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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alastair Simpson

Citation names

  • Simpson, Alastair

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F01C-971B-D272
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4133-1709
Education
Degree Classification
1995/07/01 - 2020/06/30
Concluded
 PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)
The University of Sydney School of Biological Sciences, Australia
"On the evolution of amitochondriate eukaryotes: phylogenetic examinations of pelobionts and excavate taxa " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1991/02/24 - 1994/12/01
Concluded
 Bachelor of Science (Honours) (Bachelor)
The University of Sydney School of Biological Sciences, Australia
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2000/10/01 - 2003/06/30 Postdoc (Research) Dalhousie University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Canada

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/07/01 - Current Full Professor (University Teacher) Dalhousie University Department of Biology, Canada
2008/07/01 - 2013/06/30 Associate Professor (University Teacher) Dalhousie University Department of Biology, Canada
2003/07/01 - 2008/06/30 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Dalhousie University Department of Biology, Canada
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/04/01 - 2024/03/31 Using free-living protozoan biodiversity to resolve deep eukaryote evolution
298366-2019
Principal investigator
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Ongoing
2014/04 - 2019/03 Linking microscopy-based identities to molecular identities for problem- or problematic protozoa
298366-2014
Principal investigator
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
2009/04 - 2014/03 Microbial eukaryote diversity and evolution in extraordinary environments
298366-2009
Principal investigator
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Concluded
2004/04 - 2009/03 The Evolution and Diversity of Eukaryotic Cells
298366-2004
Principal investigator
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2007/07/01 - 2017/06/30 Fellowship/Senior Fellowship; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity
IMB program
Researcher
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Canada
 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Simpson, A.G.B.; Cepicka, I.. "Amitochondriate protists (diplomonads, parabasalids and oxymonads)". 86-98. 2019.
  2. Simpson, A.G.B.. "Jakobida". 973-1003. 2017.
  3. Simpson, A.G.B.; Slamovits, C.H.; Archibald, J.M.. "Protist diversity and eukaryote phytogeny". 1-21. 2017.
  4. Pánek, T.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Brown, M.W.; Dyer, B.D.. "Heterolobosea". 1005-1046. 2017.
  5. Leander, B.S.; Lax, G.; Karnkowska, A.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Euglenida". 1047-1088. 2017.
  6. Heiss, A.A.; Brown, M.W.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Apusomonadida". 1619-1645. 2017.
  7. Simpson, A.G.B.; Eglit, Y.. "Protist Diversification". 344-360. 2016.
  8. Roger, A.J.; Kolisko, M.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Phylogenomic Analysis". 44-69. 2013.
  9. Simpson, A.G.B.; Cepicka, I.. "Amitochondriate Protists (Diplomonads, Parabasalids and Oxymonads)". 545-557. 2009.
Journal article
  1. Andrea S. Gigeroff; Yana Eglit; Alastair G.B. Simpson. "Characterisation and Cultivation of New Lineages of Colponemids, a Critical Assemblage for Inferring Alveolate Evolution". Protist (2023): 125949-125949. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2023.125949.
    10.1016/j.protis.2023.125949
  2. ThankGod Ebenezer; Ross Low; Ellis C. O'Neill; I-Shuo Huang; Antonio DeSimone; Scott Farrow; Rob Field; et al. "Euglena International Network (EIN): Driving euglenoid biotechnology for the benefit of a challenged world". Biology Open 11 11 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.059561.
    10.1242/bio.059561
  3. Daria Tashyreva; Alastair G.B. Simpson; Galina Prokopchuk; Ingrid Škodová-Sveráková; Anzhelika Butenko; Michael Hammond; Emma E. George; et al. "Diplonemids – A Review on "New" Flagellates on the Oceanic Block". Protist 173 2 (2022): 125868-125868. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2022.125868.
    10.1016/j.protis.2022.125868
  4. Kiran More; Alastair G. B. Simpson; Sebastian Hess. "Description of the marine predator Sericomyxa perlucida gen. et sp. nov., a cultivated representative of the deepest branching lineage of vampyrellid amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria)". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 68 6 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12864.
    10.1111/jeu.12864
  5. Dayana Elizabeth Salas-Leiva; Eelco Tromer; Bruce Curtis; Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist; Martin Kolisko; Zhenzhen Yi; Joan Sebastian Salas Leiva; et al. "Genomic analysis finds no evidence of canonical eukaryotic DNA processing complexes in a free-living protist". Nature Communications 12 1 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26077-2.
    10.1038/s41467-021-26077-2
  6. Alexandra Eleonore Rybarski; Frank Nitsche; Jong Soo Park; Paulina Filz; Patricia Schmidt; Ryuji Kondo; Alastair GB Simpson; Hartmut Arndt. "Revision of the phylogeny of Placididea (Stramenopiles): Molecular and morphological diversity of novel placidid protists from extreme aquatic environments". European Journal of Protistology 81 (2021): 125809-125809. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2021.125809.
