Michelle Kelly
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Otago, New Zealand
Other namesMichelle Kelly-Borges
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Scientific career
FieldsSponges
InstitutionsNational Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Theses
Doctoral advisorsPatricia Bergquist
Peter Bergquist
Author abbrev. (zoology)
  • Kelly
  • Kelly-Borges
WebsiteNIWA profile

Michelle Kelly (born 1961), also known as Michelle Kelly-Borges, is a New Zealand scientist who specialises in sponges, their chemistry,[1] their evolution,[2][3] taxonomy, systematics, and ecology.

Early life and education

Born in Otago in 1961, Kelly lived in Papua New Guinea with her family from 1970 to 1980, and was educated at The Correspondence School. From 1980, she studied at the University of Auckland, and completed a Bachelor of Science degree in 1983, and a Master of Science with honours in 1987.[4] Her masterate research, supervised by Patricia Bergquist, was an investigation of the systematics and ecology of the sponges of Motupore Island in Papua New Guinea. The title of that thesis was Systematics and ecology of the sponges of Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea.[4][5] She then earned a PhD at the University of Auckland in 1991 under the joint supervision of Patricia and Peter Bergquist, with a thesis entitled, The order Hadromerida (Porifera: Demospongiae), taxonomy and relationships of the major families,[6] and in the same year (with Patricia Bergquist) published a paper on the genus, Tethya.[7]

Research career

From 1991 to 1992, Kelly was a post-doctoral fellow at the Florida Atlantic University Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, working with Shirley Pomponi, studying natural products extracted from deep-sea sponges and analysing DNA sequences.[4][8][9] In 1994 she was collaborating with Patricia Bergquist at the University of Auckland.[10] From 1993, she spent four years with the Natural History Museum, London, carrying out research on sponges in the Indo-Pacific,[4][11] before returning to New Zealand and working as a senior scientist in the Department of Landscape and Plant Science at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland and a consultant to the Coral Reef Research Foundation in Micronesia.[12] At some point she was affiliated with the University of Hawai'i System.[13] By 2001,[14] she was working at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, in Auckland, where she continues to work (as of September 2021).[4][15]

Her zoological author abbreviations are Kelly-Borges,[16] and Kelly.[17][18]

Kelly has described over 80 taxa and has had at least one sponge named for her (Abyssocladia kellyae), "for her numerous contributions to sponge science, and her work on deep-sea carnivorous and non-carnivorous sponges from the SW Pacific".[19] See also taxa named by Michelle Kelly.

In 2011, Kelly was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Auckland, on the basis of her papers published since 1988 on the taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny of sponges.[20]

