Me and my Chevy in 1971
My interest in biology began early on while I was still in grade school. I spent a lot of time as a kid catching whatever kinds of animals I could, usually keeping them for a while, then letting them go. I went to elementary school in Portland Oregon, then in England for fourth through seventh grade. I went to high school in Concord, California. I took advanced biology there and decided to study marine biology in college. I worked as a chinese food delivery boy during high school in my 1963 Chevy Nova.
Me and my Chevy in 1971
I received a degree in marine biology from San Francisco State University in 1977
While an undergraduate student in San Francisco, I earned a living as a rigger for the San Francisco Maritime Museum on the full rigged sailing ship, the Balclutha.
The Balclutha
I enjoyed that job, working night shifts where it was mostly cleaning the museum below deck, and weekend day shifts where I worked aloft, replacing worn parts of the rigging and doing a lot of painting. The top of the main mast of the Balclutha is 140 feet from the deck, and the ship is 283 feet on the waterline and 372 feet long overall.
At work on the Balclutha in the 1970's
I lived on board the ship in a small cabin from 1971 until 1974, when I quit school for a couple of years to learn more about rigging in Denmark, where I worked as an apprentice rigger on a number of projects including the brig Gabriel (a.k.a. Phoenix) and the barkentine Osprey. These had originally been sailing vessels, but the rigging removed years before to convert them to motor ships. We converted them back to sailing ships.
Getting ready to put up the main topmast on the Osprey in 1975
I lived aboard this old German ferry boat in Denmark in 1975
Hanging out in front of a Danish police station in Korsor, Denmark 1974
The Osprey under full sail, Bay of Biscay 1976
The Osprey under sail off the California Coast, some
time in the late 1970's or early 1980's.
I went back to school in 1976-1977 to finish up my B.A. in marine biology and immediately began to work on my M.A. in physiology. During my first year in the M.A. program I commuted each weekend from San Francisco to Long Beach by plane to re-rig a replica of the brig Pilgrim (from Dana's Two Years Before the Mast) which had originally been rigged in Portugal, but had been dismasted coming over the Atlantic. I saw a photograph of the Pilgrim displayed at a hotel in California a few years ago, so I guess its still around somewhere.
I quit the rigging business in 1979 to begin a Ph.D. program in Zoology at the University of Texas at Austin, working with Dr. Austen F. Riggs on invertebrate hemoglobin structure and function. I had a great time in Austin. Some of my best friends from there were fellow students Craig Tomlinson, Sissy Jhiang, Mary White and post-docs Mike Coates and Pat Behrens.
Me with Sissy and Pat in Austin Texas, 1984
Sissy and I in 1985 outside of Patterson Labs at UT Austin
My friends Mary White, Craig Tomlinson, and Alex Basolo at the party
following the defense of my thesis in 1985.
I finished my Ph.D in 1985 and my first post-doctoral fellowship was with Dr. David Wolstenhome at the University of Utah, where I studied the mitochondrial genome of the fluke Fasciola hepatica . I then changed fields, moving to the Hematology Division in the University of Utah Medical School where I worked with Dr. James Kushner on the molecular genetics of Porphyria Cutanea Tarda in humans which is caused by deficiencies at the uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase locus.
My lab in Utah in 1990. Top: Dave Brown, myself, Lyle Harrison,
Rajesh Mehra
Bottom: Kathy Metcalf and Kerry Franklin.
I also worked with the uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae . While working with Jim Kushner, I crewed on his 30 foot racing sailboat (the Kestral), working the foredeck for many seasons on Bear Lake in Idaho and on the Great Salt Lake.
In 1991 I took a position at Duquesne University to begin molecular studies of animal phylogeny. It was a small growing department under the guidance of Dr. H. Bernard Hartman, and I had many wonderful opportunities to experience the best side of academia, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1997. Among other things, I directed a summer undergraduate research program for four years.
Summer Undergraduate Program,
1996
I left Duquesne University in August of 1998 to come to the University of South Florida. I was ready for a larger department, my family and I were eager to leave Pittsburgh for a sunnier climate, and the chance to be near marine environments again was irresistible.
I live with my wife, Leigh Garey, a speech/language pathologist, and her mother Geraldine Davis. We have a son Quentin in Pennsylvania, and three daughters, Kami who lives in Pittsburgh, and Emily and Rose, who live in Salt Lake City.
