Dr Ronald Jenner

Academic biography

Employment history

2009 - present    Researcher, Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, UK

2005 - 2008        Postdoctoral researcher, Dept. Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK

2002 - 2004        Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow, Dept. Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK

Qualifications

2002        PhD in systematic biology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

1997        MSc in biology, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Professional Roles

Invited speaker

• September 2009, Summer School on evolutionary developmental biology, Instituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venice
• March 2009, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull
• November 2008, 50^th anniversary Phylogenetic Symposium, University of Hamburg, Germany
• October 2008, keynote speaker, International Symposium on Crustacean Phylogeny, Rostock, Germany
• September 2008, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
• July 2008, Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
• March 2008, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Scotland
• December 2007, Departament de Genetica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (in graduate course)
• October 2007, Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Universite´ de la Méditerranée, Marseilles, France
• September 2007, British Association for the Advancement of Science, University of York, York, UK
• June 2007, Royal Society Scientific Discussion Meeting Evolution of the animals – a Linnean Tercentenary Celebration, London, UK
• June 2007, Novartis Foundation Meeting on Animal evolution, London, UK
• April 2007, Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series, Imperial College London, UK
• January 2007, Equipe Evolution et Developpement, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France
• August 2006, first meeting of European Society of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Prague, Czech Republic
• June 2006, University of Jena, Germany
• May 2006, workshop on Evolutionary Developmental Biology – the European Agenda, University of Padova, Venice, Italy
• April 2006, University of Bristol, UK
• September 2005, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
• July 2005, keynote speaker at International Crustacean Congress, Glasgow, Scotland
• June 2005, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK
• May 2005, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA
• April 2005, Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany
• March 2005, Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• January 2005, symposium on The New Microscopy: Toward a Phylogenetic Synthesis at annual meeting of the American Microscopical Society, San Diego, USA
• November 2003, Zoological Museum, University of Zürich, Switzerland
• May 2003, Institute of Biology, Free University of Berlin, Germany
• May 2003, Institute for Biology/Comparative Zoology, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany
• August 2002, symposium on Current advances in metazoan evolution: new taxa, new characters, new genes at Willi Hennig Society Meeting, Helsinki, Finland
• April 2002, Institute for Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, University of Leiden, Netherlands
• March 2002, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
• January 2002, symposium on The Cambrian explosion: putting the pieces together at annual meeting of Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Anaheim, USA
• July 2001, Institute for Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, University of Leiden, Netherlands
• July 2001, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, England
• June 2001, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain

Editorial boards

• Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Research

Interests

•  Macroevolution of animal body plans
•  High-level metazoan phylogeny
•  Conceptual/methodological issues in invertebrate systematics and phylogenetics
•  Use of phylogenies in evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo)

Current projects

•  Tempo and mode of evolution of the Malacostraca (Crustacea) (external collaborators: Dr M. A. Wills, C. Ní Dhubhghaill, University of Bath)
•  Towards a phylogeny of Crustacea: a 454 pyrosequencing approach (external collaborators: Dr M. A. Wills, C. Ní Dhubhghaill, University of Bath)
•  Macroevolution of the Metazoa: phylogenetic and comparative approaches (external collaborator: Dr M. A. Wills, University of Bath)
•  The genetics and evolutionary dynamics of reproductive mode in tadpole shrimps (external collaborators: Dr A. Gomez, Dr R. Hammond, University of Hull)

Publications

Publications

2009

• Jenner, R. A. (2009) Shaking the tree of life Nature 458: 706.
• Jenner, R. A. (2009) [Review of] From embryology to evo-devo. A history of developmental evolution Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 52: 458-462.
• Jenner, R. A. (2009) Idalatry Palaeontological Association Newsletter 71: 94-102.
• Jenner, R. A. and Littlewood, D. T. J. (2009) Invertebrate Problematica: kinds, causes, and solutions, In: Animal evolution: genomes, fossils and trees (Telford, M. J., Littlewood, D. T. J., eds). Oxford University Press 107-126.
• Jenner, R. A., Ní Dhubhghaill, C., Ferla, M. P. and Wills, M. A. (2009) Eumalacostracan phylogeny and total evidence: limitations of the usual suspects BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 21. 10.1186/1471-2148-9-21
• Wills, M.A, Jenner, R. A., Ní Dhubhghaill, C. (2009) Eumalacostracan evolution: conflict between three sources of data Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 67: 71-90.

