MICHAEL BANKS

Assistant Professor, OSU
-- Department of Fisheries & Wildlife
-- Departmental Home Page

Marine Fisheries Genetics Laboratory
Director, CIMRS

Ph.D. 1994 - University of California, Davis
-- Population Genetics

M.Sc. 1988 - Louisiana Tech University/University
of Texas at Austin
-- Zoology, Physiology and Aquaculture

Higher Diploma in Education 1982 - University of Cape Town
-- Physics, Chemistry, and Biology

B.Sc. 1981 - University of Cape Town
-- Zoology and Marine Ecology

Hatfield Marine Science Center
2030 SE Marine Science Drive
Newport, OR 97365
(541) 867-0420

Michael Banks is a Marine Fisheries Geneticist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University. His research and teaching interests center on the application of population genetic principles towards furthering basic knowledge and understanding of marine population processes. Broadly, he's interested in genetic characterization of natural populations, fishery subjects and aquacultural species. He focuses chiefly on methods for resolving hybridized, admixed, or recently diverged populations, and statistical methods for determining component estimates for mixtures of such populations in various contexts. Dr. Banks is particularly interested in evaluating the information content that can be gained from alternate genetic marker types and resolving links between genetic loci and life history variance expressed among species.

Annual Research Report 2000/2001