Curriculum Vitae: Lian Guo
PhD Student
Education
2014: B.A. in Organismal Biology, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Research Interests
During my time in college, I worked in the Marine Ecology Lab,
focusing on the thermal tolerance of the barnacle Balanus glandula.
I developed a thesis project examining the effects of different acclimation
regimes (constant warm/cold vs. variable) on the thermal tolerance of this species,
in order to determine if researchers can improve laboratory methodology in thermal
tolerance experiments. I worked briefly on Lizard Island Research Station in Australia,
testing the efficacy of a new control solution for population outbreaks of the
crown-of-thorns-seastar (Acanthaster planci). During summers in undergrad and in
the year between undergrad and graduate school, I worked in the Ichthyoplankton
Lab at Southwest Fisheries Science Center (NOAA), mainly sorting and identifying
ichthyoplankton from the CalCOFI plankton collection. I worked on two projects to
genetically identify larval rockfish in order to determine temporal and spatial
changes in rockfish assemblage within the Southern California Bight.
I am very excited to begin graduate research with the McCormick Lab and the Jordaan Lab.
I hope to evaluate how stressors that change temporally and spatially affect anadromous
fish throughout ontogeny. I am interested in identifying molecular mechanisms that deal
with stressors and how those mechanisms are affected when multiple stressors are present.
I believe these will be important questions to examine in the scope of climate change and
deteriorating water quality. I plan to work collaboratively with researchers abroad, especially
in China, where waterways have been radically modified by dams and water pollution. I love to
do science outreach and am involved in Science Café (http://oebsciencecafe.org/) and Graduate
Women in STEM's Outreach Committee. I am working with other life science graduate students to
develop a new outreach blog (www.thatslifesci.com).
Publications
Khalil, A, Parker, M, Brown, SE, Cevik, SE, Guo, LW, Jensen, J, Olmsted, A, Portman, D, Wu, H, and A Suvorov. In Review. Perinatal Exposure to 2,2',4'4' -Tetrabromidihenyl Ether Impairs Male Reproductive Health in Adult Rats. Toxicology.
Thompson, AR, Hyde, JR, Watson, W, Chen, D, and LW Guo. 2016. Rockfish assemblage structure and spawning locations in southern California identified through larval sampling. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 547:177-192
