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1 Curriculum Vitae Stephen S. Curran, Ph.D. Department of Coastal Curriculum vitae Stephen S. Curran, Ph.D. Department of Coastal Sciences The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory 703 East Beach Drive Phone: (228) 238-0208 Ocean Springs, MS 39564 Email: [email protected] Research and Teaching Interests: I am an organismal biologist interested in the biodiversity of metazoan parasitic animals. I study their taxonomy using traditional microscopic and histological techniques and their genetic interrelationships and systematics using ribosomal DNA sequences. I also investigate the effects of extrinsic factors on aquatic environments by using parasite prevalence and abundance as a proxy for total biodiversity in aquatic communities and for assessing food web dynamics. I am also interested in the epidemiology of viral diseases of crustaceans. University Teaching Experience: •Instructor for Parasites of Marine Animals Summer class, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (2011-present). •Co-Instructor (with Richard Heard) for Marine Invertebrate Zoology, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (2007). •Intern Mentor, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. I’ve instructed 16 interns during (2003, 2007- present). •Graduate Teaching Assistant for Animal Parasitology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut (Spring 1995). •Graduate Teaching Assistant for Introductory Biology for Majors, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut (Fall 1994). Positions: •Assistant Research Scientist: Department of Coastal Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi (2011-present). •Post-Doctoral Research Associate for National Science Foundation-Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy Project in Parasite Systematics for Robin Overstreet, University of Southern Mississippi (2007-2010). Professional Service: •Manuscript Editor for Comparative Parasitology (April 2015-present). •Referee for: The Journal of Parasitology, Comparative Parasitology, International Journal for Parasitology, Systematic Parasitology, Journal of Aquatic Animal Health, Zootaxa, Zoo Keys, African Invertebrates, Acta Parasitologica, Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Sciences, Parasitology International, Journal of Natural History. •External reviewer for Ph.D. thesis, University of Queensland, Australia (Abigail J. Downie, 2011) •Lecturer for GCRL Marine Education Center on local biology for small community groups representing all ages and college students. 1 •Mississippi Audubon Society All-Taxa Bioquest Initiative Participant involving the general public with biodiversity inventory of the Pascagoula River (September and December 2012) •Mentor for Mississippi IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Research Scholars Program 2012. Education: Ph.D. in Coastal Sciences/Parasitology from University of Southern Mississippi (2006). M.S. in Zoology from University of Connecticut (1996). B.S. in Biological Sciences from University of Connecticut (1993). Publications: (*Denotes undergraduate student co-author & collaborator; **Denotes graduate student co-author & collaborator) Claxton, A.T**, A.D. Fuehring*, M.J. Andres, T.D. Moncrief**, and S.S. Curran. 2017. Parasites of the Vermilion Snapper, Rhomboplites aurorubens (Cuvier), from the western Atlantic Ocean. Comparative Parasitology 84(1): (In Press). Fogg, A.Q.**, C.F. Ruiz, S.S. Curran, and S.A. Bullard. 2016. Parasites from the Red Lionfish, Pterois volitans from the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf and Caribbean Research 27: SC1−SC5. DOI: 10.18785/gcr.2701.07. Curran, S.S., A.J. Phillips, R.M. Overstreet, G.W. Benz, and A.D. Henningsen. 2016. Austrobdella cairae n. sp., an oioxenous marine leech (Clitellata: Piscicolidae) from the Banded Guitarfish, Zapteryx exasperata, in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. Journal of Parasitology 102:179−186. Choudhury, A., L.M. Aguirre-Macedo, S.S. Curran, M. Ostrowski de Núñez, R.M. Overstreet, G. Pérez-Ponce de León, and C. Portes Santos. 2016. Trematodes of freshwater fishes of the Globe II: 'New World' (the Americas), a summary. Systematic Parasitology 93:271−283. Fayton, T.J.**, S.S. Curran, M.J. Andres, R.M. Overstreet, and C.T. McAllister. 2016. Two new species of Homalometron (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) from Nearctic freshwater fundulids, elucidation of the life cycle of H. cupuloris, and molecular phylogenetic analysis of some congeners. Journal of Parasitology 102:94−104. Nolan, M.J., S.S. Curran, T.L. Miller, S.C. Cutmore, C. Cantacessi, and T.H. Cribb. 2015. Dollfustrema dura n. sp. and Heterobucephalopsis perarduum n. sp. (Digenea: Bucephalidae) from the giant moray eel, Gymnothorax javanicus (Bleeker) (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae), and proposal of a new subfamily, the Heterobucephalopsinae n. subfam. Parasitology International 64:559−570. Andres, M.J., S.S. Curran, T.J. Fayton**, E.E. Pulis, and R.M. Overstreet. 