    10.1016/j.ejop.2021.125809
  7. Aaron A. Heiss; Sally D. Warring; Kaleigh Lukacs; John Favate; Ashley Yang; Yangtsho Gyaltshen; Christopher Filardi; Alastair G.B. Simpson; Eunsoo Kim. "Description of Imasa heleensis , gen. nov., sp. nov. (Imasidae, fam. nov.), a Deep-Branching Marine Malawimonad and Possible Key Taxon in Understanding Early Eukaryotic Evolution". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 68 2 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12837.
    10.1111/jeu.12837
  8. Lax, G.; Kolisko, M.; Eglit, Y.; Lee, W.J.; Yubuki, N.; Karnkowska, A.; Leander, B.S.; et al. "Multigene phylogenetics of euglenids based on single-cell transcriptomics of diverse phagotrophs". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 159 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85101309562&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107088
  9. Ettahi, K.; Lhee, D.; Sung, J.Y.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Park, J.S.; Yoon, H.S.. "Evolutionary History of Mitochondrial Genomes in Discoba, Including the Extreme Halophile Pleurostomum flabellatum (Heterolobosea)". Genome biology and evolution 13 2 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85102222291&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/gbe/evaa241
  10. Euki Yazaki; Keitaro Kume; Takashi Shiratori; Yana Eglit; Goro Tanifuji; Ryo Harada; Alastair G. B. Simpson; et al. "Barthelonids represent a deep-branching metamonad clade with mitochondrion-related organelles predicted to generate no ATP". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287 1934 (2020): 20201538-20201538. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1538.
    10.1098/rspb.2020.1538
  11. Lax, G.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "The Molecular Diversity of Phagotrophic Euglenids Examined Using Single-cell Methods". Protist 171 5 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85094096198&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.protis.2020.125757
  12. Burki, F.; Roger, A.J.; Brown, M.W.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "The New Tree of Eukaryotes". Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35 1 (2020): 43-55. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85073068371&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.tree.2019.08.008
  13. Kolisko, M.; Flegontova, O.; Karnkowska, A.; Lax, G.; Maritz, J.M.; Pánek, T.; Táborský, P.; et al. "EukRef-excavates: Seven curated SSU ribosomal RNA gene databases". Database 2020 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85096814458&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/database/baaa080
  14. Jeremy G. Wideman; Gordon Lax; Guy Leonard; David S. Milner; Raquel Rodríguez-Martínez; Alastair G. B. Simpson; Thomas A. Richards. "A single-cell genome reveals diplonemid-like ancestry of kinetoplastid mitochondrial gene structure". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374 1786 (2019): 20190100-20190100. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0100.
    10.1098/rstb.2019.0100
  15. Luis Javier Galindo; Guifré Torruella; David Moreira; Yana Eglit; Alastair G. B. Simpson; Eckhard Völcker; Steffen Clauß; Purificación López-García. "Combined cultivation and single-cell approaches to the phylogenomics of nucleariid amoebae, close relatives of fungi". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374 1786 (2019): 20190094-20190094. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0094.
    10.1098/rstb.2019.0094
  16. Gordon Lax; Won Je Lee; Yana Eglit; Alastair Simpson. "Ploeotids Represent Much of the Phylogenetic Diversity of Euglenids". Protist 170 2 (2019): 233-257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2019.03.001.
    10.1016/j.protis.2019.03.001
  17. Hess, S.; Eme, L.; Roger, A.J.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "A natural toroidal microswimmer with a rotary eukaryotic flagellum". Nature Microbiology 4 10 (2019): 1620-1626. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85067032336&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/s41564-019-0478-6
  18. Frail-Gauthier, J.L.; Mudie, P.J.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Scott, D.B.. "Mesocosm and microcosm experiments on the feeding of temperate salt marsh foraminifera". Journal of Foraminiferal Research 49 3 (2019): 259-274. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85071194343&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.2113/gsjfr.49.3.259
  19. Tikhonenkov, D.V.; Jhin, S.H.; Eglit, Y.; Miller, K.; Plotnikov, A.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Park, S.. "Ecological and evolutionary patterns in the enigmatic protist genus Percolomonas (Heterolobosea; Discoba) from diverse habitats". PLoS ONE 14 8 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85071399926&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0216188
  20. More, K.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Hess, S.. "Two New Marine Species of Placopus (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria) That Perforate the Theca of Tetraselmis (Chlorodendrales, Viridiplantae)". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 66 4 (2019): 560-573. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85057140047&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jeu.12698
  21. Joshua D. Goodwin; Thomas F. Lee; Paul Kugrens; Alastair G.B. Simpson. "Allobodo chlorophagus n. gen. n. sp., a Kinetoplastid that Infiltrates and Feeds on the Invasive Alga Codium fragile". Protist 169 6 (2018): 911-925. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2018.07.001.
