CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: ROGELIO MARIANO LALANA RUEDA

Place and date of birth: Victoria de las  Tunas  City,  CUBA;  30 April, 1939.

OCUPATION: Auxiliar Professor; University of  Havana;  Centre  of Marine Research. Calle 16 # 114 entre Ave. Primera y Tercera, Miramar. Playa. La Habana.Cuba

Adress (privat): Calle L # 460. Apt.13, entre 25 y 27. Vedado. La  Habana. Cuba.

OBTAINED TITLE: Licenciado  en  Ciencias  Biológicas.(Graduate  in Biological Sciences). Date: 1968. Place: University of Havana.

SCIENTIFIC  DEGREE: Doctor  in  Natural  Science (Ph. D) (Doctor  rerum naturalium). Rostock University. Germany.  Date: 13 April, 1982.

KNOWN LENGUAGES:  English and Germany.

OFFERED  COURSES: 72 courses in General Embryology, Cytology, Histology, Human Embryology, Hydrochemic,  Ichtyology,  Plankton, Invertebrate Zoology, Zooplankton, Zoobenthos,  General  Biology, General Zoology, Fishing Topics (Navigation), Phytobenthos,  Alga and  Invertebrates,  Introduction  to  Biology,  Biometrics   and Experimental Designs, Ecology, Vertebrate Zoology, Carcinology.

TRAINING COURSES: (4 ) Benthos in Coastal Lagoon, Cuban Molluscs and Computation in  relation with Benthos Researchs.

OTHERS COURSES: 18 post graduation courses of high studies offered  of: Benthos of shallow waters, Marine Benthos, Alga and  Invertebrates,  Marine invertebrates, Phytobenthos, Benthos in coastal lagoons,  Shrimps Biology, Systematic  on  Marine  Invertebrates,  Zoobenthos, Ecology and Echinoderm, Carcinology.

TUTORIAL WORK: Mentor of 27 Thesis.

RECEIVED ACTIVITIES: 23 national and international postgraduated courses received.

INVESTIGATIONS: Embryology in Sea-urchins. Biology of fresh-water shrimps Procambarus cubensis. Larval study of Macrobrachium carcinus Synecological Studies in coastal  lagoons. Benthos  study  in  two coastal  lagoons  in  Southeastern  Cuba.  Associated  fauna   on mangrove roots in coastal lagoons and shallow waters.  Systematic on Invertebrates. Natural  feeding  in  spiny  lobster  Panulirus argus. Study of meiobenthos of coastal Lagoon. Ecologycal investigations  in tropical   marine   ecosistem. Zoobenthos in shallow coastal waters. Associated fauna with seaweed Laurencia sp. . Zoobenthos of Guanaroca lagoon (Meiobenthos). Systematic on Decapods. Systermatic on Picnogonida. Systematic on Ostracoda. National Scientifc and Technical Project of Coral Reef Biodiversity.

EVENTS: Participation in 25 events. Last of them, Caribbean Clades and their deistributions. March 2001. Smithsonian Institution. Washington D.C.

PUBLICATIONS:  132  publications  in  national  and  international reviews.

More than 50  new  species for science, and more than 90 new records for Cuban waters.

OTHERS ASPECTS: Head of Scholarship Department of the  School  of Biological  Sciences 1968-1969. University of Havana. Head of Zoology Department 1971-1974. Head Professor of  the  Hydrobiology  Group 1971-1975.  Head  of  Benthos  Laboratory  1980-1981.   Head   of Acuaculture Comission 1990-1995. Titular- Member of the Morphology Cuban  Society.  Member  of  the  International  Association   of Meiobenthologists till 1999. Member of  the  Cuban  Society  of  Biological Sciences. Member of the Carcionology group of the First Cuba-USA joint Expedition, carried out at the Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago Member of the National Goup of Biodiversity. Member  of the Academic Comittee of the Master in Sciences Degree in  Marine Biology and Acuaculture.

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