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| Thurston Lacalli is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Biology Department, University of Victoria, following his retirement from the University of Saskatchewan. His undergraduate degree is in Chemistry, and his PhD (University of British Columbia) is in Zoology, with thesis work on morphogenesis in unicellular algae. His postdoctoral experience included two years at marine stations doing basic marine invertebrate zoology, and two further years of computer work on chemical theories of morphogenesis, mainly using reaction-diffusion models. He has continued to pursue both of these subjects through his career. In relation to his marine interests, he is conducted an extended series of detailed EM studies of embryos and larvae from a number of invertebrate phyla. His focus here, since 1992, has been on amphioxus, using serial EM reconstruction to examine at the cellular level the anterior nerve cord of amphioxus larvae for comparison with vertebrate brain. This has led to collaborations with molecular biologists, and an ongoing interest in the evolutionary origin of vertebrates, specifically, how the characteristic organizational features of the vertebrate brain first evolved. |
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