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 Ron
Gagliardo
Training Officer
Ron Gagliardo
spent his early years growing up near the Everglades National Park in south
Florida, where he developed what has become a lifelong passion and interest in
herpetology. Although he was trained as a chemist and received his undergraduate
and graduate degrees in Botany from North Carolina State University in 1987 and
1992, he has maintained a deep interest in amphibians and reptiles. In 1993,
Ron joined the Atlanta Botanical Garden where he worked until 2008 developing
the Garden’s tropical plant collections as Curator and also Manager of the
Garden’s Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory. In 2001, Ron began to put the
techniques of captive breeding to use in the conservation field and developed an
active amphibian conservation program. This program included components of
fundraising, education, captive breeding research and support of range country
partners in Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, and Peru.
As a new
member of the Amphibian Ark team, Ron plans to continue this work in
conservation of threatened species, facilitating ex situ programs through
training and capacity building.
Selected
Publications
Timpe, E., S.
Graham, M. Levy, R. Hill and R. Gagliardo. 2008. Occurrence of the Fungal
Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in Georgia’s Amphibian
Populations. Herp. Rev. 39(4): 146-47.
Mendelson, J.
R., III, J. M. Savage, E. Griffith, H. Ross, B. Kubicki, and R. Gagliardo.
2008. A spectacular new gliding species of Ecnomiohyla (Anura: Hylidae)
from Central Panama. J. Herpetol. 42(2):750–759.
Gagliardo,
R., Crump, P., Griffith, E., Mendelson, J., Ross, H. & Zippel, K. (2008): The
principles of rapid response for amphibian conservation, using the programmes in
Panama as an example. International Zoo Yearbook 42:
125–135.
Pramuk,
J. and Gagliardo, R. 2008. Basic Amphibian Husbandry, Chapter 1. AZA Amphibian
Husbandry Resource Guide.
http://www.aza.org/conscience/Documents/Chapter%201%20Husbandry.pdf
Mendelson, J.
R., III, R. W. Gagliardo, F. Andreone, K. R. Buley, L. Coloma, G. Garcia, R.
Gibson, R. Lacy, M. W. Lau, J. Murphy, R. Pethiyagoda, K. Pelican, B. S.
Pukazhenthi, G. Rabb, J. Raffaelli, B. Weissgold, D. Wildt, and X. Feng. 2007.
Captive Programs. Pp. 36-37 in Gascon, C. J. P. Collins, R. D. Moore, D. R.
Church, J.E. McKay, and J. R. Mendelson III (eds.). 2007. Amphibian
Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. Gland,
Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 64pp.
Gagliardo, R.
and Laufer, G., 2007. Forever Green: Atlanta Botanical Garden partnerships in
Ecuador. The Public Garden. 22(2): 16-17.
Gagliardo, R.
and Laufer, G., 2007. Native Plant Tissue Culture at the Atlanta Botanical
Garden. The Public Garden. 21(4): 39-40.
Tianboa Chen,
Mei Zhou, Ron Gagliardo, Brian Walker, and Chris Shaw. 2006. Elements of the
granular gland peptidome and transcriptome persist in air-dried skin of the
South American orange-legged leaf frog, Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis.
Peptides 27: 2129-2136.
J. R.
Mendelson et al. 2006. Confronting Amphibian Declines and Extinctions.
Science 313; 48.
Taran Grant et al. 2006
Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia:
Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural
History. No. 299, 262pp.
Chen, T., Gagliardo, R., Walker,
B., Zhou, and Shaw, C. 2005. Partial structure of the phylloxin gene from the
giant monkey frog, Phyllomedusa bicolor: parallel cloning of precursor cDNA and
genomic DNA from lyophilized skin secretion. Peptides 12: 2624-8.
Gagliardo, R.
W. 1995. A new, all red cultivar of Dionaea muscipula Akai Ryu.
Carnivorous Plants Newsletter, March 1995.
S.V. Sahi,
R.W. Gagliardo, M.D. Chilton and W.S. Chilton. 1994. A thin layer
chromatographic technique for detecting inducers of Agrobacterium virulence
genes in corn, wheat, and rye. Plant Cell Reports, 13:489-492.
Gagliardo R.W.
and Chilton, W.S. 1992. Soil Transformation of 2(3H)-benzoxazolone of rye into
phytotoxic 2-amino-3H-phenoxanxin-3-one. Journal of Chemical Ecology .
18:1683-1691.
G. Tremblay,
R. Gagliardo, W.S. Chilton and P. Dion. 1987. Diversity among opine utilizing
bacteria: identification of Corvneform isolates. Appl. Env. Microbiol.
53:1519-1524.
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