Marvalee Wake

Marvalee Wake
Born
Marvalee Hendricks

(1939-07-31) July 31, 1939 (age 85)
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
Known forResearch in caecilian biology and vertebrate morphology
SpouseDavid B. Wake
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsZoology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Theses
Doctoral advisorJay M. Savage
Websiteib.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/wakem

Marvalee Hendricks Wake (born July 31, 1939) is an American zoologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for her research in the biology of caecilians (limbless amphibians) and vertebrate development and evolution. A 1988 Guggenheim Fellow, she has served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, International Union of Biological Sciences, and the International Society of Vertebrate Morphology.[1][2] She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the California Academy of Sciences, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  1. ^ Schwenk, Kurt; Korff, Wyatt; Matthias Starck, J. (2005). "Integrative organismal biology: Papers in honor of Professor Marvalee H. Wake" (PDF). Zoology. 108 (4): 261–267. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2005.09.002. PMID 16351974. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
  2. ^ Hall, Brian K. (2005). "In Goethe's Wake: Marvalee Wake's conceptual contributions to the development and evolution of a science of morphology". Zoology. 108 (4): 269–275. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2005.09.005. PMID 16351975.