David J. Patterson

David Joseph Patterson (born 19 April 1950) is a Northern Irish taxonomist specializing in protozoa and the use of taxonomy in biodiversity informatics.

Early life and education

David Joseph Patterson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 19 April 1950 to Doris Mary (née Bell) and Samuel Patterson, with one elder brother (mathematician Samuel James) and a sister (Frances Mary). Father of Alice Mia Vørs Patterson, Daniel Kieran Patterson, and William Patterson. He was educated at Belmont Primary, Strandtown and Grosvenor High schools in Belfast. He obtained his Bachelor of Science with first-class honours at Queen's University Belfast in 1971.

Career

David Patterson obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Bristol in 1976, where he was later employed (1977–1993). He obtained his Doctor of Science in 1990 from Queen's University, Belfast. In 1993 he moved to the University of Sydney in Australia where he became Head of the School of Biological Sciences. In 2004, he moved to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole (Mass., USA) where he helped to establish the Encyclopedia of Life project with responsibility for the informatics component,^[1] basing EOL on the model developed with the micro*scope project.^[2]^[3] From 2012-2014 he was a Research Professor at Arizona State University; and also was Professor (MBL) at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. As a taxonomist, his primary interests were in the diversity of protozoa and the evolution of protists.^[4] He and his co-workers described about 250 new taxa. David Patterson was awarded the Thomas Henry Huxley prize and the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London; has been Secretary of the British Section of the Society of Protozoologists; President of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology; and Vice-President of the (International) Society of Protozoology. He served as a member of the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature, of the Editorial Committee for Algae of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Biological Sciences, and of the Scientific Committee of the World Data System.

He has published approximately 200 peer-reviewed papers including several books throughout his career. Initial interests in ion physiology, volume regulation, and contractile vacuoles shifted to ultrastructural studies, a technique that reshaped the understanding of protist diversity, in turn being further enriched through comparative molecular studies. With Guy Brugerolle, he introduced his concept that clades of protists could usefully be identified by the complement and arrangement of organelles - that is their ultrastructural identity.^[5] He later used this concept along with the rationale of transformed cladistics to redefine the diversity of clades among eukaryotes.^[6] This simplified the challenge of establishing a complete phylogeny for eukaryotes by providing a list of the clades among which relatedness was to be established.

In the mid-1980's, Patterson focussed his efforts on free-living heterotrophic flagellates because they were poorly known and were not being actively investigated. Two areas of research were impeded because of the lack of awareness of flagellate diversity. The first was with the emerging concept of Microbial Food Webs that was transforming appreciation of the dynamics of ocean ecosystems - itself critical to the international Joint Global Ocean Flux Study targeting a better understanding of carbon fluxes and global warming. Secondly, 9+2 based flagella appeared with or shortly after the origin of eukaryotes, an understanding of the variety of flagellate diversity was expected to create better insights into eukaryotic origins and evolution. With co-workers, this led to recognition of new domains of protistan diversity - such as stramenopiles, alveolates, and the excavates (excavata) - robustly defined by reference to amorphies, then a rarity in protistology.

Patterson explored the emerging and largely theoretical concept that most microbes should have a universal distribution, initially articulated by Lourens Baas Becking, and refreshed by Tom Fenchel and Bland Finlay. Applying standardized sampling, documentation, and reporting protocols, to communities in marine, freshwater, and extreme sites, in Pacific and Atlantic locations, northern and southern hemispheres, in coastal habitats and deep ocean sediments (etc.), he and co-workers refuted the hypothesis that the taxonomic composition of communities of free-living flagellates were determined by geographic factors.^[7]^[8] This insight eliminated the need for local catalogues and expertise, accelerating taxonomic, phylogenetic, and ecological studies involving flagellates.

Latterly, his interests shifted to embedding taxonomic expertise in tools that manage biodiversity information. He led the implementation team of the Encyclopedia of Life project, was subsequently appointed Senior Taxononomist to the project, and as adviser to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,^[9] a coPI of the Data Conservancy and of the NSF-funded Global Names project, and member of the Plazi team.^[10] He was a prime mover of the Global Names Architecture project.

Taxa named after him include Pattersoniella vitiphila, Foissner, 1987; Protoopalina pattersonii Delvinquier, 1995; Nuclearia pattersonii, Nerad, Silberman, et al., 2008; Pseudovorticella pattersoni, Sun, Ji, Warren and Song 2009 and Stephanopogon pattersoni Lee Miller and Simpson, 2014.

