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Science crowdfunding panel discussion

An appearance on Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour

An appearance on Breaking Bio

Writing workshop

Slipper lobster digging

Sand crab digging

Parasites in shrimp nervous system

Awards

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Phone: (956) 665-2614 or (956) 587-ZENF (i.e., (956) 587-9363)
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• Contact information
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• Research interests
• Publications
• Journals, chapters, book
• Preprints
• Conference abstracts
• Datasets and figures
• Miscellany
• Education and training
• Professional affiliations
• Teaching
• Selected awards
• Trivia
• Namesakes

Related Pages

• NeuroDojo: My general blog.
• Better Posters: A poster presentations blog.
• Marmorkrebs.org: Marbled crayfish research, including an award-winning blog.
• Craywatch: A citizen science project.
• YouTube: My channel.
• Presentation tips: A free e-book compiling and reorganizing my best blog posts on presentations.

Research

This video was done as part of the #SciFund Challenge.

I’m interested in brains, behaviour, evolution. I work mostly with decapod crustaceans, particularly sand crabs and the marbled crayfish Marmorkrebs.

Publications

Articles in journals and books

indicates open access papers. indicates papers supported by crowdfunding.

2019

Faulkes Z. 2019. #GRExit's unintended consequences. Science 363(6425): 356. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw1012

2018

Faulkes Z. 2018. Prohibiting pet crayfish does not consistently reduce their availability online. Nauplius 26: e2018023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2358-2936e2018023

Faulkes Z. 2018. Resolving authorship disputes by mediation and arbitration. Research Integrity and Peer Review 3: 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-018-0057-z

Patoka J, Magalhães ALB, Kouba A, Faulkes Z, Jerikho R, Vitule JRS. 2018. Invasive aquatic pets: Failed policies increase risks of harmful invasions. Biodiversity and Conservation 27(11): 3037-3046. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-018-1581-3

2017

Faulkes Z. 2017. Case study - The “me brand”: tips for successful personal branding. In: Evans TM, Lundsteen N, Vanderford NL, ReSearch: A Career Guide for Scientists, pp. 134-135. Academic Press: London. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804297-7.00011-2

Faulkes Z. 2017. Filtering out parasites: Sand crabs (Lepidopa benedicti) are infected by more parasites than sympatric mole crabs (Emerita benedicti). PeerJ 5: e3852. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3852

Faulkes Z. 2017. Slipping past the barricades: the illegal trade of pet crayfish in Ireland. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 117(1): 15-23. https://doi.org/10.3318/BIOE.2017.02

Faulkes Z. 2017. The phenology of sand crabs, Lepidopa benedicti (Decapoda: Albuneidae). Journal of Coastal Research 33(5): 1095-1101. https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-16-00125.1

2016

Faulkes Z. 2016. Indie blogging: On being a “ronin”. In: Wilcox C, Brookshire B, Goldman J (eds.), Science Blogging: The Essential Guide, pp. 70-78. Yale University Press: New Haven. ISBN: 9780300197556. http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300197556/science-blogging

Faulkes Z. 2016. Marble crayfish as a new model organism and a new threat to native crayfish conservation. In: T Kawai, Z Faulkes, G Scholtz, eds. Freshwater Crayfish: A Global Overview, pp. 31-53. Boca Raton: CRC Press. https://www.crcpress.com/Freshwater-Crayfish-A-Global-Overview/Kawai-Faulkes-Scholtz/9781466586390
     Supplemental info: Colour version of Figure 3.1: Faulkes Z. 2015. Motor giant synapses of Procambarus clarkii and P. fallax f. virginalis. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1500912

Feria TP, Faulkes Z. 2016. Predicting the distribution of crayfish species: a case study using marble crayfish. In: T Kawai, Z Faulkes, G Scholtz, eds. Freshwater Crayfish: A Global Overview, pp. 13-30. Boca Raton: CRC Press. https://www.crcpress.com/Freshwater-Crayfish-A-Global-Overview/Kawai-Faulkes-Scholtz/9781466586390

2015

Faulkes Z. 2015. A bomb set to drop: parthenogenetic Marmorkrebs for sale in Ireland, a European location without non-indigenous crayfish. Management of Biological Invasions 6(1): 111-114. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2015.6.1.09

Faulkes Z. 2015. Marmorkrebs (Procambarus fallax f. virginalis) are the most popular crayfish in the North American pet trade. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems 416: 20. https://doi.org/10.1051/kmae/2015016
     Supplemental info: Faulkes Z. 2015. Crayfish pet trade in North America. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1478015

