April Blakeslee

Education

B.A., Biology, Boston University, 1998

M.S., Biology, Boston University, 2001

Ph.D., Marine Evolutionary Ecology, University of New Hampshire, 2007

Biography

Dr. April M.H. Blakeslee is an Associate Professor of Biology at East Carolina University (Greenville, North Carolina, USA), with research interests in conservation biology, marine ecology, invasion biology, parasite ecology, and evolutionary ecology. She also serves as adjunct faculty with both the Shoals Marine Lab on Appledore Island, Maine (co-administered by the University of New Hampshire and Cornell University) and with Miami University’s (Oxford, Ohio) Global Field Program and Advanced Inquiry Program. Dr. Blakeslee has published >80 peer-reviewed papers/book chapters. She serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the journal BioInvasions Records and is the Associate Editor for the journals Diversity and Distributions, Comparative Parasitology, and NeoBiota. She was also a co-editor for a 2023 volume from CABI Press, Parasites and Biological Invasions. She is an appointed U.S. member of the Working Group on Introduction and Transfers of Marine Organisms through the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. She is currently serving on the board of the Eastern North Carolina chapter of Graduate Women in Science. She received her Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire, and her bachelor’s and masters’ degrees in biology from Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts).