Epernicus: Jorge H Pinzon, Ph.D.

Jorge H Pinzon, Ph.D.

Position:
Post Doctoral Fellow

Biology

University of Texas at Arlington (Arlington, TX )
Advisor:
Laura Mydlarz
Degrees:

Ph.D., Biology, The Pennsylvania State University

M.S., Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (Mayaguez, PR)

B.S., Marine Biology, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (Bogota, Colombia)
Past Advisors:

Todd C. LaJeunesse (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Ernesto Weil (as Graduate Student - Masters)
Research:
Other Experience:
2008-2010 FastStart Mentor at Penn State

Communities:

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Jorge Pinzon's Publications (11)

Genotypic diversity and spatial-temporal distribution of Symbiodinium clones in an abundant reef coral.
Pettay DT, Wham DC, Pinzón JH, LaJeunesse TC

Molecular ecology. 2011 Dec;20(24):5197-212
Species delimitation of common reef corals in the genus Pocillopora using nucleotide sequence phylogenies, population genetics and symbiosis ecology.
Pinzón JH, LaJeunesse TC

Molecular ecology. 2011 Jan;20(2):311-25
Cryptic Species Within the Atlantic-Caribbean Genus Meandrina (Scleractinia): A Multidisciplinary Approach and Description of the New Species Meandrina jacksoni
Jorge H Pinzon, Ernesto Weil

Bulletin of Marine Sciences. 2011;87(4):823-853
Host-symbiont recombination vs. natural selection in the response of coral-dinoflagellate symbioses to environmental disturbance
Todd C LaJeunesse, Robin Smith, Mariana Walther, Jorge H Pinzón, Tye Pettay, M McGinley, M Aschaffenburg, Pedro Medina-Rosas, A L Cupul-Magaña,, A L Pérez, Hector Reyes-Bonilla, Mark E Warner

Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2010;277(1696):2925-2934
Microsatellite loci for Symbiodinium A3 (S. fittorum) a common algal symbiont among Caribbean Acropora (stony corals) and Indo-Pacific giant clams (Tridacna)
Jorge H Pinzón, Meghann K Devlin-Durante, Michele Weber, Iliana B Baums, Todd C LaJeunesse

Conservation Genetics Resources. 2010;3(1):45-47
Nine novel, polymorphic microsatellite markers for the study of threatened Caribbean acroporid corals.
Baums IB, Devlin-Durante MK, Brown L, Pinzón JH

Molecular ecology resources. 2009 Jul;9(4):1155-8
Symbiodinium (Dinophyta) diversity in aquarium corals under long-term cultivation
Robin Smith, Jorge H Pinzón, Todd C LaJeunesse

Journal of Phycology. 2009;45(5):1030-1036
Screening intragenomic rDNA for dominant variants can provide a consistent retrieval of evolutionarily persistent ITS (rDNA) sequences.
LaJeunesse TC, Pinzón JH

Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. 2007 Oct;45(1):417-22
Evaluación rápida de estructura y salud de las formaciones coralinas de la isla de Malpelo (Pacifico Colombiano)
Jaime Garzón-Ferreira, Jorge H Pinzón

Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. 2000;28:137-154
Blanqueamiento coralino de 1995 en la región de Santa Marta, Caribe colombiano
Jorge H Pinzón, Adriana M Perdomo, Oscar D Solano, Gabriel Navas

Caribbean Journal of Science. 1998;34(3-4):330-333
Isla Arena, una formación coralina saludable en el área de influencia de la pluma del Río Magdalena, plataforma continental del Caribe Colombiano
Jorge H Pinzón, Adriana M Perdomo, Juan M Díaz

Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. 1998;27:21-37

Jorge Pinzon's Posters and Presentations (3)

Assessing the importance of ecological specialization and isolation-by-distance in the diversification of dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium (presentation)
Jorge H. Pinzón C., Juan Armando Sanchéz, Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Todd C. LaJeunesse

Benthic Ecology Meeting 2010, Wilmington, NC; 03/2010
Coevolved host-symbiont associations support the molecular genetic delineation of three morphologically variable species of Eastern Pacific pocilloporid corals (presentation)
Jorge H Pinzon, TC. LaJeunesse

Evolution 2009; 06/2009
Pocillopora genotypes may determine colony symbiosis specificity between but not among species, in the Eastern Pacific (poster)
Jorge H. Pinzón C., Tye Pettay and Todd C. LaJeunesse

11th International Coral Reef Symposium; 07/2008

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Shared Documents

Highlights_Magazine.pdf
Pinzón_2011_...nii_n._sp.pdf - The OPEN ACCESS Meandrina Paper

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