Brian D. Horne, Ph.D.
Conservation Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Brian Horne joined CRES in the fall of 2006 after finishing his Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology at Ohio University. His primary research interests include conservation biology, endangered species management, and eco-physiology of reptiles and amphibians. He has worked with a wide range of animals but his specialty is reproductive and developmental biology of freshwater turtles and tortoises. He has conducted research on six of the seven continents. As there are no turtles currently inhabiting this Antarctica, he feels no great loss for not having worked there.
Dr. Horne's postdoctoral research focuses on preventing the extinction of one of Asia’s most endangered turtles, the red-crowned roof turtle of the Ganges River basin. Branching out from turtles, he is also studying the conservation biology of the critically endangered Indian gharial, a slender-snouted crocodilian.
