Valerie McKenzie

Hometown:

Monroe, Connecticut

Education:

• 1997 B.S. Biology, University of Connecituct. Honors thesis: three new genera and species of tapeworms from the longnose sawfish (Pristiophorus cirratus) in Australia.
• 1998- present M.S. program Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecituct. (in collaboration with Gulf Coast Research Labs, Ocean Springs, Mississippi).

  Taxonomic focus:

  Phyllobothriid and triloculariid tapeworms (Tetraphyllidea: Phyllobothriidae)

  Field Experience:

• Summer 1995 Collection of tapeworms at shark tournaments, Montauk, Long Island, New York
• Summer 1996 Assisted with collection of parasites from elasmobranchs in Baja, México on NSF Surveys and Inventories project
• Summer 1996 Invited scientist, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, shark long- lining cruise in Western Atlantic Ocean
• January 1997 Invited scientist, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, shark long- lining cruise in Western Atlantic Ocean
• Summer 1998 & 1999 Collection of parasites of herptiles in Guatemala on NSF Surveys and Inventories project surveying the herptiles of Guatemala

  Workshop Participation:

   1996, PEET workshop No. 2: Taxonomy of the Dilepididae and Gryporhynchidae

  Society Memberships:

• American Society of Parasitologists (ASP)
• New England Association of Parasitologists (NEAP)
• Southeastern Society of Parasitologists (SSP)

  Papers and Posters given:

  McKenzie, V. J. and J. N. Caira. Tapeworm species of the sawshark Pristiophorus cirratus. 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists. Tuscon, U.S.A. 1996. Oral presentation.

  McKenzie, V. J. Phyllobothriid cestodes of shraks from the Gulf of California. Symposium on the metazoan parasites of elasmobranchs from the Gulf of California. 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists. Kona, Hawaii, U.S.A. 1998. Invited talk.

  Publications:

   McKenzie, V. J. and J. N. Caira. 1998. Three new genera and species of tapeworms from the longnose sawshark, Pristiophorus cirratus, with description of their modes of attachment to the spiral intestine. Journal of Parasitology 84(2): 409-421.

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