CV
Appointments
2022-present Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
2016-present Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Guest Investigator
Department of Biology
2016-2022 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich)
Postdoctoral researcher
Stocker Lab, Environmental Microfluidics Group
Institute of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering
Education
2010-2016 Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
PhD in Biological Oceanography
Supervised by Dr. Lauren Mullineaux (Biology) and Dr. Karl Helfrich (Physical Oceanography)
2008-2010 University of Alberta
MSc in Applied Mathematics, with a focus in Mathematical Ecology
Supervised by Dr. Mark Lewis (Math/Biology)
2003-2008 Memorial University of Newfoundland
BSc in Applied Mathematics, honours
Supervised by Dr. Andrew Foster (Math/Faculty of Science)
BA in German
Publications
First author or co-first author manuscripts (first authors in bold)
Wheeler JD, Pfreundt U, Carrara F, Sengupta A, Stocker R (2022). Gravity modulations induce migratory changes and transcriptional shifts to stress protection and repair in the motile phytoplankton Heterosigma akashiwo. (In revision)
Wheeler JD, Secchi E, Rusconi R, Stocker R (2019). Not just going with the flow: The effects of fluid flow on bacteria and plankton, Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 35: 213-237.
Meyer KS, Wheeler JD, Houlihan E, Mullineaux LS (2018). Desperate planktotrophs: decreased settlement selectivity with age in competent eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) larvae. Marine Ecology Progress Series 599: 93-106.
Wheeler JD, Luo EY, Helfrich KR, Anderson EJ, Starczak VR, Mullineaux LS (2017). Light stimulates swimming behavior of larval eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in turbulent flow. Marine Ecology Progress Series 571: 109-120.
Wheeler JD, Chan KYK, Anderson EJ, Mullineaux LS (2016). Ontogenetic changes in larval swimming and orientation of pre-competent sea urchin Arbacia punctulata in turbulence. Journal of Experimental Biology 219: 1303-1310.
Wheeler JD, Helfrich KR, Anderson EJ, Mullineaux LS (2015). Isolating the hydrodynamic triggers of the dive response in eastern oyster larvae. Limnology and Oceanography 60: 1332-1343.
Wheeler JD, Helfrich KR, Anderson EJ, McGann B, Staats P, Wargula AE, Wilt K, Mullineaux LS (2013). Upward swimming of competent oyster larvae (Crassostrea virginica) persists in highly turbulent flow as detected by PIV flow subtraction. Marine Ecology Progress Series 488: 171 −185.
Contributing author manuscripts
Courcol J-D, Invernizzi CF, Landry ZC, Minisini M, Baumgartner DA, Bonhoeffer S, Chabriw B, Clerc EE, Daniels M, Getta P, Girod M, Kazala K, Markram H, Pasqualini A, Martínez-Pérez C, Peaudecerf FJ, Peaudecerf MS, Pfreundt U, Roller BRK, Słomka J, Vasse M, Wheeler JD, Metzger CMJA, Stocker R and Schürmann F (2021). ARC: An open web-platform for request/supply matching for a prioritized and controlled COVID-19 response. Frontiers in Public Health 9: 607677.
DiBenedetto MH, Meyer-Kaiser KS, Torjman B, Wheeler JD, Mullineaux LS (2021). Departures from isotropy: The kinematics of a larval snail in response to food. Journal of Experimental Biology 224: jeb239178.
Meyer KS, Houlihan E, Wheeler JD, McCorkle DC, Mullineaux LS (2019), Behavioral response of eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) larvae to chemical settlement cue is not impaired by low pH. Marine Ecology Progress Series 623: 13-24.
Maciejewksi MF, Meyer KS, Wheeler JD, Anderson EJ, Pittoors NC, Mullineaux LS (2019). Helical swimming as an exploratory behavior in competent larvae of the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 510: 86-94.
Matter SF, Doyle A, Illerbrun K, Wheeler J, Roland J (2011). An assessment of direct and indirect effects of climate change for populations of the Rocky Mountain Apollo butterfly (Parnassius smintheus Doubleday). Insect Science 18: 385-392.
