Thomas Cronin
Professor
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410-455-3449
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| cronin@umbc.edu | |
| Education |
Other, Yale University (1982)
Ph D, Duke University (1979)
MS, Duke University (1969)
BS, Dickinson College (1967)
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| Website | http://umbc.edu/biosci/general/user/cronin |
| CV | View CV |
About
Born in Maryland, educated at Dickinson, Duke, and Yale; study visual ecology of a diverse selection of animals.
Research Interests
Visual ecology: the evolution, adaptation, and specialization of visual systems of animals ranging from the simplest marine invertebrates to complex animals like mantis shrimps, cuttlefish, whooping cranes, and right whales
Teaching Interests
Physiology, vision science, marine science, neuroscience
Selected Classes
| Spring 2019 | BIOL 451 – Vision Science |
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| BIOL 899 – Doctoral Dissertatn Rsch | |
| Fall 2018 | BIOL 451/651 – Neurobiology |
| Spring 2018 | BIOL 457/657 – Physiology of Marine and Estuarine Animals |
| Fall 2014 | BIOL 451 – Neurobiology |
| Spring 2014 | BIOL 457 – Phys:Marine/Est Animals |
| BIOL 899 – Doctoral Dissertatn Rsch | |
| Fall 2012 | BIOL 700 – Intro To Grad Experience |
Contracts, Fellowships, Grants, and Sponsored Research
Polarization and multispectral vision in mantis shrimp: A model for information processing and biomimetic imaging Grant (Funded) Sponsored by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Jul 1, 2018 – Jun 30, 2022)
Re-engineering the stomatopod eye, nature's most compreh Grant (Funded) Sponsored by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Jun 15, 2012 – Jun 14, 2016)
Consortium for Nanomaterials for Aerospace Commerce and Grant (Funded) Sponsored by Rice University (Sep 1, 2010 – Aug 31, 2015)
Intellectual Contributions
(2020) Exceptional diversity of opsin expression patterns in Neogonodactylus oerstedii (Stomatopoda) retinas Proceedings of the National Academy of the USA
(2020) Sea snake sight - one plus one makes three Current Biology
(2020) The astonishing diversity of vision: Introduction to an issue of Vision Research on animal vision. Vision Research
(2020) Mantis shrimp navigate home using celestial and idiothetic path integration Current Biology
(2019) Optic lobe organization in stomatopod crustacean species possessing different degrees of retinal complexity Journal of Comparative Physiology A
(2019) Vision in the snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis. Journal of Experimental Biology
(2019) Polarisation signals: a new currency for communication JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2019) Polarization signals: a new currency for communication Baltimore Journal of Experimental Biology
(2019) Long-wavelength reflecting filters found in the larval retinas of one mantis shrimp family (Nannosquillidae). Current Biology
(2018) Two visual systems in one eyestalk: The unusual optic lobe metamorphosis in the stomatopod Alima pacifica DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY
(2018) A different view: sensory drive in the polarized-light realm CURRENT ZOOLOGY
(2018) Behavioural evidence for polychromatic ultraviolet sensitivity in mantis shrimp PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2018) Cerebral photoreception in mantis shrimp SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2018) Cerebral photoreception in mantis shrimp. Scientific Reports
(2018) Multichannel spectrometers in animals BIOINSPIRATION & BIOMIMETICS
(2018) Scanning eye movements of the Caribbean stomatopod crustacean (Neogonodactylus oerstedii) in polarized light fields. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology
(2018) Scanning eye movements of the stomatopod crustacean, Neogonodactylus oerstedii, in polarized light fields MARINE AND FRESHWATER BEHAVIOUR AND PHYSIOLOGY
(2018) Sequence, structure, and expression of opsins in the monochromatic stomatopod Squilla empusa Integrative and Comparative Biology
(2018) Sequence, structure, and expression of opsins in the monochromatic stomatopod Squilla empusa Integrative and Comparative Biology
(2017) Opsin expression in the central nervous system of the mantis shrimp Neogonodactylus oerstedii BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN
(2017) Crustacean larvae – vision in the plankton. Integrative and Comparative Biology
(2017) Visual predation during springtime foraging of the North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis). Marine Mammal Journal
(2017) Coping with copepods: do right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) forage visually in dark waters? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
(2015) Colour vision in marine organisms Current Opinion in Neurobiology
(2015) Diversity, ecology, and evolution of ultraviolet filters in stomatopod crustaceans. Journal of Experimental Biology
(2015) Seeing double: visual physiology of double-retina eye ontogeny in stomatopod crustaceans Journal of Comparative Physiology A
(2015) Spectral filtering enables trichromatic vision in colorful jumping spiders Current Biology
(2015) Visual phototransduction components in cephalopod chromatophores suggest dermal photoreception Journal of Experimental Biology
(2014) Characterization of visual pigments, oil droplets, lens and cornea in the whooping crane Grus americana. The Journal of experimental biology
(2014) Seeing and doing: how vision shapes animal behavior Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B
(2014) Visual Ecology Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press
(2014) Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms BMC Bioinformatics
(2014) Spectral tuning by opsin coexpression in retinal regions that view different parts of the visual field. Proceedings of the Royal Society B
(2014) Shrimps that pay attention: Saccadic eye movements in stomatopod crustaceans Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B
(2014) Sensory ecology of vision in crustaceans Biology of Crustacea, Vol. 3 New York Academic Press
(2014) Out of the blue: The evolution of horizontally polarized signals in Haptosquilla (Crustacea, Stomatopoda, Protosquillidae). Journal of Experimental Biology
(2014) Hiding opaque eyes in transparent organisms. In situ spectral and image contrast analysis of eyeshine in stomatopod larvae. Journal of Experimental Biology
(2014) Filtering and polychromatic vision in mantis shrimps: themes in visible and ultraviolet vision Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B
(2014) Bio-inspired polarization imaging sensors: from circuits and optics to signal processing algorithms and biomedical applications. Proceedings of IEEE
(2014) Biological sunscreens tune polychromatic ultraviolet vision in mantis shrimp. Current Biology
(2013) The evolution of complexity in visual systems of stomatopods: insights from transcriptomics. Integrative and Comparative Biology
(2013) Subclass Hoplocarida Calman, 1904: Order Stomatopoda Latreille, 1817. Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Crustacea. Vol. 4, Part A. (J. C. von Vaupel Klein, M. Charmantier-Daures, and F. R. Schram. Eds.). Leiden Brill Press
(2012) A novel function for a carotenoid: astaxanthin used as a polarizer for visual signalling in a mantis shrimp Journal of Experimental Biology
(2012) Visual optics: Accommodation in a splash Current Biology
(2010) The molecular genetics and evolution of colour and polarization vision in stomatopod crustaceans , Ophthal.Physiol.Opt
Path integration error and flexible search behaviors in a mantis shrimp. Journal of Experimental Biology
Mantis shrimp rank shape over color in object recognition. Baltimore
Landmark navigation in the mantis shrimp, Neogonodactylus oerstedii Scientific Reports (in review)
Visual metamorphoses in insects and malacostracans: transitions between an aquatic and terrestrial life Arthropod Structure and Development (in review)
Presentations
UMBC Friends of the Library Lecture Oral Presentation Visual Ecology UMBC Friends of the Library UMBC Library (Mar 8, 2015)
North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium Annual Meeting Oral Presentation Coping with copepods: do right whales forage visually in dark water? North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium New Bedford, Massachusetts (Nov 7, 2013)