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Hare, Matthew P.
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- Associate Professor, Natural Resources (NTRES/DNR), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
Matt Hare joined the Department of Natural Resources in 2007. His research spans from conservation genetics to evolutionary genomics with a focus on marine and estuarine biota. Most of his research utilizes genetic markers to measure processes such as selection and gene flow in natural populations to address basic and applied questions.
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- David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) Faculty Fellow
Research
research overview
- Matt's research goals are to understand the ecological, demographic and historical processes that generate population substructure and species diversity in coastal marine ecosystems, and to make these findings relevant to conservation and management when possible. In marine environments there are few absolute barriers to dispersal, yet population genetic substructure and cryptic species are common in marine taxa that have high dispersal potential. This implicates cryptic barriers to dispersal or strong diversifying selection generating population substructure. Matt's work focuses on both these possibilities by using genetic markers to test for larval retention and nonrandom dispersal limiting population admixture, and by testing for the effects of natural selection at both genetic and phenotypic levels. Conventional means of studying these population processes are made difficult in the diverse taxa studied in the Hare lab because of their small size (e.g., invertebrate larvae, protozoan parasites, copepods), phenotypic plasticity of adults, or parasitic life cycles. By analyzing genetic variation using phylogenetic, population genetic and biogeographic frameworks, Matt's research overcomes some of these obstacles and infers population processes affecting spatial connectivity at both ecological and evolutionary time scales.
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- GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF OYSTER DISPERSAL AND RECRUITMENT SUCCESS awarded by NATL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DOC 2012 - 2014
- REBUILDING OYSTER (CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA) REEFS IN THE ST. LUCIE ESTUARY, FLORIDA: PRIORITIZING REEF RESTORATION VIA IDENTIFICATION OF SOURCE POPULATIONS awarded by U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE 2009 - 2013
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- conservation genetics
- evolutionary genomics
- marine ecology
- phylogeography
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Publications
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- Identifying and reducing AFLP genotyping error: An example of tradeoffs when comparing population structure in broadcast spawning versus brooding oysters. Heredity. 108:616-625. 2012
- Semi-automated image-analysis for the identification of bivalve larvae from a Cape Cod estuary. Limnology and Oceanography. 10:538-554. 2012
- An evolutionary legacy of sex and clonal reproduction in the protistan oyster parasite Perkinsus marinus. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 598-609. 2011
- Cryptic diversity and comparative phylogeography of the estuarine copepod Acartia tonsa on the US Atlantic coast. Molecular Ecology. 20:2425-2441. 2011
- Genetic relationships of the marine invasive crab parasite Loxothylacus panopaei: an analysis of DNA sequence variation, host specificity, and distributional range. Biological Invasions. 14:701-715. 2011
- Understanding and estimating effective population size for practical applications in marine species management. Conservation Biology. 25:438-449. 2011
- Differential fertilization success between two populations of eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica. Biological Bulletin. 219:142-150. 2010
- The “southern” surfclam (Spisula solidissima) found north of its reported range: A commercially harvested population in Long Island Sound, New York. Journal of Shellfish Research. 29:799-807. 2010
- Cryptic ecological diversification of a planktonic copepod, Acartia tonsa. Molecular Ecology. 17:1451-1468. 2008
- Evaluating recruitment contribution of a selectively bred Crassostrea virginica oyster aquaculture line used in restoration efforts. Journal of Shellfish Research. 27:1117-1124. 2008
- The emergence of an endangered species: Evolution and phylogeny of the Trachypithecus geei of Bhutan. International Journal of Primatology. 29:565-582. 2008
- Genetic diversity and expanding nonindigenous range of the rhizocephalan Loxothylacus panopaei parasitizing mud crabs in the western North Atlantic. J. Parasitology. 93:578-582. 2007
- Genomic evidence for divergent selsction between Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico oysters. Molecular Ecology. 15:4229-4242. 2006
- Isolation by distance in the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginca, in Chesapeake Bay. Journal of Heredity. 97:158-170. 2006
- Naturalized populations of Crassostrea gigas along the South African coast: distribution, abundance and population structure. Journal of Shellfish Research. 24:443-450. 2005
- Nonrandom larval dispersal can steepen marine clines. Evolution. 59:2509-2517. 2005
- Phylogeography of surf clams, Spisula solidissima, in the western North Atlantic based on mitochrondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Marine Biology. 146:707-716. 2005
