56Joseph Antonio Covi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology & Marine Biology
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
E-mail: [email protected]
Work phone: (910) 962-2514
Cell phone: (970) 980-8314EDUCATION
2009-2011 Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST) IV Program
Mentors: Diane Ebert-May, Terry Derting, Clarissa Dirks, and Kathy
W illiams
Training focus: To improve student learning at the undergraduate level
through the use of backwards design, validated assessments of learning
gains, and a learner-centered classroom. (Intensive two year program)2005 Ph.D. Biological Sciences; Louisiana State University
Advisor: Steven C. Hand
Dissertation: Role and fate of proton gradients in the brine shrimp,
Artemia franciscana, during dormancy induced by anoxia.1996 B.S. Biological Sciences/Zoology; Colorado State University
Advisor: Donald L. Mykles
Undergraduate Research: Subunit composition and biochemical
properties of 20S proteasome in Drosophila melanogaster and Homarus
americanus.APPOINTMENTS
2012-Present Assistant Professor; University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Position: Assistant Professor; Integrative and Comparative Biology2009-2012 Assistant Professor; University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Position: Assistant Professor; Animal Physiology
2005-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow; Colorado State University
Advisor: Donald L. Mykles
Focus: Student mentoring, lab management, and invertebrate
endocrinology.PUBLICATIONS
Neumeyer, CH, JL Gerlach, KM Ruggiero and JA Covi (2014) A novel model of early development in the
brine shrimp, Artemia franciscana, and its use in assessing the effects of environmental variables on
development, emergence and hatching. Journal of Morphology (Submitted).MacLea KS, AM Abuhagr, NL Pitts, JA Covi, BD Bader, ES Chang, and DL Mykles (2012) Rheb, an
activator of target of rapamycin, in the blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis: cloning and effects
of molting and unweighting on expression in skeletal muscle. The Journal of Experimental
Biology. 215:590-604.