Leigh and I in Salt Lake City, 1987
Leigh and I in Pittsburgh, 1996
Rose and Emily in 1995
Emily in 1997
My father Phil lives at the Hummingbird ranch in Oregon.
Phil Garey
I have two sisters, Meg, who lives in Las Vegas Nevada, and Terry, who lives in Minneapolis. My hobbies are running, renovating houses (our old victorian in Pittsburgh and now our newer home in Tampa), SCUBA diving, sailing history, and of course marine invertebrate biology.
Our old Victorian in Pittsburgh
My dad and I found this in a graveyard in Salt Lake City. It belongs to my great grandfather:
(the "Dr." was added!)
JAMES ROY GAREY
Department of Biology garey@cas.usf.edu
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Avenue SCA110
Tampa, FL 33620-5150
(813)-974-3900
Office of Facilities, Safety and Security
College of Arts and Sciences
4202 East Fowler Avenue CPR107
Tampa, FL 33620
(813) 974-8737
EDUCATION
B.A. (Marine Biology) San Francisco State University, 1977
M.A. (Physiology) San Francisco State University, 1979
Ph.D. (Zoology: Molecular Biology) University of Texas, 1985
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
-Interim Director of Facilities, Safety and Security, College of
Arts and Sciences, University
of South Florida, 2003 - present.
-UCLA Astrobiology Team Member, University of California, Los Angeles,
2001 - present.
-Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University
of South Florida, 2000 - present.
-Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University
of South Florida. 1997 - present.
-Associate Professor of Biology, Tenured. Department of Biological
Sciences, Duquesne University, 1997.
-Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Biological Sciences,
Duquesne University, 1991-1997.
-Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology,
University of Utah School of Medicine Center, 1988-1991.
-Hematology Fellow, Department of Hematology, Univ. of Utah Medical
Center, 1986-1988.
-Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Biology, University
of Utah, 1985-1986.
GRANT SUPPORT
Current Grant Support
- A Pilot Study for an Annelid Genome Project. (Consortium project with J.A.
Lake at UCLA), National Institutes of Health. $253,357 Mar 00-Feb 04 (USF
share: $113,550).
-Ecosystem response to elevated Arsenic concentrations. (Co-PI). Biocomplexity
Program, National Science Foundation. Total Budget is $1,490,000, my share
of direct costs is ~$316,000. 10/01/02 - 9/30/06.
-Conference support grant for the 9th International Tardigrade Symposium
(PI). USF Internal Award, $8,000, 01/01/03-12/31/03.
Pending Grant Support
-Collaborative Research: Global Patterns of Soil Biodiversity: Implications
for Ecosystem Function. $750,000. Ecosystems, National Science Foundation,
Mar 04- Feb 08.
-Bacterial sulfur pumps in marine karst affect benthic ecology on a regional
scale. $498,082, Microbial Interactions and Processes, National Science Foundation.
Mar 04 - Feb 07.
Previous Grant Support
-Extreme Environments: the Animal and Bacterial Inhabitants of a Sulfide-rich
Sinkhole in the Gulf of Mexico (Principal Investigator). $12,600, Nasa
Astrobiology Institute June 01-May 03.
-Molecular Phylogeny of Gulf Invertebrates. (PI). Ship time grant
for March 26-30, 2003. Florida Institute of Oceanography ($11,000).
-The lesser known Protostome taxa: Evolution, Development and Ecology (Principal
Investigator) National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology. $12,092 to
support a symposium during the 2001 SICB meetings in Chicago.
-International Travel Grant, University of South Florida, travel to Finland,
$1,500, May 2000.
-Molecular Phylogeny of Gulf Invertebrates. Ship time grant for March
10-14, 2000. Florida Institute of Oceanography ($6500).
- Benthic Meiofauna Diversity as an Environmental Marker (Principal
Investigator) Research and Creative Scholarship Grant, University of South
Florida, $7,499, Mar 99 - Apr 00.
-International Travel Grant, University of South Florida, Travel to Greece,
$1,500, Aug 2000.
-Nematode origins and evolutionary relationships (Principal Investigator)
United States Department of Agriculture Grant, $111,552, Oct 95-Feb
00.
