UMass IGS Faculty: ROBINSON

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Professor ROBINSON, WILLIAM E. (Boston)
Professor, Department of Environmental, Earth, and Ocean Sciences

Phone: (617) 287-7456
Email: wm.robinson@umb.edu

Teaching the following courses:

Current Issues in Toxicology

Environmental Physiology

Isotope Geochemistry

Seminar in Environmental Chemistry

Aquatic Toxicology

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

Education:
1981 - Ph.D., Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

1977 - MS, Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

1970 - A.B., Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA

Professional History:
Current Professor, ECOS Dept, UMass Boston

1992 - 2000 - Associate Professor, ECOS Dept, UMass Boston

1999 - Assistant Chairman, ECOS Dept, UMass Boston

1997 - 1999 - Chairman/Director, ECOS Dept, UMass Boston

1988 - 1992 - Senior Scientist, Edgerton Research Laboratory, New England Aquarium

1983 - Adjunct Research Associate, MSMSC, Northeastern University

1983 - 1988 - Associate Scientist, Edgerton Research Laboratory, New England Aquarium

1981 - 1983 - Visiting Investigator, Edgerton Research Laboratory, New England Aquarium

1981 - 1983 - Post - Doctoral Fellow, Chemistry Dept., Brandeis University

Current Research Support:
PI, Chevron Corp., AInfluence of sequestering trace metals on algal toxicity ($10,000)

PI, (with M. Sugumaran & G.W. Wallace, Co - PIs), Sea Grant, A Mussel plasma histidine - rich glycoprotein (HRG) B Biomarker, key to metal transport, novel natural product ($227,000 starting October 2000)

Selected Publications:
Nair, P.S. & W.E. Robinson. 1998. Calcium speciation and exchange between blood and extrapallial fluid of the quahog Mercenaria mercenaria (L.). Biol. Bull. 195: 43 - 51.

McIntosh, L.M. & W.E. Robinson. 1999. Cadmium turnover in the hemocytes of Mercenaria mercenaria (L.) in relation to hemocyte turnover. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 123C: 61 - 66.

Nair, P.S. & W.E. Robinson. 1999. Purification and characterization of a histidine - rich glycoprotein that binds cadmium from the blood plasma of the bivalve Mytilus edulis. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 366: 8 - 14.

Nair, P.S. and W.E. Robinson. 2000. Histidine - rich glycoprotein in the blood of the bivalve Mytilus edulis: Role in cadmium speciation and cadmium transfer to the kidney. Aquatic Toxicology, in press.

Nair, P.S. and W.E. Robinson. Cadmium binding to a Histidine - rich Glycoprotein form marine mussel blood plasma: Potentiometric Titration and Equilibrium Speciation Modeling. Submitted to Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.