    10.1016/j.protis.2018.07.001
  22. Aaron A. Heiss; Martin Kolisko; Fleming Ekelund; Matthew W. Brown; Andrew J. Roger; Alastair G. B. Simpson. "Combined morphological and phylogenomic re-examination of malawimonads, a critical taxon for inferring the evolutionary history of eukaryotes". Royal Society Open Science 5 4 (2018): 171707-171707. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171707.
    10.1098/rsos.171707
  23. Buchwald, R.; Scheibling, R.E.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Detection and quantification of a keystone pathogen in a coastal marine ecosystem". Marine Ecology Progress Series 606 (2018): 79-90. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85056842451&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3354/meps12776
  24. Harding, T.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Recent Advances in Halophilic Protozoa Research". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 65 4 (2018): 556-570. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85044575019&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jeu.12495
  25. Brown, M.W.; Heiss, A.A.; Kamikawa, R.; Inagaki, Y.; Yabuki, A.; Tice, A.K.; Shiratori, T.; et al. "Phylogenomics Places Orphan Protistan Lineages in a Novel Eukaryotic Super-Group". Genome Biology and Evolution 10 2 (2018): 427-433. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85043236058&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/gbe/evy014
  26. del Campo, J.; Kolisko, M.; Boscaro, V.; Santoferrara, L.F.; Nenarokov, S.; Massana, R.; Guillou, L.; et al. "EukRef: Phylogenetic curation of ribosomal RNA to enhance understanding of eukaryotic diversity and distribution". PLoS Biology 16 9 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85054785575&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pbio.2005849
  27. Lax, G.; Eglit, Y.; Eme, L.; Bertrand, E.M.; Roger, A.J.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes". Nature 564 7736 (2018): 410-414. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85058872993&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/s41586-018-0708-8
  28. Harding, T.; Roger, A.J.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Adaptations to high salt in a halophilic protist: Differential expression and gene acquisitions through duplications and gene transfers". Frontiers in Microbiology 8 MAY (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85019735760&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3389/fmicb.2017.00944
  29. Berney, C.; Ciuprina, A.; Bender, S.; Brodie, J.; Edgcomb, V.; Kim, E.; Rajan, J.; et al. "UniEuk: Time to Speak a Common Language in Protistology!". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 64 3 (2017): 407-411. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85018536513&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jeu.12414
  30. Yang, J.; Harding, T.; Kamikawa, R.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Roger, A.J.. "Mitochondrial genome evolution and a novel RNA editing system in deep-branching heteroloboseids". Genome Biology and Evolution 9 5 (2017): 1161-1174. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85026628611&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/gbe/evx086
  31. Leger, M.M.; Kolisko, M.; Kamikawa, R.; Stairs, C.W.; Kume, K.; Cepicka, I.; Silberman, J.D.; et al. "Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes". Nature Ecology and Evolution 1 4 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85029914924&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/s41559-017-0092
  32. Xu, F.; Jerlström-Hultqvist, J.; Kolisko, M.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Roger, A.J.; Svärd, S.G.; Andersson, J.O.. "On the reversibility of parasitism: Adaptation to a free-living lifestyle via gene acquisitions in the diplomonad Trepomonas sp. PC1". BMC Biology 14 1 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84979687755&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s12915-016-0284-z
  33. Harding, T.; Brown, M.W.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Roger, A.J.. "Osmoadaptative strategy and its molecular signature in obligately halophilic heterotrophic protists". Genome Biology and Evolution 8 7 (2016): 2241-2258. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85015647587&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/gbe/evw152
  34. Park, J.S.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Characterization of a Deep-Branching Heterolobosean, Pharyngomonas turkanaensis n. Sp., Isolated from a Non-Hypersaline Habitat, and Ultrastructural Comparison of Cysts and Amoebae among Pharyngomonas Strains". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 63 1 (2016): 100-111. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84954074982&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jeu.12260
  35. Novák, L.; Zubácová, Z.; Karnkowska, A.; Kolisko, M.; Hroudová, M.; Stairs, C.W.; Simpson, A.G.B.; et al. "Arginine deiminase pathway enzymes: evolutionary history in metamonads and other eukaryotes". BMC Evolutionary Biology 16 1 (2016): 1-14. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84991058726&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s12862-016-0771-4
  36. Park, J.S.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Diversity of Heterotrophic Protists from Extremely Hypersaline Habitats". Protist 166 4 (2015): 422-437. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84937135179&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.protis.2015.06.001
  37. Zhang, Q.; Táborský, P.; Silberman, J.D.; Pánek, T.; Cepicka, I.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Marine Isolates of Trimastix marina Form a Plesiomorphic Deep-branching Lineage within Preaxostyla, Separate from Other Known Trimastigids (Paratrimastix n. gen.)". Protist 166 4 (2015): 468-491. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84939788947&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.protis.2015.07.003
  38. Kirby, W.A.; Tikhonenkov, D.V.; Mylnikov, A.P.; Janouškovec, J.; Lax, G.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Characterization of Tulamoeba bucina n. sp., an extremely halotolerant amoeboflagellate heterolobosean belonging to the Tulamoeba-Pleurostomum clade (Tulamoebidae n. fam.)". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 62 2 (2015): 227-238. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84924021614&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jeu.12172
