Michelle Kelly (marine scientist)

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Michelle Kelly
Born1961 (age 61–62)
Otago, New Zealand
Other namesMichelle Kelly-Borges
Alma mater University of Auckland
Scientific career
Fields Sponges
Institutions National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Theses
Doctoral advisors Patricia Bergquist
Peter Bergquist
Author abbrev. (zoology)
  • Kelly
  • Kelly-Borges
Website NIWA profile

Michelle Kelly (born 1961), also known as Michelle Kelly-Borges, is a New Zealand scientist who specialises in sponges, their chemistry, [1] their evolution, [2] [3] taxonomy, systematics, and ecology.

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Early life and education

Born in Otago in 1961, Kelly lived in Papua New Guinea with her family from 1970 to 1980, and was educated at The Correspondence School. From 1980, she studied at the University of Auckland, and completed a Bachelor of Science degree in 1983, and a Master of Science with honours in 1987. [4] Her masterate research, supervised by Patricia Bergquist, was an investigation of the systematics and ecology of the sponges of Motupore Island in Papua New Guinea. The title of that thesis was Systematics and ecology of the sponges of Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea. [4] [5] She then earned a PhD at the University of Auckland in 1991 under the joint supervision of Patricia and Peter Bergquist, with a thesis entitled, The order Hadromerida (Porifera: Demospongiae), taxonomy and relationships of the major families, [6] and in the same year (with Patricia Bergquist) published a paper on the genus, Tethya . [7]

Research career

From 1991 to 1992, Kelly was a post-doctoral fellow at the Florida Atlantic University Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, working with Shirley Pomponi, studying natural products extracted from deep-sea sponges and analysing DNA sequences. [4] [8] [9] In 1994 she was collaborating with Patricia Bergquist at the University of Auckland. [10] From 1993, she spent four years with the Natural History Museum, London, carrying out research on sponges in the Indo-Pacific, [4] [11] before returning to New Zealand and working as a senior scientist in the Department of Landscape and Plant Science at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland and a consultant to the Coral Reef Research Foundation in Micronesia. [12] At some point she was affiliated with the University of Hawai'i System. [13] By 2001, [14] she was working at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, in Auckland, where she continues to work (as of September 2021). [4] [15]

Her zoological author abbreviations are Kelly-Borges, [16] and Kelly. [17] [18]

Kelly has described over 80 taxa and has had at least one sponge named for her ( Abyssocladia kellyae ), "for her numerous contributions to sponge science, and her work on deep-sea carnivorous and non-carnivorous sponges from the SW Pacific". [19] See also taxa named by Michelle Kelly.

In 2011, Kelly was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Auckland, on the basis of her papers published since 1988 on the taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny of sponges. [20]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Demosponge</span> Class of sponges

Demosponges (Demospongiae) are the most diverse class in the phylum Porifera. They include greater than 90% of all species of sponges with nearly 8,800 species worldwide. They are sponges with a soft body that covers a hard, often massive skeleton made of calcium carbonate, either aragonite or calcite. They are predominantly leuconoid in structure. Their "skeletons" are made of spicules consisting of fibers of the protein spongin, the mineral silica, or both. Where spicules of silica are present, they have a different shape from those in the otherwise similar glass sponges. Some species, in particular from the Antarctic, obtain the silica for spicule building from the ingestion of siliceous diatoms.

<i>Polymastia</i> (sponge) Genus of sponges

Polymastia is a genus of sea sponges containing about 30 species. These are small to large encrusting or dome-shaped sponges with a smooth surface having many teat-shaped projections (papillae). In areas of strong wave action, this genus does not grow the teat structures, but instead grows in a corrugated form.

Dame Patricia Rose Bergquist was a New Zealand zoologist who specialised in anatomy and taxonomy. At the time of her death, she was professor emerita of zoology and honorary professor of anatomy with radiology at the University of Auckland.

Acanthopolymastia is a small genus of demosponges belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It has three describe species. These small, bristly, cushion-shaped sponges are only known from deep-sea sites in the southern oceans.

Proteleia tapetum is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It is found in shallow subtidal and intertidal habitats in the far north of North Island, New Zealand.

