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Wayne's day job
is Assistant to the Dean (Graduate Records and Summer School), College of Arts and Sciences.
In our laboratory, Wayne assists research both in the laboratory and the field.
His current projects are:
- Systematics of Batrachospermum species from French Guiana.
- Utilizing the cox2-3 spacer for interspecific studies in the Batrachospermales.
- Morphological and molecular characterization of Audouinella/chantransia specimens from Hawaii.
Selected papers:
- Chiasson, W.B., Sabo, N.J. & Vis, M.L. 2005. Molecular and morphological analysis of putative chantransia specimens (Rhodophyta). Phycologia (in press).
- Vis, M.L., Sheath, R.G. & Chiasson, W.B. 2004. A survey of the Rhodophyta and assocated macroalgae from coastal streams in French Guiana. Cryptogamie Algologie 25: 161-174.
- Chiasson, W.B., Machesky, N.J. & Vis, M.L. 2003. Phylogeography of a freshwater red alga,
Batrachospermum helminthosum, (Rhodophyta) in North America. Phycologia 42: 654-660.
- Müller, K.M., Vis, M.L., Chiasson, W.B., Whittick, A. &
Sheath, R.G. 1997. Phenology of a Batrachospermum population in a
boreal pond and its implications for the systematics of section Turfosa
(Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 36: 68-75.
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