-Nematode Evolutionary Relationships. (Principal Investigator) Winters
Foundation, $8000 June 1995-1997.
-Nematode origins and evolutionary relationships. (Principal Investigator)
United States Department of Agriculture Seed Grant Program, $49,998
Sept 1993 - Sept 1995.
-High School Teacher Fellowship. American Society for Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology.$6000, Summer 1994.
-Pseudocoelomate Evolutionary Relationships. Noble Dick Award. Funded
$4400, February 1992-1993
-Faculty Development Award ($5000), Vertebrate Uroporphyrinogen Decarboxylase.
University of Utah in 1989 and 1990.
-Biomedical Research Support Grant ($8000), Heme Biosynthesis in Yeast, University
of Utah, 1989-1990
Previous Educational and Equipment Grant Support
-Undergraduate research in Biological Sciences at Duquesne University (Principal
Investigator) National Science Foundation. $110,400
May 1994- May 1997.
-Acquisition of a cooperatively run automated DNA Sequencer (Principal Investigator).
United States Department of Agriculture Equipment Grant, $42,500 + $42,500
matching funds from Duquesne University, August 1995-1996.
-Acquisition of updated equipment for an integrated cell and molecular biology
laboratory (Co-Principal Investigator). National Science Foundation ILI grant
$33,627 + $33,627 matching funds from Duquesne University, July 1996- 1998.
-Acquisition of a scintillation counter and high speed centrifuge (Co-Principal
Investigator). National Science Foundation (BIR9420104). $41,305 +
$17,702 matching funds. Mar1995- Feb1996.
-Introducing modern investigative laboratories in cellular, genetic, and
developmental biology to undergraduates at Duquesne University
(Co-principal investigator). National Science Foundation BIR-9322152,
$20,812 + $20,812 matching funds, July 1992 -Dec 1994.
AWARDS AND HONORS
-President’s Award for Faculty Excellence. 2003. University of
South Florida
EDITORIAL DUTIES
-Invertebrate Biology editorial board, 1997-present
-Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution editorial board, 2001-present.
SYMPOSIA AND MEETINGS ORGANIZED
-Lesser-known protostome taxa: ecology, development and evolution. Symposium
organized for the 2001 SICB meeting in Atlanta.
-Ninth International Tardigrade Symposium held in Tampa Florida in July 2003.
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
Phylogeny and Evolution
Mallatt, JM, Garey JR and Shultz, JW (2003). Ecdysozoan phylogeny and Bayesian inference: first use of nearly complete 28S and 18S rRNA gene sequences to classify the arthropods and their kin, In Press, Available online 2 October 2003.
Massey SE, Moura G, Beltrao P, Almeida R, Garey JR, Tuite MF. (2003). Comparative
evolutionary genomics unveils the molecular mechanism of reassignment of
the CTG codon in Candida spp. Genome Res 13 (4): 544-557.
Garey, J.R. (2003) Ecdysozoa: the evidence for a close relationship between
arthropods and nematodes. in New Panorama of Animal Evolution, Proceedings
of the XVIII International Congress of Zoology. pp 503-509.
Bleidorn, C., Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. And Garey, J.R. (2002). Systematic relationships of Nematomorpha based on molecular (18S rRNA gene) and morphological data. Invert. Biol. 121 (4): 357-364.
Garey JR (2002). The lesser-known protostome taxa: An introduction and
a tribute to Robert P. Higgins. Integ. Comp. Biol. 42 (3): 611-618.
Garey, J.R. (2001). Ecdysozoa: the relationship between Cycloneuralia and
Panarthropoda. Zool. Anz. 240: 321-330.
Gray, K.M. and Garey, J.R. (2001). The evolution of
bacterial LuxI and LuxR quorum sensing regulators. Microbiology, 147: 2379-2387
Near, T.J., Garey, J.R., Nadler, S.A. (1998) Phylogenetic relationships of the acanthocephala inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA sequences. Molec. Phyl. Evol., 10: 287-298.
Aguinaldo A.M. A., Turbeville J.M., Linford L.S., Hebshi L., Rivera M.C., Garey J.R., Raff R.A.and Lake J.A. (1997) Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals. Nature 387: 489-493.
