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'''Mark E. Siddall''' is a Canadian biologist. Siddall is an invertebrate zoologist, parasitologist data scientist<ref name="auto12">{{cite web|title=INTRODUCTION OF PRESIDENT MARK E. SIDDALL - ProQuest|url=https://search.proquest.com/openview/826ba0e832e279739fb0691b74b947f6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=41450|website=search.proquest.com}}</ref> and infectious disease expert.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Lifelines: How to slay a dragon|work=Al Jazeera|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znRQvTCJvy0|access-date=May 1, 2021}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{cite news|date=2021-03-12|title=Disease experts reveal their biggest worries about the next pandemic|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/disease-dangers-pandemic-influenza-ebola-2017-5}}</ref> Siddall was hired as an assistant curator at the [[American Museum of Natural History]] in July, 1999<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://search.proquest.com/openview/826ba0e832e279739fb0691b74b947f6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=41450|title=INTRODUCTION OF PRESIDENT MARK E. SIDDALL - ProQuest|website=search.proquest.com}}</ref> and worked there as a curator until September, 2020.
'''Mark E. Siddall''' is a Canadian invertebrate zoologist, parasitologist data scientist<ref name="auto12">{{cite web|title=INTRODUCTION OF PRESIDENT MARK E. SIDDALL - ProQuest|url=https://search.proquest.com/openview/826ba0e832e279739fb0691b74b947f6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=41450|website=search.proquest.com}}</ref> and infectious disease expert.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Lifelines: How to slay a dragon|work=Al Jazeera|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znRQvTCJvy0|access-date=May 1, 2021}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{cite news|date=2021-03-12|title=Disease experts reveal their biggest worries about the next pandemic|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/disease-dangers-pandemic-influenza-ebola-2017-5}}</ref> Siddall was hired as an assistant curator at the [[American Museum of Natural History]] in July, 1999<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://search.proquest.com/openview/826ba0e832e279739fb0691b74b947f6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=41450|title=INTRODUCTION OF PRESIDENT MARK E. SIDDALL - ProQuest|website=search.proquest.com}}</ref> and worked there as a curator until September, 2020.


==Education==
==Education==

Revision as of 18:51, 1 May 2021

Mark E. Siddall is a Canadian invertebrate zoologist, parasitologist data scientist[1] and infectious disease expert.[2][3] Siddall was hired as an assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History in July, 1999[4] and worked there as a curator until September, 2020.

Education

Siddall completed a Masters[5] and PhD[6] under the supervision of Sherwin S. Desser at the University of Toronto in 1991 and 1994, respectively.[7]

Career

After completing his PhD, Siddall completed a postdoc at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.[8] Subsequently, he was a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows from 1996 - 1999.[9]

Siddall has worked and published on parasitic and other animals, including leeches[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] jellyfish,[22] guinea worms,[23] and bed bugs.[24][25]

He is the author of the popular science book, Poison: Sinister Species with Deadly Consequences.[citation needed]

The American Museum of Natural History let him go in September 2020 after an outside law firm, Kaplan Hecker & Fink,[26] made a determination that he had sexually harassed and bullied a graduate student. As part of the investigation, he was cited for violating a museum policy that prohibits sexual relationships between staff and mentees under their academic supervision.[26] Siddall has denied that a sexual encounter took place.[26] Siddall did state that the student had initiated a physical encounter with him, which he had rejected.[26] A year after that incident, Siddall found an error in the findings of a research paper she was writing for a peer-reviewed publication, of which he was one of the co-authors and attempted to prevent the paper from being published; the museum found that his efforts were motivated at least in part by a desire to retaliate against the student for refusing to engage with him.[26] He publicly disagreed with the findings by the museum that led to his dismissal, however, he chose to not appeal the decision for personal reasons and due to legal costs.[26] The Museum responded with termination.[26] There had been a prior complaint filed against him with the museum by Dr. Susan Perkins in 2017.[26]

Research

Siddall studies phylogenetics and evolution.[27] Siddall has been described as "a staunch supporter of parsimony and a harsh critic of maximum likelihood approaches” to inferring phylogenies.[8]

References

  1. ^ "INTRODUCTION OF PRESIDENT MARK E. SIDDALL - ProQuest". search.proquest.com.
  2. ^ "Lifelines: How to slay a dragon". Al Jazeera. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  3. ^ "Disease experts reveal their biggest worries about the next pandemic". 2021-03-12.
  4. ^ "INTRODUCTION OF PRESIDENT MARK E. SIDDALL - ProQuest". search.proquest.com.
  5. ^ "U of T Magazine | Winter 2014". Issuu.
  6. ^ "Mark Siddall". World Science Festival. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  7. ^ Siddall, Mark E. (2016). "Presidential Address: Reinvention and Resolve". The Journal of Parasitology. 102 (6): 566–571. doi:10.1645/16-113. JSTOR 44810235. PMID 27626125. S2CID 11802614.
  8. ^ a b Burreson, Eugene M.; Siddall, Mark E.; Connors, Vincent A. (2002). "Society Business". The Journal of Parasitology. 88 (6): 1053–1070. doi:10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[1053:IOMESA]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 3285473 – via JSTOR.
  9. ^ "All Events | U-M LSA University of Michigan Herbarium". lsa.umich.edu.
  10. ^ Zimmer, Carl (2006-02-07). "His Subject: Highly Evolved and Exquisitely Thirsty". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  11. ^ Gorman, James (2012-06-25). "Falling in Love May Take a Lifetime of Research". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  12. ^ Rothstein, Edward (2013-11-14). "A Touch of the Toxic, for Good or Ill". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  13. ^ Blum, Deborah (2014-07-31). "A Toxic Menagerie". Well. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  14. ^ Flegenheimer, Matt (2014-08-01). "A Night of Dinosaurs and Stargazing (No Children Allowed)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  15. ^ Dean, Cornelia (2015-09-07). "The Tardigrade: Practically Invisible, Indestructible 'Water Bears'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  16. ^ Ray, C. Claiborne (2017-05-22). "A Taste for Poison in Warmer Climates?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  17. ^ Barron, James (2018-09-02). "It's the Biggest Oyster Found in New York in 100 Years. And It Has Stories to Tell". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  18. ^ Gorman, James (2019-10-28). "Meet the Bloodsuckers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  19. ^ Jr, Ralph Gardner (2014-03-19). "At Natural History Museum, the Lowdown on Leeches". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  20. ^ "Leech Expert Mark Siddall's Tech Essentials". Wall Street Journal. 2014-09-05. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  21. ^ Hsu, Michael (2015-07-10). "Best Bets for Avoiding Mosquitoes, Bees, Ants and Leeches". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  22. ^ Yong, Ed (2016-08-22). "A Tiny Jellyfish Relative Just Shut Down Yellowstone River". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  23. ^ Palmer, Brian (2015-03-10). "We're on the Verge of the Greatest Public Health Triumph of the 21st Century". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  24. ^ Borel, Brooke (2016-02-02). "Bed bug genome shows how gnarly these creatures really are". The Verge. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  25. ^ Kolbert, Elizabeth. "Old Bugs". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  26. ^ a b c d e f g h Jacobs, Julia (October 2, 2020). "Museum Fires Curator Who It Says Sexually Harassed Student Researcher" – via NYTimes.com.
  27. ^ Zimmer, Carl (February 7, 2006). "His Subject: Highly Evolved and Exquisitely Thirsty (Published 2006)" – via NYTimes.com.
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