{"id":1091,"date":"2016-03-23T19:36:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/?page_id=1091"},"modified":"2023-09-25T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:16:24","slug":"brent","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/brent\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Brent Thoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Marine Science Program Director<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"kingster-page-title\">Dr. Brent Thoma<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/files\/2016\/03\/BPT_Headshot.jpg\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1113 alignleft\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/files\/2016\/03\/BPT_Headshot-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"BPT_Headshot\" width=\"140\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/files\/2016\/03\/BPT_Headshot-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/files\/2016\/03\/BPT_Headshot.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Cambria\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Office: <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Cambria;font-size: medium\"> JAP Science Building &#8211; Rm 315<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria\"><strong>Email: <\/strong><\/span> <\/span><a href=\"mailto:brent.p.thoma@jsums.edu\">brent.p.thoma@jsums.edu<\/a><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Cambria\">Phone<\/span><\/strong><b><span style=\"font-family: Cambria\"><strong>: <\/strong><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Cambria\">(601) 979-3461<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria\"><strong>Fax: <\/strong>(601) 979-5853<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentthoma.info\/\">http:\/\/www.brentthoma.info<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Cambria;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><strong style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.6em\">Education<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Ph.D. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2012; Environmental &amp; Evolutionary Biology<\/li>\n<li>M.Sc. The University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, 2006; Coastal Sciences<\/li>\n<li>B.A. University of Missouri at Columbia, 2003; Biology<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong style=\"font-size: small;line-height: 1.6em\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Research Interests<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Phylogenetic systematics, taxonomy, and natural history of marine malacostracan crustaceans (e.g., crabs, shrimps, scuds)<\/li>\n<li>Transcriptomics natural selection, and the role of differential gene expression in adaptation<\/li>\n<li>Population connectivity and dispersal is marine crustaceans, particularly in groups lacking clear dispersal mechanisms<\/li>\n<li>Benthic ecology and ecosystem health of seagrass and associated marine habitats<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Science Program Director Dr. Brent Thoma Office: JAP Science Building &#8211; Rm 315 Email: brent.p.thoma@jsums.edu Phone: (601) 979-3461 Fax: (601) 979-5853 http:\/\/www.brentthoma.info \u00a0 Education Ph.D. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2012; Environmental &amp; Evolutionary Biology M.Sc. The University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, 2006; Coastal Sciences B.A. University of Missouri at Columbia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1091\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}