B.S. Oceanography University of Washington, Department of Oceanography, Seattle, WA August 1972

Research interest:

My main interest is in the investment coats, or embryonic coats, of marine and aquatic crustaceans embryos. I am investigating the formation of these coats and the enzymes that are responsible for the normal elevation and hardening of these protective coverings. I also am interested in the egg-sperm interaction in marine and aquatic shrimp and the way the sperm manages to penetrate the egg while investment coat formation is occurring.

Academic Awards

1993 American Association of University Women - Baton Rouge Chapter, Scholarship Award

1993 Louisiana Society for Electron Microscopy - Arceneaux Award, Second Place

Grants

1994 National Research Council Award for postdoctoral research, three years at EPA, Gulf Breeze lab ($200,000 over three years)

1994 Coauthor of Sea Grant proposal on zebra mussel invasion in Lake Pontchartrain with Dr. Bruce Thompson, LSU, Coastal Fisheries Dept. ($10,125 over five months)

1992 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research ($750 equipment grant)

Select Invited Presentations

1997 Second Molecular and Cell Biology of Egg- and Embryo Coats, Sapporo, Japan, October 12-17, 1997. "Embryonic Coats of the grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio."

Research Experience

Sept. 1994- Sept. 1997. National Research Council, Resident Research Associate, U. S. EPA, Gulf Ecology Division, Gulf Breeze, FL.

May 1994-Sept. 1994. Research Associate V. Louisiana State University, Coastal Fisheries Institute. Baton Rouge, LA 70803.

July 1989-May 1994. Graduate student. Louisiana State University, Department of Zoology and Physiology. Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1725.

Oct. 1986- June 1989. Research Associate, III. Louisiana State University Medical School, Department of Anatomy. 1901 Perdido St. , New Orleans, LA

Nov. 1972-June 1974. Research Associate. New York Ocean Science Laboratory. Montauk, Long Island, New York.

Selected Publications

Lynn, J. W., M. C. Pillai, P. S. Glas and J. D. Green. 1990. Comparative morphology and physiology of egg activation in selected penaeoidea. In: Frontiers of Shrimp Research. (W. Dougherty, ed.) Elsevier Publishing Co., New York.

Glas, P.S. 1997. How do you prepare a research poster? In: A How To Book-Making Success Your Reality. (J.P. Kilbourn, ed.) Promethium Chapter of Iota Sigma Pi.

Austin, H. M. and P. M. Stoops-Glas. 1977. The distribution of polystyrene spheres and nibs in Block Island Sound during 1972-1973. Ches. Sci. 18: 89-92.

Cheng, S. D., P. S. Glas and J. D. Green. 1991. Abnormal Sea Urchin Fertilization Envelope Assembly in Low Sodium Seawater. Biol. Bull. 180: 346-354.

Lynn, J. W., P. S. Glas, P. L. Hertzler, W. H. Clark, Jr. and J. D. Green. 1993. Manipulations of Shrimp Embryos: A Viable Technique for the Removal of the Hatching Envelope. J. World Aquac. Soc. 24: 1-5.

Glas, P. S., J. D. Green and J. W. Lynn. 1995. Oxidase activity associated with the elevation of the penaeoid shrimp hatching envelope. Biol. Bull. 189: 13-21.

Glas, P. S., J. D. Green, and J. W. Lynn. 1996. Morphological evidence for a chitin-like glycoprotein in penaeid hatching envelopes. Biol. Bull. 191: 374-384.

Rayburn, J. R., P. S. Glas, S. S. Foss, W. S. Fisher. 1996. Characterization of grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio) embryo toxicity tests using the water soluble fraction of number 2 fuel oil. Mar. Poll. Bull. 32: 860-866.

Genthner, F. J., S. S. Foss, and P. S. Glas. 1997. Virulence of Metarhizium anisopliae to embryos of the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio. J. Invert. Path. 68: 157-164.

Glas, P. S., L. A. Courtney, J. R. Rayburn and W. S. Fisher. 1997. Embryonic coat of the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio. Biol. Bull 192: 231-242.

Abstracts Published

Lynn, J. W., Glas, P. S. and J. D. Green. 1987. Structural and enzymatic analysis of sea urchin fertilization envelope elevation in Cl- deficient sea waters. J. Cell Biol. 105: 255a.

