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Jordan, G. E. and W. H. Piel. 2008. PhyloWidget: web-based visualizations for the tree of life. In review.Lapp, H. et al. 2007. The 2006 NESCent Phyloinformatics Hackathon: A Field Report. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 2007:3 357-366.
Herbert K.G., J. Spirollari, J. T. L. Wang, W. H. Piel, J. Westbrook, W. C. Barker, Z. Z. Hu and C. H. Wu. 2007. "Bioinformatic Databases." In Craig, C. ed., Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Zhang, S., K. G. Herbert, J. T. L. Wang, W. H. Piel, and D. R. B. Stockwell. 2006. PhyloMiner: A Tool for Evolutionary Data Analysis. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Vienna, Austria. July 3, 2006, pp. 129-132. 10.1109/SSDBM.2006.39
Wang, J. T. L., H. Shan, D. Shasha and W. H. Piel. 2005. Fast Structural Search in Phylogenetic Databases. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online, 1: 37-46. [pdf]
Chen, B., W. H. Piel, L. Gui, E. Bruford, and A. Monteiro. 2005. The HSP90 family of genes in the human genome: insights into their divergence and evolution. Genomics, 86: 627-637.
Hebert, K. G., J. T. L. Wang, S. Pusapati, and W. H. Piel. 2005. Lineage path integration for phylogenetic resources, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, pp. 117-120, Santa Barbara, California.
Almon, R. R., D. C. DuBois, J. Y. Jin, Z. Yao, A. Hazra , M. Samtani, G. Snyder, W. H. Piel, and W. J. Jusko. 2004. Development, Analysis, and Use of Pharmacogenomic Time Series for Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Modeling of Multi-tissue Polygenic Responses to Corticosteroids. Progress in Pharmacogenetics Research, Nova Science, in press.
Uit De Weerd, D. R., E. Gittenberger, and W. H. Piel. 2004. Widespread Polyphyly Among Alopiinae Snail Genera: When Phylogeny Mirrors Biogeography More Closely than Morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 33:533-548.
Herbert, K. G., N. H. Gehani, W. H. Piel, J. T. L. Wang, C. H. Wu. 2004. BIO-AJAX: An Extensible Framework for Biological Data Cleaning. ACM SIGMOD Record, Special Section on Data Engineering for Life Sciences, 33(2): 51-57. [pdf]
Megens, H.-J., C. H. M. van Moorsel, W. H. Piel, N. E. Pierce, and R. de Jong. 2004. Tempo of Speciation in a Butterfly Genus from the Southeast Asian Tropics, Inferred from Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Sequence Data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31: 1181-1196.
Almon, R. R., D. C. DuBois, W. H. Piel, and W. J. Jusko. 2004. The genomic response of skeletal muscle to methylprednisolone using microarrays: tailoring data mining to the structure of the pharmacogenomic time series. Pharmacogenomics, 5(5): 525-552.
Taylor, D. J. and W. H. Piel. 2004. An Assessment of Accuracy, Error, and Conflict with Support Values from Genome-Scale Phylogenetic Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 21(8): 1534-1537. [pdf]
Wang, J. T. L., H. Shan, D. Shasha, and W. H. Piel. 2003. TreeRank: A Similarity Measure for Nearest Neighbor Searching in Phylogenetic Databases. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2003), Cambridge, MA, pp. 171-180. [pdf]
Gittenberger, E., W. H. Piel and D. Groenenberg. 2004. The Pleistocene glaciations and the evolutionary history of the polytypic snail species Arianta arbustorum (Gastropoda, Helicidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 30(1): 64-73.
Piel, W. H., M. J. Sanderson, and M. J. Donoghue. 2003. The Small-World Dynamics of Tree Networks and Data Mining in Phyloinformatics. Bioinformatics, 19(9): 1162-1168. [pdf].
Nakhleh, L.., D. Miranker, F. Barbancon, W. H. Piel, and M. Donoghue. 2003. Requirements of phylogenetic databases. 3rd IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, in press [pdf].
Piel, W. H. 2003. "Phyloinformatics and Tree Networks." In: Wu, C. H., P. Wang, and J. T. L. Wang, eds. Computational Biology and Genome Informatics. World Scientific Press.
Shan, H., K. G. Herbert, W. H. Piel, D. Shasha and J. T. L. Wang. 2002. A Structure-Based Search Engine for Phylogenetic Databases. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2002), Edinburgh, Scotland, pp. 7-10 [pdf].
Krikken, J. and W. H. Piel. 2002. "Mining museum riches: an introduction to digital methods in the discovery of changes in the diversity and distribution of life on earth." Pp. 140-165. In: Meij, Jeroen, ed. Dealing with the data flood: Mining data, text and multimedia. Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek Press, The Hague, Netherlands.
Piel, W. H., M. J. Donoghue, and M. J. Sanderson. 2002. "TreeBASE: a database of phylogenetic knowledge." Pp. 41-47. In: Shimura, J., K. L. Wilson, and D. Gordon, eds. To the interoperable "Catalog of Life" — with partners Species 2000 Asia Oceanea. Research Report from the National Institute for Environmental Studies No. 171, Tsukuba, Japan.