Garey J.R., Near T.J., Nonnemacher M.R., and Nadler S.A. 1996. Molecular evidence for Acanthocephala as a sub-taxon of Rotifera. J. Mol. Evol. 43: 287-292.
Mackey, L.Y., Winnepennickx, B., Backeljau, I., De Wachter, R., Emschermann, P., and Garey, J.R. (1996) 18S rRNA suggests that Entoprocta are Protostomes, unrelated to Ectoprocta. J. Mol. Evol. 42: 552-559.
Garey, J.R., Krotec, M., Nelson, D.R., and Brooks, J. (1996). Molecular analysis supports a Tardigrade-Arthropod association. Invertebrate Biology 115:79-88.
Winnepenninckx, B., Backeljau, T., Mackey, L.Y., Brooks, J.M., De Wachter, R., Kumar, S. and Garey, J.R. (1995) 18S rRNA data indicate that the aschelminthes are polyphyletic and consist of at least three distinct clades. Molec. Biol. Evol. 12: 1132-1137.
Garey, J.R. and Wolstenholme, D.R. (1989) Platyhelminth mitochondrial
DNA: Evidence for early evolutionary origin of a tRNA that contains
a dihydrouridine-arm replacement loop, and of serine-specifying AGA and AGG
codons. J. Mol. Evol., 28:374-387.
Garey, J.R., Franklin, K.F., Brown, D., Harrison, M.L., Metcalf M., and Kushner, J.P. (1993) Analysis of uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase complementary DNAs in sporadic porphyria cutanea tarda. Gastroenterology 105:165-169.
Garey, J.R., Harrison, L.M., Franklin, K.F. and Kushner, J.P. (1990) Uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase: A splice site point mutation causes the deletion of exon 6 in multiple families with familial porphyria cutanea tarda. J. Clin. Invest. 86:1416-1422.
Garey, J.R., Hansen, J.L., Harrison, L.M., Kennedy, J.B., and Kushner,
J.P. (1989) A Point Mutation in the Coding Region of
Uroporphyrinogen Decarboxylase Associated with Familial Porphyria Cutanea
Tarda, Blood 73:892-895.
Chelstowka, A., Zoladek, T., Garey, J.R., Kushner, J.P., Rytka, J., and Labbe-Bois, R. (1992) Identification of amino acid changes affecting yeast uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase activity by sequence analysis of hem12 mutant alleles. Biochem. J. 288:753-757.
Garey, J.R., Labbe-Bois, R., Cheltowska, A., Rytka, J., Harrison, L.M. Kushner, J.P., and Labbe, P. (1992) Heme biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: HEM12 gene sequence and evidence for two conserved glycines essential for enzymatic activity. Eur. J. Biochem. 205:1011-1016.
Mehra, R.K., Garey, J.R. and Winge, D.R. (1990) Selective and tandem amplification of the metallothionein gene family in Candida glabrata. J. Biol. Chem. 265:6369-6375.
Mehra, R.K., Garey, J.R., Butt, T.R., Gray, W.R. and Winge, D.R. (1989)
Candida glabrata metallothioneins: Cloning and sequence of genes
and characterization of protein. J. Biol. Chem. 264:19747-19753.
Jhiang, S., Garey, J.R. and Riggs, A.F. (1988) Exon-intron Organization in Genes of Earthworm and Vertebrate Globins. Science 240:334-336.
Garey, J.R. and Riggs, A.F. (1986) The hemoglobin of Urechis caupo: The cDNA derived amino acid sequence. J. Biol. Chem. 261:16446-16450.
Garey, J.R. and Riggs, A.F. (1984). Structure and function of hemoglobin
from Urechis caupo. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 228:320-331.
Symposia and Book Chapters (unrefereed)
Wolstenholme, D.R., Okimoto, R., Macfarlane, J.L., Pont, G.A., Chamberlin,
H.M., Garey, J.R., and Okada, N.A. (1990) Unusual features
of lower metazoan mitochondrial genomes. In: Structure, function,
and biogenesis of energy transfer systems. ed. E. Quagliariello, S. Papa,
F. Palmieri, and C. Saccone. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. Amsterdam.
Garey, J.R. and Riggs, A.F. (1986) Identification of a cDNA transcript containing the coding region for F-I globin from Urechis caupo. in "Invertebrate oxygen carriers". (Linzen, B., ed.) Springer-Verlag, N.Y.
