David J. Patterson

David J. Patterson is a taxonomist specializing in the protozoa and the use of taxonomy in biodiversity informatics. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the 19th April 1950 to Doris Mary (née Bell) and Samuel Patterson, with one elder brother (Samuel James, a mathematician) and a sister (Frances Mary). He was educated at Belmont Primary, Strandtown and Grosvenor High schools. He obtained his Bachelor of Science British_undergraduate_degree_classification#First-class_honours First Class at Queen's University Belfast in 1971. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Bristol in 1976, where he was later employed (1977–1993). He obtained his Doctor of Science in 1990 from Queen's University. In 1993 he moved to the University of Sydney in Australia where he became Head of the School of Biological Sciences. Father of Alice Mia Patterson, Daniel Patterson, and William Patterson. Currently, he is a Senior Scientist, at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Professor (MBL) at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and Emeritus Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. As a taxonomist, his primary interests are in the diversity of protozoa and the evolution of protists. He and his coworkers have described over 250 new taxa. He helped to establish the Encyclopedia of Life project having had responsibility for the informatics component, basing EOL on the model developed with the micro*scope project. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK in 1976 and his D.Sc. from Queens University, Belfast Northern Ireland, UK in 1990. He was Head of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney before moving in 2004 to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. David Patterson has been awarded the Thomas Henry Huxley prize and the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London; has been Secretary of the British Section of the Society of Protozoologists; President of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology; and Vice-President of the (International) Society of Protozoology. He is a member of the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature. He has published approximately 160 peer-reviewed papers and several books throughout his caree. He was Senior Taxonomist on the Encyclopedia of Life project, a coPI of the Data Conservancy and of the NSF funded Global Names project.

References

• http://collab.teldap.tw/2009teldap/cv/Bio%20&%20Nature/David%20Joseph%20Patterson.pdf
• http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/Protsvil/paddy.htm
• http://www.iczn.org/Commissioners_Patterson.htm
• http://eol.org
• http://microscope.mbl.edu
• http://dataconservancy.org
• http://globalnames.org

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Name	Patterson, David J.
Alternative names	Paddy
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Date of birth	1950
Place of birth	Belfast, N.Ireland
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