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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Robert M. Jennings
Robert M. Jennings
Cirriculum Vitae

EDUCATION:
• 2005 PhD (expected), Biological Oceanography, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA
• 1998 Bachelor of Science magna cum laude, Biological Oceanography, University of Michigan

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
• 2001-2002 Biology Department Student Representative
• 1999-present Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution • 1998-1999 Research Assistant, Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER), University of Michigan
• 1997-1998 Research Assistant, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ), University of Michigan

AWARDS:
• 2003 - Present CICOR Research Grant
• 2002 - 2003 CICOR Fellowship, WHOI
• 1999 - 2000 Stanley W. Watson Fellowship, MIT
• 1998 - Phi Beta Kappa
• 1998 - Phi Kappa Phi

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Population genetics and phylogeography of the marine
  • annelid Clymenella torquata (bamboo worm) in the
  • Northwest Atlantic
  • Non-equilibrium gene flow
  • Genetic metapopulation models
  • Hydrothermal vent dispersal and gene flow (particularly
  • of siboglinid polychaetes)
  • Ribosomal gene sequence evolution models

    ADVISORS:
    Dr. L.S. Mullineaux (PhD)
    Dr. K.H. Halanych (PhD)
    Dr. D.Ó Foighil (BS)
    Dr. T.M. Shank (PhD)


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