Linda Maxson

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Linda Ellen Resnick Maxson (born April 24, 1942 in New York City ) is an American biologist. Her main research interests are herpetology , genetics and evolution .

Life

Maxson is the daughter of Albert and Ruth Resnick, née Rosenfeld. In 1964, she received her Bachelor of Science degree from San Diego State University . In June of the same year she married Richard Dey Maxson. From this marriage a son was born. In 1966 she graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley . From 1966 to 1968 she was a lecturer in biology at San Diego State University. From 1968 to 1969 she was a science teacher at the San Diego Unified School District . In 1973, she was with the thesis A molecular approach to the study of hylid evolution at the University of California, Berkeley and at San Diego State University for Ph.D. PhD in biology. In 1974 she was a lecturer in biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. In the same year she became a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where she worked until 1988. In 1979 she became an associate professor in the departments of genetics and development as well as ecology, ethology and evolution. That same year, she became director of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's biological program. From 1976 to 1978 and from 1979 to 1984 she received grants from the National Science Foundation . From 1978 to 1979 and from 1980 she was supported by the Smithsonian Institution . In 1997 Maxson was appointed dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Iowa State University . In 2012 she retired as dean emeritus.

1982 Maxson published together with William Ronald Heyer and Charles Hines Daugherty a revision of the genus Crinia in the family of the Australian southern frogs (Myobatrachidae), in which the genus Ranidella was synonymous with the genus Crinia . In 1997, together with Dale Roberts, Pierre Horwitz, Grant Wardell-Johnson and Michael Joseph Mahony, she described the frog species Spicospina flammocaerulea , which belongs to the family of the Australian southern frogs.

literature

  • Marquis Who's Who, LLC: Who's Who of American Women, 1983-1984, December 1, 1983, p. 521

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heyer, WR, CH Daugherty, and LR Maxson. 1982. Systematic resolution of the genera of the Crinia complex (Amphibia: Anura: Myobatrachidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95: 423-427.
  2. ↑ Roberts, JD, P. Horwitz, G. Wardell-Johnson, LR Maxson, and MJ Mahony. 1997. Taxonomy, relationships and conservation of a new genus and species of myobatrachid frog from the high rainfall region of southwestern Australia. Copeia 1997: 373-381.
personal data
SURNAME Maxson, Linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maxson, Linda Ellen Resnick (full name); Maxson, Linda R .; Maxson, Linda Resnick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City