JESSICA L. MARK WELCH Assistant Research Scientist Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543 Telephone (508) 289-7180, e-mail [email protected] EDUCATION: B.A. magna cum laude, Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, Biology, 1989 Graduate work, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Chemistry and Biology, 1990-1992 Advisor: Walter Sudhaus Ph.D., Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biology, 2001 Advisor: Matthew Meselson. Dissertation topic: Cytological Evidence for the Absence of Meiosis in Bdelloid Rotifers. Postdoctoral training, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Molecular Biology 2001-2006 part-time 2006-2009 full-time Advisors: Matthew Meselson and Gary Borisy PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: 1989 – 1990 Research Assistant, Environmental Law Institute, Washington, DC 2009 – present Assistant Research Scientist, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. PUBLICATIONS: Valm, Alex M., Jessica L. Mark Welch, and Gary G. Borisy (2012). CLASI-FISH: Principles of Combinatorial Labeling and Spectral Imaging. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 2012 Apr 21 (Epub ahead of print). PMCID: PMC3407316. Sukenik, Assaf, Ruth N. Kaplan-Levy, Jessica Mark Welch, and Anton Post (2011). Massive multiplication of genome and ribosomes in dormant cells (akinetes) of Aphanizomenon ovalisporum (Cyanobacteria). The ISME Journal 2011.128 (epub ahead of print, October 6, 2011). Valm, Alex M., Jessica L. Mark Welch, Christopher W. Rieken, Yuko Hasegawa, Mitchell L. Sogin, Rudolf Oldenbourg, Floyd E. Dewhirst, and Gary G. Borisy (2011). Systems-level analysis of microbial community organization through combinatorial labeling and spectral imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 108: 4152-4157. Hasegawa, Yuko, Jessica L. Mark Welch, Alex M. Valm, Christopher W. Rieken, Mitchell L. Sogin, and Gary G. Borisy (2010). Imaging marine bacteria with unique 16S rRNA V6 sequences by fluorescence in situ hybridization and spectral analysis. Geomicrobiology Journal 27: 251-260. Mark Welch, David B., Jessica L. Mark Welch, and Matthew Meselson (2008). Evidence for degenerate tetraploidy in bdelloid rotifers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 105: 5145-5149. Mark Welch, David B., and Jessica L. Mark Welch (2005). The potential of genomic approaches to rotifer ecology. Hydrobiologia 546: 101-108. Mark Welch, Jessica L., David B. Mark Welch, and Matthew Meselson (2004). Cytogenetic evidence for asexual evolution of bdelloid rotifers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 101: 1618-1621. Mark Welch, Jessica L., and Matthew Meselson (1998). Karyotypes of bdelloid rotifers from three families. Hydrobiologia 387/388: 403-407. Knoll, A.H., K. Swett, and J. Mark (1991). Paleobiology of a Neoproterozoic tidal flat/ lagoonal complex: the Draken Conglomerate Formation, Spitsbergen. Journal of Paleontology 65: 531-570. INVITED LECTURES: Invited speaker at the Center for Biofilm Engineering, Bozeman, MT, “Montana Biofilm Meeting,” July 16, 2013. Invited speaker in the seminar series of the Brown University Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, October 18, 2012. Oral presentation at the Biofilms meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Miami, Florida, September 29 – October 4, 2012 (submitted abstract selected for oral presentation). Invited speaker in the Marine Biological Laboratory Ecosystems Center seminar series, September 27, 2011. SERVICE: Member of the Marine Biological Laboratory Corporation Committee on Housing, Food Service, and Child Care, July 2009-present. Mentored science fair projects for several Falmouth high school students in 2008 through 2010. Participated in judging junior high school science fair in 2012. ACADEMIC HONORS: B.A. magna cum laude in Biology, Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1989 TEACHING: Faculty in the MBL special topics course “Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biological Sciences”, presenting a lecture on Multispectral Imaging, October 5, 2013. Presented a guest lecture on the Human Microbiome in Brown University course “Introduction to Microbiology,” 2010-2012. Advised MBL REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) students Carissa McKinney (summer 2012) and Kurt Isaac-Elder (summer 2010) as well as summer interns Braden Tierney (summer 2010-2013) and Jake Casper (summer 2010-2011). .