Glas, P. S., J. D. Green and J. W. Lynn. 1992. Evidence for a peroxidase-like enzyme involved in hatching envelope assembly in eggs of Sicyonia ingentis. Amer. Zool. 32: 81a.

Glas, P. S., J. D. Green and J. W. Lynn. 1992 Enzyme involvement in elevation and tanning of the hatching envelope of a penaeid shrimp ovum. Proc. Louisiana Acad. Sciences 55: 42a.

Glas, P.S., J. D. Green and J. W. Lynn. 1993. Hatching envelopes from penaeoid shrimp exhibit chitin-like properties. Mol. Biol. Cell 4: 378a.

Glas, P. S. and B. A. Thompson. 1994. Potential for transfer of Dreissena into Lake Pontchartrain via the Bonne Carre Spillway. Am. Zool. 34: 96a.

Glas, P. S., F. J. Genthner and W. S. Fisher. 1995. Extra-Embryonic Coats of Palaemonetes pugio: Morphology and Composition. Am. Zool. 35: 70a.

Oral presentations

Glas, P. S., J. D. Green and J. W. Lynn. Enzyme involvement in elevation and tanning of the hatching envelope of a penaeid shrimp ovum. Proc. Louisiana Acad. Sciences Annual Meeting, Baton Rouge, LA, 1992.

Glas, P. S. and B. A. Thompson. Potential for transfer of Dreissena into Lake Pontchartrain via the Bonne Carre Spillway. American Society of Zoologists Annual meeting, St. Louis, MO. 1994.

Glas, P. S., J. E. Gillet, S. S. Foss and F. J. Genthner. Infection of the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio by Metarhizium anisopliae. Society of Invertebrate Pathology annual Meeting, Syracuse, NY 1995.

Glas, P. S., F. J. Genthner and W. S. Fisher. The Defensive Role of Extracellular Coats in the grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio. International Congress of Invertebrate Reproduction, Santa Cruz, CA 1995.

Glas, P.S., L.A. Courtney, F. J. Genthner and W. S. Fisher. Enzymatic digestion of the embryonic coat of the grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 1996

Poster Presentations

Glas, P. S., J. D. Green and J. W. Lynn. Evidence for a peroxidase-like enzyme involved in hatching envelope assembly in eggs of Sicyonia ingentis. American Society of Zoologists, Vancouver, 1992.

Genthner, F. J., P.S. Glas, S.S. Foss and W. S. Fisher. Infections of grass shrimp by the fungus Lagenidium callinectes. Society of Invertebrate Pathology Annual Meeting. Alberta, Canada, August 1997.

Genthner, F. J., P.S. Glas. S.S. Foss and W. S. Fisher. Infection of grass shrimp by the fungus Lagenidium callinectes. 2^nd Molecular and Cell Biology of Egg- and Embryo Coats Symposium. Sapporo, Japan. October 1997

Rayburn, J. R., S.S. Foss, K. Reinsel, P.S. Glas and W. S. Fisher. The use of embryos of Palaemonetes pugio in evaluating the development of toxicity of compounds. 2^nd Molecular and Cell Biology of Egg- and Embryo Coats Symposium, Sapporo, Japan. October 1997.

SERVICE

Departmental Committees

1998 Equipment Committee

1998 General Biology Committee

1998 Assessment Committee

Professional Societies

1994-1997 Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (formerly American Society of Zoologists), Division of Developmental and Cellular Biology - Graduate Student/ Postdoctoral Affairs Committee Representative

1997 Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology - Conservation Committee

1989 Louisiana Society of Electron Microscopy, Student Representative

1991 Louisiana Society of Electron Microscopy, Treasurer

1990 Louisiana Society of Electron Microscopy, Chair Local Arrangements Committee

1993 Department of Zoology and Physiology Graduate Student Representative to Graduate Admissions Committee

1990 Zoology and Physiology Graduate Student Organization- Secretary /Treasurer

Membership in Professional Societies

American Society for Cell Biology

Sigma Xi

Sigma Delta Epsilon/ Women in Science

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology

The Crustacean Society