Gaines, Michael S - University of Miami

个人简介

Michael Gaines is assistant provost of undergraduate research and community outreach. Dr. Gaines is director of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Education Program. The major goal of the program is to increase the number of disadvantaged students in biomedical research careers. He also directs an NIH Bridge Program between the University of Miami and Miami-Dade College. Its aim is to increase the number of community college students who are underrepresented minorities in the sciences transferring to research universities and completing baccalaureate degrees in biomedical fields.

研究领域

My current research interests include the effect of habitat fragmentation on small mammal populations; I am interested in the effects of habitat patchiness on source-sink dynamics and the genetic structuring of populations, the evolution of mating systems in mammals using techniques in molecular genetics, and conservation genetics of threatened and endangered mammalian species. I am currently studying the effects of habitat fragmentation on small mammal populations on hammock islands in the Florida Everglades, genetic variation in the silver rice rat (Oryzomys argentatus) in the Florida Keys.

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De Villiers, R., Plantan, T. and M. Gaines. 2016. The incorporation of the USA ‘Science Made Sensible’ program in South African primary schools: a cross-cultural appeal of science. Education as Change 20: 239-258 Borrego, N. and M. Gaines. 2016. Social carnivores outperform asocial carnivores on an innovative problem. Animal Behaviour 114:21-26 Plantan, T.B., Howitt, M., Kotze, A. and M.S. Gaines. 2013. Feeding Preferences of the Red-Billed Oxpecker, Buphagus erythrorhynchus: A Parasitic Mutualist? African Journal of Ecology 51: 325-336. Indorf, J.L and M.S. Gaines. 2013. Genetic divergence of insular marsh rice rats in subtropical Florida. Journal of Mammalogy 94:897–910. Lelliott, A., Plantan, T.B. and M.S. Gaines. 2012. From South Florida to South Africa: A collaborative approach for making science sensible to learners in informal and formal settings. International Journal of Education, 4: 53-64. Hainline, L., Gaines, M., Long Feather, C., Padilla, E. and T. Esther. 2010. Changing Students, Faculty, and Institutions in the Twenty-First Century. Peer Review 12:7-10.