Brian Sidlauskas

Professor- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Curator- Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection
School of Science & Engineering
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 6

Research

Neotropical fish, evolutionary biology, evolutionary genetics

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Chicago, Evolutionary Biology, 2006
  • M.S., University of Chicago, Evolutionary Biology, 2003
  • A.B., Cornell University, Biological Sciences, 1998

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor, Curator of the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Professor, Curator of Fishes, Oregon State University, 2022-2024.
  • Associate Professor and Curator of Fishes, Oregon State University, 2015-2022.
  • Assistant Professor and Curator of Fishes, Oregon State University, 2009-2015.
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Duke University, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2006-2009.

Distinctions

  • Fisheries Team of the Year, Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, 2024.
  • Fulbright Scholar, State University of Londrina, Brazil, 2020, 2024.
  • Meritorious Teaching Award in Ichthyology, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and American Elasmobranch Society, 2020.

Overseas Experience

  • Brazil
  • Guyana
  • Peru
  • Venezuela
  • Gabon

Selected Publications

  • In press. Sidlauskas, Brian L., Bruno F. Melo, José L. O. Birindelli, et al. Molecular phylogenetics, a new classification, and a new genus of the Neotropical fish family Anostomidae (Teleostei: Characiformes). Neotropical Ichthyology.
  • In press. Sidlauskas, Brian L., Tobit. L.D. Liyandja, Heleen Maetens*, Ray Schmidt and J. Churley Manfoumbi. In press. Building capacity for fish biology in Subsaharan Africa. Cybium.
  • 2024. Sidlauskas, Brian L., Samarth L. Mathur, Hakan Aydoğan*, Fred Monzyk and Andrew N. Black. Genetic approaches reveal a healthy population and an unexpectedly recent origin for an isolated desert spring fish. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 24 (1), 2.
  • 2022. Sidlauskas, Brian L. and Peter Konstantinidis. Fish Curation. In: Methods for Fish Biology, second edition. S. Midway and P. Chakrabarty, eds. American Fisheries Society: 739-774.
  • 2022. Sidlauskas, Brian L. †, Fernando M. Assega†, et al. Total evidence phylogenetic analysis reveals paraphyly of Anostomoides and uncovers an unexpectedly ancient genus of Anostomidae fishes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 194(2) 626-669.
  • 2021. Sidlauskas, Brian L., Michael D. Burns*, Thaddaeus J. Buser*, Nicholas Harper, and Mark Kindred. Teaching ichthyology online with a virtual specimen collection. Ichthyology and Herpetology, 109(2): 407-423.