James Garey
James Garey
Professor and Division Director
Contact
Office: CPR 272
Phone: 813/974-8737
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Education
M.A., San Francisco State University, 1979
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1985
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Utah 1985-1987
Research Assistant Professor, University of Utah 1988-1991
Assistant Professor, Duquesne University, 1991-1997
Associate Professor, Duquesne University, 1997
Professor, University of South Florida, 2006
Research
Interests
Invertebrate Molecular Evolutionary Relationships and Genomics
Research in my laboratory involves the use of molecular sequence data to investigate the evolutionary relationships of invertebrate animals. Investigations carried out in my lab to date have shown that protostomes are divided into two major lineages: the Ecdysozoa (molting animals: arthropods, tardigrades, priapulids and others) and the Lophotrochozoans (annelids, molluscs, lophophorates and others). We have shown that the phylum Acanthocephala is a sub-taxon of the phylum Rotifera and we have defined the phylogenetic position of tardigrades, gastrotrichs, nematodes, entoprocts, lophophorates, micrognathozoans and other invertebrate groups within the Metazoa. These new findings concerning animal evolution have led to a pilot genome project that targets the cDNA proteome of annelids. Other continuing work takes advantage of the diverse marine and freshwater environments in Florida to continue molecular investigations of animal phylogeny using a variety of gene sequences and to develop molecular approaches to study the ecology of meiofaunal invertebrates. We are also investigating extremophillic invertebrates and microbes in deep Florida sinkholes.
Current Courses
Recent Publications
Garey, J.R. (2001). Ecdysozoa: the relationship between Cycloneuralia and Panarthropoda , Zool. Anz. 240: 321-330.
Gray, K.M. and Garey, J.R. (2001). The evolution of bacterial LuxI and LuxR quorum sensing regulators. Microbiology, 147: 2379-2387
Cameron, C.B., Garey, J.R. and Swalla, B.J. (2000). Evolution of the Chordate Body Plan: New Insights from phylogenetic analyses of deuterostome phyla. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95:4469-4474.
Blaxter ML, De Ley P, Garey JR, Liu LX, Scheldeman P, Vierstraete A, Vanfleteren JR, Mackey LY, Dorris M, Frisse LM, Vida JT, Thomas WK. (1998) A molecular evolutionary framework for the phylum Nematoda. Nature 392, 71-74.
Aguinaldo A.M. A., Turbeville J.M., Linford L.S., Hebshi L., Rivera M.C., Garey J.R., Raff R.A.and Lake J.A. (1997) Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals. Nature 387: 489-493.