Pernet Lab - Curriculum Vitae

Bruno Pernet
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd
Long Beach, CA 90840-3702

office PH1-229, lab PH1-231
tel 562-985-5378
fax 562-985-8878
bpernet@csulb.edu
www.csulb.edu/~bpernet

Education
1998: Ph.D., Department of Zoology, University of Washington
1991: B.A., Department of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
1986-1988: California State University, Stanislaus

Professional Appointments
2004-present: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, CSU Long Beach
2001-2004: Resident Scientist/Instructor, Friday Harbor Laboratories, Washington
2001: Instructor, University of Oregon and Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
1999-2000: Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida
1998-1999: Resident Scientist/Instructor, Friday Harbor Laboratories, Washington

Editorial Positions
2005-present: Editor, Invertebrate Biology (international journal of the American Microscopical Society and the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology)

Grants, Fellowships and Awards
2008-2010: "Transport of ghost shrimp as live bait: potential effects on impacted southern California populations", California Sea Grant, $149,650. PI with co-PI Dr. James Archie.
2007-2010: "MRI: Acquisition of a Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope for Research and Training in the Natural Sciences at California State University, Long Beach", NSF Major Research Instrumentation, $343,723. PI with co-PIs Drs. Editte Gharakhanian, Diane Lee, and Michael Myers.
2003: Baruch Marine Field Laboratory Visiting Scientist Award
2003: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Visiting Scientist Award
1999-2000: Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship
1998: Ingrith Deyrup-Olsen Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Washington
1996: PADI Foundation Fellowship
1995,1996: Lerner-Grey Fund for Marine Research, American Museum of Natural History
1993-1996: National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
1992: Libbie Hyman Memorial Fellowship, American Society of Zoologists
1991: Intern Fellowship, Division of Invertebrates, Field Museum of Natural History
1991: Thesis Honors, Department of Biology, UC Santa Cruz

Peer-reviewed Publications
(#=CSULB graduate student coauthor, *=CSULB undergraduate coauthor)
20) Pernet, B., A. Deconinck*, and L. Haney. In press. Molecular and morphological markers for distinguishing the sympatric intertidal ghost shrimps Neotrypaea californiensis and N. gigas in the Eastern Pacific. Journal of Crustacean Biology.
19) Sloan, L.*, S. Anderson*, and B. Pernet. In press. Kilometer-scale spatial variation in the prevalence of the the rhizocephalan Lernaeodiscus porcellanae on the porcelain crab Petrolisthes cabrilloi. Journal of Crustacean Biology.
18) Kosman, E.# and B. Pernet. In press, 2009. Diel variation in the sizes of Bugula neritina larvae in field populations. Biological Bulletin. (abstract)
17) Pernet, B., A. Deconinck*, A. Llaban*, and J. Archie. In press, 2008. Evaluating risks associated with the transport of the ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis as live bait. Marine Biology. (abstract)
16) Allen, J. and B. Pernet. 2007. Intermediate modes of larval development: bridging the gap between planktotrophy and lecithotrophy. Evolution and Development 9:643-653 (abstract)
15) Pernet, B. 2007. Determinate growth and variable size at maturity in the marine gastropod Amphissa columbiana.  American Malacological Bulletin 22:7-15 (abstract)
14) Pernet, B. and L. McArthur*. 2006. Feeding by larvae of two different developmental modes in Streblospio benedicti (Polychaeta, Spionidae). Marine Biology 149:803-811 (abstract)
13) Pernet, B. 2004. The cryptic filtering house of an invertebrate larva. Science 306:1757 (first paragraph)
12) Pernet, B. and W.B. Jaeckle.  2004.  Size and organic content of eggs of marine annelids, and the underestimation of egg energy content by dichromate oxidation. Biological Bulletin 207:67-71 (abstract)
11) Pernet, B.  2003.  Persistent ancestral feeding structures in nonfeeding annelid larvae.  Biological Bulletin 205:295-307 (abstract)
10) Pernet, B.  2001.  Escape hatches for the clonal offspring of serpulid polychaetes.  Biological Bulletin 200:107-117 (abstract)
9) Pernet, B.  2000.  A scaleworm's setal snorkel.  Invertebrate Biology 119:147-151 (abstract)
8) Pernet, B.  2000.  Reproduction and development of three symbiotic scaleworms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae).  Invertebrate Biology 119:45-57 (abstract)
7) Kohn, A.J., M. Nishi, and B. Pernet.  1999.  Snail spears and scimitars: a character analysis of Conus radular teeth.  Journal of Molluscan Studies 65:461-481 (abstract)
6) Pernet, B.  1999.  Gamete interactions and genetic differentiation among three sympatric polychaetes.  Evolution 53:435-446 (abstract)
5) Miner, B., E. Sanford, R.R. Strathmann, B. Pernet, and R. Emlet.  1999.  Functional and evolutionary implications of opposed bands, big mouths, and extensive oral ciliation in larval opheliids and echiurids.  Biological Bulletin 197:14-25 (abstract)
4) Pernet, B.  1998.  Benthic egg masses and larval development of Amblyosyllis speciosa (Polychaeta: Syllidae).  Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 78:1369-1372 (abstract)
3) Pernet, B. and A.J. Kohn.  1998.  Size-related obligate and facultative parasitism in the marine gastropod Trichotropis cancellata.   Biological Bulletin 195:349-356 (abstract)
2) Pernet, B.  1997.  Development of the keyhole and growth rate in Diodora aspera  (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae).  The Veliger 40:77-83 (abstract)
1) Phillips, N.E. and B. Pernet.  1996.  Capture of large particles by suspension feeding scaleworm larvae (Polychaeta: Polynoidae).  Biological Bulletin 191:199-208 (abstract)

Other Publications
4) Pernet, B. 2004. An inordinate fondness for shrimps. Review of R.T. Bauer , Remarkable shrimps: adaptations and natural history of the Carideans . Ecology 85:3448.
3) Pernet, B.  2002.  Sponge and Brachiopod entries in N. Eldredge, ed., Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara.
2) Pernet, B., P.-Y. Qian, G.W. Rouse, C.M. Young, and K.J. Eckelbarger.  2002.  Phylum Annelida:  Polychaeta.  Pp. 209-243 in Young, C.M., ed., Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae.  Academic Press, London.
1) Pernet, B. 2000. Review of A.W.C. Dorresteijn and W. Westheide, eds., Reproductive strategies and developmental patterns in annelids. American Zoologist 40:453-454.

Invited Seminars
2007: California State University, Fullerton
2004: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, CA
2003: Baruch Marine Field Laboratory, SC; California State University, Long Beach, CA; California State University, Fullerton, CA; Wilkes University, PA
2002: Illinois Wesleyan University, IL; Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, FL; Friday Harbor Laboratories, WA
2000: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; Humboldt State University, CA
1999: Eastern Michigan University, MI
1997: Friday Harbor Laboratories, WA

Professional Affiliations
American Microscopical Society
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Society for the Study of Evolution
Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists
Western Society of Malacologists
Western Society of Naturalists

Last modified 23 Jan 2009