Faulkes Z. 2015. Motor neurons in the escape response circuit of white shrimp (Litopenaeus setiferus). PeerJ 3: e1112. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1112

Faulkes Z. 2015. The global trade in crayfish as pets. Crustacean Research 44: 75-92. https://doi.org/10.18353/crustacea.44.0_75

Harzsch S, Krieger J, Faulkes Z. 2015. “Crustacea”: Decapoda – Astacida. In: A Wanninger (ed.), Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 4: Ecdysozoa II: Crustacea, pp. 101-151. Springer Veinna: Wien. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1853-5_4

Puri S, Faulkes Z. 2015. Can crayfish take the heat? Procambarus clarkii show nociceptive behaviour to high temperature stimuli, but not low temperature or chemical stimuli. Biology Open 4(4): 441-448. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.20149654

2014

Carreon N, Faulkes Z. 2014. Position of larval tapeworms, Polypocephalus sp., in the ganglia of shrimp, Litopenaeus setiferus. Integrative and Comparative Biology 54(2): 143-148. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu043

Faulkes Z. 2014. A new southern record for a sand crab, Lepidopa websteri Benedict, 1903 (Decapoda, Albuneidae). Crustaceana 87(7): 881-885. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003326
PDF of paper, courtesy of Brill.

Faulkes Z. 2014. The vacuum shouts back: post-publication peer-review on social media. Neuron 82(2): 258-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2014.03.032

Byrnes JEK, Ranganathan J, Walker BLE, Faulkes Z. 2014. To crowdfund research, scientists must build an audience for their work. PLOS ONE 9(12): e110329. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110329

Joseph M, Faulkes Z. 2014. Nematodes infect, but do not manipulate digging by, sand crabs, Lepidopa benedicti. Integrative and Comparative Biology 54(2): 101-107. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu064

Weinersmith KL, Faulkes Z. 2014. Parasitic manipulation of host phenotype, or how to make a zombie - an introduction to the symposium. Integrative and Comparative Biology 54(2): 93-100. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu028

2013

Faulkes Z. 2013. How much is that crayfish in the window? Online monitoring of Marmorkrebs, Procambarus fallax f. virginalis (Hagen, 1870) in the North American pet trade. Freshwater Crayfish 19(1): 39-44. https://doi.org/10.5869/fc.2013.v19.039
     Supplemental info: Faulkes Z. 2013. Online monitoring of Marmorkrebs in the North American pet trade. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.645344

Murph JH, Faulkes Z. 2013. Abundance and size of sand crabs, Lepidopa benedicti (Decapoda: Albuneidae), in South Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist 58(4): 431-434. https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909-58.4.431
     Supplemental info: Faulkes Z. 2014. Abundance and size of sand crabs (Lepidopa benedicti) on South Padre Island, Texas. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1057959

2012

Faulkes Z. 2012. Morphological adaptations for digging and burrowing. In: Watling L, Thiel M (eds.), The Natural History of Crustacea, Volume 1: Functional Morphology and Diversity, pp. 276-295. Oxford University Press: Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195398038.003.0010

Faulkes Z. 2012. Presentation Tips (ebook). Kindle Direct Publishing. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008DKI1ZU

Faulkes Z, Feria TP, Muñoz J. 2012. Do Marmorkrebs, Procambarus fallax f. virginalis, threaten freshwater Japanese ecosystems? Aquatic Biosystems 8: 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-9063-8-13

2011

Carreon N, Faulkes Z, Fredensborg BL. 2011. Polypocephalus sp. infects the nervous system and increases activity of commercially harvested white shrimp (Litopenaeus setiferus). Journal of Parasitology 97(5): 755-759. https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-2749.1

Espinoza SY, Faulkes Z. 2011. Escaping while defenseless or blind: effects of sensory input on tailflipping in crayfish, Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852). Freshwater Crayfish 18(1): 13-17. https://doi.org/10.5869/fc.2011.v18.13

Faulkes Z. 2011. Can brain imaging replace interrogation and torture? Global Virtue Ethics Review 6(2): 55-78.
http://www.spaef.com/article.php?id=1266

Faulkes Z. 2011. The decade the clones came. In: Goldman J (ed.), Zivkovic B (series ed.), The Open Laboratory: The Best of Science Writing on the Web 2010, pp. 151-156. Coturnix: Chapel Hill.
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-open-laboratory-2010/15156343
     [Read the original blog post here.]