Piel, W. H. 2001. The systematics of Neotropical orb-weaving spiders in the genus Metepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 157(1): 1-92.
Piel, W. H. and K. J. Nutt. 2000. One species or several? Discordant patterns of geographic variation between allozymes and mtDNA sequences among spiders in the genus Metepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 15(3): 414-418.
Piel, W. H. and K. J. Nutt. 1997. Kaira is a likely sister group to Metepeira, and Zygiella is an araneid (Araneae, Araneidae): Evidence from mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Arachnology, 25 (3) : 262-268.
Piel, W. H. 1996. The ecology of sexual dimorphism in Metepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Swiss Biol. Rev., vol. hors serie (2): 523-529.
Piel, W. H. 1994. A new Chrosiothes spider from West Virginia (Araneae, Theridiidae). Journal of Arachnology, 22: 181-184.
Piel, W. H. 1994. Computer database of spider types at the MCZ. American Arachnology, No. 49: 14-15.
Piel, W. H. 1991. The Nearctic jumping spiders of the genus Admestina (Araneae: Salticidae). Psyche, 98(4): 265-282.
Piel, W. H. 1991. Pycnogonid predation on nudibranchs and ceratal autotomy. The Veliger, 34(4): 366-367.
Piel, W. H. 1985. A note on the 'bouncing-effect' in orb- and funnel-weavers. Newsl. Br. arachnol. Soc., 44: 5.
ISA 2003-present. Webmaster and Membership Secretary for the International Society for Arachnology
SeqTrac 1999-2001. An intranet lab management database of tissues, PCRs, and sequencing products (http://132.229.50.159:81/SeqTrac/)
TreeBASE 1994-present. A database of phylogenetic knowledge (http://www.treebase.org/treebase)
Character permutation 2000. Permutes character data to produce a null model of random evolution without assuming complete independence of taxa
Hypsography 1996. For interconversion of lat/long tiles and elevation/depth information (http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/~piel/find.html)
Project Ethos 1994-1996. Multimedia presentation software for a course in Animal Behavior
MCZ Invertebrate Type Collection 1993-1994. On-line database of type specimens for the Invertebrates Department, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Piel, William H. 2004. "Phylogenetic Congruence in Genome-Scale Analyses: Is the Bootstrap an Honest Measure?" Institute of Biology, Leiden University, February 18, Leiden, Netherlands.Piel, William H. 2003. "Phyloinformatic Methods for Finding Stands in the Forest." Working Group Meeting on Mathematical and Computational Aspects Related to the Study of The Tree of Life. Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, March 11-14.
Piel, William H. 2000. "Towards a National Phyloinformatic Initiative" University of Amsterdam, November 30, The Netherlands.
Piel, William H. 2000. "How many trees would it take to build the tree of life?" Taxonomy Today conference, July 3-5, Reading, United Kingdom.
Piel, William H., Michael J. Donoghue, and Michael J. Sanderson. 1999. "TreeBASE: a database of phylogenetic knowledge." Species Diversity Information Systems on the Internet, symposium, XVI International Botanical Congress, August 1-7, St. Louis, Missouri.
Piel, William H., Michael J. Donoghue, and Michael J. Sanderson. 1999. "TreeBASE: a database of phylogenetic knowledge." The 2nd International Workshop of Species 2000, July 14-16, Tsukuba, Japan.
Piel, William H. 1999. "TreeBASE: a database of phylogenetic knowledge." EEW Symposium on Biodiversity. February 18-19, Leiden, Netherlands.
Piel, William H. 2000. The 'Small-World' Dynamics of Building a Supertree Network. XIX Annual Meeting of the International Willi Hennig Society. May 28- June 2, Leiden, Netherlands.Piel, William H. 2000. Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Alpine Populations of Arianta Land Snails. EEW Symposium on Molecular Organismic Biology. February 17-18, Leiden, Netherlands.
Piel, William H. 1998. The orb web as a force for stasis: homogeneity and convergence in the genus Metepeira (Araneae, Araneidae). Presentation at 14th International Congress of Arachnology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, June 27 - 3 July 3 1998.
Piel, William H. and Karen J. Nutt 1996. Morphological and molecular analysis of a cryptic species group: the Metepeira labyrinthea clade (Araneae: Araneidae). Presentation at the 20th Annual Meeting, American Arachnological Society, Tucson, Arizona. July 27-31, 1996. Abst., American Arachnology, 54: 2.
Piel, William H. and Karen J. Nutt 1996. Discordant patterns of geographic variation between allozymes and mtDNA sequences among Mexican Metepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Poster at the 20th Annual Meeting, American Arachnological Society, Tucson, Arizona. July 27-31, 1996. Abst., American Arachnology, 54: 12.
Piel, William H., Michael Donoghue, Torsten Eriksson, Chris Henze, Ken Rice, and Michael Sanderson 1996. TreeBASE: A relational database of phylogenetic knowledge. Poster at the 50th Annual Meeting, Society for the Study of Evolution and Society of Systematic Biologists, Saint Louis, Missouri. June 19-23, 1996.
