Suzanne Fredericq Department of Biology RESEARCH INTERESTS Biodiversity, phylogeny, taxonomy, molecular systematics and biogeography of marine macroalgae in the Gulf of Mexico and worldwide, especially red algae PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Fall 2007-present. Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Dept. of Biology 2002-present. Freeport-McMoRan/Board of Regents Support Fund Professorship for Coastal Biodiversity Research, UL Lafayette Spring 2007-present. Research Associate, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Fredericq S., N. Arakaki, O. Camacho, D. Gabriel, D. Krayesky, S. Self-Krayesky, G. Rees, J. Richards, T. Sauvage, D. Venera-Ponton & W.E. Schmidt. A Dynamic Approach to the Study of Rhodoliths: a Case Study for the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. 2013. Cryptogamie Algologie (in review) Sauvage T., P. Payri, S.G.A Draisma, W.F. Prud’homme van Reine, H. Verbruggen H., A. Sherwood & S. Fredericq. 2013. Molecular diversity of the Caulerpa racemosa-Caulerpa peltata complex (Caulerpaceae, Bryopsidales) in New Caledonia, with new Australasian records for C. racemosa var. cylindracea. Phycologia 52: 6-13. Lin S.M., S. Fredericq & M. H. Hommersand. 2012. Developmental, phylogenetic and systematic studies of Apoglossum and Paraglossum, Apoglosseae, trib. nov. (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta). European J. Phycology 47: 366-383. Sherwood A., O. Necchi, A. L. Carlile, D.D. Laughinghouse, S. Fredericq & R.G. Sheath. 2012. Characterization of a novel freshwater gigartinalean red alga from Belize, with a description of Sterrocladia belizeana sp. nov. (Rhodophyta). Phycologia 51: 627-635. Krayesky D., J.N. Norris, J. West, M. Viguerie, B. Wysor & S. Fredericq. 2012. Two new species of Caloglossa (Delesseriaceae, Ceramiales) from the Americas, Caloglossa fluviatilis sp. nov. and Caloglossa neotropica sp. nov. Phycologia 51: 513-530. GRANTS AND RESEARCH SUPPORT 2011-2014. Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative RFP-I. Consortium LUMCON: The effects of the Macondo oil spill on coastal ecosystems. (D.L. Felder & S. Fredericq) ($644,939). 2011-2012. Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative RFP-III. Stop-gap Sampling to assess the impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on macroalgae and macrocrustaceans in the northern Gulf of Mexico (S. Fredericq & D.L. Felder) ($93,093). 2010-2012. NSF DEB Systematic Biology. RAPID: Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon crude oil spill on the diversity of macroalgae and macrocrustaceans inhabiting deepwater hard banks in the NW, NE and SE Gulf of Mexico (S. Fredericq & D.L. Felder) ($185,608). 2013. NSF DEB Systematic Biology REU suppl. RUI: Collaborative Research: Marine algal diversity of southern Central America ($6,250). 2013. NSF DEB Systematic Biology REU suppl. Collaborative Research, RedToL - phylogenetic and genomic approaches to reconstructing the Red Algal (Rhodophyta) Tree of Life (J. Lopez & S. Fredericq) ($12,500). 2012. NSF DEB Systematic Biology REU suppl. RUI: Collaborative Research: Marine algal diversity of southern Central America ($7,500). .