John P. Sullivan Email & Phone Number

Ncbi-Genbank, National Library Of Medicine, Nih, Bethesda, Md

I am curator of NCBI taxonomy for fishes, amphibians, mammals, and non-arthropod invertebrates. My duties include verification of zoological names and identification of type material in sequence submissions to the INSDC databases (GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ), updating animal nomenclature and classification in the NCBI Taxonomy Database, and interacting with sequence annotators, submitters and researchers to ensure accuracy of data associated with sequence submissions. Most of my published research concerns the taxonomy and systematics of fishes. I maintain courtesy titles at two places I worked previously: the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates in Ithaca, New York and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ithaca, Ny

Archiving more than 5000 electric fish communication signal recordings into the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as well as organizing and archiving ancillary metadata and media associated with voucher specimens housed in the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates.

Ithaca, Ny

Phylogenetics and taxonomy of electric, barbeled, and feathered vertebrates

Kisangani, Orientale, Congo (Drc)

I worked with faculty and students at the Université de Kisangani (UNIKIS) in the Democratic Republic of Congo to build a fish collection and study freshwater fish biodiversity in Orientale Province.

Philadelphia, Pa

Designing, conducting and publishing original research on catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) phylogenetics

New York, New York

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Zoology

Zoology

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Philosophy, Mathematics, Language, Physics

Great Books curriculum with emphasis on Western philosophy, mathematics, language, physics, & literature.