STEVEN NADLER

Professor and Nematologist

Office: 578 Hutchison Hall
Office Phone: 530-752-2121
Lab Phones: 530-754-4321; 530-754-5123
FAX: 530-752-5809
E-Mail: sanadler@ucdavis.edu

 

 

Appointment 1996: Associate Professor, UC Davis

Assistant/Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, 1990-1996

NSF Postdoctoral Research Associate, Museum of Natural Science , Louisiana State University, 1986-1988.

NIH Postdoctoral Researcher, Experimental Parasitology Training Program, Center for Parasitology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1985-1986.

Ph.D. Louisiana State University Medical Center , New Orleans , 1985, Medical Parasitology

M.S. Louisiana State University Medical Center , New Orleans , 1982, Medical Parasitology

B.S. Southwest Missouri State , 1980, Biological Sciences  

 

Visit Professor Steven Nadler web site

 

Teaches:

Introduction to Nematology, Biology of Parasitism, Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis

 

Research:

Molecular phylogenetics and population genetic structure of nematodes; species delimitation; molecular diagnostics; host-parasite cophylogeny

 

Graduate Group and Departmental Affiliations:

Ecology (Integrative), Plant Pathology

 

Selected Publications:

 

Nadler , S.A. 2002.  Species delimitation and nematode biodiversity: phylogenies rule. Nematology, 4:615-625.  

Stock, S. P., P. De Ley, I. De Ley, M. Mundo-Ocampo, J. G. Baldwin, and S. A. Nadler. 2002. Panagrobelus stammeri Rühm, 1956 and Plectonchus hunti n. sp.: implications of new morphological observations for characterization of these genera (Nematoda: Panagrolaimoidea). Nematology, 4:403-419.  

Stock, S. P., J. F. Campbell, and S. A. Nadler. 2001. Phylogeny of Steinernema Travassos, 1927 (Cephalobina: Steinernematidae) inferred from ribosomal DNA sequences and morphological characters. Journal of Parasitology, 87:877-889.  

Nadler , S.A. , and D.S.S. Hudspeth. 2000. Phylogeny of the Ascaridoidea (Nematoda: Ascaridida) based on three genes and morphology: Hypotheses of structural and sequence evolution. Journal of Parasitology, 86:380-393.  

Nadler , S.A. , E.P. Hoberg, D.S.S. Hudspeth, and L.G. Rickard. 2000. Relationships of Nematodirus species and Nematodirus battus isolates (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) based on nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences. Journal of Parasitology,  86:588-601.  

Nadler, S. A., S. D’Amelio, H.-P. Fagerholm, B. Berland, and L. Paggi. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among species of Contracaecum Railliet & Henry, 1912 and Phocascaris Host, 1932 (Nematoda: Ascaridoidea) based on nuclear rDNA sequence data. Parasitology, 121:455-463.  

Nadler, S. A., B. J. Adams, E. T. Lyons, R. L. DeLong, and S. R. Melin.  2000. Molecular and morphometric evidence for separate species of Uncinaria (Nematoda: Ancylostomatidae) in California sea lions and northern fur seals:  Hypothesis testing supplants verification. Journal of Parasitology, 86:1099-1106.  

De Ley, P., M.-A. Félix, L.M. Frisse, S.A. Nadler, P.W. Sternberg, and W.K. Thomas. 1999.  Molecular and morphological characterization of two reproductively isolated species with mirror-image anatomy (Nematoda: Cephalobidae). Nematology, 1: 591-612.  

Baldwin, J.G., S.A. Nadler, and D.W. Freckman. 1999. Nematodes - pervading the earth and linking all life.  In Proceedings of the second national forum on biodiversity, Nature and Human Society: The Quest for a Sustainable World, P. H. Raven and T. Williams (eds.) National Academy Press, pp. 176-191.  

DeLey, I.T., P. De Ley, J.G. Baldwin, M. Mundo-Ocampo, and S.A. Nadler. 1999. Three new species of Nothacrobeles (Nematoda: Cephalobidae) from the Mojave Desert, California. Journal of Nematology, 31:482-497.

 

Research in Steve Nadler Laboratory

Laboratory Personnel

BACK