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Professor
Timothy Mousseau received his doctoral degree in 1988 from McGill
University and completed a NSERC
(Canada) postdoctoral fellowship in
Population Biology at the University
of California, Davis.
He joined the faculty at the University
of South Carolina in 1991 and is
currently the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the College
of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Mousseau’s
experience includes having served as a program officer at the National
Science Foundation, on the editorial board for several journals, and on NSF,
USGS, and NIH advisory panels. He has published over 100 scholarly articles
and has edited two books (Maternal Effects
as Adaptations, 1998; Adaptive Genetic Variation in the Wild,
2000; both published by Oxford University Press). He is currently
co-editor-in-chief of a new annual review series, “The Year in Evolutionary
Biology”, published by the New York Academy of Sciences. He was elected a
fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in
2008.
His
books and papers have been cited over 3900 times, and he has been funded
since 1988 by NSF, USDA, DOD, CNRS, SCDNR, NFWF, NATO, NSERC (Canada), CNRS
(France), the National Geographic Society, the Sea Grant Consortium, the
Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust, and a number of private foundations. He and
his students have worked on a wide diversity of organisms, from bacteria to
beetles to birds, and his primary areas of research interest include the
genetic basis of adaptive variation, and the evolution of maternal effects.
Since 1999, Professor Mousseau and his collaborators have explored the
ecological and evolutionary consequences of low-dose radiation in natural
populations inhabiting the Chernobyl region
of Ukraine.
His research suggests that many species of plants and animals suffer from
increased mutational loads as a result of exposure to radionuclides
stemming from the Chernobyl
disaster. In some species (e.g. the barn swallow, Hirundo
rustica), this mutational load has had dramatic
consequences for reproduction and survival. Dr. Mousseau’s
current research is aimed at elucidating the causes of variation among
different species in their apparent sensitivity to radionuclide exposure.
Dr. Mousseau's
publications.
Past and present
students and postdocs.
Recent activities
related to Chernobyl.
Mousseau’s CV.
Contact
information:
email: mousseau@sc.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Gambrell 251
Columbia SC 29208
tel: 803-777-1934; fax: 803-777-4532
Department of Biological Sciences
Coker Life Sciences 706
Columbia SC 29208
tel: 803-777-8047; fax:803-777-8047
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