Joe Zuccarello
Assistant Professor
Molecular Biology & Phycology
Victoria University Coastal Ecology Laboratory
New Zealand
Biography
Dr. Joe Zuccarello received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, this was in the days when that university did not give grades, just written evaluations! I then was a technician in the laboratory of the phycologist Lynda Goff for several years before I did my Master degree (Marine Biology) again at UC Santa Cruz with Dr Goff (on red algal parasites). I then moved to UC Berkeley for a PhD (Botany, 1993) supervised by John West. My degree was on red algal parasites (again) and their host specificity, plus a few other things. Like all PhD’s I learned a lot about my research area, I became a card-carrying phycologist. It was here that I was introduced to PCR, I remember molecular biology before PCR! I then travelled studying algae wherever I could (Texas, Australia, UK, the Netherlands) as a post-doc, this is basically continued training and experience in science, it is becoming a normal procedure in science if you want an academic position. I arrived at VUW in 2004. I have continued to study algae
Research Interest
Molecular Biology, Phycology
Publications
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Zuccarello G.C. & Martin P. 2016. Phylogeography ofthe Lessonia variegata species complex (Phaeophyceae, Laminariales) in New Zealand. Algae 31: 93-103.
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West J.A., Hansen G.I., Hanyuda T. & Zuccarello G.C. 2016. Flora of drift plastics: a new red algal genus, Tsunamia transpacifica (Stylonematophyceae) from Japanese tsunami debrisin the northeast Pacific Ocean. Algae 31: 289-301.
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Preuss M., Nelson W.A. & Zuccarello G.C. 2017. Red algal parasites: a synopsis of described species, their hosts, distinguishing characters and areas for continued research. Botanica Marina 60: 13-25.
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Diehl, N., Kim G.H. & Zuccarello G.C. 2017. A pathogen of New Zealand Pyropia plicata (Bangiales, Rhodophyta), Pythium porphyrae (Oomycota). Algae 32: 29-39.
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Boedeker C., O’Kelly C., West J.A., Hanyuda T., Neale A., Wakana I., Wilcox M.D., Karsten U. & Zuccarello G.C. 2017. Molecular phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the genus Wittrockiella (Pithophoraceae, Cladophorales), including the descriptions of W. australis sp. nov. and W. zosterae sp. nov. Journal of Phycology 52: 522-540.