2008

• Jenner, R. A. (2008) Evo-devo’s identity: from model organisms to developmental types, In: A. Minelli and G. Fusco (eds.), In: Evolving pathways. Key themes in evolutionary developmental biology. Cambridge University Press 100-119.
• Jenner, R. A. (2008) For a very specialized audience only. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter 69: 23-25..
• Jenner, R. A. (2008) On molecular clocks and molecular fetish. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 67: 25-29..
• Jenner, R. A. (2008) [Review of] The regulatory genome. Gene regulatory networks in development and evolution, by Davidson, E. H. The Systematist 30: 19-21.
• Jenner, R. A. and Littlewood, D. T. J. (2008) Problematica old and new Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363: 1503-1512. 10.1098/rstb.2007.2240

2007

• Jenner, R. A. (2007) [Review of] Evolutionary pathways in nature. A phylogenetic approach, by Avise, J. C. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 66: 77-78.
• Jenner, R. A. (2007) [Review of] Macroevolution. Diversity, disparity, contingency. Essays in honor of Stephen Jay Gould, E. S. Vrba and Eldredge, N. (eds.), University of Chicago Press, 2005. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 64: 102-106.
• Jenner, R. A. and Wills, M. (2007) The choice of model organisms in evo-devo Nature Reviews Genetics 8: 311-319. 10.1038/nrg2062

2006

• Jenner, R. A. (2006) Challenging received wisdoms: some contributions of the new microscopy to the new animal phylogeny Integrative and Comparative Biology 46: 93-103. 10.1093/icb/icj014
• Jenner, R. A. (2006) Unburdening evo-devo: ancestral attractions, model organisms, and basal baloney Development, Genes and Evolution 216: 385-394. 10.1007/s00427-006-0084-5
• Jenner, R. A. (2006) Metazoan phylogeny, In: J. H. Kaas (ed.), In: Evolution of nervous systems. Volume I: History of ideas, basic concepts and developmental mechanisms. Academic Press: Oxford, 17-40.
• Jenner, R. A. (2006) On cosmik debris and palaeontology. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 62: 28-35.
  Jenner, R. A. 2006b. Demolishing the ivory tower: science as entertainment. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 63: 19-25..
• Webster, B. L., Copley, R. R., Jenner, R. A., Mackenzie-Dodds, J. A., Bourlat, S. J., Rota-Stabelli, O., Littlewood, D. T. J. and Telford, M. J. (2006) Mitogenomics and phylogenomics reveal priapulid worms as extant models of the ancestral ecdysozoan Evolution & Development 8: 502-510. 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2006.00123.x

2005

• Jenner, R. A. (2005) Foiling vertebrate inversion with the humble nemertean. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 58: 32-39..
• Jenner, R. A. (2005) Meeting a nemertean nemesis. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 59: 37-43.
• Jenner, R. A. (2005) Scotoma of systematics, or Herschel’s headaches and Darwin’s metaphysics. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 60: 18-25.
• Jenner, R. A. (2005) Combating footnote status in evolutionary theory. Contributions to Zoology 74: 209-211.
• Jenner, R. A. and Scholtz, G. (2005) Playing another round of metazoan phylogenetics: historical epistemology, sensitivity analysis, and the position of Arthropoda within the Metazoa on the basis of morphology, In: Koenemann, S. And Jenner, R. A. (eds), In: Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships. CRC Press 355-385.
• Koenemann, S. and Jenner, R. A. (2005) Crustacea and arthropod relationships (Crustacean Issues, 16). CRC Press.

2004

• Jenner, R. A. (2004) Towards a phylogeny of the Metazoa: evaluating alternative phylogenetic positions of Platyhelminthes, Nemertea, and Gnathostomulida, with a critical reappraisal of cladistic characters Contributions to Zoology 73: 3-163. Contributions to Zoology
• Jenner, R. A. (2004) Accepting partnership by submission? Morphological phylogenetics in a molecular millennium Systematic Biology 53: 333-342. 10.1080/10635150490423962
• Jenner, R. A. (2004) The scientific status of metazoan cladistics: why current research practice must change Zoologica Scripta 33: 293-310. 10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00153.x
• Jenner, R. A. (2004) When molecules and morphology clash: reconciling conflicting phylogenies of the Metazoa by considering secondary character loss Evolution & Development 6: 372-378. 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2004.04045.x
• Jenner, R. A. (2004) Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969): from developmental mechanics to the evolution of animal body plans Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution) 302B: 413-423. 10.1002/jez.b.21019
• Jenner, R. A. (2004) The hold of hypothetical ancestors and the amazing appeal of annelids as archetypes. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 55: 18-27.
• Jenner, R. A. (2004) Presumed primitive until proven derived: appreciating evolutionary loss. The Systematist 23: 12-16.
• Jenner, R. A. (2004) Historical imagination, colonial theories and phylogenetic fashion. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter 56: 50-59.
• Jenner, R. A. (2004) The tainting of Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 57: 10-17.

