Leslie J. Newman

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Leslie J. Newman is an Australian marine biologist who specializes in flatworm research.

Life

Newmann was best known for her publications on "penis fencing", in which flatworms (here Pseudobiceros bedfordi ) try alternately to place sperm on the "opponent"

Newman graduated from the University of Guelph in Guelph , Ontario , Canada . There she obtained her bachelor's degree in 1979 and her master's degree in marine biology in 1982. She received her PhD in zoology from the University of Queensland at Brisbane . She has been working as a postdoc for over ten years , financed by three fellowships . Since 1990 she has been studying flatworms of the order Polycladida together with Lester Cannon from the Queensland Museum . Newmann has documented over 400 flatworms and described around 100 species for the first time . She developed a new technique to fixate flatworms and researches topics such as penis fencing , warning coloring and eating behavior of these animals. In 1998 she worked with a Smithsonian Fellowship at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC and published with Nicolaas Michiels from the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Nature about her discovery of "penis fencing" in Pseudoceros bifurcus . She was also featured on this topic in the PBS documentary series The Shape of Life (2002). She later worked as a research assistant at the School of Environmental Science & Management at Southern Cross University in Lismore . In 2004 she became curator of the marine division of the Auckland Museum in New Zealand. She participated in the Queensland Museum's biodiversity program. More recently, she has been researching the effects of global warming .

Newman also works as an underwater photographer . Together with her late husband Andrew Flowers, she published numerous recordings of marine animals, including in her identification book Marine flatworms: the world of polyclads , published in 2003 , in which Cannon was a co-author.

Publications (selection)

  • Aspects of the biology and distribution of pteropods (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) from the Bay of Fundy Region, Canada. Thesis (M.Sc.) - University of Guelph, 1982.
  • Holoplanktonic molluscs (Gastropoda; Thecosomata, Gymnosomata and Heteropoda) from the waters of Australia and Papua New Guinea: their taxonomy, distribution and biology. Dissertation, University of Queensland, 1990.
  • Leslie J. Newman, Lester Robert Glen Cannon, Andrew Flowers: Marine flatworms: the world of polyclads. CSIRO, Collingwood, Vic. 2003, ISBN 0-643-06829-5 .
  • Leslie J. Newman, Lester Robert Glen Cannon: Fabulous flatworms: a guide to marine polyclads. CD-ROM, CSIRO, Collingwood, Vic. 2005, ISBN 0-643-06964-X .
  • Nicolaas K. Michiels, Leslie J. Newman: Sex and violence in hermaphrodites. (PDF; 101 kB) In: Nature Vol. 39, February 12, 1998, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., p. 647.
  • Leslie J. Newman, Lester Robert Glen Cannon: Pseudoceros and Pseudobiceros (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida, Pseudocerotidae) from eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea. (PDF; 12.2 MB) In: Memoirs of The Queensland Museum 37, 1994, pp. 246–248.
  • Leslie J. Newman, Lester Robert Glen Cannon: The importance of the fixation of color, pattern and form in tropical Pseudocerotidae (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida). In: Developments in Hydrobiology Vol. 108, Springer, 1995, pp. 141-143.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ PBS Newman Bio
  2. ↑ Auckland Museum Annual Plan Report 2004-2005 (PDF; 683 kB)
  3. ↑ Grad News
personal data
SURNAME Newman, Leslie J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian marine biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century