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Rob DeSalle’s fields of specialization include molecular evolution, population genetics, molecular systematics, and developmental biology. His early research focused on the molecular systematics of the Drosophilidae, a family of flies. His more recent work centers on gene family evolution and comparative genomics in a wide variety of organisms, including pathogenic bacteria. In addition, Dr. DeSalle is one of the founders of the Museum’s Conservation Genetics Program, which applies studies at the molecular level to the conservation of wildlife and wild lands throughout the world. In 1996, Dr. DeSalle and his colleagues developed a genetic test for caviar that helped gain protection for sturgeon in the Caspian Sea basin under the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES.) Dr. DeSalle received his B.A. in biological sciences from the University of Chicago in 1976 and his Ph.D. in 1984 from Washington University. He joined the Museum in 1991. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Connecticut, and Yale University. In addition to his research and teaching, Dr. DeSalle co-authored The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World (Basic Books, 1997), and curated the Museum’s 1999 landmark exhibition Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease.
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Selected Recent Publications
2001 Kachlany SC, Planet PJ, Desalle R, Fine DH, Figurski DH, Kaplan JB. flp-1, the first representative of a new pilin gene subfamily, is required for non-specific adherence of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. Mol Microbiol. 2001:542-54.
2001 Planet PJ, Kachlany SC, DeSalle R, Figurski DH. Phylogeny of genes secretion NTPases: Identification of the widespread tadA subfamily and development of a diagnostic key for gene classification. Proc Natl Acad
Sci U S A. 98(5):2503-8.
2001 Kachlany, S.C., P J. Planet, R DeSalle, D H. Fine and D H. Figurski. Genes for tight adherence of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans: from plaque to plague to pond scum. Trends in Microbiology 9: 9-20.
2001 Greenwood AD, Lee F, Capelli C, DeSalle R, Tikhonov A, Marx PA, MacPhee RD., 2001. Evolution of endogenous retrovirus-like elements of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and its relatives. Mol Biol Evol. 18:840-7.
2000 Kachlany SC, Planet PJ, Bhattacharjee MK, Kollia E, DeSalle R, Fine DH, Figurski DH.,. Adherence by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans requires genes widespread in bacteria and archaea. J Bacteriol. 2000
Nov;182(21):6169-76.
2001 Planet, PJ, DeSalle,R, MSiddall, Timothy Bael, Indra Neil Sarkar, and Scott E.Stanley, 2001. Systematic Analysis of DNA Microarray Data: Ordering and Interpreting Patterns of Gene Expression. Genome Research 11: 1149-1155.
2001 Bang, R., TR Schultz and R. DeSalle. Development, homology and systematics. In DeSalle, R, G. Giribet and W. Wheeler (eds.), 2001. Molecular Systematics and Evolution: Theory and Practice. Birkhauser,
Basel.
2001 Lacombe B, Becker D, Hedrich R, DeSalle R, Hollmann M, Kwak JM, Schroeder JI, Le Novere N, Nam HG, Spalding EP, Tester M, Turano FJ, Chiu J, Coruzzi G., 2001. The identity of plant glutamate receptors. Science. 292:1486-7.
2000 Thornton, J. and R. DeSalle, 2000. Gene family evolution and homology: Genomics meets phylogenetics. Annu. Rev. Genomics Hum. Genet. 2000. 01:41-73
2000 Jacobs DK, Wray CG, Wedeen CJ, Kostriken R, DeSalle R, Staton JL, Gates RD, Lindberg DR.,. Molluscan engrailed expression, serial organization, and shell evolution. Evol Dev. 2000 Nov-Dec;2(6):340-7.
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Editorial Boards
Systematic Biology (1997-1998)
Ancient Biomolecules (1994-1998)
Evolution (Associate Editor, 1993-1997)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Associate Editor, 1995- Present)
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