Dr. James T. Wetzel
Pulaski L. Bealy Smith Professor of Biology
B.S., Point Park College
M.A., California State University
Ph.D., Clemson University
Email: jwetzel@presby.edu
Phone:
(864) 833-8412
Office: 235 Richardson Hall
Joined PC Faculty: 1990 |
Areas of Specialty:
Vertebrate reproduction and embryonic development, biology of seahorses, ichthyology,
electron microscopy
Courses Taught:
Introductory Biology
Developmental Biology
Comparative Anatomy; Human Anatomy and Embryology
Electron
Microscopy
Professional Activities:
Electron Microscopy Society of America,
American Society of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists,
Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology.
South Carolina Academy of Sciences
Honors and Recognition:
First place, Polaroid Corporation International Scientific Photographic Competition:
Electron microscopy category (1994)
"Biologist At Large," Appalachian Region EM Society (1995)
"Visiting Scholar" at Belle Baruch Institute, SC (Summer 2001)
Publications/articles:
Wetzel, J., Wourms, J.P., and Friel, J. Comparative morphology of cotylephores
in Platystacus and Solenostomus; modifications of the integument for egg attachment
in skin-brooding fishes. Envir. Biol. Fish. 50(1). (1996)
Wetzel, J. and Wourms, J.P. Adaptations for reproduction and development in the
skin-brooding ghost pipefishes, Solenostomus. Envir. Biol. Fish. 44:363-384. (1995)
Bartsch, J., Ergle, S., Kokkala, I., and Wetzel, J. Development of the lateral
line in embryos of the the dwarf seahorse, Hippocampus zosterae. ASB Bull. 41
(2):82. (1994)
Wourms, J. and Wetzel, J. Evolutionary morphology of cotylephores: egg attachment
sites in skin-brooding fishes. Amer. Zool. 32 (5): 160A. (1992)
Wetzel, J., Wourms, J.P., and Poss, S.G. Cotylephores of the ghost pipefish: sites
of egg attachment and maternal-embryonic exchange. Amer. Zool. 32 (5): 154A. (1992)
Wetzel, J. and Wourms, J.P. Paternal-embryonic relationships in seahorses and
pipefishes (Syngnathidae). Amer. Zool. 31:83A. (1991)
Presentations:
"Evolution and function of the seahorse brood pouch." South Carolina
Marine Education Association (1996)
"The evolution of the paternal brood sac in Syngnathid fishes." Winthrop
University (1993)
"Paternal-embryonic relations "Species diversity in the eastern and
western pacific." Bodega Marine Laboratory (1986); Tokai University, Kumamoto,
Japan (1987); Amucksa Aquarium, Amucksa, Japan (1987)
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