Polymastia lorum is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It is only known from a single specimen found attached to a dead Glycimeris valve on a reef near Ohinau Island, one of the Mercury Islands off North Island, New Zealand.

Polymastia echinus is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It is only known from shallow subtidal habitats off Te Hāwere-a-Maki / Goat Island in the north of the North Island of New Zealand.

Polymastia crocea is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It is found in subtidal habitats below 6 m depth in the far north of the North Island of New Zealand.

Polymastia rubens is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It is only known from rocky subtidal habitats around Kawau Island off North Island, New Zealand.

Polymastia aurantia is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It is found in intertidal habitats including tide pools in the vicinity of Auckland, New Zealand.

Polymastia pepo is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It is a common species of rocky subtidal and intertidal habitats in the far north of North Island, New Zealand.

Atergia villosa is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It is found in rocky deep-sea habitats around the Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

Acanthopolymastia acanthoxa is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It is a deep-ocean species found on muddy substrates at depths of over 3000 m in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.

Acanthopolymastia bathamae is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It is only known from the Papanui Submarine Canyon off Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand.

Pseudospongosorites is a genus of sea sponges belonging to the family Suberitidae. Currently, the genus is considered as monotypic, consisting of a single species Pseudospongosorites suberitoides. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and on the Atlantic coast of the United States as far north as North Carolina. This species is known by the common name Florida hermit crab sponge, so named because hermit crabs often use it as shelter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aaptos tenta</span> Species of sponge

Aaptos tentum is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Suberitidae. The species was described in 1994 by Michelle Kelly-Borges and Patricia Bergquist.

Jean Vacelet is a French marine biologist who specialises in the underwater fauna of the Mediterranean. After earning his licence at the Faculté des Sciences de Marseille and learning to dive in 1954, he specialised in the study of sponges at the Marine station of Endoume, and there he has stayed faithful to both sponges and place for more than half a century. His research has included all aspects of sponges: taxonomy, habitat, biology, anatomy, their bacterial associations, and their place in the evolution of multi-celled animals. He has studied them not only in the Mediterranean but in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. Exploration of underwater grottoes, together with Jacques Laborel and Jo Hamelin, revealed the existence of sponges dating from very ancient geological periods and the unexpected existence of carnivorous sponges, and surprisingly, the grottoes in some ways mimicked life at much greater depths.

Phyllis Jane Fromont is a New Zealand and Australian scientist specialising in sponges.

<i>Abyssocladia</i> Genus of sponges

Abyssocladia is a genus of the family Cladorhizidae, a family of carnivorous sponges. It is made up of at least 39 species found in oceans all over the world.

Tethya leysae is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Tethyidae, found in the Canadian north-west Pacific.

