- Phone:
- (812) 855-1392
- Email:
- joeshaw@indiana.edu
- Research areas:
- Ecology and Conservation
- Environmental and Energy Policy
- Hydrology and Water Resources
- Areas of Interest:
- Environmental Toxicology
- Environmental Genomics
- Comparative Physiology
MSBII
Education
- Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2001
- B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992
Courses
- Environmental Toxicology
- Changing Landscape of Toxic Chemical Regulation
Biography
Dr. Joseph Shaw is an expert in environmental toxicology, environmental genomics, and comparative physiology. He co-authored "Natural Selection Canalizes Expression Variation of Environmentally Induced Plasticity-Enabling Genes" in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Highlights
- 2016 O'Neill Teaching Award for excellence in graduate instruction, Indiana University
- Nominated by the National Science Foundation to serve on the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel (2015)
In the News
- "Five finalists selected for IU Grand Challenges research program" - IDS, January 8, 2016
- “A tiny fish with big adapting skills - our #speciesoftheweek” —Deutshe Welle, December 12, 2014:
- “Tiny killifish show how animals adapt to changing environment” — Nature World News, December 1, 2014
- "Tiny Fish Provides Giant Insight into How Organisms Adapt to Changing Environment" - Science Daily, November 17, 2014
Selected Works
- "The ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex," (with J. K. Colbourne, D. Gilbert, M. E. Pfrender, et al.), Science, 331(6017): 555-561 (2011)
- "Will genetic adaptation of natural populations to chemical pollution result in lower or higher tolerance to future climate change?" (with J. Asselman, J. K Colbourne, D. DeConick, K. A. C. De Schamphelaere, S. Glaholt, C. R. Janssen, M. Messiaen, and J. R. Shaw), Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 7(1): 141–143 (2011)
- "Arsenic inhibits SGK1 activation of CFTR Cl- channels in the gill of the killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus." (with R. Barnaby, J. M. Bomberger, B. Coutermarsh, T. LaCasse, J. R. Shaw, B. A. Stanton, and J. VanderHeide). Aquatic Toxicology, 98: 157-164 (2010)
- "Daphnia as an emerging model for toxicological genomics," (with A. Callaghan, J. K. Colbourne, I. Colson, B. D. Eads, D. Gilbert, B. Jansen, R. Klaper, M. E. Pfrender, J. R. Shaw, and R. Sibly), in Advances in Experimental Biology, Volume 2: Comparative Toxicogenomics (C. Hogstrand and P. Kille, Eds.). London: Elsevier Science (2008)
- "Gene response profiles for Daphnia pulex exposed to the environmental stressor cadmium reveal novel crustacean metallothioneins," (with C. Y. Chen, J. K. Colbourne, J. C. Davey, C. L. Folt, S. P. Glaholt, J. W. Hamilton, T. H. Hampton, and J.R. Shaw), BMC Genomics, 8: 477 (2007). (*article flagged as highly accessed with 4422 views between December 21, 2007 and January 10, 2010)
- "The role of SGK and CFTR in acute adaptation to seawater in Fundulus heteroclitus," (with R. Barnaby, C. Chapline, B. Coutermarsh, T. LaCasse, K. Karlson, A. Lankowski, D. Sato, J. R. Shaw, B. A. Stanton, C. R. Stanton, S. E. Stanton, and J. VanderHeide), Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 22(1-4): 69-78 (2008)
- "The influence of exposure history on arsenic accumulation and toxicity in the killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus," (K. Gabor, J. W. Hamilton, E. Hand, B. Jackson, J. R. Shaw, B. A. Stanton, and S. Stanton), Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 26(12): 2704-2709 (2007)