  39. Heiss, A.A.; Lee, W.J.; Ishida, K.-I.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Cultivation and characterisation of new species of apusomonads (the sister group to opisthokonts), including close relatives of Thecamonas (Chelonemonas n. gen.)". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 62 5 (2015): 637-649. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84941175296&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jeu.12220
  40. Buchwald, R.T.; Feehan, C.J.; Scheibling, R.E.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Low temperature tolerance of a sea urchin pathogen: Implications for benthic community dynamics in a warming ocean". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 469 (2015): 1-9. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84928227400&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jembe.2015.04.006
  41. Lee, W.J.; Miller, K.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Morphological and molecular characterization of a new species of Stephanopogon, Stephanopogon pattersoni n. sp.". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 61 4 (2014): 389-398. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84903879426&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jeu.12124
  42. Lee, W.J.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Ultrastructure and molecular phylogenetic position of Neometanema parovale sp. nov. (Neometanema gen. nov.), a marine phagotrophic euglenid with skidding motility". Protist 165 4 (2014): 452-472. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84902490347&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.protis.2014.05.001
  43. Pánek, T.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Hampl, V.; Cepicka, I.. "Creneis carolina gen. et sp. nov. (Heterolobosea), a Novel Marine Anaerobic Protist with Strikingly Derived Morphology and Life Cycle". Protist 165 4 (2014): 542-567. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84903765561&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.protis.2014.05.005
  44. Keeling, P.J.; Burki, F.; Wilcox, H.M.; Allam, B.; Allen, E.E.; Amaral-Zettler, L.A.; Armbrust, E.V.; et al. "The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing". PLoS Biology 12 6 (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84903286893&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pbio.1001889
  45. Lee, W.J.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Morphological and molecular characterisation of notosolenus urceolatus Larsen and Patterson 1990, a member of an understudied deep-branching Euglenid group (Petalomonads)". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 61 5 (2014): 463-479. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84930064642&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jeu.12126
  46. Brown MW; Sharpe SC; Silberman JD; Heiss AA; Lang BF; Simpson AG; Roger AJ. "Phylogenomics demonstrates that breviate flagellates are related to opisthokonts and apusomonads.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23986111.
    10.1098/rspb.2013.1755
  47. Heiss AA; Walker G; Simpson AG. "The microtubular cytoskeleton of the apusomonad Thecamonas, a sister lineage to the opisthokonts.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23872341.
    10.1016/j.protis.2013.05.005
  48. Heiss AA; Walker G; Simpson AG. "The flagellar apparatus of Breviata anathema, a eukaryote without a clear supergroup affinity.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23523042.
    10.1016/j.ejop.2013.01.001
  49. Yubuki N; Simpson AG; Leander BS. "Comprehensive ultrastructure of Kipferlia bialata provides evidence for character evolution within the Fornicata (Excavata).". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23517666.
    10.1016/j.protis.2013.02.002
  50. Feehan CJ; Johnson-Mackinnon J; Scheibling RE; Lauzon-Guay JS; Simpson AG. "Validating the identity of Paramoeba invadens, the causative agent of recurrent mass mortality of sea urchins in Nova Scotia, Canada.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23574707.
    10.3354/dao02577
  51. Harding T; Brown MW; Plotnikov A; Selivanova E; Park JS; Gunderson JH; Baumgartner M; et al. "Amoeba stages in the deepest branching heteroloboseans, including Pharyngomonas: evolutionary and systematic implications.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23021907.
    10.1016/j.protis.2012.08.002
  52. Yubuki N; Simpson AG; Leander BS. "Reconstruction of the feeding apparatus in Postgaardi mariagerensis provides evidence for character evolution within the Symbiontida (Euglenozoa).". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22925570.
    10.1016/j.ejop.2012.07.001
  53. Kamikawa R; Brown MW; Nishimura Y; Sako Y; Heiss AA; Yubuki N; Gawryluk R; et al. "Parallel re-modeling of EF-1a function: divergent EF-1a genes co-occur with EFL genes in diverse distantly related eukaryotes.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23800323.
    10.1186/1471-2148-13-131
  54. Lax G; Simpson AG. "Combining molecular data with classical morphology for uncultured phagotrophic euglenids (Excavata): a single-cell approach.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23879661.
    10.1111/jeu.12068
  55. O'Malley, M.A.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Roger, A.J.. "The other eukaryotes in light of evolutionary protistology". Biology and Philosophy 28 2 (2013): 299-330. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84874564291&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10539-012-9354-y
  56. Adl SM; Simpson AG; Lane CE; Lukeš J; Bass D; Bowser SS; Brown MW; et al. "The revised classification of eukaryotes.". (2012): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23020233.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00644.x
  57. Zhang Q; Simpson A; Song W. "Insights into the phylogeny of systematically controversial haptorian ciliates (Ciliophora, Litostomatea) based on multigene analyses.". (2012): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22378805.
