Mark Young Stoeckle
Adjunct Faculty Member
Program for the Human Environment
The Rockefeller University
Email: mark.stoeckle@rockefeller.edu
Mark Stoeckle is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Program for the
Human Environment at The Rockefeller University. Dr. Stoeckle's
interests include environmental genomics, DNA barcoding, birds, and
the Census of Marine life. Since joining the Program in January 2003,
he co-authored a DNA barcoding protocol for the Census of Marine Life,
and helped organize the Taxonomy, DNA, and the Barcode of
Life conference held at Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, New York in September 2003, and the inaugural meeting of
the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), held at Smithsonian
Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, in
May 2004. The goal of the "Barcode of Life" project is to
enable a practical method for rapid identification of the estimated 10
million species of life on Earth. By applying technologies of
molecular biology to the living world outside the laboratory, the
Barcode of Life project offers the prospect of deeper understanding
and appreciation of the diversity of life on Earth. Dr. Stoeckle's
review of the DNA barcoding effort was recently published in
BioScience and he was co-author of a
study applying DNA barcoding in
North American birds, published in PLoS Biology, which uncovered 4
possible new species. Dr. Stoeckle helped organize the
inaugural
workshop for the All Birds Barcoding Initiative (ABBI),
"Barcoding Life Takes Flight", held at Museum of
Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, September 2005. He is
presently Coordinator for ABBI and working with an international group
of ornithologists to collect barcodes for the approximately 10,000
species of world birds.
Dr. Stoeckle is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Medical
School and completed his medical training in Internal Medicine and
Infectious Diseases at The New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill
Medical College in New York City. During 1984-1989 he was a Research
Associate at The Rockefeller University under Dr. Purnell Chopin in
the Laboratory of Virology and Dr. Hidesaburo Hanafusa in the
Laboratory of Molecular Oncology. From 1992-1996, he co-authored the
annual review of infectious diseases for the Contempo issue of the
Journal of the American Medical Association. He is presently a
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College and
an Associate Attending Physician at The New York-Presbyterian
Hospital.
In addition to his scientific and research interests, Dr. Stoeckle is
an accomplished graphic artist and has won several awards for his
nature photography. At present, he is particularly interested in
photographing animal and plant life on Atlantic Ocean beaches.
For a list of publications, click here.
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