Following retirement from the academic world, he has written STEM (Science Technology, Engineering, Math) storytime readers for parents who seek to promote thoughtfulness in 5-9 year old children.

Taxa described

Taxa named with David J. Patterson among the authors
Actinophrys salsuginosa Mikrjukov & Patterson, 2001	Dingensia angusta Patterson & Zölffel, 1991	Notosolenus hamelini Al Qassab, Lee, Murray & Patterson, 2002	Ploeotia adhaerens Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Actinophrys tauryanini Mikrjukov & Patterson, 2001	Diplonema ambulator Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Notosolenus hemicircularis Lee & Patterson, 2000	Ploeotia amygdala Lee, Brandt, Vørs & Patterson, 2003
Adriamonas Verhagen, Zölffel, Brugerolle, & Patterson, 1994	Diplonema metabolicum Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Notosolenus lashue Lee & Patterson, 2000	Ploeotia azurina Patterson & Simpson, 1996
Adriamonas peritocrescens Verhagen, Zölffel, Brugerolle, & Patterson, 1994	Dolium Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Notosolenus mediocanellatus Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003	Ploeotia corrugata Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Amphidiniopsis korewalensis Murray & Patterson , 2002	Dolium sedentarium Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Notosolenus navicula Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Ploeotia decipiens Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Amphidinium boggayum Murray & Patterson, 2002	Eufolliculina uhligi Mulisch & Patterson, 1983	Notosolenus ostium Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Ploeotia discoides Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Amphidinium corrugatum Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Eumycetes Patterson, 1994	Notosolenus pyriforme Lee & Patterson, 2000	Ploeotia heracleum Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Amphidinium mootonorum Murray & Patterson, 2002	Fromentella Patterson & Zölffel, 1991	Notosolenus scutulum Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Ploeotia laminae Al Qassab, Lee, Murray & Patterson, 2002
Amphidinium yuroogurrum Murray & Patterson, 2002	Fromentella granulosa Patterson & Zölffel, 1991	Notosolenus steini Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003	Ploeotia longifilum Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Ancyromonas melba Patterson & Simpson, 1996	Glissandra Patterson & Simpson, 1996	Notosolenus tamanduensis Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Ploeotia obliqua Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003
Ancyromonas sinistrae Al Qassab, Lee, Murray & Patterson, 2002	Glissandra innuerende Patterson & Simpson, 1996	Notosolenus triangularis Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Ploeotia oblonga Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Anehmia Ekebom, Patterson & Vørs, 1996	Goniomonas amphinema Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Notosolenus urceolatus Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Ploeotia plumosa Ekebom, Patterson & Vørs, 1996
Anehmia exotica Ekebom, Patterson & Vørs, 1996	Goniomonas pacifica Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Nuclearia flavescens Patterson, 1984	Ploeotia pseudanisonema Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Anisonema glaciale Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Gyrodinium oblongum Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Nuclearia flavocapsulata Patterson, 1984	Ploeotia punctata Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Apusomonas australiensis Ekelund & Patterson, 1997	Heteronema exaratum Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Nuclearia leuckarti Patterson, 1984	Ploeotia robusta Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Astasia skvortzovi Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003	Heteronema larseni Lee & Patterson, 2000	Nuclearia radians Patterson, 1984	Ploeotia scrobiculata Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Axodines Patterson, 1994	Heteronema pterbica Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003	Nuclearia ruber Patterson, 1984	Ploeotia tasmanica Lee, Simpson & Patterson, 2005
Barthelona Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000	Heteronema splendens Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Palustrimonas yorkeensis Patterson & Simpson, 1996	Ploeotia tenuis Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Barthelona vulgaris Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000	Heteronema vittatum Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Peranema dolichonema Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Protaspis gemmifera Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Bodo cephaloporus Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Jakoba Patterson, 1990	Peranema dolichonema Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Protaspis obliqua Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Bodo cygnus Patterson & Simpson, 1996	Jakoba incarcerata Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000	Peranema macrostoma Ekebom, Patterson & Vørs, 1996	Protaspis tegere Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Bodo platyrhynchus Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Jakoba libera Patterson, 1990	Percolomonas Fenchel & Patterson, 1986	Protaspis verrucosa Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Bodo saliens Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Jenningsia curvicauda Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999	Percolomonas cosmopolitus Fenchel & Patterson, 1986	Pseudoperanema dolichonema Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Bordnamonas Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Jenningsia deflexum Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999	Percolomonas cuspidata Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Pseudophyllomitus apiculatus Lee, 2002
Bordnamonas tropicana Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Jenningsia furcatum Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999	Percolomonas descissus Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Pseudophyllomitus granulatus Lee, 2002
Cabra Murray & Patterson, 2004	Jenningsia fusiforme Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999	Percolomonas elephas Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Pseudophyllomitus vesiculosis Lee, 2002
Cabra matta Murray & Patterson, 2004	Jenningsia glabrum Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999	Percolomonas membranifera Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Pteridomonas danica Patterson & Fenchel, 1985
