Gregory P. Wilson

Department of Integrative Biology & Museum of Paleontology
University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-4780, USA

gpwilson@socrates.Berkeley.Edu
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/wac/lab.html

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology, 1998-present.



• B.A. Stanford University, Department of Human Biology, 1995.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley [General Human Anatomy Laboratory, 2001].



• Co-mentor, University of California, Berkeley for Summer Research Opportunity Program (Natasha Beranek), 2003.



• Co-mentor, University of California, Berkeley for Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, 1999-2001.



• Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley [Topics in Paleontology: The Age of Mammals, 1999].



• Tutoring specialist, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, 1996-1997.



• GRE, SAT, and ACT Test Prep Instructor, Kaplan, 1996-1997.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Niger 1997, 2000. Investigated Cretaceous fossil bearing deposits, led by the University of Chicago's Dr. Paul Sereno.



• Montana 1998-present. Examination of fauna and flora from Late Cretaceous and Paleocene age sites, led by Jack Horner, Dr. William A. Clemens, Dr. Joseph Hartman, and Dr. Nan C. Arens.



• Colombia 1999. Investigated fauna and flora from Late Cretaceous age fossil localities, led by Dr. Nan C. Arens.



• India 2001, 2003. Investigated fauna from Late Cretaceous age fossil localities, led by University of Michigan's Dr. Jeffrey Wilson and Dr. Paul Sereno.

AWARDS AND HONORS

• National Science Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (J. Jernvall and J.P. Hunter, co-sponsors), 2004-2007.



• Graduate Opportunity Program, Dissertation Year Award, 2003-2004.



• University of California, Museum of Paleontology, Welles Award, 2003.



• National Science Foundation, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1999-2003.



• Department of Integrative Biology, Summer Research Block Grant, 2000-2002.



• Graduate Opportunity Program, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1998-1999.

PUBLICATIONS

• Khosla, A., Kapur, V., Sereno, P.C., Wilson, J.A., Wilson, G.P., Dutheil, D., Sahni, A., Singh, M., Kumar, S., and Rana, R.S. 2003. First dinosaur remains from the Cenomanian-Turonian Nimar Sandstone (Bagh Beds), District Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 48: 115-127.



• Rana, R.S. and G.P. Wilson. 2003. New Late Cretaceous mammals from the Intertrappean beds of Rangapur, India and paleobiogeographic framework. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(3): 331-348.



• Clemens, W.A., Wilson, G.P., and Molnar, R.E. 2003. An enigmatic (synapsid?) tooth from the Early Cretaceous of New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1): 232-237.



• Wilson, G.P., R.P. Hilton, and E.S. Gohre. 2003. The first Mesozoic mammal from California. Paleobios 23(1): 20-23.



• Wilson, G.P. and N.C. Arens. 2001. The evolutionary impact of an epeiric seaway on Late Cretaceous and Paleocene South American palynofloras. Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina. Publicacion Especial 7. VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems: 185-189.



• Sereno, P.C., Allison Beck, Didier Dutheil, Hans C.E. Larsson, Gabrielle Lyon, Moussa Bourahima, Rudyard Sadleir, Christian Sidor, David Varrichio, Gregory Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson. 1999. Cretaceous Sauropods from the Sahara and the uneven rate of skeletal evolution among dinosaurs.Science (286): 1342-1347.



• Sereno, P.C., Allison Beck, Didier Dutheil, Boubacar Gado, Hans Larsson, Gabrielle Lyon, Jonathon Marcot, Oliver Rauhut, Rudyard Sadleir, Christian Sidor, David Varrichio, Gregory Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson. 1998. A long-snouted predatory dinosaur from Africa and the evolution of the spinosaurids. Science (282): 1298-1302.

PROFESSIONAL MEETING ABSTRACTS

• Wilson, G.P. and N.C. Arens. 1999. The evolutionary impact of an epeiric seaway on Late Cretaceous and Paleocene South American palynofloras. VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems. Abstracts: 64. Buenos Aires.



• Wilson, G.P. 1999. A phylogenetic analysis of Periptychidae (Mammalia: Condylarthra: Periptychidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(3): 85a.



• Wilson, G.P. and N.C. Arens. 2001. The biogeographic impact of an epeiric seaway on Late Cretaceous and Paleocene South American palynofloras. Paleobios 21(2) supplement: 34.



• Wilson, G.P. and Rana, R.S. 2001. Biogeographic implications of a new primitive tribosphenic mammal from the intertrappean beds of Rangapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3): 114a.



• Wilson, G.P. 2002. Mammalian faunal stasis?: new data from the lower portion of the Hell Creek Formation in Garfield County, Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3): 120a.



• Wilson, G.P. 2003. An assessment of change in mammalian disparity across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary using dental morphospace. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3): 111a.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists, 1998-present.



• Paleontological Society, 2002-present.



• Geological Society of America, 2003-present.