References

Scholia has a profile for Michelle Kelly (Q21390208).
  1. ^ Hyun Bong Park; Nguyen Quoc Tuan; Joonseok Oh; et al. (27 August 2018). "Sesterterpenoid and Steroid Metabolites from a Deep-Water Alaska Sponge Inhibit Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling in Colon Cancer Cells". Marine Drugs. 16 (9): 297. doi:10.3390/MD16090297. ISSN 1660-3397. PMC 6164309. PMID 30150508. Wikidata Q58700110.
  2. ^ Astrid Schuster; Andrzej Pisera; Michelle Kelly; Lori J Bell; Shirley A Pomponi; Gert Wörheide; Dirk Erpenbeck (14 March 2018). "New species and a molecular dating analysis of Vetulina Schmidt, 1879 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Sphaerocladina) reveal an ancient relict fauna with Tethys origin". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 184 (3): 585–604. doi:10.1093/ZOOLINNEAN/ZLX114. ISSN 1096-3642. Wikidata Q104454693.
  3. ^ Astrid Schuster; Jose V. Lopez; Leontine E Becking; Michelle Kelly; Shirley A Pomponi; Gert Wörheide; Dirk Erpenbeck; Paco Cárdenas (20 March 2017). "Evolution of group I introns in Porifera: new evidence for intron mobility and implications for DNA barcoding". BMC Ecology and Evolution. 17 (1): 82. doi:10.1186/S12862-017-0928-9. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 5360047. PMID 28320321. Wikidata Q36315237.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Michelle Kelly". PeerJ. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  5. ^ Kelly, Michelle (1986). Systematics and ecology of the sponges of Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea (Masters thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/5966.
  6. ^ Kelly-Borges, Michelle (1991). The Order Hadromerida (Porifera: Demospongiae), taxonomy and relationships of the major families (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/1994.
  7. ^ Patricia R. Bergquist; Michelle Kelly-Borges (1991). "An evaluation of the genus Tethya (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species from the Southwest Pacific". The Beagle. 8 (1): 37–72. ISSN 0811-3653. Wikidata Q111172599.
  8. ^ P J McCarthy; T P Pitts; G P Gunawardana; M Kelly-Borges; S A Pomponi (November 1992). "Antifungal activity of meridine, a natural product from the marine sponge Corticium sp". Journal of Natural Products. 55 (11): 1664–8. doi:10.1021/NP50089A016. ISSN 0163-3864. PMID 1479383. Wikidata Q28318025.
  9. ^ Mark T. Hamann; Paul J. Scheuer; Michelle Kelly-Borges (November 1993). "Biogenetically diverse, bioactive constituents of a sponge, order Verongida: bromotyramines and sesquiterpene-shikimate derived metabolites". The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 58 (24): 6565–6569. doi:10.1021/JO00076A012. ISSN 0022-3263. Wikidata Q110068893.
  10. ^ Michelle Kelly-Borges; Patricia R. Bergquist (October 1994). "A redescription of Aaptos aaptos with descriptions of new species of Aaptos (Hadromerida: Suberitidae) from northern New Zealand". Journal of Zoology: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 234 (2): 301–323. doi:10.1111/J.1469-7998.1994.TB06077.X. Wikidata Q99975317.
  11. ^ Michelle Kelly-Borges (January 1995). "Sponges out of their depth" (PDF). Nature. 373 (6512): 284–284. doi:10.1038/373284A0. ISSN 1476-4687. Wikidata Q60072854.
  12. ^ Lévy, Claude, ed. (1998). Sponges of the New Caledonian Lagoon (PDF). Paris: Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération. p. 14. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  13. ^ "Michelle Kelly-Borges, University of Hawaii System – Dimensions". app.dimensions.ai. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  14. ^ "A who's who in studies on Porifera". 6 December 2001. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  15. ^ Henry M. Reiswig; Martin Dohrmann; Michelle Kelly; Sadie Mills; Peter J. Schupp; Gert Wörheide (17 September 2021). "Rossellid glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from New Zealand waters, with description of one new genus and six new species". ZooKeys. 1060: 33–84. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.1060.63307. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 8463523. Wikidata Q108607680.
  16. ^ Van Soest RW, Boury-Esnault N, Hooper JN, Rützler K, de Voogd NJ, de Glasby BA, Hajdu E, Pisera AB, Manconi R, Schoenberg C, Janussen D, Tabachnick KR, Klautau M, Picton B, Kelly M, Vacelet J (eds.). "Aaptos tenta Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1994". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  17. ^ Van Soest RW, Boury-Esnault N, Hooper JN, Rützler K, de Voogd NJ, de Glasby BA, Hajdu E, Pisera AB, Manconi R, Schoenberg C, Janussen D, Tabachnick KR, Klautau M, Picton B, Kelly M, Vacelet J (eds.). "Abyssocladia carcharias Kelly & Vacelet, 2011". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  18. ^ Michelle Kelly; Jean Vacelet (26 July 2011). "Three new remarkable carnivorous sponges (Porifera, Cladorhizidae) from deep New Zealand and Australian (Macquarie Island) waters". Zootaxa. 2976 (1): 55. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.2976.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334. Wikidata Q97567245.
  19. ^ Jon Thomassen Hestetun; Hans Tore Rapp; Shirley Pomponi (10 July 2019). "Deep-Sea Carnivorous Sponges From the Mariana Islands". Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. doi:10.3389/FMARS.2019.00371. ISSN 2296-7745. Wikidata Q104457959.
  20. ^ Kelly, Michelle (2011). Taxonomy and systematics of the Porifera: contributions and technical applications (DSc). University of Auckland. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
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