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Economics and Business (2): Ecological Economics, Journal of Business Ethics

EDITORAL SERVICE

Review Editor · Frontiers in Microbial Symbiosis

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:

Organizing Committee · 2nd International Symposium on Sponge Microbiology · Baltimore, Maryland,

USA · October 26-28, 2014

Executive Committee · 8th World Sponge Conference · Girona, Spain · September 20-24, 2010

DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES

Graduate Advisory Committee · 2014-2016

Search Committee · Health Sciences Lecturer · 2013-2014

Summer School Committee · 2013-2014

GRANT REVIEWER

National Science Foundation · Dimensions of Biodiversity · Spring 2014

UNCW · ETEAL Summer Undergraduate Research and Creativity Awards (SURCA) · Spring 2014

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

· Contributing Member · American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

INVITED SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS

2013 Friends, foes and freeloaders: Microbial symbionts in marine invertebrates
Seminar · Department of Biology and Marine Biology
University of North Carolina Wilmington · Wilmington NC, USA
2012 Friends, foes and freeloaders: Microbial symbionts in marine sponges
Seminar · Department of Biology
Florida State University · - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tallahassee FL, USA -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
East Carolina Universiy · Greenville NC, USA
2012 A specific mix of generalists: What shapes the unique structure of the sponge
microbiota?
Workshop · Lower Invertebrates Symbiosis with Microorganisms
Tel Aviv University · Tel Aviv and Eilat, Israel
2010 Sponge-microbial symbioses: Genetic diversity and ecological significance
Seminar · Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes
Spanish Research Council · Blanes, Spain
2009 Pharmaceutical value of the sea
Special Topics Biotechnology Workshop · Marine Biotechnology
University of North Carolina Wilmington · Wilmington NC, USA

INTERNAL FUNDING AWARDS

2014 eTEAL-Supported Pedagogy Initiative · $3,499.58
Molecular and metabolic approaches to identify and characterize unknown microorganisms
in BIOL 246 and BIOL 425

2014 Charles L. Cahill Award for Faculty Research and Development · $2,982
Integrating genetics, taxonomy and chemical ecology to understand biodiversity and
ecosystem function of sponge-microbe symbioses on Caribbean coral reefs

2014 CSURF Research Supplies Awards · $872.98
Undergraduate Awardees: Mara Cloutier, Rebecca Lee, Lisa Litwak

2014 College of Arts and Sciences Equipment Allocation · $6,600
Eppendorf Model 542R Refrigerated Centrifuge

2014 Applied Learning Funds, Department of Biology · $465
Molecular characterization of the structure and specificity of bacterial symbionts in the
widespread sponge species Hymeniacidon heliophila