Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation Award in Evolution, Stony Brook, 1995

U.S. National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 1995

Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, 1994

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship, 1992-1993

Award from the Lerner Gray Fund for Marine Research, American Museum of Natural History, NY, 1992

Tuition Scholarship for Graduate Course at Friday Harbor Laboratories, WA, 1991

Fulbright Scholarship and Travel Grant, 1990-1991
 
 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Sotka, E. E., J. A. Hempelmann, and C. H. Biermann (2005).  Genetic evidence of postglacial population expansion in Puget Sound Rockfish (Sebastes emphaeus). Marine Biotechnology 7, 223-230.  (PDF)

 

Biermann, C. H., J. A. Marks, A.-C. E. S. Vilela-Silva, M. O. Castro, and P. A. S. Mourao (2004).  Carbohydrate-based species recognition in sea urchin fertilization: another avenue for speciation?  Evolution & Development 6 (5), 353-361. (PDF)

 

Biermann, C. H., B. D. Kessing, and S. R. Palumbi (2003). Phylogeny and development of marine model species: strongylocentrotid sea urchins. Evolution & Development 5(4), 360-371. (PDF)

 

Vilela-Silva, A.-C. E.S.,  M. O. Castro, A.-P. Valente, C. H. Biermann, and P. A.S. Mourão (2002).  Sulfated fucans from the egg jelly of the closely related sea urchins Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis and S. pallidus ensure species-specific fertilization. Journal of Biological Chemistry 277 (1), 379-387. (PDF)

 

Biermann, C. H. and J. A. Marks (2000).  Geographic divergence of gamete recognition systems in two species in the sea urchin genus Strongylocentrotus.  Zygote 8, S86-S87. (PDF)

 

Labate, J. A., C. H. Biermann and W. F. Eanes. (1999). Nucleotide variation at the runt locus in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 16 (6), 724-731. (PDF: MBE or here)

 

Biermann, C. H. (1998). The molecular evolution of sperm bindin in six species of sea urchins (Echinoida: Strongylocentrotidae). Molecular Biology and Evolution 15 (12), 1761-1771. (PDF: MBE or here)

 

Craig, S. F., L. B. Slobodkin, G. A. Wray and C. H. Biermann (1997). The "paradox" of polyembryony: a review of the cases and a hypothesis for its evolution. Evolutionary Ecology 11 (2), 127-143. (PDF)

 

Eanes, W. F., M. Kirchner, J. Yoon, C. H. Biermann, I.-N. Wang, M. A. McCartney and B. C. Verrelli (1996). Historical selection, amino acid polymorphism and lineage-specific divergence at the G6pd locus in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. Genetics 144 (3), 1027-1041. (PDF)

 

Meyer, A., C. H. Biermann and G. Orti (1993). The phylogenetic position of the zebrafish (Danio rerio), a model system in developmental biology: an invitation to the comparative method. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 252, 231-236. (PDF)

 

Biermann, C. H., G. O. Schinner and R. R. Strathmann (1992). The Influence of Solar Radiation, Microalgal Fouling, and Current on Deposition Site and Survival of Embryos of a Dorid Nudibranch Gastropod. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 86, 205-215
 

 

 

 

PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS, POSTERS, AND REVIEWS

 

Biermann, C. H. (2002). Getting the Bering straight: Phylogeography and reduced inter-ocean fertilization ability in two circumarctic sea urchin species.  Poster, 1st annual meeting for the CORONA network (Coordinating Research on the North Atlantic), Shoals Marine Lab.

 

Biermann, C. H. and J. A. Marks (2001). Geographic divergence of gamete recognition systems in two sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus spp.) p. 419 in Echinoderms 2000 (M. Barker, Editor). Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse.

 

Biermann, C. H. (1999).  The characterisation of microsatellite loci in two polar sea urchin species.  Bulletin of the British Ecological Society, 30 (2), 28-29. (online)

 

Biermann, C. H. (1998). Population Genetic Structure and the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in Strongylocentrotid Sea Urchins. p. 578 in Echinoderms: San Francisco (R. Mooi and M. Telford, Editors). A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

 

Biermann, C. H. (1996). Review of: PCR: Essential Data (C. R. Newton, Editor; John Wiley & Sons). The Quarterly Review of Biology 71 (2), 271.

 

Biermann, C. H. (1996). Review of: Ecology of Marine Invertebrate Larvae (L. R. McEdward, Editor; CRC Press). The Quarterly Review of Biology 71 (1), 137-138.

 

Biermann, C. H. (1992). The Infauna of Crustose Coralline Algae. Poster at the Marine Benthic Ecology Meeting, Newport, RI

 

Schinner, G. O., R. R. Strathmann and C. H. Biermann (1991). The influence of current and light on egg masses of Archidoris montereyensis.  American Zoologist 31 (5), A59.

 

IN PREPARATION

 

Marks, J. A., Biermann, C. H., and Heegard, E.  Evolution of egg and jelly-coat size in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis: is size ova-rated?

 

Biermann, C. H. Population genetic structure of green sea urchins in Washington’s Northwest Straits.

 

Biermann, C. H. and W. F. Eanes. Genetic variation and phylogeography of sperm bindin and mtDNA in two circumarctic sea urchin species (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis and S. pallidus).

 

Biermann, C. H., T. A. White, and S. R. Palumbi.  Who’s in first?  Interspecific sperm competition in strongylocentrotid sea urchins.

 

Marks, J.A. and C. H. Biermann.  Interoceanic sex: Gamete compatibility among Atlantic and Pacific sea urchins (Strongylocentrotidae).

 

 

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Larval Biology Conference, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, 2006

Friday Harbor Laboratories Centennial Symposium on Comparative Developmental Biology, WA, 2004

Department of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 2004

Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, 2003

Western Society of Naturalists Meeting, Monterey, CA, 2002

1st Biennial Marine Ecosystem Health Program (now Seadocs) Science Symposium, Orcas Island, WA, 2002

Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Meetings 1993 (UT), 1994 (GA), 1995 (Montréal), 1996 (MO), 1999 (WI), 2002 (IL)

 

Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 1997 (Germany), 2002 (Italy)

 

Developmental Biology of Sea Urchins Meeting, 1994 & 2002 (MA)

 

Harvard/Radcliffe Alumni talks, Cambridge and Seattle, 2002

 

Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Colloquium Series, Cambridge, MA, 2001

 

Department of Zoology, University of Bergen, Norway, 2001

 

Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, University College Cork, Ireland, 2001

 

Marine Ecosystem Health Program, Wildlife Health Center UC Davis, CA, 2000

 

School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 2000

 

Marine Science Associates seminar, Friday Harbor, WA, 2000

 

International Echinoderm Conference 1996 (CA), 2000 (New Zealand)

 

Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, Scotland, 1994 & 2000

 

Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, 1995 & 2000

 

University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Misaki Marine Biological Station, and Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, 1999

 

Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1999

 

Population Genetics Group Meeting, Cambridge, England, 1999

 

Institute for Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1998

 

Ecological Genetics Group of the British Ecological Society, St. Andrews, Scotland, 1998

 

Molecular Genetics Laboratory, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, 1997

 

Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, Scotland, 1997

 

Cell and Molecular Biology Seminar, Southampton College, NY, 1996

 

Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Marine Biology Division, San Diego, CA, 1996

 

Plenary Speaker, Developmental Biology of Sea Urchins Meeting, 1996 (MA)

 

Fifth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Edinburgh, UK, 1995

 

Marine Benthic Ecology Meeting, 1995 (NJ)

 

 

 

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