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                                                                                                            C. GRIER SELLERS
                                                                                                            Department of Biology
                                                                                                            Temple University
                                                                                                            1900 N. 12th Street
                                                                                                            Philadelphia, PA 19122
                                                                                                            (215) 204-6202
                                                                                                            cgsellers [at] temple [dot] edu
                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                EDUCATION:

                2014  Doctor of Philosophy in Biology, Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
                        (Prof. Robert W. Sanders, advisor). Research Topic: "Feeding, Dark Survival, and Foreign Organelle Retention
                         in an Antarctic Dinoflagellate"

                2001   Master of Science in Biology, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
                         (Prof. Eugene B. Small, advisor).
                    
                1996   Bachelor of Science in Biology (Concentration in Microbiology), Department of Biological Sciences,
                        Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA (Prof. David R. Hosford, mentor).

                1990   Acupuncture Therapist Certificate, M.Ac. candidate, Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and
                        Oriental Medicine, Seattle, WA (Prof. Shou-chun Ma, mentor).


                WORK EXPERIENCE:
        
                2014 -             Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Temple University.
                        I am currently teaching lab sections of Biology 1111: Introduction to Biology.


                2011 - 2013    Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Temple University. I taught lab sections of
                        courses in General Biology.

                2009 - 2011    NSF GK-12 Fellow, Temple University Philadelphia, PA. I worked with  local high school science
                        teachers in the Philadelphia School District on curriculum development, etc.

                2007 - 2009    Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Temple University. I taught lab sections of
                        courses in General Biology.

                2006 - 2007    Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Fordham University, New York, NY. I assisted
                        with lab sections of courses in Biochemistry, General Biology, and Microbiology.    

                2002 - 2006    Adjunct Instructor in Biology, Department of Biology, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ and 
                       Department of Science and Mathematics, Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ. I taught courses in
                       Field Biology, and General Biology. I also designed and taught new courses in Botany,    
                       Microbiology, Animal Science and Aquatic Biology.

                 2000 - 2002     Science Teacher, Newark Academy, Livingston, NJ.
                        I taught a year-long 7th grade General Science course, including units on ecology, biodiversity &  
                        evolution, botany, earth science, chemistry, physics, and astronomy.
    
                1996 - 2000     Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
                        I taught lab sections in courses on the Natural History of Chesapeake Bay, Human Anatomy and Physiology, and Cellular Biology and Physiology.

                1990 - 1996     Licensed Acupuncturist in private practice; Seattle, Yakima, and Ellensburg, WA.

                1981 - 1983     Senior Laboratory Technician, Department of Microbial Genetics, SRI International, Menlo Park,
                        CA. I prepared microbiological media and conducted the Ames mutagenicity assay.

                1978 - 1979    Associate, Laboratory of Extraterrestrial Biology, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
                        I assisted Dr. Adolph E. Smith in experimental studies of photochemical carbon and nitrogen reduction in             
                        mineral-organic microstructure systems employed as models of biopoesis.
        
 
                LABORATORY EXPERIENCE:

                2007 -present   DIC, epifluorescence, SEM and confocal microscopy and studies of growth, feeding and foreign plastid uptake
                          in Antarctic protists (laboratory of Prof. Robert W. Sanders, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA).

                1997- 2000   Cytological studies of the ciliate Myrionecta rubra and its cryptomonad endosymbionts using DIC light
                         videomicrography, epifluorescence microscopy, protargol staining, and scanning and transmission
                         electron microscopy (laboratories of Prof. Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA;
                         Dr. Wayne Coats, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD; and Timothy Maugel,         
                         Laboratory of Biological Ultrastructure, University of Maryland, College Park, MD).  


                SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS: (Presenter's name is underlined)

               Sellers, C.G., Gast, R.J., and Sanders, R.W. "Dark Survival and Recovery of a Foreign Organelle Retaining Dinoflagellate
                             and its Haptophyte Prey and Plastid Source Following a Simulated Austral Winter," Annual Meeting of the
                             Phycological Society of America, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, August 10, 2015.

               
Sellers, C. G. "Feeding, Dark Survival, and Foreign Organelle Retentionin an Antarctic Dinoflagellate,"
                             Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, July 30, 2014.
   
                Sellers, C.G., Gast, R.J., and Sanders, R.W. "Responses of a Kleptoplastidic Antarctic Dinoflagellate and its Prey to an
                             Extended
Period of Darkness," XIV International Congress of Protistology, Vancouver, B.C., Canada,
                            July 28 - August 2, 2013.

                 Sellers, C.G. and Sanders, R.W. "Selective Feeding and Foreign Plastid Retention in an Antarctic Dinoflagellate," July         
                             2011 joint meeting of the International Society of Protistologists and the Phycological Society of America in Seattle,     
                             WA.

                 Sellers, C. G. "Teaching About Microscopy and Chloroplast Endosymbiosis," poster presentation, NSF GK-12 Annual
                            Meeting, Washington, DC, March 12, 2011.

                 Sellers, C.G. “Cytological Observations of an Antarctic Mesodinium rubrum”, Marine Symbiosis Seminar, Boston
                            University Marine Program, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, December 18, 1997, and at Horn         
                            Point Laboratory student seminar series, Cambridge, MD, March 6, 1998.


                PUBLICATIONS:

                Sellers, C.G., Gast, R.J. and Sanders, R.W. (2014) Selective Feeding and Foreign Plastid Retention in an Antarctic
                        Dinoflagellate, Journal of Phycology, 50(6): 1081-1088. DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12240

                Sellers, C.G. and Sanders, R.W. (2011) Selective Feeding and Foreign Plastid Retention in an Antarctic
                        Dinoflagellate, Journal of Phycology, 47: S48 (Abstract).

               
                AWARDS:

                Holz-Connor Travel Grant, April 2011, International Society of Protistologists, for travel to the July 2011 joint
                        meeting of the International Society of Protistologists and the Phycological Society of America in Seattle, WA.

                National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellowship, Fall 2009 - Spring 2011, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

                Dean's Scholarship, Fall 2007- Spring 2009, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia,
                        PA.

                Presidential Scholarship, Summer 2006 - Spring 2007, Fordham University, Bronx, NY.

                Schering - Plough Scholarship, Fall 2006, Fordham University, Bronx, NY.

                NASA Planetary Biology Internship, Summer 1998; sponsored by Prof. Lynn Margulis, Department of Geosciences,
                        University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

                Teaching Assistantships, Fall 1996; Spring, Summer, and Fall, 1997; Spring and Fall, 1998; Spring, Summer, and     
                        Fall 1999; Spring 2000, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
                        Fall 2006; Spring 2007; Department of Biology, Fordham University, New York, NY. Fall 2007; Spring and Fall
                        2008; Spring 2009; Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2013 Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.


                SERVICE:

                 Member, ISS International Support Committee, Fourth International Symbiosis Congress, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
                            August 17-23, 2003.

                 Reviewer: Symbiosis (2007); Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology (2011 - 2012)

                PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

                International Phycological Society
                International Society for Evolutionary Protistology
                International Society of Protistologists
                International Symbiosis Society (founding member, 1997)
                Japanese Phycological Society
                Phycological Society of America
                Sigma Xi (Associate Member)

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