- A new subspecies of golden langur (Trachypithecus geei) from Bhutan. Folia Primatologica. 74:104-108. 2003
- High intron sequence conservation across three mammalian orders suggests functional constraints. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 20:969-978. 2003
- Genetic evidence on the demography of speciation in allopatric dolphin species. Evolution. 56:804-816. 2002
- Predicting nuclear gene coalescence from mitochondrial data: The three-times rule. Evolution. 55:859-868. 2001
- Prospects for nuclear gene phylogeography. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 16:700-706. 2001
- Single-step species identification of bivalve larvae using multiplex polymerase chain reactions. Marine Biology. 137:953-961. 2000
- The accuracy of heterozygous base calling from diploid sequence and resolution of haplotypes using allele-specific sequencing. Molecular Ecology. 8:1750-1752. 1999
- Population structure in the American oyster as inferred by nuclear gene genealogies. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 15:119-128. 1998
- Detection and isolation of nuclear haplotypes by PCR-SSCP. Molecular Ecology. 6:575-580. 1997
- Molecular genetic analysis of a stepped multilocus cline in the American oyster (Crassostrea virginica). Evolution. 50:2305-2315. 1996
- The heterozygote deficiency phenomenon in marine bivalues: Lessons from the refinement of anonymous DNA markers. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 13:334-345. 1996
- Mitochondrial-DNA variation in polytypic Alaskan Song Sparrow. Auk. 109:126-132. 1992
- Cephalopod remains from a Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) stranded in Kodiak, Alaska. Northwestern Naturalist. 71:49-51. 1990
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Teaching
teaching overview
- I teach an introductory genetics course designed for Natural Resources majors and population biologists in general (NTRES 2830). I also teach portions of Advanced Conservation Biology (NTRES 4100) and Evolution and Biodiversity (BioEE 1780). At the graduate level I currently teach a seminar in molecular ecology (NTRES 7283)
teaching activities
- NTRES-2830: DNA, Genes and Genetic Diversity - Spring 2013
- NTRES-4960: Internship in Natural Resources - Spring 2013
- NTRES-6970: Graduate Individual Study in Natural Resources - Spring 2013
- NTRES-7283: Molecular Genetic Approaches to the Study of Ecology and Evolution - Spring 2013
- NTRES-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- NTRES-8900: Master's Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- NTRES-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- NTRES-4100: Advanced Conservation Biology: Concepts and Techniques - Fall 2012
- NTRES-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- NTRES-8900: Master's Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- NTRES-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- NTRES-4960: Internship in Natural Resource - Spring 2012
- NTRES-6970: Graduate Individual Study in Natural Resources - Spring 2012
- NTRES-7283: Molecular Genetic Approaches to the Study of Ecology and Evolution - Spring 2012
- NTRES-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- NTRES-8900: Master's Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- NTRES-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- NTRES-2830: DNA, Genes and Genetic Diversity - Fall 2011
- NTRES-4100: Conservation Biology: Concepts and Techniques - Fall 2011
- NTRES-7900: Graduate-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- NTRES-8900: Master's Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- NTRES-9900: Doctoral-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
Service
service to the profession
- Society for the Study of Evolution Associate Editor 2010 -
- IMCC Symposium on Effective Population Size in Marine Populations: from Theory to Practice Program Organizer 2009
- Biology Graduate Admissions & Review Committee, Department of Biology, University of Maryland Committee Member 2004 - 2008
- Ocean Sciences 2008: Session on Multidisciplinary approaches to larval dispersion and connectivity Co-Chair and Co-Organizer 2008
- MD/VA Oyster Steering Committee Committee Member 2006 - 2007
- MEES AOS Committee (Graduate Program Committee), Department of Biology, University of Maryland Committee Member 2000 - 2007
- National Science Foundation Panel Member 2006
- BSCI-222 Curriculum Restructuring Committee, University of Maryland Committee Member 2005 - 2006
- Computational Biology search subcommittee in Biology Department, Department of Biology, University of Maryland Committee Member 2001 - 2004
- Biosciences Building Equipment List, University of Maryland Advisor to Dean Allewell - 2003
- Biology Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC), Department of Biology, University of Maryland Committee Member 2001 - 2002
- Search Committee, Director of College Computing, University of Maryland Committee Member - 2001
- Graduate Policy Committee, Department of Biology, University of Maryland Committee Member 2001
- RTG/BEES Review Committee for Summer Fellowships (Graduate Program Committee), Department of Biology, University of Maryland Committee Member - 2001
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Background
education and training
- Harvard University 2000
- Ph.D. in Genetics, University of Georgia 1996
- M.S. in Zoology, University of Alaska 1990
- B.A. in Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic 1984
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- CALS
research keyword
- conservation genetics
- evolutionary genomics
- marine ecology
- phylogeography