Caecitellus Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993	Jenningsia granuliferum Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999	Percolomonas pyriformis Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Quasibodo Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000
Caecitellus parvulus Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993	Jenningsia kupfferi Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999	Percolomonas salinus Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Quasibodo laughtoni Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000
Cafeteria Fenchel & Patterson, 1988	Jenningsia limax Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999	Percolomonas similis Lee, Brandt, Vørs & Patterson, 2003	Ramicristates Patterson, 1994
Cafeteria ligulifera Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Jenningsia macer Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999	Percolomonas spinosus Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Rhabdomonas mirabilis Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003
Cafeteria minuta Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Jenningsia macrostomum Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999	Percolomonas sulcatus Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Rhinodinium Murray, Hoppenrath, Preisfeld, Larsen, Yoshimatsu, Topriumi, & Patterson, 2006
Cafeteria roenbergensis Fenchel & Patterson, 1988	Jenningsia nigrum Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999	Petalomonas boadicea Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Rhinodinium broomeensis Murray, Hoppenrath, Preisfeld, Larsen, Yoshimatsu, Topriumi, & Patterson, 2006
Carpediemonas Ekebom, Patterson & Vørs, 1996	Jenningsia sacculus Lee, Blackmore & Patterson, 1999	Petalomonas calycimonoides Lee & Patterson, 2000	Rhizomonas setigera Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993
Carpediemonas bialata Lee & Patterson, 2000	Kamera Patterson & Zölffel, 1991	Petalomonas christeni Lee & Patterson, 2000	Rhynchobodo simius Patterson & Simpson, 1996
Carpediemonas membranifera Ekebom, Patterson & Vørs, 1996	Kamera lens Patterson & Zölffel, 1991	Petalomonas compressa Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003	Sciviamonas Ekelund, Patterson & Vørs in Ekelund & Patterson, 1997
Centroheliozoa Patterson, 1994	Kiitoksia kaloista Tong, Vørs & Patterson, 1997	Petalomonas intortus Lee & Patterson, 2000	Sciviamonas terricola Ekelund, Patterson & Vørs in Ekelund & Patterson, 1997
Cercomonas granulatus Lee & Patterson, 2000	Macappella Patterson & Zölffel, 1991	Petalomonas iugosus Lee & Patterson, 2000	Slabyrinthulids Patterson, 1994
Chlamydaster fimbriatus Dürrschmidt & Patterson, 1987	Massisteria Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Petalomonas labrum Lee & Patterson, 2000	Slanimals Patterson 1985
Ciliophrys azurina Mikrjukov & Patterson, 2001	Massisteria marina Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Petalomonas marginalis Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Sloomycetes Patterson, 1985
Clautriavia cavus Lee & Patterson, 2000	Mastigamoeba psammobia Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Petalomonas minor Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Slopalinida Patterson, 1985
Colpodella turpis Simpson & Patterson, 1996	Mastigamoeba punctachora Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000	Petalomonas physaloides Lee & Patterson, 2000	Sphenomonas alburiae Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003
Colpodella unguis Patterson & Simpson, 1996	Mastigamoeba schizophrenia Simpson, Bernard, Fenchel & Patterson, 1997	Petalomonas planus Lee & Patterson, 2000	Stramenochromes Patterson, 1989
Cristamonadida Brugerolle & Patterson	Metafolliculina ballerina Mulisch, Harry, Patterson & Wyatt, 1986	Petalomonas poosilla Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Stramenopiles Patterson, 1994
Cryptaulax elegans Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Metopion Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Petalomonas quinquecarinata Lee & Patterson, 2000	Tetradimorpha pterbica Mikrjukov & Patterson, in Mikrjukov, 2000
Dinema dimorphum Schroeckh, Lee & Patterson, 2003	Metopion fluens Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Petalomonas raiula Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Thecamonas Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Dinema inaequale Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Metromonas Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Petalomonas spinifera Lee & Patterson, 2000	Thecamonas filosa Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Dinema litorale Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Metromonas grandis Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Petalomonas virgatus Lee & Patterson, 2000	Thecamonas mutabilis Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Dinema maculata Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Metromonas simplex Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Petalomonas virgatus Lee & Patterson, 2000	Thecamonas trahens Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Dinema platysomum Lee & Patterson, 2000	Ministeria Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993	Phyllomitus granulatus Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Toshiba Patterson & Zölffel, 1991
Dinema validum Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Ministeria marisola Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993	Phyllomitus vesiculosus Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Toshiba vorax Patterson & Zölffel, 1991
Dinematomonas inaequale Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Monotrichomonas Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000	Platychilomonas Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Trimastix inaequalis Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000
Dinematomonas litorale Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Monotrichomonas carabina Bernard Simpson & Patterson, 2000	Platychilomonas psammobia Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Urceolus cornutus Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Dinematomonas maculata Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Notosolenus adamus Lee & Patterson, 2000	Plaustrimonas Patterson & Simpson, 1996	Urceolus costatus Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Dinematomonas valida Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Notosolenus alatellus Larsen & Patterson, 1990	Pleurostomum turgidum Patterson & Simpson, 1996
Dingensia Patterson & Zölffel, 1991	Notosolenus brothernis Lee & Patterson, 2000	Ploeotia adhaerens Larsen & Patterson, 1990

