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Dr. Daniel L. Graf | email: dlgraf(at)bama.ua.edu | web: http://bama.ua.edu/~dlgraf/
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Cirriculum Vitae

The following summarizes my career to-date. Use the following links to jump to various headings: Education, Professional Appointments, Grants, Awards & Fellowships, Service, Publications, Presentations & Posters, and Other Scholarly Products. More detailed information about my current research and teaching can be found elsewhere on this web site.

My CV on this web page was last updated 19 January 2012.

Education

1997-2001 Ph.D. Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Dissertation: A Phylogenetic Perspective on the Evolution of the Unionoida (Mollusca Bivalvia Palaeoheterodonta): Using Pattern to Test Hypotheses of Macroevolutionary Process.
1994-1997 M.Sc. Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Thesis: Morphology, Zoogeography, and Taxonomy of Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820) (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionidae) in the Upper Mississippi, Great Lakes, and Nelson River Basins.
1989-1993 B.Sc. Biology, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Professional Appointments

2008-present Assistant Professor and Full Member of the Graduate Faculty, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
2008-present Research Associate, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2004-present Research Associate, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois.
2003-present Research Associate, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2002-2008 Assistant Curator, Malacology Department, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2000-2001 Curatorial Assistant, Research Assistant and Collections Coordinator, Mollusk Division, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1995-1997 "Casual Help" and Curatorial Assistant, Malacology Department, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1993-1994 Laboratory Assistant, Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, St. Paul.

Recent Grants, Awards & Fellowships

2007-2013 National Science Foundation, "Phylogeny on the half-shell — Assembling the Bivalve Tree of Life." Senior Investigator with Gonzalo Giribet (Museum of Comparative Zoology), DEB-AToL-0732903, $137,574.
2007-2008 IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit, Central Africa freshwater biodiversity assessment project, "Unionoida Assessment." 510 euros.
2006-2009 National Science Foundation, "Evolution in a Vortex: An Inventory of the Fishes and Mollusks of the Lower Congo River Rapids." Collaboration with Melanie Stiassny (American Museum of Natural History), DEB-BSI-0542575: $139,550 (including a supplemental award of $14,295).
2003-2008 National Science Foundation, "Systematic Revision of the Etherioidea, the Freshwater Mussels (Mollusca: Unionoida) of the Gondwanan Continents." Collaboration with Kevin Cummings (Illinois Natural History Survey), DEB-REVSYS-0316125: $199,805.
2003-2004 Global Biodiversity Information Facility, "Georeferencing the Malacology Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences." Collaboration with Gary Rosenberg, DIGIT, $49,650.

Recent Service

2009 IUCN Pan-Africa Freshwater Biodiversity Assessment Workshop participant and mollusk assessment evaluator, Cairo, Egypt, 3-7 May 2009.
2007-present Journal of Molluscan Studies, Associate Editor.
2007 American Malacological Society, Acting Chair of the Student Awards Committee during the 2007 World Congress of Malacology, Antwerp, Belgium, 16-20 July 2007.
2002-2004 American Malacological Society, Web Site Editor.
2002-2003 American Malacological Society, Systematics and Student Awards committees member.
2002-present NSF Proposal Reviews.
2000-present Numerous journal (and other scholarly publications) reviews.

Recent Publications

† indicates student collaborators. Click here for a complete list of my publications.

Graf, D.L. 2011. Types of French freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoidea) in the Arnould Locard collection at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Zoosystema 33: 451-514. doi:10.5252/z2011n4a3

Whelan, N.V.†, A.J. Geneva† & D.L. Graf. 2011. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of tropical freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) resolves the position of Coelatura and supports a monophyletic Unionidae. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 61: 504-514. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.07.016

Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2011. Freshwater mussel (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) richness and endemism in the ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar based on comprehensive museum sampling. Hydrobiologia 678: 17-36. doi:10.1007/s10750-011-0810-5

Seddon, M., C. Appleton, D. Van Damme & D.L. Graf. 2011. Freshwater molluscs of Africa: diversity, distribution, and conservation. [in] W.R.T. Darwall, K.G. Smith, D.J. Allen, R.A. Holland, I.J. Harrison & E.G.E. Broods (eds.). The Diversity of Life in African Freshwaters: Under Water, Under Threat. An Analysis of the Status and Distribution of Freshwater Species Throughout Mainland Africa. IUCN, Cambridge, UK and Gland, Switzerland. pp. 95-125. Available online from the IUCN.

Graf, D.L., A. Jørgensen, D. Van Damme & T.K. Kristensen. 2011. The status and distribution of freshwater molluscs (Mollusca). [in] E.G.E. Brooks, D.J. Allen & W.R.T. Darwall (eds.). The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Central Africa. IUCN, Cambridge, UK and Gland, Switzerland. pp. 48-61. Available online from Conservation International.

Graf, D.L. 2010. Funeral for the Nouvelle École –iana generic names introduced for freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 159: 1-24. doi:10.1635/053.159.0101

Recent Presentations & Posters

† indicates student collaborators. Click here for a complete list of presentations & posters.

"Global freshwater bivalve diversity" by Daniel L. Graf. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Malacological Society as part of the James H. Lee Memorial Symposium, Mollusks: The Great Unanswered Questions, 23-27 July, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

"Patterns of freshwater mussel richness and endemism in Africa and Madagascar" by Daniel L. Graf & Kevin S. Cummings. Presented at the biennial meeting of the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society, 11-15 April 2011, Louisville, Kentucky.

"Polyphyly of the freshwater mussel genus Lamprotula (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionidae)" by John M. Pfeiffer† & Daniel L. Graf. Presented at the Southeastern Ecology and Evolution Conference, 25-27 March 2011, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. Poster presented at the unnual meeting of the American Malacological Society, 23-27 July 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

"What, if anything, is a unionid? Coelatura Conrad, 1853 and the monophyly of the Unionidae (Bivalvia: Unionoida)" by Nathan V. Whelan†, Anthony J. Geneva† & Daniel L. Graf. Poster presented at the 2010 Molluscan Forum at the Natural History Museum, London, UK.

“Coelatura and the Monophyly of the Unionidae (Bivalvia: Unionoida)” by Daniel L. Graf & Anthony Geneva†. Presented at the 2010 joint meeting of the American Malacological Society and the Western Society of Malacologists, 26-30 June 2010, San Diego, California.

Other Recent Scholarly Products

Graf, D.L. 2008. Book review of "Freshwater Mussel Ecology- A Multifactor Approach to Distribution and Abundance by David L. Strayer." The Malaclogist 51: http://www.malacsoc.org.uk/The_Malacologist/BULL51/!musselreview51.htm

Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2002-2009. "The MUSSEL Project Web Site." Web site dedicated to explaining freshwater mussel diversity and evolution: http://www.mussel-project.net/.

Last updated 19 January 2012