Feria TP, Faulkes Z. 2011. Forecasting the distribution of Marmorkrebs, a parthenogenetic crayfish with high invasive potential, in Madagascar, Europe, and North America. Aquatic Invasions 6(1): 55-67. https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2011.6.1.07
Supplement: Google Spreadsheet of locations used to train models.

Jimenez SA, Faulkes Z. 2011. Can the parthenogenetic marbled crayfish Marmorkrebs compete with other crayfish species in fights? Journal of Ethology 29(1): 115-120. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-010-0232-2

Nasir U, Faulkes Z. 2011. Color polymorphism of sand crabs, Lepidopa benedicti (Decapoda, Albuneidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 31(2): 240-245. https://doi.org/10.1651/10-3356.1

2010

Faulkes Z. 2010. The decade the clones came: Beware the mighty Marmorkrebs! In: Zivcovic B (ed.), Scientific American Guest Blog. 29 November 2010.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-decade-the-clones-came-beware-the-mighty-marmokrebs/

Faulkes Z. 2010. The spread of the parthenogenetic marbled crayfish, Marmorkrebs (Procambarus sp.), in the North American pet trade. Aquatic Invasions 5(4): 447-450. https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2010.5.4.16
     Supplemental info: Google Map and Google Spreadsheet of data in Figure 1.

Faulkes Z. 2010. Taking a cue from the silver screen. Science 327: 523. [Letter responding to: Alberts B. 2010. Promoting scientific standards. Science 327: 12. 10.1126/science.1185983] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.327.5965.523-a

Faulkes Z. 2010. I want to be Carl Sagan, but can’t. In: Scicurious (ed.), Zivkovic B (series ed.), The Open Laboratory: The Best in Science Writing On Blogs 2009, pp. 45-46. Coturnix: Chapel Hill.
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-open-laboratory-2009/6402822
     [Read the original blog post here.]

Jimenez SA, Faulkes Z. 2010. Establishment and care of a laboratory colony of parthenogenetic marbled crayfish, Marmorkrebs. Invertebrate Rearing 1(1): 10-18.
http://inverts.info/content/establishment-and-care-laboratory-colony-parthenogenetic-marbled-crayfish-marmorkrebs

Puri S, Faulkes Z. 2010. Do decapod crustaceans have nociceptors for extreme pH? PLoS ONE 5(4): e10244. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010244

2009

Faulkes Z. 2009. How Marmorkrebs can make the world a better place. In: Rohn J (ed.), Grant RP (deputy ed.), Zivkovic B (series ed.), The Open Laboratory: The Best In Science Writing On Blogs 2008, pp. 86-87. Coturnix: Chapel Hill.
http://www.lulu.com/content/6110823
     [Read the original blog post here.]

2008

Faulkes Z. 2008. Turning loss into opportunity: The key deletion of an escape circuit in decapod crustaceans. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 72(4): 251-261. https://doi.org/10.1159/000171488

Flores AR, Faulkes Z. 2008. Texture preferences of ascidian tadpole larvae during settlement. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 41(3): 155-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/10236240802360914

2007

Faulkes Z, Davelos Baines A. 2007. Evolutionary string theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30(4): 369-370. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X07002270

2006

Espinoza SY, Breen L, Varghese N, Faulkes Z. 2006. Loss of escape-related giant neurons in a spiny lobster, Panulirus argus. The Biological Bulletin 211(3): 223-231. https://doi.org/10.2307/4134545

Faulkes Z. 2006. The locomotor toolbox of spanner crabs, Ranina ranina (brachyura, Raninidae). Crustaceana 79(2): 143-155. https://doi.org/10.1163/156854006776952874
PDF of paper, courtesy of Brill.

Faulkes Z. 2006. Digging mechanisms and substrate preferences of shovel nosed lobsters, Ibacus peronii (Decapoda: Scyllaridae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(1): 69-72. https://doi.org/10.1651/C-2628.1
Supplement: Video of digging behaviour.

2005

Lambert G, Faulkes Z, Lambert CC, Scofield VL. 2005. Ascidians of South Padre Island, Texas, with a key to species. The Texas Journal of Science 57(3): 251-262.