References

  1. ↑ Hyun Bong Park; Nguyen Quoc Tuan; Joonseok Oh; et al. (27 August 2018). "Sesterterpenoid and Steroid Metabolites from a Deep-Water Alaska Sponge Inhibit Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling in Colon Cancer Cells". Marine Drugs . 16 (9): 297. doi: 10.3390/MD16090297 . ISSN   1660-3397. PMC   6164309 . PMID   30150508. Wikidata   Q58700110.
  2. ↑ Astrid Schuster; Andrzej Pisera; Michelle Kelly; Lori J Bell; Shirley A Pomponi; Gert Wörheide; Dirk Erpenbeck (14 March 2018). "New species and a molecular dating analysis of Vetulina Schmidt, 1879 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Sphaerocladina) reveal an ancient relict fauna with Tethys origin". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 184 (3): 585–604. doi:10.1093/ZOOLINNEAN/ZLX114. ISSN   1096-3642. Wikidata   Q104454693.
  3. ↑ Astrid Schuster; Jose V. Lopez; Leontine E Becking; Michelle Kelly; Shirley A Pomponi; Gert Wörheide; Dirk Erpenbeck; Paco Cárdenas (20 March 2017). "Evolution of group I introns in Porifera: new evidence for intron mobility and implications for DNA barcoding". BMC Ecology and Evolution . 17 (1): 82. doi: 10.1186/S12862-017-0928-9 . ISSN   1471-2148. PMC   5360047 . PMID   28320321. Wikidata   Q36315237.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Michelle Kelly". PeerJ. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  5. ↑ Kelly, Michelle (1986). Systematics and ecology of the sponges of Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea (Masters thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/5966.
  6. ↑ Kelly-Borges, Michelle (1991). The Order Hadromerida (Porifera: Demospongiae), taxonomy and relationships of the major families (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/1994.
  7. ↑ Patricia R. Bergquist; Michelle Kelly-Borges (1991). "An evaluation of the genus Tethya (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species from the Southwest Pacific". The Beagle. 8 (1): 37–72. ISSN   0811-3653. Wikidata   Q111172599.
  8. ↑ P J McCarthy; T P Pitts; G P Gunawardana; M Kelly-Borges; S A Pomponi (November 1992). "Antifungal activity of meridine, a natural product from the marine sponge Corticium sp". Journal of Natural Products . 55 (11): 1664–8. doi:10.1021/NP50089A016. ISSN   0163-3864. PMID   1479383. Wikidata   Q28318025.
  9. ↑ Mark T. Hamann; Paul J. Scheuer; Michelle Kelly-Borges (12 March 2005). "Biogenetically diverse, bioactive constituents of a sponge, order Verongida: bromotyramines and sesquiterpene-shikimate derived metabolites". The Journal of Organic Chemistry . 58 (24): 6565–6569. doi:10.1021/JO00076A012. ISSN   0022-3263. Wikidata   Q110068893.
  10. ↑ Michelle Kelly-Borges; Patricia R. Bergquist (October 1994). "A redescription of Aaptos aaptos with descriptions of new species of Aaptos (Hadromerida: Suberitidae) from northern New Zealand". Journal of Zoology: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 234 (2): 301–323. doi:10.1111/J.1469-7998.1994.TB06077.X. ISSN   0952-8369. Wikidata   Q99975317.
  11. ↑ Michelle Kelly-Borges (January 1995). "Sponges out of their depth" (PDF). Nature . 373 (6512): 284–284. doi:10.1038/373284A0. ISSN   1476-4687. Wikidata   Q60072854.
  12. ↑ Lévy, Claude, ed. (1998). Sponges of the New Caledonian Lagoon (PDF). Paris: Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération. p. 14. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  13. ↑ "Michelle Kelly-Borges, University of Hawaii System – Dimensions". app.dimensions.ai. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  14. ↑ "A who's who in studies on Porifera". 6 December 2001. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  15. ↑ Henry M. Reiswig; Martin Dohrmann; Michelle Kelly; Sadie Mills; Peter J. Schupp; Gert Wörheide (17 September 2021). "Rossellid glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from New Zealand waters, with description of one new genus and six new species". ZooKeys . 1060: 33–84. doi: 10.3897/ZOOKEYS.1060.63307 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   8463523 . Wikidata   Q108607680.
  16. ↑ Van Soest RW, Boury-Esnault N, Hooper JN, Rützler K, de Voogd NJ, de Glasby BA, Hajdu E, Pisera AB, Manconi R, Schoenberg C, Janussen D, Tabachnick KR, Klautau M, Picton B, Kelly M, Vacelet J (eds.). "Aaptos tenta Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1994". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  17. ↑ Van Soest RW, Boury-Esnault N, Hooper JN, Rützler K, de Voogd NJ, de Glasby BA, Hajdu E, Pisera AB, Manconi R, Schoenberg C, Janussen D, Tabachnick KR, Klautau M, Picton B, Kelly M, Vacelet J (eds.). "Abyssocladia carcharias Kelly & Vacelet, 2011". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  18. ↑ Michelle Kelly; Jean Vacelet (26 July 2011). "Three new remarkable carnivorous sponges (Porifera, Cladorhizidae) from deep New Zealand and Australian (Macquarie Island) waters". Zootaxa . 2976 (1): 55. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.2976.1.4. ISSN   1175-5334. Wikidata   Q97567245.
  19. ↑ Jon Thomassen Hestetun; Hans Tore Rapp; Shirley Pomponi (10 July 2019). "Deep-Sea Carnivorous Sponges From the Mariana Islands". Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. doi: 10.3389/FMARS.2019.00371 . ISSN   2296-7745. Wikidata   Q104457959.
  20. ↑ Kelly, Michelle (2011). Taxonomy and systematics of the Porifera: contributions and technical applications (DSc). University of Auckland. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
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