    10.1098/rspb.2011.2688
  58. Takishita K; Kolisko M; Komatsuzaki H; Yabuki A; Inagaki Y; Cepicka I; Smejkalová P; et al. "Multigene phylogenies of diverse Carpediemonas-like organisms identify the closest relatives of 'amitochondriate' diplomonads and retortamonads.". (2012): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22364773.
    10.1016/j.protis.2011.12.007
  59. Pawlowski J; Audic S; Adl S; Bass D; Belbahri L; Berney C; Bowser SS; et al. "CBOL protist working group: barcoding eukaryotic richness beyond the animal, plant, and fungal kingdoms.". (2012): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23139639.
    10.1371/journal.pbio.1001419
  60. Park JS; De Jonckheere JF; Simpson AG. "Characterization of Selenaion koniopes n. gen., n. sp., an amoeba that represents a new major lineage within heterolobosea, isolated from the Wieliczka salt mine.". (2012): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22888835.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00641.x
  61. Park JS; Simpson AG. "Characterization of Pharyngomonas kirbyi (= "Macropharyngomonas halophila" nomen nudum), a very deep-branching, obligately halophilic heterolobosean flagellate.". (2011): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21723194.
    10.1016/j.protis.2011.05.004
  62. Mora C; Tittensor DP; Adl S; Simpson AG; Worm B. "How many species are there on Earth and in the ocean?". (2011): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21886479.
    10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127
  63. Heiss AA; Walker G; Simpson AG. "The ultrastructure of Ancyromonas, a eukaryote without supergroup affinities.". (2011): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21420357.
    10.1016/j.protis.2010.08.004
  64. Tong J; Dolezal P; Selkrig J; Crawford S; Simpson AG; Noinaj N; Buchanan SK; Gabriel K; Lithgow T. "Ancestral and derived protein import pathways in the mitochondrion of Reclinomonas americana.". (2011): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21081480.
    10.1093/molbev/msq305
  65. Kolisko M; Silberman JD; Cepicka I; Yubuki N; Takishita K; Yabuki A; Leander BS; et al. "A wide diversity of previously undetected free-living relatives of diplomonads isolated from marine/saline habitats.". (2010): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/20482740.
    10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02239.x
  66. Kim E; Park JS; Simpson AG; Matsunaga S; Watanabe M; Murakami A; Sommerfeld K; Onodera NT; Archibald JM. "Complex array of endobionts in Petalomonas sphagnophila, a large heterotrophic euglenid protist from Sphagnum-dominated peatlands.". (2010): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/20376101.
    10.1038/ismej.2010.40
  67. Park JS; Simpson AG. "Characterization of halotolerant Bicosoecida and Placididea (Stramenopila) that are distinct from marine forms, and the phylogenetic pattern of salinity preference in heterotrophic stramenopiles.". (2010): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/20132281.
    10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02158.x
  68. Wilson, S.L.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Lynn, D.H.. "Maintaining journal figure quality". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 57 3 (2010): 221-222. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77951558946&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2010.00478.x
  69. Heiss AA; Walker G; Simpson AG. "Clarifying the taxonomic identity of a phylogenetically important group of eukaryotes: Planomonas is a junior synonym of Ancyromonas.". (2010): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/20384907.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2010.00477.x
  70. Park JS; Kolisko M; Simpson AG. "Cell morphology and formal description of Ergobibamus cyprinoides n. g., n. sp., another Carpediemonas-like relative of diplomonads.". (2010): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/20880032.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2010.00506.x
  71. Park JS; Simpson AG; Brown S; Cho BC. "Ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of two heterolobosean amoebae, Euplaesiobystra hypersalinica gen. et sp. nov. and Tulamoeba peronaphora gen. et sp. nov., isolated from an extremely hypersaline habitat.". (2009): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/19121603.
    10.1016/j.protis.2008.10.002
  72. Hampl V; Hug L; Leigh JW; Dacks JB; Lang BF; Simpson AG; Roger AJ. "Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups".". (2009): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/19237557.
    10.1073/pnas.0807880106
  73. Roger AJ; Simpson AG. "Evolution: revisiting the root of the eukaryote tree.". (2009): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/19243692.
    10.1016/j.cub.2008.12.032
  74. Park JS; Kolisko M; Heiss AA; Simpson AG. "Light microscopic observations, ultrastructure, and molecular phylogeny of Hicanonectes teleskopos n. g., n. sp., a deep-branching relative of diplomonads.". (2009): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/19602083.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2009.00412.x
  75. Lynn DH; Simpson AG. "From the editors: describing new taxa of unicellular protists.". (2009): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/19737191.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2009.00440.x
  76. Simpson AG; Perley TA; Lara E. "Lateral transfer of the gene for a widely used marker, alpha-tubulin, indicated by a multi-protein study of the phylogenetic position of Andalucia (Excavata).". (2008): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/18226931.
