MARINA S. ASCUNCE

Address: Dept of Anthropology

1112 Turlington Hall

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL 32611-7305

Telephone: 352-392-2253, ext 247 (office), 352-392-6929 (fax)

E-mail: ascunce@anthro.ufl.edu

Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina

EDUCATION

2002 Ph.D., Biology, Department of Ecology, Genetics and Evolution, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

1996 Licentiate in Biological Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Oct, 2002 – present Postdoc, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ of Florida

APPOINTMENTS and AWARDS

2001 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Internship Program fellowship for research at Smithsonian Institution (STRI, Panama).

2000 CABBIO (Brazilian -Argentine Center of Biotechnology) fellowship to participate in the Graduate Course: Molecular taxonomy for the biodiversity exploration: Fundaments and Method of the phylogenetic analysis. La Plata, Argentina.

1997, 2002 CONICET Graduate Research Fellowship (National Council of Scientific and Technology Research, Argentina)

PUBLICATIONS

Giudice AM, Ascunce MS. 1998. Presencia de Alouatta caraya fuera de su área de distribución natural, Neotropical Primates, 6(3):82-86.

Ascunce MS, Martinez R, Ávila I, Mudry MD. 1999. New World Primates of the Argentinean Museum of Natural Sciences "Bernardino Rivadavia", Buenos Aires, Neotropical Primates, 7(1):28.

Ascunce MS, Hasson ER, Mudry MD. 2002. Description of the Cytochrome Oxidase subunit II gene in some genera of New World Monkeys (Primates, Platyrrhini). GENETICA, 114: 253-267.

Ascunce MS, Hasson ER, Mudry MD. COII as a useful tool for phylogenetic studies in some genera of New World monkeys (Primates, Platyrrhini). Zoologica Scripta, in press.

Martinez R, Giudice A, SzapkievichV, Ascunce M, Nieves M, Zunino G, Mudry MD. Phenotypic, Behavioral and Genetic Parameters Modeling Speciation in Cebus apella (Primates: Platyrrhini). Mastozoologia Neotropical, in press.

Ascunce MS, Zunino GE, Mudry MD. Evolutive and Ecological Aspects of the Primate Studies in Argentina during the Recently Past Years. Neotropical Primates, in press.

Ascunce MS, Cortes-Ortiz L, Mudry MD. The mitochondrial control region of Alouatta caraya (Primates, Platyrrhini) and the development of new primers. Molecular Ecology Notes, in press.

Ascunce MS, Oklander L, Mudry MD. Amplification of Mitochondrial COII Gene from DNA Extracted From Hair Samples in Some Species of New World Monkeys. Folia Primatologica, in press.

Nieves M, Ascunce M, Rahn M, Mudry MD. Genetic relationships among Ateles paniscus, Ateles chamek, Ateles belzebuth, Ateles geoffroyi and Alouatta caraya: A new contribution to the Controversial Atelids Systematic. Submitted to Chromosoma.