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Curriculum Vitae 



Name: Patricia Wainright 



Address: Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences 



Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903-0231 



PROFESSION AL EXPERIENCE: 



1994 present Assistant Research Professor, J. Frederick Grassle 



1992 1994 Postdoctoral Associate, J. Frederick Grassle 



Laboratory Manager . 

 1990 1992 Postdoctoral Associate, Marine Biological 



Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA), M.L. Sogin 

 1990 1990 Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic 



Institution, D. Prasher 

 1987 1989 Postdoctoral Associate. Southeast Poultry Research 



Laboratory, USDA (Athens, GA) , M. Perdue 



EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: 



1983 1987 University of Georgia, Ph.D. 

 1980 1982 Florida Atlantic University, M.S. 

 1978 1980 Florida Atlantic University, B.A. 



FELLOWSHIPS: 



Predoctoral Fellowship: Department of Avian Medicine (4 years). 



MEMBERSHIPS: 



American Ornithologists' Union; The Society of Caribbean Ornithology; The 

 Neotropical Ornithological Society; African Seabird Group; International 

 Council for Bird Preservation; Association of Avian Veterinarians; Colonial 

 Waterbird Society; British Ornithological Union; Association for Parrot 

 Conservation; American Federation of Aviculture; American Association of Avian 

 Pathologists (past member) . 



CURRENT RESEARCH: 



Molecular genetics of the Amazon parrots from the Neotropics . 



Molecular genetics of the seabirds found from the Bering Sea region. 



PUBLICATIONS (Peer-Reviewed Journals): 



Kerk, D. , A. Gee, M. Standish, P.O. Wainright, M.L. Sogin, Drum, A. Elston, R. 

 The rosette agent of Chinook salmon {Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is closely 

 related to choanof lagellates, as determined by the phylogenetic analysis of 

 its small ribosomal subunit RNA. Marine Biology 122:187-192. 1995. 



Leipe, D., P.O. Wainright, D. Porter, D.J. Patterson, F. Valois, J.H. 

 Gunderson, S. Hiramerich, and M.L. Sogin. The stramenopiles from a molecular 

 perspective: 15S-like rRNA sequences from Labyrintbuloides minuta and 

 Cafeteria roerubergensis. Phycologia 33:369-377. 1994. 



Wainright, P.O., D.J. Patterson, M.L. Sogin. Monophyletic origin of animals; a 

 shared ancestry with the fungi. In: Molecular Evolution of Physiological 

 Processes, D.M. Fambrough, editor. Society of General Physiologists 49:39-54. 

 1994. 



Wainright, P.O., G. Hinkle, M.L. Sogin, and S.K. Stickel. The monophyletic 

 origin of the metazoa; an evolutionary link with fungi. Science 260:340-342. 

 1993. 



