Anna Sellas
- Laboratory and Collections Manager
- Center for Comparative Genomics
UC Berkeley
The Field Museum of Natural History
Mote Marine Laboratory
Mote Marine Laboratory
Alabama Museum of Natural History
University of Wisconsin, Madison
UC San Francisco
California Academy of Sciences
Anna Sellas
California Academy of Sciences
Center for Comparative Genomics
55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
asellas@calacademy.org
(415) 379-5845
Education:
University of California, Santa Cruz, M.Sc. in Marine Science (2002)
University of Arizona, Tucson, B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (1997)
Teaching Experience:
Supervisor, Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, Integrative Biology Department, UC Berkeley (Spring 2008)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Introductory Marine Science Course, UC Santa Cruz, Spring (2000)
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Introductory Marine Biology Course, University of Arizona, Tucson, Fall (1997)
Scientific Work Experience:
Laboratory and Collections Manager, Center for Comparative Genomics, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California (present)
Lead Laboratory Technician, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley (2006 - 2008)
Laboratory Technician, Cetacean Genetics Lab, University of California, Berkeley (2005 - 2006)
Biological Lab Technician, National Marine Fisheries Service, Marine Mammal Molecular Genetics Lab, Charleston, SC (2000 - 2004)
Wilkinson JA, Sellas AB, Vindum JV (2012) A new species of Ansonia (Anura: Bufonidae) from northern Tanintharyi Division, Myanmar. Zootaxa, 3163, 54-68.
Sellas AB, Bassos-Hull K, Hueter RE, Feldheim KA (2011) Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers from the spotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari). Conservation Genetics Resources, 3, 609-611.
Peery MZ, Hall LA, Sellas A, Beissinger SR, Moritz C, Berube M, Raphael MG, Nelson SK, Golightly RT, McFarlane-Tranquilla L, Newman S, Palsboll PJ (2010) Genetic analyses of historic and modern marbled murrelets suggest decoupling of migration and gene flow after habitat fragmentation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 277, 697-706.
Bowie RCK, Sellas AB, Feldheim K (2010) Development of ten highly polymorphic microsatellite markers for Sunbirds (Aves: Nectariniidae) with broad cross-amplification utility in at lest eight species. Conservation Genetics Resources, 11, 1159-1162.
De Ponte Machado M, Feldheim KA, Sellas A, Bowie RCK (2009) Isolation and characterization of 10 polymorphic microsatellite loci from the Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) and widespread application to other members of Pelecanidae. Conservation Genetics, 10, 1033-1036.
Peery Z, Beissinger SR, House RF, Berube M, Hall L, Sellas A, Palsboll P (2008) Characterizing source-sink dynamics with genetic parentage assignments. Ecology, 89, 2746-2759.
Lokugalappatti LGS, Feldheim KA, Sellas AB, Bowie RCK (2008) Isolation and characterization of 10 tetranucleotide microsatellite loci from the yellow-streaked greenbul (Phyllastrephus flavostriatus) and cross-species amplification in four closely related taxa. Molecular Ecology Resources, 8, 622-624.
Sellas A, Feldheim KA, Bowie RCK (2008) Isolation and characterization of 10 tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in an enigmatic East African bird, the spot-throat (Modulatrix stictigula). Molecular Ecology Resources, 8, 342-344.
Sellas A, Wells R, Rosel P (2005) Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analyses reveal fine scale geographic structure in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Gulf of Mexico. Conservation Genetics, 6, 715-728.