    10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.035
  77. Sanchez-Perez GF; Hampl V; Simpson AG; Roger AJ. "A new divergent type of eukaryotic methionine adenosyltransferase is present in multiple distantly related secondary algal lineages.". (2008): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/19017057.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2008.00349.x
  78. Kolisko M; Cepicka I; Hampl V; Leigh J; Roger AJ; Kulda J; Simpson AG; Flegr J. "Molecular phylogeny of diplomonads and enteromonads based on SSU rRNA, alpha-tubulin and HSP90 genes: implications for the evolutionary history of the double karyomastigont of diplomonads.". (2008): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/18627633.
    10.1186/1471-2148-8-205
  79. Adl SM; Leander BS; Simpson AG; Archibald JM; Anderson OR; Bass D; Bowser SS; et al. "Diversity, nomenclature, and taxonomy of protists.". (2007): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/17661235.
    10.1080/10635150701494127
  80. Park JS; Simpson AG; Lee WJ; Cho BC. "Ultrastructure and phylogenetic placement within Heterolobosea of the previously unclassified, extremely halophilic heterotrophic flagellate Pleurostomum flabellatum (Ruinen 1938).". (2007): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/17576098.
    10.1016/j.protis.2007.03.004
  81. Park JS; Cho BC; Simpson AG. "Halocafeteria seosinensis gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida), a halophilic bacterivorous nanoflagellate isolated from a solar saltern.". (2006): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/16874468.
    10.1007/s00792-006-0001-x
  82. Kim E; Simpson AG; Graham LE. "Evolutionary relationships of apusomonads inferred from taxon-rich analyses of 6 nuclear encoded genes.". (2006): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/16982820.
    10.1093/molbev/msl120
  83. Simpson AG; Stevens JR; Lukes J. "The evolution and diversity of kinetoplastid flagellates.". (2006): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/16504583.
    10.1016/j.pt.2006.02.006
  84. Simpson AG; Inagaki Y; Roger AJ. "Comprehensive multigene phylogenies of excavate protists reveal the evolutionary positions of "primitive" eukaryotes.". (2006): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/16308337.
    10.1093/molbev/msj068
  85. Lara E; Chatzinotas A; Simpson AG. "Andalucia (n. gen.)--the deepest branch within jakobids (Jakobida; Excavata), based on morphological and molecular study of a new flagellate from soil.". (2006): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/16579813.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00081.x
  86. Simpson AG. "Evolution downunder: meeting report for the 15th Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology (ISEP XV).". (2005): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/16171182.
    10.1016/j.protis.2005.05.002
  87. Miao W; Simpson AG; Fu C; Lobban CS. "The giant zooxanthellae-bearing ciliate Maristentor dinoferus (Heterotrichea) is closely related to folliculinidae.". (2005): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/15702974.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.3311r.x
  88. Adl SM; Simpson AG; Farmer MA; Andersen RA; Anderson OR; Barta JR; Bowser SS; et al. "The new higher level classification of eukaryotes with emphasis on the taxonomy of protists.". (2005): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/16248873.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00053.x
  89. Lee, W.J.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Patterson, D.J.. "Free-living heterotrophic flagellates from freshwater sites in Tasmania (Australia), a field survey". Acta Protozoologica 44 4 (2005): 321-350. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-27844436589&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  90. Simpson AG; Gill EE; Callahan HA; Litaker RW; Roger AJ. "Early evolution within kinetoplastids (euglenozoa), and the late emergence of trypanosomatids.". (2004): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/15648721.
    10.1078/1434461042650389
  91. Simpson AG; Roger AJ. "The real 'kingdoms' of eukaryotes.". (2004): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/15341755.
    10.1016/j.cub.2004.08.038
  92. Inagaki Y; Simpson A; Dacks J; Roger A. "Phylogenetic artifacts can be caused by leucine, serine, and arginine codon usage heterogeneity: dinoflagellate plastid origins as a case study.". (2004): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/15371248.
    10.1080/10635150490468756
  93. Simpson AG; Roger AJ. "Protein phylogenies robustly resolve the deep-level relationships within Euglenozoa.". (2004): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/15022770.
    10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00177-5
  94. Brugerolle G; Simpson AG. "The flagellar apparatus of heteroloboseans.". (2004): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/15068271.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2004.tb00169.x
  95. Simpson AG. "Cytoskeletal organization, phylogenetic affinities and systematics in the contentious taxon Excavata (Eukaryota).". (2003): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/14657103.
    10.1099/ijs.0.02578-0
  96. Dacks JB; Simpson AG. "Meeting report: XIVth meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, Vancouver, Canada, June 19-24, 2002.". (2002): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/12627863.
    10.1078/14344610260450064
  97. Simpson AG; Lukes J; Roger AJ. "The evolutionary history of kinetoplastids and their kinetoplasts.". (2002): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/12446799.
  98. Simpson AG; Roger AJ. "Eukaryotic evolution: getting to the root of the problem.". (2002): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/12401185.
