Paul Henry Barber
Education
1991 B.S. with Honors (magna cum
laude, Ecol.&Evol. Bio.), Univ. of Arizona
1998 Ph.D. (Integrative Biology),
University of California, Berkeley
Summer
1997, 1998 Instructor, Earth
Systems Field School, Columbia University
1999-2001 NSF
Minority Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
2002-presesnt Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology and Boston University Marine
Program, Boston University
Grants Awarded
5/1/05- 8/31/06 Conservation International. Genetic connectivity of coral reef
communities of the Raja Ampat seascape.
1/1/05-12/31/07 NSF.Collaborative proposal: Local adaptation across
latitudes: spatial scales, gene flow, and correlates of countergradient growth variation.
7/1/04-8/31/09 NSF. CAREER: Origins of high Indo-West pacific marine
biodiversity: the role of allopatric divergence in marine environments.
1/1/04-9/30/05 NSF. Understanding postcolonzation recovery of genetic
diversity.
9/1/02-12/31/04 NCRI. Connectivity among Caribbean stomatopod
populations: effects of ocean currents and life history on patterns of dispersal and regional connectivity.
1/1/99-12/31/01 NSF. Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship: Evolutionary
influences on genetic structuring and diversification of Indo-West Pacific stomatopods.
Honors and Awards
2005
Presidential
Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE)
2004 National
Science Foundation CAREER award
2001 NSF
Minority Postdoctoral Fellow
1999-2000 NSF
Minority Postdoctoral Fellow
1991,
1995-97 U. C. Berkeley Chancellor's
Minority Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
1992-1995
National
Science Foundation Minority Pre-doctoral Fellowship (Genetics)
1992
Ford
Foundation Pre-doctoral
Fellowship, declined
1992 Samuel
P. Wells Award for outstanding work on lower vertebrates
1991 B.S.
with Honors, Magna Cum Laude
1987-1991 Flinn Foundation
Scholarship
1987
National
Hispanic Scholar
Publications
Barber, P.H., Vigliola, L., Jones, M.E., Meekan, M.G., Drown, D.M., and Doherty, P.J.
(submitted) Evolution of genetic structure in non-coding mtDNA
results from ecological selection in Neopomacentrus filamentosus.
PNAS
Jones, M..E. and Barber, P.H. (In Press) Characterization of microsatellite loci for the detection
of temporal genetic shifts within a single cohort of the brown demoiselle, Neopomacentrus filamentosus. Molecular Ecology Notes.
Lindquist, N, Barber, P.H., and Weisz, J (2005). Epibiotic microbes as food and
defense for
marine isopods: unique symbioses in a hostile environment. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 272, 1209-1216.
Barber, P.H. and Bellwood, D.R. (2005) Biodiversity hotspots: Evolutionary origins
of biodiversity in wrasses (Halichoeres) in the Indo-Pacific and New World Tropics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 35, 235-253.
Richlen, M.L. and Barber, P.H. (2005) A technique for the rapid extraction of microalgal DNA
from single live and preserved cells. Molecular Ecology Notes 5, 688-691.
Barber, P.H., Moosa, M.K., and Palumbi, S.R. (2002). Rapid
recovery of genetic diversity
on coral reefs and
the temporal and spatial scale of larval dispersal: examples from Krakatau. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 269, 1591Ð1597.
among populations of
a benthic marine crustacean indicate limited oceanic larval transport:
patterns, cause, and consequence. Molecular Ecology, 11,
659Ð674
Wallace,
C.C., Paulay, G., Hoeksema, B.W., Bellwood, D.R., Hutchings, P.A., Barber,
P. H.,
Erdmann,
M. and Wolstenholme, J. (2000)
Nature and origins of unique high
diversity reef faunas in the Bay of Tomini, Central Sulawesi: The ultimate
Òcentre of diversityÓ? Proceedings of the International Coral Reef
Symposium, Bali. Vol 1, 185-191.
Barber, P.H., Palumbi S.R., Erdmann M.V., and M.K. Moosa.
2000. A marine wallace's line?
Nature, 406:
692-693
Barber, P.H. and M.V. Erdmann. 2000. Molecular systematics of the Gonodactylidae
(Stomatopoda)
using mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase C (subunit 1) DNA sequences. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 20:
20-36.
Barber, P.H. 1999. Phylogeography of Hyla arenicolor (Cope) based on mitochondrial sequence data.
Molecular Ecology, 8:
547-562.
Barber, P.H. 1999.
Population genetic structuring and gene flow in Hyla arenicolor
(Cope) based on mitochondrial
sequence data. Molecular
Ecology, 8: 563-576.
Previous Research
Training
NSF Minority Postdoctoral
Fellow, Harvard University. Jan.
1999-Dec. 2001.
Use
of molecular genetic techniques to examine effects of larval ecology, physical
oceanography, and geologic history on the evolution of Indonesian
stomatopods.
Postdoctoral Researcher,
U.C. Berkeley. Jan.-Dec.,
1998. Evolutionary origins of
sexual
dichromatism
in East African Hyperolid reedfrogs.
Collection and analysis of DNA
sequence
data for phylogenic analysis to examine the evolution of sexual dichromatism
and endocrine mediated developmental patterns in African Hyperolid reedfrogs.
Graduate Student, U.C.
Berkeley. Aug 1991-Dec 1997.
Phylogeography, gene flow and
evolutionary
history of the canyon treefrog Hyla arenicolor.
Molecular genetic techniques were used to examine how geology, climate
and ecology affect population differentiation, gene flow, and the evolution of
population genetic structuring.