John G. Lundberg
John Graham Lundberg (born August 31, 1942 ) is an American ichthyologist . His main research interests are tropical catfish , systematics , paleobiology , biogeography and vertebrate morphology.
Life
From 1960 to 1964 Lundberg studied at Fairleigh Dickinson University , where he earned a Bachelor of Science in zoology . From 1965 he studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor , where he in 1970 with a thesis The evolutionary history of North American catfishes, Family Ictaluridae led by Reeve M. Bailey to Ph.D. received his doctorate. From 1970 to 1992 he was assistant professor, then associate professor, and finally full professor in the Department of Zoologist at Duke University . From 1985 to 1986 he conducted research with the support of a Fulbright scholarship at the Universidad Central de Venezuela . From 1993 to 1996 he was a visiting lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Duke University. From 1994 to 1999 he was director of the graduate program The Analysis of Biological Diversification at the University of Arizona . From 1993 to 1999 he was a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. Since 1999 he has been chairman and curator of the Department of Ichthyology at the Academy of Natural Sciences , Philadelphia . Since 2000 he has been an Associate Professor at Drexel University and an Associate Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania .
He has an additional research position at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum . Lundberg's research includes live and fossil fish. He received grants from the National Science Foundation , which supported the research and documentation of the biota of the Orinoco and Amazon canal , the evolutionary history of the South American catfish species and a five-year global inventory of all catfish species. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative anatomy , ichthyology, systematic methods, and evolutionary biology at Duke University and the University of Arizona . He supervised 13 doctoral students and five postdocs. He was President of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 2009 and continues to serve on that company's board of directors. At the Academy of Natural Sciences he oversees, expands and supports one of the world's largest fish collections.
Dedication names
The species Loricaria lundbergi , Microglanis lundbergi , Prietella lundbergi , Pseudobunocephalus lundbergi , Rhabdolichops lundbergi and Typhlobelus lundbergi are named after John G. Lundberg .
literature
- Curriculum Vitae (PDF, as of April 2011)
Web links
- Profile for John G. Lundberg at Drexel University
- Curriculum Vitae at Escavador (Portuguese)
- Bibliography at Google Scholar
- Literature by and about John G. Lundberg in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lundberg, John G. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lundberg, John Graham (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ichthyologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1942 |