2004

Faulkes Z. 2004. Mechanisms of behavioral switching. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 191(3): 197-199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-004-0560-1

Faulkes Z. 2004. Loss of escape responses and giant neurons in the tailflipping circuits of slipper lobsters, Ibacus spp. (Decapoda, Palinura, Scyllaridae). Arthropod Structure & Development 33(2): 113-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2003.12.003

2002

Faulkes Z, Macmillan DL. 2002. Effects of removal of muscle receptor organ input on the temporal structure of non-giant swimming cycles in the crayfish, Cherax destructor. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology: 35(3): 149-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/1023624021000014734

Paul DH, Faulkes Z, Antonsen BL. 2002. Synergies between disparate motor systems: loci for behavioral evolution. In: Crustacean Experimental Systems in Neurobiology (K Wiese, ed.), pp. 263-282. Springer Verlag: Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56092-7_15

2001

Faulkes Z, Pollack GS. 2001. Mechanisms of frequency-specific responses of omega neuron 1 in crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus): a polysynaptic pathway for song? The Journal of Experimental Biology 204(7): 1295-1305. http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/204/7/1295

Patullo BP, Faulkes Z, Macmillan DL. 2001. Muscle receptor organs do not mediate load compensation during body roll and defense response extensions in the crayfish Cherax destructor. The Journal of Experimental Zoology 290(7): 783-790. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.1129

2000

Faulkes Z, Pollack GS. 2000. The effects of inhibitory timing on contrast enhancement in auditory circuits in crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus). Journal of Neurophysiology 84(3): 1247-1255. http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/84/3/1247

1998

Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1998. Digging in sand crabs: coordination of joints in individual legs. The Journal of Experimental Biology 201(14): 2139-2149.
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/201/14/2139

Pollack G, Faulkes Z. 1998. Representation of behaviorally relevant sound frequencies by auditory receptors in the cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus. The Journal of Experimental Biology 201(1): 155-163. http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/201/1/155

1997

Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1997. A map of the distal leg motor neurons in the thoracic ganglia of four decapod crustacean species. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 49(3): 162-178. https://doi.org/10.1159/000112990

Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1997. Coordination between the legs and tail during digging and swimming in sand crabs. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 180(2): 161-169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s003590050037

Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1997. Digging in sand crabs (Decapoda, Anomura, Hippoidea): interleg coordination. The Journal of Experimental Biology 200(4): 793-805.
Erratum: The Journal of Experimental Biology 200(9) http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/200/4/793

Faulkes Z. 1997. Is intelligence inevitable? In: The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Cover-Ups (eds. K. Frazier, B. Karr, J. Nickell), pp. 303-312. Prometheus Books (US website | UK website): Amherst.

1994

Faulkes Z. 1994. Who watches the watchmen? [Review of The Inevitable Bond by H Davis, AD Balfour, eds.] International Journal of Comparative Psychology 7(2): 90-94. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4c3439c6

1992

Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1992. Connecting invertebrate behavior, physiology and evolution with Eshkol-Wachman movement notation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15(2): 276-277. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00068631

1991

Faulkes Z. 1991. Getting smart about getting smarts. The Skeptical Inquirer 15(3): 263-268.

Books

Kawai T, Faulkes Z, Scholz G (eds.). 2016. Freshwater Crayfish: A Global Overview. CRC Press: Boca Raton. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466586390

Miscellany

Faulkes Z. 2018. Arbitration is needed to resolve scientific authorship disputes. PeerJ Preprints 6: e26987v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26987v1

Faulkes Z. 2017. Tail flip. In: Vander Weele CM (ed.), Interstellate: A Stream of Consciousness (Volume 2), pp. 27. Lucid Press: South Jordan, Utah. http://pub.lucidpress.com/Interstellate_Volume2/

Faulkes Z (ed.). 2017. Stinging the Predators: A Collection of Papers That Should Never Have Been Published. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5248264

Faulkes Z. 2016. Model organism. In: Vander Weele CM (ed.), Interstellate: A Collection of Thoughts (Volume 1), pp. 15. Lucid Press: South Jordan, Utah. http://pub.lucidpress.com/Interstellate_Volume1/

Faulkes Z. 2016. The long-term sand crab study: phenology, geographic size variation, and a rare new colour morph in Lepidopa benedicti (Decapoda: Albuneidae). bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/041376

Byrnes JEK, Ranganathan J, Walker BLE, Faulkes Z. 2014. To crowdfund research, scientists must build an audience for their work. PeerJ Preprints 2: e393v2. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.393v2

Faulkes Z. 2012. The distal leg motor neurons of slipper lobsters, Ibacus spp. (Decapoda, Scyllaridae). NeuroDojo (blog): http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/09/Ibacus.html
     PDF version for printing. The PDF is also available at Figshare: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6007352.v1. Please cote the blog (above), not the Figshare DOI.

