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Education:

• B.S. The American University (Washington, D.C.)
• M.S Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, Fl.)
• Ph.D. University of Miami School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences (Miami, Fl.) Upjohn Research Fellow

Postdoctoral and Professional:

Postdoctoral Fellow, Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute
Oak Ridge Faculty Fellow, Puerto Rico Nuclear Center
Florida International University Research Excellence Award 1987
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences until 1977
Associate Professor until 1988
Chair, Dept. of Biological Sciences (23 faculty, 10 staff) 1988-91
Professor, 1988-present
University award for outstanding undergraduate teaching, 1995
Associate chair, Dept. of Biological Sciences (40 faculty, 15 staff) 1999-2003

Research: Coral biology, structure, histology, cytochemistry

Teaching:

• General Biology
• Introduction to Marine Biology (non-majors),
• Comparative Zoology
• Marine Biology and Oceanography
• Electron Microscopy

Mycetophyllia reesi, a coral without tentacles, is fed with blue-dyed food which is trapped in mucus within minutes.

2001a. The sclerites and geographic distribution of the gorgonian Swiftia exserta (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Holaxonia).Bull. Biological Soc. Wash. 10: 100-109.

2001b. Acid polysaccharides in the skeletal matrix and calicoblastic epithelium of the stony coral Mycetophyllia reesi.Tissue and Cell 33: 376-387.

2001c. Desmocytes in the calicoblastic epithelium of the stony coral Mycetophyllia reesi and their attachment to the skeleton.
Tissue and Cell 33: 388-394.

2002a. Feeding behavior, epidermal structure and mucus cytochemistry of the scleractinian Mycetophyllia reesi, a coral without tentacles.
Tissue and Cell 34: 232-245.

2002b. Gastrodermal structure and feeding responses in the scleractinian Mycetophyllia reesi, a coral with novel digestive filaments.
Tissue and Cell 34: 246-261.

2004. Epidermal structure of the scleractinian coral Mycetophyllia ferox: light-induced vesicles, copious mucocytes and sporadic tentacles. 7th International Coelenterate Biology Symposium. Hydrobiologia 530/531: 451-458. Abstract

Textbook: The Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms. University of Chicago Press. Estimated publication date, January 2013.

After entrapment, snake-like gastrodermal filaments appear from the mouth to bring mucus and food material into the coelenteron.