Publications

In Review

In Press

Corthals, A. The treatment of non-Egyptian rulers on native monuments. British Archaeological Reports

Corthals, A. The New Year Festival in the Ptolemaic Temples of Upper Egypt. Peter Lang AG

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Corthals, A. Now what? Pre and Post analysis preservation of ancient tissues and DNA. Proceedings of V World Congress on Mummy Studies. Journal of Biological Research. LXXX (1), 217-221

Sicard N., A. Corthals, J. Feinstein, C. Bolnet and R. Desalle. Barcoding Whiptail Lizards (Cnemidophorus and Apidoscelis spp) at the ambrose monell cryo collection.  Integrative and Comparative Biology 45 (6): 1194-1194

Corthals, A. and R. Desalle. An Application of Tissue and DNA banking for Genomics and Conservation: The Ambrose Monell Cryo-Collection. Systematic Biology. 54(5):819–823, 2005

Hanner, R., A. Corthals and H.C. Dessauer, Salvage of genetically valuable tissues following a freezer failure. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 34, Issue 2, February 2005, Pages 452-455.

Corthals, A. DNA Banking for animal DNA. Response to A Plea for DNA Banking. Science 2004; 305: 607. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/304/5676/1445b

Peer-Reviewed Edited Books

Savolainen, V., G. Reeves, K. Davis, M.P. Powell and A. Corthals (eds). DNA Banking for Biodiversity and Conservation. Kew Publishing & IUCN

Peer-Reviewed Chapters in Edited Books

Wildlife forensics. In DNA banking for Biodiversity and Conservation. Savolainen, V., G. Reeves, K. Davis, M.P. Powell and A. Corthals (eds). Kew Publishing & IUCN

Animal voucher specimens and e-vouchers. In DNA banking for Biodiversity and Conservation. Savolainen, V., G. Reeves, K. Davis, M.P. Powell and A. Corthals (eds). Kew Publishing & IUCN

The Ambrose Monell Cryo-Collection: a museum-based molecular collection. In DNA banking for Biodiversity and Conservation. Savolainen, V., G. Reeves, K. Davis, M.P. Powell and A. Corthals (eds). Kew Publishing & IUCN

The New Year Procession in the staircase at Edfu and Dendara. In L'Acqua nell'antico Egitto. A cura di A. Amenta, M.N. Sordi, Maria Michela Luiselli (eds). Erma di Bretschneider, Rome.

Dangerous Waters: Schistosomiasis in Ancient and Modern Egypt. In L'Acqua nell'antico Egitto. A cura di A. Amenta, M.N. Sordi, Maria Michela Luiselli (eds). Erma di Bretschneider, Rome.

Hanner, R., A. Corthals, and R. DeSalle. Biodiversity, conservation, and genetic resources in modern museum and herbarium collections. In Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics. G. Amato, O. Ryder, H. Rosenbaum, and R. DeSalle (eds.). Columbia University Press, NY.

Published Abstracts of Presented Research

Copper Man, Where art thou… from? VIth International Congress on Mummy Studies, Lanzarote, Spain

Paver, Sara F., J. Bonacum, A. Corthals, R. DeSalle, and M. J. Lemke. Preliminary studies in the development of best practice methods for archiving bacterial communities at the American Museum of Natural History, NY. American Society for Microbiology. Orlando, FL

Rossetto, M. A., J. Bonacum, A. Corthals, R. DeSalle, M. J. Lemke. Assessing the Culturability and Cryopreservation of Sediment Bacteria From Central Park, NY. UIS Science Symposium, Springfield, IL

Building the Library of Life Together: Zoos and Museum. Annual meeting of the Association of Zoos and Aquarium (AZA), Chicago

 Better Tools for Systematics, Evolution, 2005, Fairbanks, Alaska

Tissues and DNA Banking as the backbone of Barcoding, FISH-BOL, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

Barcoding as quality control for Genetic Resource Collections, First International Conference of the Barcoding of Life Consortium at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

Now what? Pre and post analysis preservation of human and animal genetic material. Vth World Congress of Mummy Studies, Turin, Italy

Saving the Ark, Evolution 2004, Fort Collins, Colorado

When Disaster strikes: research on biological repository disaster recovery at the AM-CC, SPNHC-ISBER joint meeting, AMNH, New York

Preserving the Ark, Expanding the Ark, Center for Biodiversity Conservation annual Spring Symposium, AMNH, New York

Databasing Biodiversity, Society for Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNCH) Annual Meeting, Lubbock, Texas

Dangerous Waters: Schistosomiasis in Ancient and Modern Egypt, First International Congress of Young Egyptologists, Chianciano Terme (Siena)

The New Year Procession in the Staircases at Edfu and Dendera. First International Congress of Young Egyptologists, Chianciano Terme (Siena)

Hanner, R., N. Smilowitz, B. Webster, J. Cole, H. Dessauer, A. Corthals. Salvage of genetically valuable tissues following a catastrophic mechanical freezer failure and subsequent prolonged specimen meltdown. Biotechnic and Histochemistry, 78, 3-4/June, 2003

Corthals, A., M. Breedlove and R. Hanner. The Ambrose Monell Tissue Specimen Database at the American Museum of Natural History. Biotechnic and Histochemistry, 78, 3-4/June, 2003

Corthals, A. and R. Hanner. The online tissue specimen database of the Ambrose Monell Cryo Collection (AM-CC) at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Biotechnic and Histochemistry, 78, 3-4/June, 2003

Posters

Feinstein, J., and A. Corthals, Archiving genetic resources. 122 Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in conjunction with the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists Proceedings, 16 - 21 August 2004, Québec City

Feinstein, J., and A. Corthals, The Ambrose Monell Cryo Collection at the American Museum of Natural History. Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Proceedings, Miami, Florida, July 12th - 16^th

Wright, A., J. Mercedes, M. Delarosa, J. Feinstein, A. Corthals. FREEZING INSECTS: The effects of cryopreservation protocols on nucleic acid degradation. CBC Symposium, AMNH, New York, March 24-26

Corthals A., J. Feinstein. Preserving Insect Biodiversity: The online Tissue Specimen Database of the Ambrose Monell Cryo-Collection (AMCC) at the American Museum of Natural History. CBC Symposium, AMNH, New York, March 24-26

Subran, M., A. Corthals. Identification of animal tissue samples using cytochrome b DNA sequences (mitochondrial DNA). 15th Annual REU-UMEB conference, AMNH, New York, August 14

Corthals, A., M. Breedlove and R. Hanner. The Ambrose Monell Tissue Specimen Database at the American Museum of Natural History. ISBER Meeting Philadelphia

Hanner, R., N. Smilowitz, B. Webster, J. Cole, H. Dessauer, A. Corthals. Salvage of genetically valuable tissues following a catastrophic mechanical freezer failure and subsequent prolonged specimen meltdown. ISBER Meeting Philadelphia

Corthals, A., P. Doukakis, and R. Hanner. Monitoring and Documenting Shark Populations in Madagascar, A collaborative Effort of biomaterial banking between the American Museum of Natural History and the Wildlife Conservation Society. Center for Biodiversity Conservation annual Spring Symposium, AMNH, New York