Ramon A. Carreno
Associate Professor

Office: Rm. 312 CWSC
Phone: (740) 368-3893

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Biography:

Dr. Carreno earned a B.S. in Zoology at the University of Toronto, a M.S. in Biology at Lakehead University and a Ph.D. at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph. He then did two years of postdoctoral research at the University of Guelph and comes to OWU directly from another two years of postdoctoral research at the University of California-Davis. Recent research has focused on the systematics of nematodes parasitic in mammals, based on a project that was funded by the National Science Foundation.

Other research interests include diagnostic parasitology, as well as genotyping and systematics of other eukaryotic parasitic organisms. Research approaches incorporate morphological methods (light and electron microscopy), as well as molecular biological techniques (PCR, cloning, and DNA sequencing). He is the author of more than thirty articles, reports, and book chapters and is fluent in French, German, and Spanish.

Currently, Dr. Carreno serves as Ohio Wesleyan's Pre-Veterinary Medicine program advisor.

Recent Publications:
Nadler, S.A., Carreno, R. A., Mejia-Madrid, H., Ullberg, J., Pagan, C., Houston, R., and Hugot, J.P. 2007. Molecular phylogeny of clade III nematodes reveals multiple origins of tissue parasitism. Parasitology 134: 1421-1442.

Carreno, R.A. 2007. Description of a new species of Thelastoma Leidy, 1849 (Nematoda: Oxyurida: Thelastomatidae) from the millipede Euryurus leachii (Gray, 1832) in Ohio, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology. 74: 211-217.

Conrad, P. A., A.M. Kjemtrup, R. A. Carreno, J. Thomford, K. Wainwright, M. Eberhard, R. Quick, S. R. Telford III, and B. L. Herwaldt. 2006. Description of Babesia duncani n.sp. (Apicomplexa: Babesiidae) from humans and its differentiation from other piroplasms. International Journal for Parasitology 36: 779-789.

Kjemtrup, A. M., K. Wainwright, M. Miller, B.L. Penzhorn, and R. A. Carreno. 2006. Babesia conradae, sp. nov., a small canine Babesia identified in California. Veterinary Parasitology 138: 103-111.

Reif, K. E., Carreno, R. A., and Tuhela, L. 2005. SEM observations on Leidynema portentosae van Waerebeke, 1978 (Nematoda: Oxyurida) from Gromphadorhina portentosa (Insecta: Blattodea). Acta Parasitologica 50: 332-335.

Barta, J. R., M. D. Schrenzel, R. Carreno, and B. A. Rideout. 2005. The genus Atoxoplasma (Garnham, 1950) as a junior objective synonym of the genus Isospora (Schneider, 1881) species infecting birds and resurrection of Cystoisospora (Frenkel 1977) as the correct genus for Isospora species infecting mammals. Journal of Parasitology 91: 726-727.

Carreno, R. A., K. E. Reif, and S. A. Nadler. 2005. A new species of Skrjabingylus Petrov, 1927 (Nematoda: Metastrongyloidea) from the frontal sinuses of the hooded skunk, Mephitis macroura (Mustelidae). Journal of Parasitology 91: 102-107.

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