2003

• Jenner, R. A. (2003) Unleashing the force of cladistics? Metazoan phylogenetics and hypothesis testing Integrative and Comparative Biology 43: 207-218. 10.1093/icb/43.1.207
• Jenner, R. A. (2003) Conceptual fossils. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 52: 24-29.
• Jenner, R. A. (2003) “Laws” of animal evolution and evolutionary folk wisdom. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 53: 42-48.
• Jenner, R. A. (2003) Darwin’s cirripedology meets modern phylogenetics. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 54: 10-16.
• Jenner, R. A. (2003) [Review of] Invertebrates, by R. C. Brusca and G. J. Brusca, Sinauer, 2003. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 54: 80-88.
• Jenner, R. A. (2003) [Review of] The development of animal form. Ontogeny, morphology, and evolution, by A. Minelli, Cambridge University Press, 2003. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 54: 68-72.
• Jenner, R. A. (2003) Evolutionary déjà vu. The Systematist 22: 15-17.

2002

• Jenner, R. A. (2002) Boolean logic and character state identity: pitfalls of character coding in metazoan cladistics Contributions to Zoology 71: 67-91. Contributions to Zoology
• Jenner, R. A. (2002) [Review of] From DNA to diversity. Molecular genetics and the evolution of animal design, by S. B. Carroll, J. K. Grenier and S. D. Weatherbee, Blackwell Science, Inc., 2001. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 51: 43-47.
• Jenner, R. A. (2002) Technophilia and the black box. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 51: 22-26.
• Jenner, R. A. and F. R. Schram, F. R. (2002) Systematic zoology: invertebrates, in Biological Systematics, In: A. Minelli and G. Contrafatto, (eds.), In: In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). EOLSS Publishers: Oxford,.

2001

• Galis, F. and R. A. Jenner (2001) The evolution of individuality and conflict mediation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 541.
• Jenner, R. A. (2001) Bilaterian phylogeny and uncritical recycling of morphological data sets Systematic Biology 50: 730-742. Systematic Biology
• Jenner, R. A. (2001) Evolution of animal body plans: the role of metazoan phylogeny at the interface between pattern and process Evolution & Development 2: 208-221. 10.1046/j.1525-142x.2000.00060.x
• Jenner, R. A. (2001) [Review of] Multicellular animals. The phylogenetic system of the Metazoa. Volume II, by P. Ax, Springer-Verlag, 2000. Quarterly Review of Biology 76: 363-364.
• Jenner, R. A. (2001) [Review of] Genomic regulatory systems. Development and evolution, by E. H. Davidson, Academic Press, 2001. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 47: 73-75.
• Jenner, R. A. (2001) Carrying metazoan phylogenetics forward in the 21st century. Contributions to Zoology 70: 181-184. [review of and comments on Animal evolution, 2nd edition by Claus Nielsen, Oxford University Press, 2001].
• Schram, F. R. and Jenner, R. A.. (2001) The origin of Hexapoda: a crustacean perspective, In: T. Deuve, (ed.), In: The origin of Hexapoda. Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N. S.) : France, 243-264.

1999

• Jenner, R. A. (1999) Metazoan phylogeny as a tool in evolutionary biology: current problems and discrepancies in application Belgian Journal of Zoology 129: 245-261.
• Jenner, R. A. and F. R. Schram. (1999) The grand game of metazoan phylogeny: rules and strategies Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 74: 121-142. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

1998

• Jenner, R. A. (1998) Hierarchical organization and the structural-interactive hierarchy Journal of Theoretical Biology 194: 457-460. 10.1006/jtbi.1998.0765
• Jenner, R. A., C. H. J. Hof and F. R. Schram (1998) Palaeo- and archaeostomatopods (Hoplocarida, Crustacea) from the Bear Gulch Limestone, Mississipian (Namurian), of Central Montana Contributions to Zoology 67: 155-185. Contributions to Zoology