Oregon State University
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Brian SidlauskasBRIAN SIDLAUSKAS

Assistant Professor of Fisheries

Year Hired: 2009

Organizations and Affiliations:

American Fisheries Society

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Ichthyological Society of Japan

Neotropical Ichthyological Association

Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Society for the Study of Evolution Society of Systematic Biologists

Specialty: Biodiversity, systematics, evolution, and conservation of freshwater fishes

Research Interests: My research unites phylogenetics, morphometrics, comparative anatomy, taxonomy, biogeography and computer simulations to understand and conserve the biodiversity of fishes. Much of my previous work has targeted the Characiformes, a fantastically diverse and poorly known group of about 2000 species (tetras, piranhas, headstanders and relatives) distributed primarily in tropical South America and Africa. In addition to continuing studies of tropical biodiversity, upcoming work in Oregon will address cryptic diversification, endemism, biogeography and conservation of native freshwater fishes, with particular attention to those inhabiting the complex system of rivers along the Oregon Coast. Specimens from natural history collections like OSU's Ichthyology Collection figure prominently in my research. For more information, please visit my webpage: ( http://people.oregonstate.edu/~sidlausb/ ).

Office: 42 Nash Hall

Office Phone: 541-737-6789

Fax: 541-737-3590

Email: brian.sidlauskas@oregonstate.edu

Address:

Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Nash Hall, Room #104
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3803

Courses Taught:

FW315 Ichthyology
FW316 Systematics of Fishes
FW 472/572 Advanced Ichthyology

Degrees:

Ph.D. 2006, Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
M.S. 2003, Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
A.B. 1998, Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Personal Interests: Playing early music on harp and historic woodwinds, living history, hiking, canoeing, French cooking, strategy boardgaming, scientific illustration and nature photography

Hometown: Salem, Massachusetts

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