Selected conference abstracts

Faulkes Z, Segura C, Garcia L, Terry J, Terry M. 2018. Blind sand crabs have visual opsins. Integrative and Comparative Biology 58(Supplement 1): e62. https://doi-org.ezhost.utrgv.edu/10.1093/icb/icy001 (Note: Published abstract lists authors as: "Faulkes Z, Segura S (sic), Garcia L, Terry M." JT contributed to the work after the abstract deadline.)

Faulkes Z, Garcia L, Terry M. 2016. Eyes under the beach: the visual system of sand crabs (Lepidopa benedicti). Integrative and Comparative Biology 56(suppl 1): e63. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icw002

Puri S, Faulkes Z. 2014. Thermal nociception in Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii). Integrative & Comparative Biology 54(suppl 1): e334. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu009

Faulkes Z. 2014. First, do no harm: Challenges to controlling another organism's nervous system. Integrative & Comparative Biology 54(suppl 1): e62. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu008

Joseph M, Faulkes Z. 2014. Nematode worms infect, but do not manipulate, sand crabs (Lepidopa benedicti). Integrative & Comparative Biology 54(suppl 1): e105. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu008

Puri S, Faulkes Z. 2012. Crayfish avoid noxious high, but not low, temperatures. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience: 00416. http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fnbeh.2012.27.00416/event_abstract

Faulkes Z, Feria TP. 2012. Size differences in sand crabs living in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Poster PS 109-238 at 97^th Ecological Society of America meeting, 5-10 August 2011, Portland, Oregon USA. http://eco.confex.com/eco/2012/webprogrampreliminary/Paper39609.html

Faulkes Z, Feria TP. 2011. Risk assessment of a mysterious invader: Marbled crayfish in Japan. Presentation given at 96^th Ecological Society of America meeting, 7-12 August 2011, Austin, Texas. http://eco.confex.com/eco/2011/webprogram/Paper29937.html

Jimenez SA, Faulkes Z. 2009. Assessing threat of introduction of the parthenogenetic marbled crayfish Marmorkrebs into North American waters. Poster #20891 presented at the 94^th Ecology Society of America annual meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2-7 August 2009. http://eco.confex.com/eco/2009/techprogram/P20891.HTM

Jimenez S, Faulkes Z. 2009. Establishment of a research colony of Marmorkrebs, a parthenogenetic crayfish species. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49(Supplement 1): e249.
10.1093/icb/icp003

Puri S, Faulkes Z. 2009. Do crayfish like spicy foods? and other tests of crustacean nociception. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49(Supplement 1): e139.
10.1093/icb/icp002

Faulkes Z. 2007. Motor neurons involved in escape responses in white shrimp, Litopenaeus setiferus. Integrative and Comparative Biology 47(Supplement 1): e178.
10.1093/icb/icm105

Espinoza SY, Faulkes Z. 2007. Compromised weaponry enhances crayfish tailflipping. Integrative and Comparative Biology 47(Supplement 1): e176.
10.1093/icb/icm105

Faulkes Z. 2007. The key deletion of an adaptive neural circuit in decapod crustaceans. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 70(3): 207.
10.1159/000105462

Faulkes Z. 2005. Do shovel-nosed lobsters shovel with their noses? Integrative and Comparative Biology 45(6): 994.
10.1093/icb/45.6.955

Espinoza SY, Breen A, Varghese N, Faulkes Z. 2005. Loss of escape-related neurons in spiny lobster (Panulirus argus). Integrative and Comparative Biology 45(6): 1129.
10.1093/icb/45.6.1104

Faulkes Z, Varghese N. 2004. No escape: loss of escape-related giant neurons in spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus). Program No. 89.4. 2004 Abstract Viewer / Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2004.

Faulkes Z. 2001. Parallelism in digging behaviour in two distantly related decapod crustaceans. American Zoologist 41(6): 1642.

Faulkes Z, Macmillan DL. 2000. Losing speed to gain control? The influence of muscle receptor organs on tailflipping in crayfish (Cherax destructor). Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society 31(2): 44P.

Faulkes Z, Pollack G. 1997. Sound frequency specific responses of cricket omega neuron. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 23(2): 1570.

Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1995. Sand crab digging: an evolutionary mosaic of disparate ancestral locomotor modules? In: Burrows M, Matheson T, Newland PL, Schuppe H (eds.), Nervous Systems and Behaviour. Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Neuroethology, pp. 483. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag.

