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Professor HOCHBERG, RICK (Lowell)
Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

    Phone: (978) 934-2885
    Email: Rick_Hochberg@uml.edu
    Website: http://faculty.uml.edu/rhochberg/hochberglab/

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
Ph.D. 2002 Zoology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

M.A. 1998 Biology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

B.S. 1993 Marine Biology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

Professional History:
2005 Present: Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA.

2005 - Present: Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

2003 - 2005: Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Marine Station at Ft. Pierce, FL, USA.

2001 - 2003: Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Dr. Lester R.G. Cannon, Invertebrates Section. Queensland Museum, Australia.

Current Research Support:
2003 - 2005: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Marine Station, Smithsonian Institution. Structure, function and evolution of helicoidal muscles in Gastrotricha. $70,000.

2001 - 2003: Australian Biological Resources Study Co - Principal Investigator with Dr. Lester R.G. Cannon (Queensland Museum). Taxonomy of typhloplanid microturbellarians (Platyhelminthes) of eastern Australia. $75,000.

2001: National Science Foundation: Comparative morphology of American and
Australian Gastrotricha: The muscular system as a source taxonomic and phylogenetic characters. $ 6,400.

Selected Publications:
Hochberg, R. 2006. On the serotonergic nervous system of two planktonic rotifers, Conochilus coenobasis and C. dossuarius (Monogononta,Flosculariacea, Conochilidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, In Press.

Hochberg, R. 2005. First record of Polymerurus (Gastrotricha, Chaetonotida) from Australia with the description of a new species from Queensland and an ultrastructural description of the cuticle in specimens of P. nodicadus. Invertebrate Biology 124:119 - 130.

Hochberg, R. 2005. Musculature of the primitive gastrotrich Neodasys (Chaetonotida): functional adaptations to the interstitial environment and phylogenetic significance. Marine Biology 146: 315 - 323.

Hochberg, R. 2004. A new genus and subfamily of Typhloplanidae (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela) from Australia with a cladistic analysis of subfamily relationships. Journal of Natural History 38: 925 - 937.

Hochberg, R. 2004. Reproductive anatomy of Prognathorhynchus busheki (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia) revealed by confocal laser scanning microscopy. Meiofauna Marina 13: 29 - 36.

Hochberg, R. 2004. Smithsoniarhynches, a new genus of marine interstitial schizorhynch (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia) from Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River Lagoon, Florida, USA. J. Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 85: 1 - 6.

Hochberg, R. 2003. Two new species of Dactylopodola (Gastrotricha, Macrodasyida) from the islands of eastern Australia. Meiofauna Marina 12: 37 - 46.

Hochberg, R. & Cannon, L.R.G. 2003. Magnetia queenslandica, a new genus and new species of typhloplanid flatworm (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela) from Magnetic Island in north Queensland, Australia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51: 1 - 6.
Hochberg, R. & Litvaitis, M. K. 2003. Ultrastructural and immunohistochemical observations
on the nervous system of three macrodasyidan gastrotrichs. Acta Zoologica 84: 171 - 178.
Hochberg, R. & Cannon, L.R.G. 2002. Two new freshwater rhabdocoels, Austradalyellia and
Haplodidymos n. gen. (Platyhelminthes) from Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 44:1 - 15.
Hochberg, R. & Litvaitis, M.K. 2001. A muscular double - helix in Gastrotricha. Zoologischer
Anzeiger 240: 59 - 66.