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JOHN HEALY
Biodiversity Program, Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300 South Bank, Queensland, Australia 4101

1. Professional Preparation

University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia - BSc with First Class Honours in Zoology (1980)

University of Queensland - PhD. (Zoology : Sperm Ultrastructure of gastropod molluscs) (1984)

University of Queensland - biology and ultrastructure of oyster sporozoan parasites (1985)

University of Queensland - sperm ultrastructure and phylogeny of Mollusca, Echinodermata and Vertebrata; taxonomy of Australian Mollusca (1988-1989, 1991-2003)

University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia - sperm ultrastructure and phylogeny of Mollusca, Crustacea, Echinodermata (1986-1987)

Queensland Museum, Brisbane - sperm and taxonomy of Mollusca.(1990-1991; 2004-present)

University of Queensland - DSc (Doctor of Science – higher doctorate; sperm ultrastructure, taxonomy and phylogeny of Mollusca, Crustacea, Echinodermata, Vertebrata) 1996


(b) Appointments

Curator (Biodiversity: Marine Invertebrates), Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (March 2008- present)

Honorary Research Associate, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (2006-present)

Consultant Ultrastructural Biologist (Marine Invertebrates and Reproductive Biology (NSF and to Dr R. Bieler and Dr P.M. Mikkelsen) (2004-present.)

Coastcare Lecturer and Field Work Tutor (South-East Queensland Catchments Ltd) (2004-present)

Honorary Research Fellow, Queensland Museum (2004-present)

Lecturer (fixed term contract), Centre for Marine Studies, Univ. Queensland (2001-2004)

Australian Research Council (ARC) Senior Research Fellow (Univ. Queensland) (1996-2001)

ARC Australian Research Fellow (Univ. Queensland) (1991-1996)

Queensland Museum Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1990,1991)

University of Queensland Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Univ. Queensland) (1988, 1989)

Farrand Memorial Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Univ. Sydney) (1986, 1987)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Marine Parasitology (Univ. Queensland) (1985)


Some Selected Publications

(1) Healy, J.M.1983. Ultrastructure of euspermatozoa of cerithiacean gastropods (Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda). Journal of Morphology 178: 57-75.

(2) Healy, J.M. 1988a. Sperm morphology in Serpulorbis and Dendropoma and its relevance to the systematic position of the Vermetidae (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies 54: 295-308.

(3) Healy, J.M.1988b. Sperm morphology and its systematic importance in the Gastropoda. In: Prosobranch Phylogeny (Ed. W.F. Ponder), Proceedings of the 9th International Malacological Congress. Edinburgh 1986. Malacological Review (Supplement) 4: 251-266.

(4) Healy, J.M. 1996. Molluscan sperm ultrastructure : correlation with taxonomic units within the Gastropoda, Cephalopoda and Bivalvia. In: Origin and Evolutionary Radiation of the Mollusca (Ed. J. Taylor), pp. 99-113, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

(5) Ponder, W.F., Colgan, D., Healy, J.M. Nutzel, A., Simone, L.R.L & Strong, E..E. 2008. Caenogastropoda In: Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca (Eds W. F. Ponder, D.L. Lindberg), pp. 331-383, University of California Press, Berkeley.

(6) Healy, J.M. & Wells, F.E. 1998. Cerithioidea. In: Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia Vol. 5 (Eds P. L. Beesley, G.J.B. Ross, A.Wells), pp. 707-733, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

(7) Lamprell, K. & Healy, J.M. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Volume 2. Backhuys, Leiden. 288p.

(8) Healy, J.M. 2000. Mollusca - relict taxa. In : Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates,. Vol. IX. Part B. Progress in Male Gamete Biology (Series Eds. K.G. Adiyodi, R.G. Adiyodi; Vol. Ed. B.G.M. Jamieson), pp. 21-79, Oxford IBH.

(9) Keys, J.L. & Healy, J.M. 2000. Relevance of sperm ultrastructure to the classification of giant clams (Mollusca, Cardioidea, Cardiidae, Tridacninae). In: The Evolutionary Biology of the Bivalvia. (Eds E. M. Harper, J.D. Taylor, J. A. Crame) Geol. Soc., London, 177: 191-205.

(10) Healy J.M., Mikkelsen P.M. & Bieler R. (2006). Sperm ultrastructure in Glauconome plankta and its relevance to the affinities of the Glauconomidae (Bivalvia: Heterodonta). Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 49: 29-39.


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