Faulkes Z, Paul DH, Pellis SM. 1991. Digging by the sand crab Blepharipoda occidentalis. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 17(2): 1245.

Datasets and figures

Faulkes Z. 2012. Ibacus leg motor neurons Figure 3. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.95656 (Published 6 September 2012; retrieved 03:19, Sep 06, 2012 GMT. Figure.)

Faulkes Z. 2012. Ibacus leg motor neurons Figure 4. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.95655 (Published 6 September 2012; retrieved 03:21, Sep 06, 2012 GMT. Figure.).

Faulkes Z. 2012. #SciFund Round 2 success and social media. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.92541 (Dataset.)

Open Science Foundation, Byrnes J, Faulkes Z, Ranganathan J, Open Science. 2012. SciFund success and social media. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.90818 (Dataset.)

Other articles

Faulkes Z. 2009. Crustacean connectomes. (Response to Lu J, Tapia JC, White OL, Lichtman JW. 2009. The interscutularis muscle connectome. PLoS Biology 7(2): e32.
10.1371/journal.pbio.1000032). PLoS Biology http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=read-response&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000032#r2486

Faulkes Z. 1994. [Review of Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a “Language” Among Bees by Adrian M. Wenner & Patrick H. Wells, Columbia University Press.] Animal Behaviour 47(5): 1241-1242.

Faulkes Z. 1993. Who watches the watchmen? Our animals and ourselves. [Review of The Inevitable Bond by H. Davis & A.D. Balfour (Eds.), Cambridge University Press.] PSYCOLOQUY 4(40): human-animal-bond.4.faulkes. [Click here for text | Click here for response from Davis & Balfour]

Education and Training

My academic heritage can be seen at the NeuronTree website.

• Post-doctoral research, supervised by David Macmillan, Zoology, University of Melbourne. 1999-2001.
• Post-doctoral research, supervised by Gerald Pollack, Biology, McGill University. 1996-1999.
• Ph.D., supervised by Dorothy Paul, Biology, University of Victoria, 1996. Dissertation: Sand crab digging: the neuroethology and evolution of a “new” behaviour.
• Bachelor of Arts and Science (B.Sc.) with Distinction from University of Lethbridge, 1989. Major in Psychology. Research with Jennifer Mather.

Professional Affiliations

• Animal Behavior Society
• The Crustacean Society
• Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience
• International Society for Neuroethology
• J.B. Johnston Club
• National Center for Science Education
• Sigma Xi
• Society for Neuroscience
• The Society for the Study of Evolution
• Texas Academy of Science

Teaching

I regularly teach General Biology (BIOL 1406), Neurobiology (BIOL 3310) and Evolutionary Theory (BIOL 6324). I maintain class websites for my UTRGV classes here (password protected, for student use).

Selected Awards

• Finalist in The Open Laboratory: The Best In Science Writing On Blogs 2009 (Scicurious, ed.; Zivkovic B, series ed.). One of 50 selections from 760 submissions.
• Finalist in The Open Laboratory: The Best In Science Writing On Blogs 2008 (Rohn J, ed.; Grant RP, deputy ed.; Zivkovic B, series ed.). One of 50 selections from over 800 submissions.
• Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Post-doctoral Fellowship. 1999-2000.
• Honorable Mention in the Warder Clyde Allee Award, Best Student Paper Session of the Animal Behaviour Society for talk titled, “Sand crab digging: a neuroethological study of the evolution of a ‘new’ behavior.” 25 July 1994.

Miscellany and Trivia

I was the first graduate student at UVic to defend my dissertation using videoconferencing. Consequently, my Ph.D. defense went down as the first in UVic history to be interrupted by a French janitor... who was in France at the time.

I did some lettering for Time City, an independent comic book, in 1992. I lettered Time City #5, and a back-up feature in #4. The creator of that book, Adrie van Viersen, relaunched the series with a new title: Technopolis (published by Caliber Comics).

I was an extra in Eastern Condors (1986, Boho Films), a Hong Kong film directed by Sammo Hung. No, I didn’t get to go to Hong Kong. They were doing location filming in an old jailhouse in Lethbridge. Alas, pretty much all the footage shot during the days I worked on the film wound up on the cutting room floor. It was described on the set as “a kung fu comedy version of The Dirty Dozen,” but Eastern Condors wound up being more than that. It’s widely considered to be a classic of its genre.

Some of my articles concern the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence. If the search for aliens interest you, I recommend the SETI Institute and the SETI@Home project.

This page was last updated 16 March 2019.
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