Mark Siddall

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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. Siddall denied the allegations[26][27]. When Siddall asked to remove his name from a paper with what he believed were falsified data in May 2020, the graduate student responsible for the errors immediately filed a sexual assault complaint.[27][26] 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 denied the graduate student was under his supervision AMNH's graduate school roster does not indicate any graduate student having being under his academic supervision.[28]Siddall stated that it was the graduate student who initiated a physical encounter and that he had rebuffed her advances.[26] Siddall chose to not appeal the decision for personal reasons and due to legal costs.[26] The Museum responded with termination.[26]

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. ^ 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 Jacobs, Julia (October 2, 2020). "Museum Fires Curator Who It Says Sexually Harassed Student Researcher" – via NYTimes.com.
  27. ^ a b Siddall, Mark E. (September 20, 2020). "Response to New York Times Inquiry". Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  28. ^ "Meet Our PhD Students". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 2020-03-03. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
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