Research interests

I am an integrative biologist. My research interests span marine invertebrate community ecology, behavior, sensory biology and molecular biology. Some of the questions that intrigue me are: 1) How do sensory systems, such as chemoreception and vision coordinate ecologically important behaviors? 2) How do processes such as predation and disturbance (and their interactions) structure communitites? 3) How do predation risk and injury affect feeding behavior, bioturbation, and competitive interactions? I am especially interested in the links between individuals, populations, and community ecology. Right now, I am investigating these questions by studying polychaetes. I use many approaches including field and laboratory experiments; video recording; light,confocal and electron microscopy; immunohistochemistry; molecular biological techniques; computer simulation and mathematical modelling.

The publications listed below were selected from the last five years. For a complete list, see my CV. 

Publications

• Forest, D.L. and S.M. Lindsay. In press. Observations of serotonin and FMRFamide-like immunoreactivity in palp sensory structures and the anterior nervous system of spionid polychaetes. Journal of Morphology.
• Rawson, P.D., P. Yund and S.M. Lindsay. 2007. Comment on Divergent induced responses to an invasive predator in marine mussel populations. Science 316:53b DOI 10.1126/science.1135099
• Lindsay, S.M., J.L. Jackson, and D.L. Forest. In Press. Morphology of anterior regeneration in two spionid polychaete species: implications for feeding efficiency. Invertebrate Biology.
• Lindsay, S.M. , J.L. Jackson, and S.Q. He. 2007. Anterior Regeneration in the spionid polychaetes Dipolydora quadrilobata and Pygospio elegans. Marine Biology 150:1161-1172. (Published online Aug. 2006) DOI 10.1007/s00227-006-0431-0
• Lindsay, S.M. and R.G. Vogt. 2004. Behavioral Responses of newly hatched zebrafish (Danio rerio) to Amino Acid Chemostimulants. Chemical Senses 29: 93-100
• Lindsay, S.M., T.J. Riordan, Jr, and D. Forest . 2004. Identification and activity-dependent labeling of peripheral sensory structures of a spionid polychaete. Biological Bulletin 206:65-77.
• Riordan, Jr., T.J. and S.M. Lindsay. 2002. Feeding Responses to particle-bound cues by a deposit-feeding spionid polychaete, Dipolydora quadrilobata (Jacobi 1883). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 277:79-95

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