Biology and Marine Biology

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VITAE

Robert D. Roer

University of North Carolina Wilmington

601 S. College Rd.

Wilmington, NC 28403-5955

[email protected]

EDUCATION:

Sc.B. Aquatic Biology Brown University 1974

Ph.D. Zoology Duke University 1979

Dissertation: Mechanisms of Deposition and Resorption of Calcium in the Carapace of the

Green Crab, Carcinus maenas.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Professor, Department of Biology & Marine Biology, University of North Carolina

Wilmington, 1990-present. Assistant Chair for Graduate Studies, 1994-2002.

Dean of the Graduate School and Research, Chief Research Officer, University of North

Carolina Wilmington, 2002-2012.

Assistant Professor and Associate Research Physiologist, 1979-1985; Associate Professor,

1985-1990. Assistant Director of the Institute for Marine Biomedical Research, University

of North Carolina Wilmington, 1981-1986.

Visiting Scientist, Zoology Department, University of Reading, England, 1975.

PUBLICATIONS (since 2007)

Zheng, J., T. Nakatsuji, R.D. Roer and R.D. Watson (2008) Studies of a receptor guanylyl cyclase

cloned from Y-organs of the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), and its possible functional link to

ecdysteroidogenesis. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 155: 780-788.

Williams, D.L., S. Modla, R.D. Roer and R.M. Dillaman (2009) Post-ecdysial change in the

permeability of the exoskeleton of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus. J. Crust. Biol. 29: 550-555.

Zheng, J., H.-Y. Chen, C.Y. Choi, R.D. Roer and R.D. Watson (2010) Molecular cloning of a

putative crustacean hyperglycemic hormone (CHH) isoform from extra-eyestalk tissue of the blue

crab (Callinectes sapidus), and determination of temporal and spatial patterns of CHH gene

expression. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 169: 174-181.

Chen, H.-Y., R.M. Dillaman, R.D. Roer and R.D. Watson (2012) Stage-specific changes in calcium

concentration in crustacean (Callinectes sapidus) Y-organs during a natural molting cycle, and their

relation to the hemolymphatic ecdysteroid titer. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 163: 170-173.

Chen, H.-Y., R.D. Roer and R.D. Watson (2013) Molecular cloning of a plasma membrane Ca2+

ATPase (PMCA) from Y-organs of the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), and determination of

spatial and temporal patterns of PMCA gene expression. Gene 522: 8-17.