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Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Name: Norman Benjamin Barr

Date of Birth: February 28, 1975

Citizenship: United States of America

Address: APHIS-USDA

Moore Air Base, Bldg. S-6414

22675 N. Moorefield Rd.

Edinburg, TX 78541

Phone: (956) 580-7301

FAX: (956) 580-7300

E-mail: [email protected]

Objective: To serve as an IPPC author for diagnostic protocols regarding identification of immature stages of fruit flies of economic importance by molecular techniques.

Professional Work History

Molecular Biologist, October 2005-present

USDA-APHIS, Center for Plant Health Science and Technology (CPHST)

PDDML, 22675 N. Moorefield Rd, Bldg. S-6414

Moore Air Force Base, Edinburg, TX 78504

Projects:

Development of molecular diagnostic tools for gastropod pests using DNA barcodes
Development/improvement of population genetic methods for geographic source estimation of fruit fly pests Ceratitis capitata and Bactrocera species.
Development of molecular identification tools for Epiphyas postivittana in California
Development of DNA barcode tools for identification of tephritid pests in the subfamily Dacinae

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, October 2004-October 2005

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Department of Entomology

Projects:

Development and evaluation of nuclear genes as systematic markers in flies; Assembling the tree of life (AToL) of flies (Diptera)

Academic History

Doctor of Philosophy, Genetics, December 2004

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA,

Thesis: Molecular diagnostics and systematics of the genus Ceratitis (Tephritidae)

Master of Science, Entomology, December 2001

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA,

Thesis: Sequence analysis of the period gene in the genus Anastrepha (Tephritidae)

Bachelor of Science, Biology, May 1998

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Honor’s paper: raised Drosophila: Identification of an associative learning mutant.

Professional Experience

Member of the Steering Committee for the Tephritid Barcoding Initiative (TBI), Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, 27-28 April 2006. The TBI is a research program to develop a DNA barcode demonstrator system solicited by the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBoL). The committee comprises ten international tephritid systematics experts and is chaired by Dr. Bruce McPheron.

Reviewer for scientific journals (2004-present)

Insect Molecular Biology
Insect Science and its Application, The International Journal of Tropical Insect Science
Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Journal of Economic Entomology
Evolution

Participant in modules on Interpreting DNA Evidence and Population Genetic Data Analysis, Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics, May-June 2002, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Awards

U.S.D.A. Certificate of Appreciation for work on molecular diagnostics of slugs of economic importance. December 2006.
U.S.D.A. Certificate of Appreciation for assessment of past and needed molecular analysis for gastropods. April 2006.
The Vartkes Miroyn Memorial Award for research, Penn State University, Fall 2003
Tuition and Travel Scholarship to attend 2002 Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics at North Carolina State University: grants from National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Funds for Enhancement of Graduate Recruiting, stipend supplement from College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 2000-2003.
Graham Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, 2000-2002.
Charles Hodge IV Prize in Biology, Temple University, May 1998.
Howard Hughes Research Fellowship, Temple University, May 1997-May 1998
Howard Hughes Research Fellowship, Temple University, May 1996-August 1996.
Temple University President’s Scholar, May 1998.
Distinction in Biology, Temple University, Biol. Dept. Research Program, April 1998.

Publications

Barr, N.B., Copeland, R.S., De Meyer, M., Masiga, D., Kibogo, H.G., Billah, M.K, Osir, E., Wharton, R.A., and McPheron B.A. 2006. Molecular diagnostics of economically important fruit fly species (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Africa using PCR and RFLP analyses. Bulletin of Entomological Research 96: 505-521.

Barr, N.B. and McPheron, B.A. 2006. Molecular phylogenetics of the genus Ceratitis (Diptera: Tephritidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38: 216-230.

Barr, N.B., Cui, L., and McPheron, B.A. 2005. Molecular systematics of the nuclear gene period in the genus Anastrepha (Diptera: Tephritidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98: 173-180.

McRobert, S.P., Tompkins, L., Barr, N.B., Bradner, J., Lucas, D., Rattigan, D.M., and Tannous, A.F. 2003. Mutations in raised Drosophila melanogaster affect experience-dependent aspects of sexual behavior in both sexes. Behavior Genetics, 33 (3): 347-356.

Selected Presentations

Barr, N., Cook, A., Elder, P., Molongoski, Prasher, D., and Robinson, D. Application of a 16S rDNA barcode to diagnose pest Arion species in the U.S.A. 2007 World Congress of Malacology sponsored by the International Congress of Unitas Malacologica and the American Malacological Society, Antwerp, Belgium (July 2007)

Barr, N., McPheron, B., Erbout, N., and De Meyer, M. Molecular Phylogenetics of the Genus Ceratitis (Tephritidae). 7th International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance and the 6th Working Group on Fruit Flies of the Western Hemisphere, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. (September 2006) Invited Speaker

Barr, N.B., Copeland, R.S., De Meyer, M., Masiga, D., Kibogo, H.G., Billah, M.K, Osir, E., Wharton, R.A., and McPheron B.A. Molecular Diagnostics of the Genus Ceratitis (Tephritidae) using PCR and RFLP Analyses. 7th International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance and the 6th Working Group on Fruit Flies of the Western Hemisphere, Slavador, Bahia, Brazil. (September 2006)

De Meyer, M., Barr, N., Copeland, R.S., Erbout, N., Freidberg, A., Hancock, D.L. and White, I.M. 2006. Recent developments in the systematics of African Ceratitidina and Dacina (Diptera, Tephritidae, Dacini). 6^th International Congress of Dipterology, Fukuoka, Japan. (September 2006)

Kim, J., Barr, N., Cassel, B.,and B. M. Wiegmann. 2006.FLYTREE MOLECULES: The first tier phylogeny of Diptera using multiple nuclear genes. 6^th International Congress of Dipterology, Fukuoka, Japan. (September 2006)

Barr, N., McPheron, B., and Wiegmann, B. 2005. Phylogenetic Utility of the period locus in Diptera. The 53^rd Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. (December 2005)

Giudici, M., Wiegmann, B., Barr, N., Weilgenbach, J., and Kennedy, G. Phenology of the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae), in the Southern Appalachians: A molecular study. The 53^rd Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. (December 2005)

Barr, N. Molecular diagnosis of the Medfly, Ceratitis capitata, and other Afrotropical fruit flies (Tephritidae). Pest Detection, Diagnostic, and Management Laboratory, CPHST, USDA-APHIS. Edinburg, Texas, U.S.A. (July 2005)

Barr, N. Molecular diagnostics and systematics of the genus Ceratitis (Diptera: Tephritidae). Seminar for the Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A. (January 2005).

Barr, N. Phylogenetics of the Genus Ceratitis (Diptera: Tephritidae) based on mtDNA and the period gene. Seminar for the Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics (IMEG), Penn State University, University Park, PA, U.S.A. (November 2003)

Barr, N. Analysis of the period gene in tephritid fruit flies. Colloquium for the Intercollege Program in Genetics, Penn State University, University Park, PA, U.S.A. (October 2002)

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