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Mark E. Siddall is a Canadian biologist. Siddall has studied the evolution and systematics of blood parasites and leeches, and systematic theory.[citation needed] Siddall was hired as an assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History in July, 1999[1] and worked there as a curator until September, 2020, when he was terminated for having violated the museum's policy prohibiting sexual relationships between staff and mentees.[2]

Education

Siddall completed a Masters[3] and PhD[4] under the supervision of Sherwin S. Desser at the University of Toronto in 1991 and 1994, respectively.[5]

Career

After completing his PhD, Siddall completed a postdoc at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.[6] Subsequently, he was a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows from 1996 - 1999.[7]

Siddall has worked and published on parasitic and other animals, including leeches[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] jellyfish,[20] guinea worms,[21] and bed bugs.[22][23]

He is author of the science book Poison: Sinister Species with Deadly Consequences.[24]

The American Museum of Natural History let him go in September 2020 after an outside law firm, Kaplan Hecker & Fink,[2] 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.[2] Siddall has denied that a sexual encounter took place.[2] Siddall did state that the student had initiated a physical encounter with him, which he had rejected.[2] 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.[2] He publicly disagreed with the findings by the museum that led to his dismissal, however, he chose to not appeal the decision “for personal and family reasons and because of mounting legal costs.”[2] The Museum responded with termination.[2]

Research

Siddall studies phylogenetics and evolution.[25] Siddall has been described as "a staunch supporter of parsimony and a harsh critic of maximum likelihood approaches” to inferring phylogenies.[6]

References

  1. ^ "INTRODUCTION OF PRESIDENT MARK E. SIDDALL - ProQuest". search.proquest.com.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "U of T Magazine | Winter 2014". Issuu.
  4. ^ "Mark Siddall". World Science Festival. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "All Events | U-M LSA University of Michigan Herbarium". lsa.umich.edu.
  8. ^ Zimmer, Carl (2006-02-07). "His Subject: Highly Evolved and Exquisitely Thirsty". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Blum, Deborah (2014-07-31). "A Toxic Menagerie". Well. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Dean, Cornelia (2015-09-07). "The Tardigrade: Practically Invisible, Indestructible 'Water Bears'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  14. ^ Ray, C. Claiborne (2017-05-22). "A Taste for Poison in Warmer Climates?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ Gorman, James (2019-10-28). "Meet the Bloodsuckers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  17. ^ Jr, Ralph Gardner (2014-03-19). "At Natural History Museum, the Lowdown on Leeches". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  18. ^ "Leech Expert Mark Siddall's Tech Essentials". Wall Street Journal. 2014-09-05. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  19. ^ Hsu, Michael (2015-07-10). "Best Bets for Avoiding Mosquitoes, Bees, Ants and Leeches". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  20. ^ Yong, Ed (2016-08-22). "A Tiny Jellyfish Relative Just Shut Down Yellowstone River". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  21. ^ 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.
  22. ^ Borel, Brooke (2016-02-02). "Bed bug genome shows how gnarly these creatures really are". The Verge. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  23. ^ Kolbert, Elizabeth. "Old Bugs". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  24. ^ Mark Siddall (2014). Poison: Sinister Species with Deadly Consequences. Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-4549-0764-0.
  25. ^ Zimmer, Carl (February 7, 2006). "His Subject: Highly Evolved and Exquisitely Thirsty (Published 2006)" – via NYTimes.com.
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