Richard Nuckels
Teaching Experience
Professional Work Experience
2007-2015, 2018-Present; Adjunct Professor; Austin Community College (ACC)
2016-Present; Senior Lecturer, The University of Texas at San Antonio
2013-Present; Adjunct Asst. Professor; The University of the Incarnate Word (UIW)
2018-2018; Lecturer, Adjunct; Texas State University
2014-2018; Adjunct Professor; Concordia University
2013-2015; Adjunct Asst. Professor; Texas Lutheran University (TLU)
2014-2015; Adjunct Asst. Professor; St. Philip’s College (SPC)
2009-2015; Facilitator/Instructor; The University of Phoenix, Axia College
2010-2012, Aug 2013-May 2014; Doctoral Instruct. Asst.; Texas State-San Marcos
2012-2013; Project Flowing Waters Scientist, NSF Fellow; Texas State University
2005-2012; Research Associate/Lab Manager; The University of Texas at Austin
2005-2006; Graduate Research Assistant; Texas State University-San Marcos
2003-2005; Research Associate; The University of Texas at Austin
2005-2005; Instructional Assistant; Texas State University-San Marcos
2005-2005; Research Assistant; Texas State University-San Marcos
2002-2003; Undergraduate Research Assistant; UT-Austin
Teaching experience:
Lab Coordinator; Multiple sections of freshman level labs for science majors at UTSA (42 sections in the fall and 25 sections in the spring and 4 in the summer); UTSA, 7 years
Genetics; F2F six semesters with approximately 110 students per course,UTSA; online, 7 semesters, ACC
Biology Lecturer; Large lecture for science majors with about 250 students; Texas State, 1 semester
Microbiology lecture and lab; Saint Philip’s College, 2 semesters; ACC 4 semesters; Concordia online 4 semesters
Anatomy and Physiology I labs; UIW, 50+ labs
Anatomy and Physiology II labs; UIW, 20+ labs
Anatomy and Physiology lecture and lab; ACC, 3 semesters
Intro to Biology for Science Majors Lab; UIW, 8 labs; TLU, 7 labs
Intro to Biology for Non-Science Majors lecture, lab, and online; ACC, 8 semesters; Concordia University, 4 semesters
Life on Earth (online and classroom); ACC, 7 semesters
The Living Planet; ACC, 3 semesters
Environmental Science; TLU-1 semester; University of Phoenix, Axia College, 6 semesters (online course)
Teaching assistant for genetics lab; Texas State - 6 semesters (12 sections)
NSF fellow/ scientist bringing science into the classroom-15 hours/week-Goodnight Middle School; San Marcos, TX-2 semesters
Training of lab techniques/protocols for new employees and students; UT-Austin - 9 years
Professional Publications
Nuckels RJ, et.al. Duplicated Myosin V Genes in Teleosts Show Evolutionary Rate Variations among the Motor and Cargo Binding Domains. 2018. Genome Biology and Evolution, evy258, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy258
Nuckels RJ, et.al. Evolution of Select rab11 Duplicates. (In preparation, 2021)
Lee J, Cox BD, Daly CM, Lee C, Nuckels RJ, Tittle RK, Uribe RA, Gross JM. An ENU mutagenesis screen in zebrafish for visual system mutants identifies a novel splice-acceptor site mutation in patched 2 that results in colobomas. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 2012 Nov 13. pii: iovs.12-11061v1. doi: 10.1167/iovs.12-11061. [Epub ahead of print]
Nuckels, RJ, Forstner, Capalbo-Pitts EL, García DM. Developmental expression of muscarinic receptors in the eyes of zebrafish. Brain Research 2011 1405:85-94.
Tittle RK, Sze R, Ng A, Nuckels RJ, Swartz ME, Anderson RM, Bosch J, Stainier DY, Eberhart JK, Gross JM. Uhrf1 and Dnmt1 are required for development and maintenance of the zebrafish lens. Developmental Biology 2010 Nov 30.
Ng A, Uribe RA, Yieh L, Nuckels R, Gross JM. Zebrafish mutations in gart and paics identify crucial roles for de novo purine synthesis in vertebrate pigmentation and ocular development. Development 2009 Aug; 136(15);2601-2611.Epub 2009 Jul 1.
Nuckels RJ , Ng A, Darland T, and Gross JM, The Vacuolar-ATPase complex regulates retinoblast proliferation and survival, photoreceptor morphogenesis and pigmentation in the zebrafish eye. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 2009 Feb;50(2):893-905. Epub 2008 Oct 3.
Nuckels, R. J. and Gross, J. M. Histological preparation of embryonic and adult zebrafish eyes. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols-Sept 2007, Cover Image
Mills, M. G., Nuckels, R. J., and Parichy, D. M. 2007. Deconstructing evolution of adult phenotypes: genetic analyses of kit reveal homology and evolutionary novelty during adult pigment pattern development of Danio fishes. Development 134:1081–1090.
Quigley, I. K., Roberts, R., Manuel, J. L., Nuckels, R. J., Herrington, E., MacDonald, E. L., and Parichy, D. M. (2005). Evolutionary diversification of pigment pattern in Danio fishes: differential fms dependence and stripe loss in D. albolineatus. Development, 132: 89-104.
Quigley, I. K., Turner, J. M., Nuckels, R. J., Manuel, J. L., Budi, E., MacDonald, E. L., and Parichy, D. M. (2004). Pigment pattern evolution by differential deployment of neural crest and post-embryonic melanophore lineages in Danio fishes. Development 131:6053–6069.
Published: August 29, 2024