Piel, William H. and Karen J. Nutt 1996. Morphological and molecular analysis of a cryptic species group: the Metepeira labyrinthea clade (Araneae: Araneidae). Presentation at the 50th Annual Meeting, Society for the Study of Evolution and Society of Systematic Biologists, Saint Louis, Missouri. June 19-23, 1996.
Piel, William H. 1995. The ecology of sexual dimorphism in three species of Metepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Presentation at the 13th International Congress of Arachnology, Geneva Switzerland, Sept 4-9, 1995.
Sanderson, M. J., M. J. Donoghue, W. Piel, and T. Eriksson. 1994. TreeBASE: a prototype database of phylogenetic analyses and an interactive tool for browsing the phylogeny of life. Abst., Amer. Jour. Bot. 81(6):183.
Piel, William H. 1991. Video digitizing and computers in spider systematics. Presentation at the 15th Annual Meeting, American Arachnological Society, Oxford, Mississippi. June 17-22, 1991. Abst., American Arachnology, 44: 12.
2003, Spring. Instructor, "Bioinformatics," University at Buffalo
2002, Fall. Instructor, "Evolutionary Genetics," University at Buffalo
2002, Spring. Instructor, "Invertebrate Zoology," University at Buffalo
1999-2001. Guest Lecturer, "Molecular Laboratory Techniques," Leiden University
1997, Fall. Instructor, "Ethology," Harvard University
1992-96, Fall. Head Teaching Fellow, "Ethology," Harvard University
1992, Spring. Guest Lecturer, "Social Insects," Harvard University
1990-91, Fall. Teaching Fellow, "Invertebrate Zoology," Harvard University
1989, Fall. Teaching Fellow, "Organismic & Evolutionary Biology," Harvard University1990-'94 Tutor in Biology, Mather House, Harvard College
1999-present. Dennis Uit de Weerd, Ph.D. student, "Evolution of Mediterranean Clausilids"
1999-2000. Dick Groenenberg, M.Sc. student, "Phylogeography of Arianta"
NSF ITR: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH. “Building the Tree of Life: A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics”: 2003 - 2008; ~$12 million; with B. Moret (plus 25 others); Piel’s share: ~$300k, plus pooled funds.
NIH SUPPLEMENT. “Corticosteroid Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics”: July 1 2003 - June 30 2005; ~$150k; with W. J. Jusko and R. Almon.
NSF DEB: PEET. “Monography of the Bosminidae and Daphniidae”: January 1 2004 - December 31 2008; $718k; with D. Taylor.
2000. EEW Equipment Grant (with R. Zandee and E. van Batenburg; $11,000)
1999. Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University
1998. Putnam Research Grant ($5,700)
1997. Sigma Xi Procter Prize Award ($5,000)
1996. First Place, Student Paper Competition, Meeting of the American Arachnological Society, Tucson Arizona
1994. Putnam Research Grant ($3,000)
1994. Innovation in Teaching Grant (with N. E. Pierce; $10,000)
1992. Fundacion Capacitar Research Grant ($3,000)
1991. Richmond Fund Research Grant ($2,000)
1991. An Wang Graduate Fellowship
1990. An Wang Graduate Fellowship
1989. Department Fellowship
1988. Highlands ScholarshipCornell University Dean's List
2002, October. NSF workshop "Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Research and Education." National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
2002, September. NSF workshop "National Ecological Observatory Network Information Management Workshop." National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California.
2000, October. NSF workshop "Developing a National Phyloinformatic Initiative." University of California, Davis California.
2000, July. NERC workshop "Taxonomy Today: Diversity & the Tree of Life." University of Reading, UK.
2000, May. Organized symposium: "Big trees and Supertrees." XIX International Willi Hennig Society Meeting.
1999. Designed on-line membership database for the International Society of Arachnology.
1994, June. DOE/TIGR workshop "Database Interoperability." The Institute for Genomic Research, Gaithersberg Maryland.
1994 - 1996. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Committee on Information Technology. Harvard University, Cambridge MA.
1993 - 1996. Vice President, Graduate Student Council, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts.
1998. Expedition to Chile, collecting Metepeira spp. (Putnam)
1998. Expedition to Cameroon, collecting Bicyclus spp. (Milton)
1995. Expedition to Channel Islands, collecting Metepeira spp. (U.S. Navy, National Park Service, Barbour)
1994. Expedition to Central America, collecting Metepeira spp. (Putnam)
1994. Expedition to West Virginia, collecting Chrosiothes spp. ( Northeastern Forest Experiment Station)
1992. Expedition to Ecuador, collecting Metepeira spp. (Fundacion Capacitar)
1992. "Molecular Evolution Workshop" Prof. M. Sogin, Woods Hole. Oceanographic Institute, Massachusetts.
1991. Expedition to Mexico and Belize, collecting Metepeira spp. (OEB Research Grant)
1990. "Marine Invertebrate Zoology" Profs. E. Ruppert & R. Fox, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida.
1989. "Field methods in animal behavior" Prof. T. Eisner. Archbold Biological Station, Florida. Cornell University.
1988. "Biology of Spiders" Profs. F. Coyle & W. Shear. Highlands Biological Station, North Carolina.
