Eli Greenbaum

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Eli Bowen Greenbaum (born September 29, 1974 ) is an American herpetologist and evolutionary biologist . His research focus is the herpetofauna of Central Africa .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1992, Greenbaum received a Bachelor of Science degree from Binghamton University , Binghamton , New York in 1996 . In 1998, he graduated with a thesis on the sexual differentiation in the spiny softshell turtle to the Master of Science at the University of Louisiana at Monroe . In 2006 he was with the thesis Molecular systematics of New World microhyline frogs, with emphasis on on the Middle American genus hypopachus under the direction of Linda Trueb for Ph.D. PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Kansas , Lawrence . In his postdoctoral phase from 2006 to 2008 he was a research associate in the biological department of Villanova University . From 2008 to 2012 he was an assistant professor and since 2013 he has been an associate professor in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).

While Greenbaum concentrated on the narrow-mouth frogs (Microhylidae) of the New World during his studies , he shifted his research interests from 2007 to the herpetofauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . His nine years of research in the Congo culminated in late 2017 with the publication of the book Emerald Labyrinth: A Scientist's Adventures in the Jungles of the Congo , which was voted one of the ten best books of 2017 in the biology category by Forbes magazine . In 2006 he was a co-author of The Amphibians and Reptiles of El Salvador by Gunther Köhler and Milan Veselý.

Much of Greenbaum's work in the Congo consisted of collecting DNA from frogs and other amphibians and reptiles that could be critically endangered in the near future.

Greenbaum's work mainly focuses on amphibian and reptile specimen collection, DNA sequencing, and specimen photography.

In addition to his expeditions in the Congo, Greenbaum did fieldwork in Australia (1998), Burundi (2011), El Salvador (2000), Guinea (2002), Indonesia (2013), Mali (2001), Mexico (2005), Peru (2008), in the Seychelles (2006), South Africa (2006), Uganda (2014) and Louisiana in the late 1990s. He authored more than 100 scientific articles, among others, in the journals PLoS ONE , Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution , Biology Letters , BMC Evolutionary Biology , Zootaxa , Herpeotological Review , Breviora , Herpetological Monographs and in the Journal of Biogeography published were.

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  1. ↑ Forbes: The 10 Best Biology Books Of 2017
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SURNAME Greenbaum, Eli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greenbaum, Eli Bowen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American herpetologist and evolutionary biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1974