Curriculum Vitae
Rachel Collin
Positions Held
2002-present
STRI Staff Scientist / Director of Bocas Research Station
Education
2002
Ph.D, University of Chicago, Committee on Evolutionary Biology. Thesis: Evolution of mode of development in Crepidula (Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae): Causes and consequences. Advisor: Barry Chernoff.
1993-1996
M.Sc. Department of Zoology, University of Washington. Thesis: Comparative Biology and Evolution of Gastropod Development. Advisor: Richard Strathmann.
1989-1993
Sc.B. Aquatic Biology, Brown University; Magna cum Laude and departmental honors. Undergraduate Honors Thesis: The size advantage hypothesis as a model for sex change in the common slipper shell (Crepidula fornicata). Advisor: Dr. Steve Gaines.
Research Grants
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2004 SI Marine Science Network, Invertebrate Taxonomy Workshop Grant
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2003
SI Marine Science Network, Invertebrate Taxonomy Workshop Grant - 2003 SI Scholarly Studies Grant
- 2003 SI Marine Science Network Workshop Grant
- 1999 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant DEB # 9972555
- 1999 Jessup Award, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- 1998 National Geographic Society Research Grant # 6335-89
- 1998 Conchologists of America Student Grant
- 1998 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution Short-Term Fellowship
- 1997, 1998 University of Chicago Hinds Fund and Women's Board Travel Grants
- 1996 Western Society of Malacologists Student Research Grant
- 1996 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research
- 1996 Lerner Gray Fellowship, American Museum of Natural History
Honors, Awards, Fellowships
- 2004 Publisher's Award for Excellence in Systematic Research, Taylor and Frances
- 2003 Malacological Society of London, Annual award for distinguished initial contribution for 2002
- 2002 Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, DSEB best student paper
- 2002 Lester Armour Graduate Fellowship, The Field Museum
- 2000 American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship
- 2000 Lester Armour Graduate Fellowship, The Field Museum (declined)
- 1996 American Malacological Union, Best Student Paper Award
- 1995 Pacific Northwest Shell Club Scholarship
- 1994-1998 NSF Graduate Student Fellowship
- 1994 International Women's Fishing Association Marine Biology Scholarship
- 1993 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summer Fellow
- 1993 James Kidwell prize for population biology and genetics, Brown University
- 1989-1993 National Merit Scholarship
Editorial Boards
- 2004-present International Society of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development (ISIRD)
- 2003-present Association of Marine Labs of the Caribbean Meeting Proceedings
Current Collaborative Research
1999-present Experimental approaches to the evolution of direct development in Crepidula dilatata. Collaborator: Dr. Oscar Chaparro, Universidad Austral de Chile.
Refereed Publications
See publications
Sequences Contributed to GenBank
- Collin 2002: AF545871-AF545947 and AF550418-AF550453 (28S); AF545948-AF546016 and AF550454-AF550481 (16S); AF546017-AF546076 and AF550482-AF550514 (COI) phylogenetic datasets for calyptraeid gastropods (Not yet released).
- Collin 2000: AF178119-156, Crepidula plana complex mitochondrial COI fragments.
- Collin 2002: AY061762-794 Crepidula aculeata species complex mitochondrial COI and 16S fragments. (not yet released)
- Collin 2001: AF353123-154, AF388699-741 Crepidula fornicata, C. convexa and C. plana complex mitochondrial COI fragments.
- Collin 2000: AF178119-156, Crepidula plana complex mitochondrial CO1 fragments.
Specimens Contributed to Museum Collections
- The Field Museum, Chicago: 277 lots of 897 specimnes.
- The Natural History Museum, London: 10 lots of gastropods.
- Academy on Natural Sciences, Philadelphia: 120 wet lots, 20 dry lots of gastropods.
Research Interests
Life history evolution in marine invertebrates, systematics, evolution of molluscs, conservation, functional morphology, paleobiology.
Professional Organizations
- Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
- Society of Systematic Biologists
- Society for the Study of Evolution
- American Malacological Society
- International Society of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development
Professional Service
- 2005-present ISS (California Introduced Species Study) Crepidula identification consultant
- 2004-present ISIRD executive committee.
- 2003 SICB DSEB best student paper judge.
- 2002-2003 American Malacological Society memebership committee.
- 2002-present SICB Division of Systematic Biology and Evolution nominating committee.
- 2002-present Association of Caribbean Marine Labs. Executive committee.
- 2002-present CARICOMP site director, representing STRI and Bocas del Toro.
- 2002- Bocas Research Station Management Committee, Chair.
- 2002- Marine Oversight Committee.
- 2002 SICB 2002 Symposium co-organizer: Integrative approaches to biogeography: Patterns and processes on land and in the sea.
- 2000-2002 SICB Student and Post-Doc planning committee.
- 2000-2002 SICB Division of Systematic Biology and Evolution student representative.
- 2001 American Malacological Society student travel grant evaluation committee member.
- 2000 SICB meeting session chair.