EDUCATION

1998

Ph.D., College of William and Mary

1994

M.S., Florida Institute of Technology

1990

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2007-Present

Associate Professor, Biology Department, American University

2001-2007

Assistant Professor, Biology Department, American University

1999-2001

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Rochester

1998-1999

Postdoctoral fellow, The College of William and Mary

SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

1998-1999

NOAA Sea Grant. Phylogenetic Systematics and Cepalopod Biodiversity

1996-1999

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Award

1996

Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research

1995

Western Society of Malacologists Student Research Grant

PUBLICATIONS

Hense, W., N. Anderson, S. Hutter, W. Stephan, J. Parsch, and D. B. Carlini. Submitted. Experimental increase of codon bias in the Drosophila Adh gene has no effect on ADH protein expression.

Carlini, D. B., L. K. Kunkle, and M. Vecchione. 2006. A molecular systematic evaluation of the squid genus Illex (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) in the North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41: 496-502 [PDF article].

Carlini, D. B. and J. E. Genut. 2006. Synonymous SNPs provide evidence for selective constraint on human exonic splicing enhancers. Journal of Molecular Evolution 62: 89-98. [Abstract]

Carlini, D. B. 2005. Context-dependent codon bias and mRNA longevity in the yeast transcriptome. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22: 1403-1411. [PDF article]

Carlini, D. B. 2004. Experimental reduction of codon bias in the Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase gene results in decreased ethanol tolerance of adult flies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17: 779-785. [PDF article]

Carlini, D. B. and W. Stephan. 2003. In vivo introduction of unpreferred synonymous codons in the Drosophila Adh gene results in reduced levels of ADH protein. Genetics 163(4): 239-243. [PDF article]

Carlini, D. B., R. E. Young, and M. Vecchione. 2001. A molecular phylogeny of the Octopoda (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) evaluated in light of morphological evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21(3): 388-397. [Abstract]

Carlini, D. B., Y. Chen, and W. Stephan. 2001. The relationship between third codon position nucleotide content, codon Bias, mRNA secondary structure, and gene expression in the drosophilid alcohol dehydrogenase genes Adh and Adhr. Genetics 159 (2): 623-633. [PDF article ]

Seibel, B., and D. B. Carlini. 2001. Metabolism of pelagic cephalopods as a function of habitat depth: a reanalysis using phylogenetically independent contrasts. The Biological Bulletin 201(1): 1-5. [PDF article ]

Vecchione, M. V., R. E. Young, and D. B. Carlini. 2000. Reconstruction of ancestral character states in neocoleoid cephalopods based on parsimony. American Malacological Bulletin 15(2):179-193.

Carlini, D. B., K.S. Reece, and J. E. Graves. 2000. Actin gene family evolution and the phylogeny of coleoid cephalopods (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 17(9): 1353-1370.

Chen, Y., D. B. Carlini, J. F. Baines, J. Parsch, J. M. Braverman, S. Tanda, and W. Stephan. 2000. RNA secondary structure and compensatory evolution. Genes and Genetic Systems 74(6): 271-86.

Seibel, B., F. G. Hochberg, and D. B. Carlini. 2000. Life history of Gonatus onyx (Cephalopoda: Teuthoidea) II: deep-sea spawning and post-spawning egg care. Marine Biology 137: 519-526. [PDF article]

Carlini, D. B. and J. E. Graves 1999. Phylogenetic analysis of cytochrome c oxidase I sequences to determine higher-level relationships within the coleoid cephalopods (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Bulletin of Marine Science 64(1): 57-76.

Carlini, D. B. and J. D. Regan 1995. Photolyase activities of Elysia tuca, Bursatella leachii, and Haminaea antillarum (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 18: 219-232.

BOOK CHAPTER

Carlini, D. B. Molecular Systematics of the Coleoidea. In Press. In: R.L. Kaesler, ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part M, Cephalopoda, Coleoidea. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press. New York and Lawrence.

COMPUTER PROGRAM

CodonCalculator 0.8 A Macintosh program for calculating the codon bias in a set of aligned sequences using Wright's (1990) measure of codon bias, the effective number of codons (ENC). The download contains program as well as brief instructions and a sample input file.

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