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The Richard G. Kessel Lecture in Embryology
7/16/10 - 9:00 AM, Speck Auditorium
“The Evolution of Developmental Programs and the Origin of Biological Complexity at the Base of the Metazoa”
Mark MartinDale, University of Hawaii
Mark Q. Martindale is a professor of evolutionary developmental biology and the current director of the Kewalo Marine Laboratory of the University of Hawaii. Dr. Martindale trained with Dr. John Morrill at New College in Sarasota, FL as an undergraduate before moving to the University of Texas at Austin for graduate studies with Dr. Gary Freeman. Following a postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Marty Shankland, Dr. Martindale spent nine years on the faculty of the University of Chicago in the department of organismal biology and anatomy before being recruited the Kewalo Marine Lab. Dr. Martindale was a student in the MBL's Embryology course in 1982 and has taught in the course for many years since then. Dr. Martindale was trained as an experimental embryologist and has published work on embryos from some 14 different animal phyla. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and in 2009 awarded the Alexander Kowalevsky Medal for Comparative Embryology by the Saint-Petersburg Society of Naturalists. Dr. Martindale is currently chair of the division of evolutionary developmental biology of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biologists (SICB) and Co-Editor-in–Chief of the open access journal, EvoDevo.
About the Richard G. Kessel Lecture in Embryology
Native Iowan Richard G. Kessel has long been fascinated by the ocean, and has devoted much of his career to the study of the diversity and development of marine organisms. After receiving his B.S. in Chemistry from Parsons College in 1953, he entered the University of Iowa as a graduate student in Zoology. While a student there, Dr. Kessel studied the fine structure and physiology of insect pericardial and subesophageal body cells. During his graduate training, an invertebrate zoology course stimulated his curiosity about marine organisms.
Dr. Kessel received his Ph.D. in 1959 and accepted a position in the anatomy department at Wake Forest Medical School.
In 1961, he returned to the University of Iowa, where he moved through the ranks to Professor. In 1997, after 36 years of teaching, research, and service, Dr. Kessel retired from the University.
Dr. Kessel spent the summer of 1957 in Woods Hole, as a participant in the MBL's Embryology course. He was a graduate student at the time, and the curriculum and seaside setting dovetailed with his flourishing interests in the ocean and marine organisms. He enjoyed the discussions and interactions that occurred in the course and published the results of his course project in the journal Experimental Cell Research.
Dr. Kessel has published more than 120 research and review articles, and is the author of five books on subjects including
histology; scanning electron microscopy; and specialized techniques related to cell, tissue, and organ microscopy.
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