Jacqueline F. Webb, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Sciences
Coordinator, Marine Biology Program
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Rhode Island
100 Flagg Road
Kingston, RI 02881
Phone: 401-874-2609
jacqueline_webb@mail.uri.edu
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Current Members of the Webb Lab
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Margot Bergstrom
(MS University of Minnesota, Duluth)
Lateral line-mediated feeding behavior in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes. |
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Juleen Dickson
(MS California State Univ. - Fullerton)
Comparative development of the lateral line system in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes. |
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Insley Haciski, Ph.D. student
(BA, Dickinson College) |
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Timothy Alberg, Biomedical Engineering major
CT and MR imaging of fishes |
Webb Lab Alums
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Dr. Daniel Bassett, Post-Doc (Ph.D. University of Auckland, New Zealand). Lateral line mediated feeding behavior in a Lake Malawi cichlid.
Now working in New Zealand. |
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Margaret (Molly) Moore (BS, University of Georgia), M.S. Villanova University, May 2007. Osteoclast activity in the morphogenesis and growth of the lateral line canals in zebrafish.
Teaching HS science and headed to Veterinary School. |
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Christopher Woods (BSc, Honours in Marine Biology, University of Portsmouth, England), M.S. Villanova University, May 2006. Functional Morphology and Acoustic Properties of the Swim bladder of butterflyfishes.
Lab technician in biomedical lab in the UK. |
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James Lucas Herman (B.A., Franklin and Marshall College), M.S. Villanova University, May 2005. Morphology of the ear of butterflyfishes with a laterophysic connection.
Working in Forensic Science. |
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Dr. William Leo Smith (B.S., University of California, San Diego), M.S. Villanova University, May 2001. Comparative morphology and evolution of the laterophysic connection in butterflyfishes".
Ph.D. with Honors, Columbia University and American Museum of Natural History (NY); Recipient of the American Museum Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Systematics of scorpaeniform fishes using morphological and molecular analyses.
Now Assistant Curator of Fishes, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago IL. (Web Link) |
| Melissa Tarby Wasko (B.S., Villanova University), M.S. Villanova University, May 1998. Morphogenesis of the lateral line canals in the cranial dermal bones of the cichlid, Archocentrus nigrofasciatus. Histologist, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals; now full-time mom. |
Dr. Angela Wonsettler Ridgel (B.A., College of William and Mary), M.S.Villanova University, May 1995. The morphology and development of the mechanosensory lateral line system of the trunk of hexagrammid fishes. Ph.D.2000, Marshall Univ., in Neuroethology; NIH-NRSA post-doc at Case Western U.; a researcher at the Cleveland Clinic, now Assistant Professor, Kent State University |
Webb Lab Alums - Undergraduates
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Melissa Hardy (2005-2006) - Comparative Development of the lateral line system in Lake Malawi cichlids, and histological analysis of Chaetodon ear development. Lab technician at U. Penn Medical School and then U. Wisconsin Medical School; heading for medical school.
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Morgan Falk (2003-2006) Honors Thesis - "Comparative Development of the lateral line system in Lake Malawi cichlids "
Attending MS program in Forensic Science, George Washington University.
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Ryan M. Walsh (2001-2005) B.S. 2005. Senior Thesis - "Development of the ear in the spotfin butterflyfish, Chaetodon ocellatus"
Attending Eastern Virginia Medical School.
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Sandra Castelli (2003-2004) B.S. 2004. Honors Thesis - "Light organ structure and systematics of leiognathid fishes". Work carried out at American Museum of Natural History (NY) with Dr. John Sparks, Curator of Fishes.
Lab Technician, Sloan-Kettering, NY; heading to Medical School.
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Briana DiSilvio (2003-2004). B.S. 2004. Honors Thesis - Neuromast and tooth diversity in mesopelagic fishes. Heading to Medical School.
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Jonathan Shirey (2001-2002) B.S. 2002. Honors Thesis - "Development of the mandibular and supraorbital lateral line canals in the zebrafish, Danio rerio" (see Webb and Shirey, 2003, Developmental Dynamics).
Georgetown Medical School, MD May 2007; Now resident in Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Hershey Medical School (PA).
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Dhira Khosla (1997-1998) B.S. 1998. Honors Thesis - "Scale meristics and neuromast distribution in the lateral line system of teleost fishes".DO, Pennsylvania College of Osteopathic Medicine
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Nancy LaVine (1997-1998) B.S. 1998. Senior Thesis - "Development of the olfactory organs in the whitespotted greenling, Hexagrammos stelleri". MD, Tufts University Med. School; Resident in gastroenterology.
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