###**STEVEN BEYER ROBERTS** **Associate Professor; University of Washington** School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Box 355020, Seattle WA 98195 phone: 206-866-5141 - email: sr320@uw.edu - website: robertslab.info _Professional Preparation_ * PhD, University of Notre Dame, 2002, Biological Sciences * BSc, North Carolina State University, 1997, Natural Resources _Appointments_ * 2013-present Associate Professor - University of Washington * 2007-2013 Assistant Professor - University of Washington * 2003-2006 Assistant Research Scientist - Marine Biological Laboratory, MA * 2002-2003 Post-doctoral scholar – USDA NRI Fellowship --- _Research Interests_ Physiological response of aquatic species to environmental change with a particular focus on the relationship of transcriptomics, genetics, and epigenetic modifications. Current research efforts include characterizing the adaptive potential of native oysters in Puget Sound and the functional role of DNA methylation in shellfish. --- _Recent Presentations_ * [Integrating SQLShare into Genomic Workflows](https://github.com/sr320/escience-talk-sqlshare-2015) UW escience Seminar (Seattle, WA). January 2015. * [Does DNA methylation facilitate phenotypic plasticity in marine invertebrates?](http://www.slideshare.net/sr320/does-dna-methylation-facilitate-phenotypic-plasticity-in-marine-invertebrates) Friday Harbor Research Labs Seminar Series (Friday Harbor, WA). August 2014. * [Science Communication and Impact: A Researcher's Perspective](http://www.slideshare.net/sr320/science-communication-and-impact-a-researchers-perspective) Special Libraries Association - Panel discussion - Staying in the Game: New Roles for Libraries in Research Support Assocation (Vancouver, WA). June 2014. * [Genomic approaches to assessing ecosystem health](http://www.slideshare.net/sr320/genomic-approaches-to-assessing-ecosystem-health) Salish Sea Conference (Seattle, WA). May 2014. * [Collaborative Genomic Data Analyses in the Cloud](http://www.slideshare.net/sr320/escience-roberts-microsoft) Escience in the Cloud -Microsoft Research Campus (Seattle, WA). March 2014 . * [Genomics on the Half Shell: Making Science more Open](http://www.slideshare.net/sr320/escience-roberts) UW escience Seminar (Seattle, WA). February 2014 --- _Recent Publications_ Timmins-Schiffman E, Coffey WD, Hua W, Nunn BL, Dickinson GH and Roberts SB. (**2014**). [Shotgun proteomics reveals physiological response to ocean acidification in *Crassostrea gigas*](http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/15/951/) BMC Genomics 2014, 15:951 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-951 Olson CE and Roberts SB. (**2014**). [Genome-wide profiling of DNA methylation and gene expression in _Crassostrea gigas_ male gametes](http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2014.00224/abstract) Frontiers in Physiology. 5:224. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2014.0022 Gavery MR and Roberts SB. (**2014**) [A context specific role for DNA methylation in bivalves](http://bfg.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/3/217) Briefings in Functional Genomics. doi:10.1093/bfgp/elt054 ([pdf](http://eagle.fish.washington.edu/cnidarian/Briefings%20in%20Functional%20Genomics-2014-Gavery-217-22.pdf)) Gavery MR and Roberts SB. (**2013**) [Predominant intragenic methylation is associated with gene expression characteristics in a bivalve mollusc](https://peerj.com/articles/215/) PeerJ 1:e215. doi:10.7717/peerj.215

Garcia-Vedrenne AE, Groner M, Page-Karjian A, Siegmund G-F, Singhal S, Sziklay J, Roberts SB. (2013) Development of Genomic Resources for a thraustochytrid Pathogen and Investigation of Temperature Influences on Gene Expression. PLoS ONE 8(9): e74196. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074196

Storer CS, Quinn TP and Roberts SB. (2013) Quantitative PCR analysis used to characterize physiological changes in brain tissue of senescent sockeye salmon. Biogerontology. 10.1007/s10522-013-9448-1

Burge CA, Mouchka ME, Harvell CD and Roberts SB. (2013) Immune response of the Caribbean sea fan, Gorgonia ventalina, exposed to an Aplanochytrium parasite as revealed by transcriptome sequencing.. Frontiers in Physiology. 4:180. 10.3389/fphys.2013.00180

Timmins-Schiffman EB* Nunn BL, Goodlett DR and Roberts SB. (2013) Shotgun proteomics as a viable approach for biological discovery in the Pacific oyster. Conservation Physiology. doi:10.1093/conphys/cot009

Timmins-Schiffman EB* Friedman CS, Metzger DC, White SJ and Roberts SB. (2013) Genomic resource development for shellfish of conservation concern. Molecular Ecology Resources. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12052

Timmins-Schiffman EB* and Roberts SB. (2012) Characterization of genes involved in ceramide metabolism in the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas). BMC Research Notes 5:502 doi:10.1186/1756-0500-5-502

Storer CG*, Pascal CE, Roberts SB, Templin WD, Seeb LW, Seeb JE. (2012) Rank and Order: Evaluating the Performance of SNPs for Individual Assignment in a Non-Model Organism. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49018 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049018

Timmins-Schiffman E*, O’Donnell M, Friedman CS, and Roberts SB. (2012) Elevated pCO2 causes developmental delay in early larval Pacific oysters, Crassostrea gigas. Marine Biology. doi:10.1007/s00227-012-2055-x pdf

Burge CA, Douglas N, Conti-Jerpe I, Weil E, Roberts SB, Friedman CS, CD Harvell. (2012) Friend or foe: the association of Labyrinthulomycetes with the Caribbean sea fan, Gorgonia ventalina. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 101:1-12 doi:10.3354/dao02487

Metzger DC*, Pratt P, Roberts SB. (2012) Characterizing the effects of heavy metal and Vibrio exposure on hsp70 expression in Crassostrea gigas gill tissue. Journal of Shellfish Research. 31(3):627-630. doi:10.2983/035.031.0305 download pdf

Roberts SB, Hauser L, Seeb LW, Seeb JE (2012) Development of genomic resources for Pacific herring through targeted transcriptome pyrosequencing. PLoS ONE 7(2): e30908. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030908

Roberts SB and Gavery MR (2012) Is there a relationship between DNA methylation and phenotypic plasticity in invertebrates? Frontiers in Physiology. 2:116. doi:10.3389/fphys.2011.00116

Gavery MR* and Roberts SB. (2012) Characterizing short read sequencing for gene discovery and RNA-Seq analysis in Crassostrea gigas. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D: Genomics and Proteomics, 7:2 94-99 June 2012. doi:10.1016/j.cbd.2011.12.003

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