Curriculum Vitae

Wayne Rossiter

Degrees

2005-present    Ph.D.   Ecology & Evolution                 Rutgers, The State University

2002-2005       M.S.    Ecology & Evolution                 Ohio State University

1998-2002       B.A.     Biology                                    Otterbein College

 

Research Experience

 

2002-2005       Ohio State University, Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology. “Molecular evolution of PLA2 loci in Sistrurus rattlesnakes with different diets” – M.S. Thesis Title. (Advisor: Dr. H.L. Gibbs)

1998-2002       Otterbein College. Deparment of Life and Earth Sciences. “Microsatellite variation in crayfish, Cambarus sciotensus” -  B.S. Thesis Title (Advisor: M.A. Hoggarth)

 2000-present   Position written into US Fish and Wildlife Recovery Plan for federally endangered freshwater mussel, Epioblasma obliquata obliquata

August 2005   Supplementary survey of federally endangered Pleuroblema clava (clubshell

                        mussel) for U.S. EPA.


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Rossiter, W.D., and H.L. Gibbs. Adaptive variation of the GP3 PLA2 locus in Sistrurus catenatus catenatus rattlesnakes. (In Prep). <> 

Rossiter, W.D., and P. Feurst. Quantitative approaches for detecting Birth-and-Death evolution. (In prep). <> 

Rossiter, W.D., and H.L. Gibbs. June 2004. Evidence for positive selection or PLA2 loci in Sistrurus snakes with different diets. Genomes and Evolution Meeting. Penn.St. Univ., Penn. <> 

Rossiter, W.D., and M.A. Hoggarth. “Microsatellite variation in crayfish, Cambarus sciotensus”. 2002. Ohio Academy of Science meeting, Capital University, OH.

 

Teaching Experience

General Biology 1,2,3                                                   Molecular Ecology

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Ecology                                                                        Animal Physiology

Field Zoology                                                               Animal Diseases

Animal Diversity                                                           Conservation Biology

 

Future Research Interests:

<>My current research interests include the spatial dynamics of macroparasite-macroinvertebrate interactions in marine, aquatic, and semi-aquatic systems, the transmission strategies of parasites that traverse aquatic/terrestrial interfaces, and I maintain a continued interest in the ecology of gastropod and bivalve mollusks. Specifically, I’m interested in examining the putative mechanisms that produce aggregated distributions in macroparasites, emphasizing the incidence of contact between the host and infective stages of the parasites. In the first year of my PhD I have been examining the patchily distributed nature of trematode infections along tidal pools, and determining the mechanisms that allow the negative binomial to persist. This will be part of a broader attempt at modeling the flow of disease across landscapes (landscape epidemiology).