    10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01207-1
  99. Simpson AG; Roger AJ; Silberman JD; Leipe DD; Edgcomb VP; Jermiin LS; Patterson DJ; Sogin ML. "Evolutionary history of "early-diverging" eukaryotes: the excavate taxon Carpediemonas is a close relative of Giardia.". (2002): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/12270904.
  100. Simpson AG; MacQuarrie EK; Roger AJ. "Eukaryotic evolution: early origin of canonical introns.". (2002): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/12239559.
    10.1038/419270a
  101. Edgcomb VP; Simpson AG; Zettler LA; Nerad TA; Patterson DJ; Holder ME; Sogin ML. "Pelobionts are degenerate protists: insights from molecules and morphology.". (2002): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/12032256.
  102. Silberman JD; Simpson AG; Kulda J; Cepicka I; Hampl V; Johnson PJ; Roger AJ. "Retortamonad flagellates are closely related to diplomonads--implications for the history of mitochondrial function in eukaryote evolution.". (2002): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/11961110.
  103. Simpson, A.G.B.; Roger, A.J.; Silberman, J.D.; Leipe, D.D.; Edgcomb, V.P.; Jermiin, L.S.; Patterson, D.J.; Sogin, M.L.. "Evolutionary history of "early-diverging" eukaryotes: The excavate taxon Carpediemonas is a close relative of Giardia". Molecular Biology and Evolution 19 10 (2002): 1782-1791. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036791132&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004000
  104. Edgcomb, V.P.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Zettler, L.A.; Nerad, T.A.; Patterson, D.J.; Holder, M.E.; Sogin, M.L.. "Pelobionts are degenerate protists: Insights from molecules and morphology [5]". Molecular Biology and Evolution 19 6 (2002): 978-982. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036275724&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004157
  105. Simpson, A.G.B.; Lukeš, J.; Roger, A.J.. "The evolutionary history of kinetoplastids and their kinetoplasts". Molecular Biology and Evolution 19 12 (2002): 2071-2083. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036900271&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004032
  106. Simpson AG; Radek R; Dacks JB; O'Kelly CJ. "How oxymonads lost their groove: an ultrastructural comparison of Monocercomonoides and excavate taxa.". (2002): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/12120989.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2002.tb00529.x
  107. Silberman, J.D.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Kulda, J.; Cepicka, I.; Hampl, V.; Johnson, P.J.; Roger, A.J.. "Retortamonad flagellates are closely related to diplomonads - Implications for the history of mitochondrial function in eukaryote evolution". Molecular Biology and Evolution 19 5 (2002): 777-786. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036095568&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004135
  108. Al-Qassab, S.; Lee, W.J.; Murray, S.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Patterson, D.J.. "Flagellates from stromatolites and surrounding sediments in Shark Bay, Western Australia". Acta Protozoologica 41 2 (2002): 91-144. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036284995&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  109. Lobban, C.S.; Schefter, M.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Pochon, X.; Pawlowski, J.; Foissner, W.. "Maristentor dinoferus n. gen., n. sp., a giant heterotrich ciliate (Spirotrichea: Heterotrichida) with zooxanthellae, from coral reefs on Guam, Mariana Islands". Marine Biology 140 2 (2002): 411-423. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036934570&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s002270100690
  110. Dacks, J.B.; Silberman, J.D.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Moriya, S.; Kudo, T.; Ohkuma, M.; Redfield, R.J.. "Oxymonads are closely related to the excavate taxon Trimastix". Molecular Biology and Evolution 18 6 (2001): 1034-1044. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0034989519&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003875
  111. Walker, G.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Edgcomb, V.; Sogin, M.L.; Patterson, D.J.. "Ultrastructural identities of Mastigamoeba punctachora, Mastigamoeba simplex and Mastigella commutans and assessment of hypotheses of relatedness of the pelobionts (Protista)". European Journal of Protistology 37 1 (2001): 25-49. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035015189&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1078/0932-4739-00780
  112. Simpson, A.G.B.; Patterson, D.J.. "On core jakobids and excavate taxa: The ultrastructure of Jakoba incarcerata". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 48 4 (2001): 480-492. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0034932136&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1550-7408.2001.tb00183.x
  113. Edgcomb, V.P.; Roger, A.J.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Kysela, D.T.; Sogin, M.L.. "Evolutionary relationships among "jakobid" flagellates as indicated by alpha- and beta-tubulin phylogenies". Molecular Biology and Evolution 18 4 (2001): 514-522. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035063264&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003830
  114. Buck, K.R.; Barry, J.P.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Monterey Bay cold seep biota: Euglenozoa with chemoautotrophic bacterial epibionts". European Journal of Protistology 36 2 (2000): 117-126. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0034738449&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0932-4739(00)80029-2
  115. Bernard, C.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Patterson, D.J.. "Some free-living flagellates (protista) from anoxic habitats". Ophelia 52 2 (2000): 113-142. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0034130551&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/00785236.1999.10409422