Jhiang, S.M., Garey, J.R., and Riggs, A.F. (1986) Cloning of cDNA for globin from the earthworm Lumbricus terrestrius. in "Invertebrate oxygen carriers". (Linzen, B., ed.) Springer-Verlag, N.Y.
Garey, J.R., Brodeur, R.D., and Riggs, A.F. (1983). Isolation of RNA from
red cells of Urechis
caupo. Life Chem. Reports, Suppl. 1, 387-391.
Invited Meetings and Presentations:
-University of California, Los Angeles. Molecular Biology Department,
Simulating DNA evolution Invited seminar, Oct. 2003
.
-Complex Systems Seminar, University of South Florida, The usefulness of
simulating DNA evolution in understanding problems in phylogeny, April 2003.
-Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research at Charleston SC. Molecular Profiling: A New Method Of Inferring Meiofaunal Community Structure. March 2003.
-University of South Florida, College of Marine Sciences. Phylogeny Matters. Invited seminar January 2002.
-Washington State University, Pullman. Phylogeny Matters. Invited seminar, October 2001.
-Fifth International Acanthocephalan Workshop, Helsinki Finland. The relationship between rotifers and acanthocephalans. Invited Speaker, May 2001.
-University of South Florida, Department of Biochemistry. Phylogeny Matters. Invited seminar, March 2001.
-University of South Florida, Department of Biology. What your mother did not tell you about animal evolution. Invited Seminar, October 2000.
-University of Florida, Department of Entomology/Nematology. Ecdysozoa: the relationship between nematodes and arthropods. Invited seminar, September 2000.
- XVIIIth International Congress of Zoology, Athens, Greece. The evidence for Ecdysozoa. Invited speaker, Aug 2000.
- 8th International Symposium on Tardigrada, Copenhagen Denmark. Molecular Approaches to Tardigrade Phylogeny. Invited Speaker, July 2000.
-Society of Nematology 1999 meeting, Nematode Evolution Symposium,
Monterey CA. The Phylogenetic Relationship of Nematodes to Other Metazoan
Phyla.
-University of South Florida, Geology Department. Molecular Approaches
to Unraveling Evolutionary Histories. Invited Seminar, Sept. 1999.
-University of California, Los Angeles. Molecular Biology Department,
Metazoan Evolution. Invited seminar, Oct. 1999.
-Gordon Conference on Molecular Evolution, Invited Speaker, Ventura CA,
Jan 1998
-Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology: Metazoan Phylogeny Symposium, Invited Speaker, Boston MA, Jan 1998.
-VIII International Rotifer Symposium, Invited Speaker, St. John's University MN, June 1997.
-2nd Keystone Symposium on Molecular Helminthology. The phylogenetic position of the nematodes. Invited workshop presentation, Feb 29, 1996.
-Gordon Research Conference, Chemistry and Biology of Pyrroles 1990. Invited Speaker, The spectrum of mutations in the uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase gene responsible for hepatoerythropoietic porphyria and porphyria cutanea tarda.
-American Society of Hematology 1989. Plenary Session Speaker. The Molecular basis of familial porphyria cutanea tarda.
-Gordon Research Conference, Chemistry and Biology of Pyrroles, Invited Speaker, Wolfboro MA1988.
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS (past and present)
-American Association for the Advancement of Science
-American Microscopical Society
-American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
-International Association of Meiobenthologists
-Society for Molecular Evolution
-Society of Nematologists
-Society of Systematic Biologists
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PANELS
Systematics, Spring 1998
Biotic Surveys and Inventories, Spring 1999
EPSCoR Panel, Spring 2000
AD-HOC REVIEWER
Evolution and Development
Invertebrate Biology
Journal of Crustacean Biology
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Nature
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Science
National Science Foundation
Seagrant (Florida and National)
United States Department of Agriculture
SCUBA QUALIFICATIONS
Divemaster - PADI
Cave, Technical Cave - NSS, IANTD
Nitrox - IANTD
Technical Nitrox - NAUI
Decompression and Extended Range Diving - NAUI
Trimix - IANTD
Gas Blending - NAUI
Scientific Diver to 250 fsw - AAUS