Dr. John Bayard Burch
Research interests: Freshwater and land gastropods (worldwide), in general, but with especial emphasis on Basommatophora (including marine representatives), and orthurethran and heterurethran Stylommatophora; also sphaeriid and North American unionid clams. Ancillary interests: North American sigmurethran land snails.
Research methodologies: morphology, chromosome cytology, allozyme population genetics, immunotaxonomy. Intensive research experience in North America (north of Mexico), Oceania, East, Southeast and South Asia, Australia, Africa, and the near East.
Academic Degrees
B.S. (Biology), Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia.
M.S. (Biology), University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia.
Ph.D. (Zoology), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Current Affiliations
Research Associate, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1966-present
Member, Expert Advisory Panel on Parasitic Diseases (Schistosomiasis), World Health Organization,1973-present
Member, Technical Committee, Wildlife Division, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, 1977-present
Research Associate, The Australian Museum, 1978-present
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand,1979-present
Research Associate, University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, Colorado, 1990-present
Some Recent Publications
1989. North American freshwater snails. Malacological Publications,Hamburg, Michigan. Pp. i-viii, 1-365.
1989. Medically important mollusks of Thailand. Journal of Medicaland Applied Malacology, 1: 1-9. [J. B. Burch and E. Suchart Upatham]
1989. Schistosomiasis and malacology in Jordan. Journal of Medicaland Applied Malacology, 1: 139-163. [J.B. Burch, John I. Bruce and ZuhairAmr]
1990. Applications of biotechnology in the study of mollusks. In: Proceedingsof the Korea-U.S. Conference on Application of Biotechnology to the Studyof Animal Parasites and Their Vectors. Yonsei Reports on Tropical Medicine,20: 75-78. [J. B. Burch, W. R. Hoeh and P. R. Chung]
1990. Terrestrial Gastropoda, pp. 201-309. In: Dindal, Daniel L. [ed.],Soil Biology Guide, John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. i-xviii, 1-1349.[J. B. Burch and Timothy A. Pearce]
1992. Freshwater snails of the University of Michigan Biological Stationarea. Walkerana, 5(13): i-vi, 1-216. [J. B. Burch and Younghun
Jung]
1993. Polyploid chromosome numbers in the Torquis group of thefreshwater snail genus Gyraulus (Pulmonata: Planorbidae). Cytologia,58: 145-149. [John B. Burch and Younghun Jung]
1993. Aquatic habitats of three species of polyploid snails (Gyraulussubgenus Torquis) in Michigan. Michigan Academician, 26:101-112.
email: jbburch@umich.edu