Non-peer reviewed publications
Jeanette Wheeler, Anupam Sengupta, Francesco Carrara, Roman Stocker (2018). Large-scale impacts of micro-scale life in turbulent aquatic environments. Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Annual Report 2017, p.79. ETH Zürich.
Manuscripts in preparation
True A, Wheeler JD, Michalec FG, Holzner M, Crimaldi J, Stocker R. (2022). Design and optimization of a liter-scale turbulence facility for investigating microorganism-turbulence interactions.
Peaudecerf FJ, Wheeler JD, Jami L, Borduas-Dedekind N, Stocker R. (2022). Aerosol deposition drives accumulation of chemotactic bacteria in the aquatic surface microlayer.
Theses
Behavioral responses of invertebrate larvae to water column cues. PhD thesis (2016), Joint Program in Biological Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA.
Temperature dependent butterfly dynamics. MSc thesis (2010), Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Selected Recent Seminars and Conference Presentations
A litre-scale turbulence facility for microorganism-flow interactions, European Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria (May 2022).
Aerosol deposition drives bacterial accumulation in the aquatic surface microlayer, Gordon Research Seminar on Marine Microbes, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (May 2022; presented by co-author François Peaudecerf).
Marine plankton in the fluid environment: turbulence, interfaces, and the chemical landscape (invited seminar), Memorial University Biology Seminary Series, St. John's, NL, Canada (March 2022).
Experimental investigations of phytoplankton motility and physiology in a litre-scale turbulence facility (poster), Microscale Ocean Biophysics, Whistler, Canada (Jan 2019).
Disruption of sea urchin swimming by overturning eddies, Microscale Ocean Biophysics, Eilat, Israel (Nov 2016).
Reorientation and swimming stability in sea urchin larvae, Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA (Feb 2016).
Isolating the hydrodynamic triggers of the dive response in eastern oyster larvae, Microscale Ocean Biophysics, Aspen, CO, USA (Mar 2015).
Just keep swimming: urchin larvae in turbulent flow, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, West Palm Beach, FL (Jan 2015).
Local flow acceleration triggers diving response in eastern oyster larvae (invited seminar), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Biology Seminar Series, Woods Hole, MA, USA (May 2014).
Selected Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards
ETH Zürich Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-2018)
"Inside JEB", featured article for the Journal of Experimental Biology (2016)
Alberta Ingenuity MSc Graduate Scholarship (2009-2010)
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (2008-2010)
Captain Robert A. Bartlett Science Award for best interdisciplinary work by an undergraduate student (2008)
Research Grants
ETH Career Seed Grant, with François Peaudecerf (2019-2020, CHF 30,000)
Project Title: Bacterial-aerosol interactions in the aquatic surface microlayer
SERI/Swiss Space Centre Parabolic Flight Campaign in Switzerland, with Roman Stocker, Francesco Carrara, Ulrike Pfreundt, and Anupam Sengupta (2016-2017, approx. CHF 43,500)
Project Title: Gravity as a cue for plankton migrations
NOAA National Sea Grant, with Lauren Mullineaux and Karl Helfrich (2014-2016, approx. USD $125,000)
Project Title: Behavioural responses of competent larval oysters (Crassostrea virginica) to chemical settlement cue in turbulent flow
Selected Press
Mullins KE (2021), COVID-19 Crisis – A technology providing unconventional supply relief. In EPFL News and Frontiers Science News.
Murphy S (2018), Research: The swimming behavior of larval oysters. Coastal Impacts: Woods Hole Sea Grant Newsletter.
Keller M (2016), Researching phytoplankton in zero gravity. ETH News.
Kostel K (2016) Settling in. WHOI Image of the Day.
Knight K (2016), Extra arms destabilize sea urchin larvae. Journal of Experimental Biology featured article, "Inside JEB".
Kostel K (2014) Oysters in the rough. WHOI Image of the Day.