  116. Simpson, A.G.B.; Bernard, C.; Patterson, D.J.. "The ultrastructure of Trimastix marina kent, 1880 (Eukaryota), an excavate flagellate". European Journal of Protistology 36 3 (2000): 229-251. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0034714883&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0932-4739(00)80001-2
  117. Weerakoon, N.D.; Harper, J.D.I.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Patterson, D.J.. "Centrin in the groove: Immunolocalisation of centrin and microtubules in the putatively primitive protist Chilomastix cuspidata (Retortamonadida)". Protoplasma 210 1-2 (1999): 75-84. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0033374954&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/BF01314957
  118. Patterson, D.J.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Weerakoon, N.. "Free-living flagellates from anoxic habitats and the assembly of the eukaryotic cell". Biological Bulletin 196 3 (1999): 381-384. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0032995752&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.2307/1542975
  119. Simpson, A.G.B.; Patterson, D.J.. "The ultrastructure of Carpediemonas membranifera (Eukaryota) with reference to the 'excavate hypothesis'". European Journal of Protistology 35 4 (1999): 353-370. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0033619980&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0932-4739(99)80044-3
  120. Edgcomb, V.; Viscogliosi, E.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Delgado-Viscogliosi, P.; Roger, A.J.; Sogin, M.L.. "New insights into the phylogeny of trichomonads inferred from small subunit rRNA sequences". Protist 149 4 (1998): 359-366. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0032408255&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S1434-4610(98)70042-2
  121. Simpson, A.G.B.; Bernard, C.; Fenchel, T.; Patterson, D.J.. "The organisation of Mastigamoeba schizophrenia n. sp.: More evidence of ultrastructural idiosyncrasy and simplicity in pelobiont protists". European Journal of Protistology 33 1 (1997): 87-98. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0030944830&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0932-4739(97)80024-7
  122. Simpson, A.G.B.. "The identity and composition of the Euglenozoa". Archiv fur Protistenkunde 148 3 (1997): 318-328. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0030666484&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0003-9365(97)80012-7
  123. Simpson, A.G.B.; Van Den Hopp, J.; Bernard, C.; Burton, H.R.; Patterson, D.J.. "The ultrastructure and systematic position of the euglenozoon postgaardi mariagerensis". Archiv fur Protistenkunde 147 3-4 (1997): 213-225. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0030794609&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0003-9365(97)80049-8
  124. Bernard, C.; Simpson, A.G.B.; Patterson, D.J.. "An ultrastructural study of a free-living retortamonad, Chilomastix cuspidata (Larsen and Patterson, 1990) n. comb. (Retortamonadida, protista)". European Journal of Protistology 33 3 (1997): 254-265. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0030772059&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0932-4739(97)80003-X
  125. Patterson, D.J.; Simpson, A.G.B.. "Heterotrophic flagellates from coastal marine and hypersaline sediments in Western Australia". European Journal of Protistology 32 4 (1996): 423-448. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0030478613&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0932-4739(96)80003-4
  126. Simpson, A.G.B.; Patterson, D.J.. "Ultrastructure and identification of the predatory flagellate Colpodella pugnax Cienkowski (Apicomplexa) with a description of Colpodella turpis n. sp. and a review of the genus". Systematic Parasitology 33 3 (1996): 187-198. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0000048925&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/BF01531200
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/01/01 - Current Thesis title to be decided
Supervisor of Elizabeth Weston
Dalhousie University, Canada
2019/09/01 - Current Genomic and phylogenetic investigations of the early evolution of eukaryotes
Co-supervisor of Kelsey Williamson
Dalhousie University, Canada
2015/01/03 - 2022/12/23 Transforming the eukaryotic tree of life through isolation, characterisation and phylogenetics of novel free-living protists
Supervisor of Yana Eglit
Dalhousie University, Canada
2013/09/01 - 2020/02/28 Exploring the phylogenetic diversity of phagotrophic euglenids
Supervisor of Gordon Lax
Dalhousie University, Canada
2011/01/01 - 2016/11/30 Molecular adaptations in extremely halophilic protists
Co-supervisor of Tommy Harding
Dalhousie University, Canada
2015/09/01 - 2016/08/31 Detection and Quantification of an ecologically important marine pathogen, Paramoeba invadens
Supervisor of Robyn Buchwald
Dalhousie University, Canada
2006/09/01 - 2012/08/31 Studies on the Morphology and Evolution of ‘Orphan’ Eukaryotes
Supervisor of Aaron Heiss
Dalhousie University, Canada
2005/09/01 - 2011/10/31 Molecular Phylogeny of Amitochondriate Excavates
Supervisor of Martin Kolisko
Dalhousie University, Canada

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2015/01/01 - Current Protist (1443-4610) Elsevier
2004/07/01 - 2015/12/31 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology (1550-7408) Wiley
Distinctions

Award

2022 Killam Professorship
Dalhousie University, Canada
2013 Seymour H Hutner Prize
International Society of Protistologists, United States
2010 Killam Prize
Dalhousie University, Canada

Title

2021 Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
American Society for Microbiology, United States