Jake Wood

Ph.D. student in integrative biology with publications on vertebrate morphology in scientific journals

Research Expertise

Paleontology

About

I have skills and experience in the following: Pipetting, DNA extraction, PCR amplification, Sanger sequencing, bioinformatics, phylogenetics, electron microscopic analysis, vertebrate dissection, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Zotero, R, & MorphoJ Business Fluent in English & Spanish, Basic in French Emergency First Response Instructor SCUBA: PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor, PADI Divemaster, & PADI Rescue Diver

Publications

Fossil Marine Vertebrates from the Juana Lopez Member of the Upper Cretaceous Carlile Shale in Southeastern Colorado, USA

Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science / May 03, 2022

Wood, J. J., Garza, D., Schumacher, B. A., Gonzales, P. B., & Shimada, K. (2022). Fossil Marine Vertebrates from the Juana Lopez Member of the Upper Cretaceous Carlile Shale in Southeastern Colorado, USA. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 125(1–2). https://doi.org/10.1660/062.125.0112

White shark comparison reveals a slender body for the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae)

Palaeontologia Electronica / Jan 01, 2024

White shark comparison reveals a slender body for the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae). (2024). Palaeontologia Electronica. https://doi.org/10.26879/1345

Body forms of extant lamniform sharks (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes), and comments on the morphology of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, and the evolution of lamniform thermophysiology

Historical Biology / Feb 06, 2022

Sternes, P. C., Wood, J. J., & Shimada, K. (2022). Body forms of extant lamniform sharks (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes), and comments on the morphology of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, and the evolution of lamniform thermophysiology. Historical Biology, 35(1), 139–151. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.2025228

Education

University of California, San Diego

BS, Marine Biology / June, 2021

San Diego, California, United States of America

DePaul University

MS, Biology / July, 2023

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Florida Atlantic University

Ph.D., Integrative Biology / June, 2029 (anticipated)

Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America

Experience

Merieux Nutrisciences

Research Microbiologist / November, 2023 — April, 2023

Performed multiple forms of PCR and method validation testing in a food science lab.

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