2015. An additional genus and two additional species of Forticulcitinae (Haploporidae). Folia Parasitologica 62: 025 10.14411/fp.2015.025. Tkach, V.V., and S.S. Curran. 2015. Prosthenystera oonastica n. sp. (Digenea: Callodistomidae) from ictalurid catfishes in southeastern United States and molecular evidence differentiating species in the genus across Americas. Systematic Parasitology 90:39−51. 2 Curran, S. S., and E.E. Pulis. 2014. Confirmation of Pseudolepidapedon balistis in the Acanthocolpidae (Digenea) based on phylogenetic analysis of ribosomal DNA. Journal of Parasitology 100:856−859. Andres, M.J.**, C.L. Ray*, E.E. Pulis, S.S. Curran, and R.M. Overstreet. 2014. Molecular characterization of two opecoelid species from the Gulf of Mexico, with a description of a new species of Helicometra. Acta Parasitologica 59:405−412. Greiman, S.E.**, V.V. Tkach, E.E. Pulis, T.J. Fayton**, and S.S. Curran. 2014. Large scale screening of digeneans for Neorickettsia endosymbionts using real-time PCR reveals new Neorickettsia genotypes, host associations and geographic records. PLOS ONE 9:e98453. Pulis, E.E., S.S. Curran, M.J. Andres**, and R.M. Overstreet. 2014. Change in rank of Megaperidae (Trematoda) to Megaperinae within the Apocreadiidae and description of Haintestinum amplum n. g., n. sp. Parasitology International 63:269−274. Curran, S.S., R.M. Overstreet, D.E. Collins, and G.W. Benz. 2014. Levisunguis subaequalis n. g., n. sp., a tongue worm (Pentastomida: Porocephalida: Sebekidae) infecting softshell turtles, Apalone spp. (Testudines: Trionychidae) in the southeastern United States. Systematic Parasitology 87:33−45. Tkach, V.V., S.S. Curran, J.A. Bell**, and R.M. Overstreet. 2013. A new species of Crepidostomum (Digenea: Allocreadiidae) from Hiodon tergisus in Mississippi and molecular comparison with three congeners. Journal of Parasitology 99:1114−1121. Orélis-Ribeiro, R., C.F. Ruiz, S.S. Curran, and S.A. Bullard. 2013. Blood flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) of epipelagic lamniforms: Redescription of Hyperandrotrema cetorhini from basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) and description of a new congener from shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) off Alabama. Journal of Parasitology 99:835−846. Cutmore, S.C., T.L. Miller, S.S. Curran, M.B. Bennett, and T.H. Cribb. 2013. Phylogenetic relationships of the Gorgoderidae (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) including the proposal of a new subfamily (Degeneriinae n. subfam.) Parasitology Research 112:3063−3074. Calhoun, D.M.**, S.S. Curran, E.E. Pulis**, J.M. Provaznik*, and J.S. Franks. 2013. Hirudinella ventricosa (Pallas, 1774) Baird, 1853 represents a species complex based on ribosomal DNA. Systematic Parasitology 86:197−208. Curran, S.S., V.V. Tkach, and R.M. Overstreet. 2013. Molecular evidence for two cryptic species of Homalometron (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) in freshwater Fishes of the southeastern United States. Comparative Parasitology 80:186−195. Pulis, E.E.**, T.J. Fayton**, S.S. Curran, and R.M. Overstreet. 2013. A new species of Intromugil (Digenea: Haploporidae) and redescription of Intromugil mugilicolus. Journal of Parasitology 99:501−508. Curran, S. S., V. V. Tkach, and R. M. Overstreet. 2013. A new species of Homalometron (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) from fishes in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Parasitology 99:93−101. Curran, S. S., E. E. Pulis**, D. O. Hugg, J. P. Brown*, L. C. Manuel*, and R. M. Overstreet. 2012. Phylogenetic position of Creptotrema funduli in the Allocreadiidae based on partial 28S rDNA sequences. Journal of Parasitology 98:873−875. Bullard, S.A., A.M. Barse, S.S. Curran, and J.A. Morris, Jr. 2011. First record of a digenean from invasive lionfish, Pterois cf. volitans, (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) in the northwestern Atlantic. Journal of Parasitology 97:833–837. Curran, S.S., V.V. Tkach, and R.M. Overstreet. 2011. Phylogenetic affinities of Auriculostoma 3 (Digenea: Allocreadiidae), with descriptions of two new species from Peru. Journal of Parasitology 97:661–670. Parker, J.H.*, S.S. Curran, R.M. Overstreet, and V.V. Tkach. 2010. Examination of Homalometron elongatum Manter, 1947 and description of a new congener from Eucinostomus currani Zuhuranec, 1980 in the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica. Comparative Parasitology 77:154–163. Driggers, W.B., III, J.M. Henden, M.J. Andres**, S.S. Curran, C.T. Glendhill, M.A. Grace, M.D. Hendon, C.M. Jones, B.T. Noble, and K.R. Rademacher. 2010. Notes on the biology of an adult female Chimaera cubana captured off St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Gulf and Caribbean Research 22:67–69. Brookins, M.D., J.F.X. Wellehan Jr., J.F. Roberts, K. Allison, S.S. Curran, A.L. Childress, and E.C.
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