Joseph G. Kunkel, Ph.D.
Location
Joe grew up on a tidal salt marsh in Long Island, New York. He spent his early years collecting and rearing insects as a hobby. He went to college majoring in Zoology and published his first paper based on his undergraduate research on cockroach development. He chose a graduate school where he could continue his interest in insect development and on earning his Ph.D., did a post doctoral in Biometry, and another in Biochemistry. Joe's major interest is in using experimental design to explore the mechanisms of development and cell biology. After 42 years of , he has moved his base of operation to ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ. He will continue research lobster cuticle and mouse bone development, focusing on how minerals are acquired, fashioned into structures and function in skeletons.
Credentials
Education
Post-Doctoral Training
Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
Research, Sabbatical Research Associate with Sabine Hild
Polymer Science at Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria, )
Research, Sabbatical Research Associate with Wolfam Nagel
Physiological Institute LMU (Munich, )
Research, Sabbatical Research Assoc. at Vibrating Probe Facility
Marine Biological Labs (Woods Hole, Massachusetts)
Research, Sabbatical Research with Beatrice Lanzrein
University of Berne (Berne, Switzerland, )
Research, Sabbatical Research As
UC Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
Research
Current research
The roles of minerals in shells of crustaceans and molluscs.
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Research interests
Developmental Biology, Cell physiology and Biometry.