Resume

• 1966

  University of California at San Diego

  Teaching biological oceanography\nResearch (most recent reviews and papers follow)\n• Holland ND. Nervous systems and scenarios for the invertebrate-to-vertebrate transition. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2016 Jan 5; 371(1685). PMID: 26598728. \n• Annona G

  Holland ND

  D'Aniello S. Evolution of the notochord. Evodevo. 2015; 6:30. PMID: 26446368. \n• Mansfield JH

  Haller E

  Holland ND

  Brent AE. Development of somites and their derivatives in amphioxus

  and implications for the evolution of vertebrate somites. Evodevo. 2015; 6:21. PMID: 26052418. \n• Holland ND

  Holland LZ

  Holland PW. Scenarios for the making of vertebrates. Nature. 2015 Apr 23; 520(7548):450-5. PMID: 25903626. \n• Holland ND

  Holland LZ

  Heimberg A. Hybrids Between the Florida Amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae) and the Bahamas Lancelet (Asymmetron lucayanum): Developmental Morphology and Chromosome Counts. Biol Bull. 2015 Feb; 228(1):13-24. PMID: 25745097. \n• Mansfield JH

  Holland ND. Amphioxus tails: source and fate of larval fin rays and the metamorphic transition from an ectodermal to a predominantly mesodermal tail. Acta Zool Stockh. 2015; 96:117-125. \n• Osborn KJ

  Gebruk AV

  Rogacheva A

  Holland ND. An externally brooding acorn worm (hemichordata

  enteropneusta

  torquaratoridae) from the Russian arctic. Biol Bull. 2013 Oct; 225(2):113-23. PMID: 24243964. \n• Mallatt J

  Holland N. Pikaia gracilens Walcott: stem chordate

  or already specialized in the Cambrian? J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2013 Jun; 320(4):247-71. PMID: 23606659. \n• Holland ND. Digestive system. Sea Urchins: Biology and Ecology

  Edition 3 (Lawrence JM

  ed.) Elsevier

  Amsterdam. 2013; 119-133. \n• Holland ND

  Osborn KJ

  Gebruk AV

  Rogacheva A. Rediscovery and augmented description of the H.M.S. Challenger acorn worm (Hemichordata

  Enteropneusta)

  Glandiceps abyssicola

  in the equatorial Atlantic. J Mar Biol Ass UK. 2013; 93:2197-2205. \n

  University of California

  San Diego

  La Jolla

  California

  Keeping one step ahead of the evil (and ever more numerous) university administrators.

  Assistant Professor

  Associate Professor

  Professor

  Distinguished Proofessor

  University of California at San Diego

  Italian

  English

  Nicholas Holland

  Kowalevsky Medal (jointly with Linda Holland) for distinguished contributions to Evolutionary Developmental Biology

  Saint Petersburg (Russia) Society of Naturalists

• 1960

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  While attending Stanford

  I began my celebrated collection of cement and plastic garden gnomes.

  Biology/Biological Sciences

  General

  Stanford University

• 1956

  Bachelor’s Degree

  My parents sent me to Carleton Christian College because they intended me for the priesthood. However

  as soon as I escaped from parental control

  I was strongly attracted to Zoroastrianism and spent most of my time listening to tapes of whales talking to one another in an attempt to learn about my past lives.

  Zoology/Animal Biology

  Phi Beta Kappa

  \nSigma Xi

  Carleton College

• Interests: invertebrate zoology

  with special interest in crinoid echinoderms and cephalochordates. Evolution of the vertebrates.

  Nicholas D.

  Holland

  University of California

  San Diego