References

^ Patterson, P. (2007). "The Collector". Nature. 449 (7158): 23. doi:10.1038/449023a. PMID 17805272.
^ Patterson, David J. and Sogin, M. L. 2007. The micro*scope web tool. pp 579-584 in Sullivan W. T., Baross, J. A. (eds) Planets and Life: The emerging Science of Astrobiology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
^ Roland, S. Bahr, M. Olendzenski, L., and Patterson, D. J. 2005. Switch on micro*scope. The Science Teacher, February 2005, 47-49.
^ "D.J. Patterson - Person Details - the Taxonomicon".
^ Patterson, D. J. & Brugerolle, G. 1988. The ultrastructural identity of Stephanopogon apogon and the relatedness of the genus to other kinds of protists. Europ. J. Protistol. 23: 279-290.
^ Patterson, D. J. 1999. The diversity of eukaryotes. American Naturalist 154: S96-124.
^ Lee, W. J. & Patterson, D.J. 1998. Diversity and geographic distribution of free-living heterotrophic flagellates - analysis by PRIMER. Protist, 149: 229-243.
^ Lee, W. J. & Patterson, D. J. 1999. Are communities of heterotrophic flagellates determined by their geography? In Ponder, W. and Lunney, D. The other 99%. The conservation and biodiversity of Invertebrates. Trans. R. Soc. New South Wales, Mosman, Sydney, pp 232-235.
^ "Home". sloan.org.
^ "Plazi". Plazi. Retrieved 14 May 2022.

[1] Patterson, P. (2007). "The Collector". Nature. 449 (7158): 23. doi:10.1038/449023a. PMID 17805272.

[2] Patterson, David J. and Sogin, M. L. 2007. The micro*scope web tool. pp 579-584 in Sullivan W. T., Baross, J. A. (eds) Planets and Life: The emerging Science of Astrobiology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

[3] Roland, S. Bahr, M. Olendzenski, L., and Patterson, D. J. 2005. Switch on micro*scope. The Science Teacher, February 2005, 47-49.

[4] "D.J. Patterson - Person Details - the Taxonomicon".

[5] Patterson, D. J. & Brugerolle, G. 1988. The ultrastructural identity of Stephanopogon apogon and the relatedness of the genus to other kinds of protists. Europ. J. Protistol. 23: 279-290.

[6] Patterson, D. J. 1999. The diversity of eukaryotes. American Naturalist 154: S96-124.

[7] Lee, W. J. & Patterson, D.J. 1998. Diversity and geographic distribution of free-living heterotrophic flagellates - analysis by PRIMER. Protist, 149: 229-243.

[8] Lee, W. J. & Patterson, D. J. 1999. Are communities of heterotrophic flagellates determined by their geography? In Ponder, W. and Lunney, D. The other 99%. The conservation and biodiversity of Invertebrates. Trans. R. Soc. New South Wales, Mosman, Sydney, pp 232-235.

[9] "Home". sloan.org.

[10] "Plazi". Plazi. Retrieved 14 May 2022.

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