Benjamin
C. Victor
- MD Pathologist: Anatomic, Clinical, and Forensic
Pathology
- Fish Biologist: Tropical Marine Biology, Coral
Reefs, Fish Larvae
- Laboratory Director: Medical Laboratories,
DNA analysis
- Consultant:
o pathology, medical microbiology, and mycology:
expert witness/ expert testimony
- Forensic fisheries and forensic seafood
projects, marine forensic consulting
Education
M.B.A, June 2000, Graduate School of Management,
University of California, Irvine CA
M.D., June 1992, University of California, Irvine,
College of Medicine, Irvine CA
Ph.D., August 1986, University of California,
Santa Barbara, Department of Biological Sciences,
Santa Barbara CA
Dissertation: "Recruitment and Population
Dynamics of the Caribbean Bluehead Wrasse"
B.A., June 1978, Cornell University, College
of Arts and Sciences, Ithaca, NY
Certifications
Physician's and Surgeon's Certificate, Medical
Board of California (current license)
Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners
Diplomate, The American Board of Pathology
Board Certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Employment
Medical Laboratory Director: 1998-present
CEO, Ocean Science Foundation (non-profit ocean
research foundation)
Forensic Pathologist, 1997; Orange County Sheriff-Coroner's
Office, Santa Ana, CA
Richards, Fischer, Fukumoto Medical Group, Inc.,
Anaheim, CA
Chief Resident /Junior Attending, 1996-1997, Department
of Pathology, University of California, Irvine
Medical Center, Orange, CA
Resident (PGY2-4), 1993-1996, Department of Pathology,
University of California, Irvine Medical Center,
Orange, CA
Resident (PGY1), 1992-1993, Department of Pathology,
Stanford University Hospital, Palo Alto, CA
Assistant Curator, UCSB Fish Collection, 1987-1988,
Department of Biological Sciences, University
of California, Santa Barbara
Research Assistant, 1984-1986, Department of Biological
Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
Teaching Assistant, 1980-1984, Department of Biological
Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara,
CA, Introductory Biology, Ecology, Ichthyology
Academic Appointments
Clinical Associate, 1993-1997, Department of
Pathology, University of California, Irvine, College
of Medicine
Teaching Experience
Economics: Microeconomics course at the Graduate
School of Management 1999-2000, University of
California, Irvine.
Forensic Pathology: demonstrations and lectures.
Orange County Coroner's Office, Santa Ana, CA
Pathology: Resident training as Chief Resident.
1996-1997. University of California, Irvine Medical
Center, Department of Pathology.
Introductory Pathology: Lectures and laboratories.
1996-1997. University of California, College of
Medicine.
Medical Technology: Lectures. 1995-1997. University
of California, Irvine Medical Center, Long Beach
Veterans Administration Hospital.
Ichthyology: UCLA undergraduates at Hawaii Institute
of Marine Biology. Oct. 1996. Coord: Dr. Myra
Shulman.
Ecology: TA with Dr. Joseph Connell, 1984-1985.
Department of Biological Sciences, University
of California, Santa Barbara
Ichthyology: TA with Dr. Al Ebeling 1983-1984.
Department of Biological Sciences, University
of California, Santa Barbara
Introductory Biology: TA 1980-1983. Department
of Biological Sciences, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Scientific Meetings
June 2009: 11th International Coral Reef Symposium,
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
June 2004: 10th International Coral Reef Symposium,
Okinawa, Japan
April 2002: Coral Reef Fish Recruitment Workshop,
Moorea, French Polynesia
Oct 2000: 9th International Coral Reef Symposium,
Bali ("The Effect of El Nino on the Distribution
of Reef-associated Labrid Fishes in the Eastern
Pacific Ocean")
Dec 1998: Western Society of Naturalists, San
Diego, CA
May 1997: International Conference on Matrix Metalloproteinases
in Tissue Remodeling, San Francisco, CA
Jan 1997: Western Society of Naturalists, La Paz,
Baja California
Jan 1996: International Reeffish Symposium, Kuranda,
Australia
Court/Deposition Experience
Feb 2005+: Nelson vs. Encompass (US Federal Court)
Oct 2004+: Ministry of Fisheries, New Zealand
vs. Maruha Corporation (NZ Crown Court)
Dec 2003+: Ayscough vs. Rare Earth Hardwood
Field Research Experience
July 2007 La Parguera, Puerto Rico, fish surveys
June 2007: Portobelo, north coast of Panama, R/V
Urraca, fish collecting
2006-7: USVI, St. Thomas, shark tagging
Oct 2004: Forensic investigation on orange roughy
fishery, New Zealand
Oct 2003: Forensic investigation on hoki fishery,
New Zealand
April 2002: Fish collecting, Tahiti, Moorea, and
Rangiroa, French Polynesia
July 2001: Surveying and fish collecting, Sea
of Cortez, Mexico
Feb 2001: Surveying and fish collecting, Fernando
de Noronha Islands, Brazil
Nov 2000: Fish collecting, East Bali, Indonesia
Jan 1997-June 1999: Fish collecting, Baja Peninsula,
comparative early life history
May-June1998: Surveying and fish collecting, Galapagos
Islands; El Nino biogeography
Oct 1996: Fish collecting Kona Coast and Oahu
(Hawaii), early life history
Dec 1995-Jan 1996: Light trapping fish larvae,
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Dec 1994-Jan 1995: Surveying and fish collecting,
Galapagos Islands
Mar 1994: Fish collecting, Baja Peninsula, comparative
early life history
Oct-Nov 1993: Fish collecting, Baja Peninsula,
comparative early life history
Mar-Apr 1990: Surveying and fish collecting, Galapagos
Islands (new species discovery)
Dec-Jan 1989: Fish collecting, Mombasa, Kenya
Sep-Oct 1987: Fish collecting, Kona Coast, Hawaii
June-Sep 1987, and 1983: Surveying, fish collecting,
Palau Islands, Western Pacific Ocean
Jan-Feb 1986: Fish surveys and collections, Belize
Mar 1985: Larval surveys and collections, Galapagos
Hydrothermal Vents, R/V Atlantis
June 1980-1986: Multiple years, fish surveying,
experimental manipulations, larval trapping (dissertation
research), San Blas Field Station, Smithsonian,
Panama.
Honors
Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, MBA, 2000
Faculty Fellowship, UCI-Graduate School of Management,
1998-9
Lange Medical Publications Award and Certificate
of Outstanding Achievement, 1990
Basic Science Certificate of Academic Excellence,
UCI College of Medicine, 1990
Lange Medical Publications Award, 1989
Pauly Fund Grant, University of California,1986
Noble Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, 1985
Patent Fund Grant, University of California, 1984
National Science Foundation Predoctoral Honorable
Mention, 1979
Bachelors of Arts degree with distinction, 1978
Dean's List, Cornell University, 1975-76
Media Reports on Research
"Doctors offer explanations of heart attacks"
Los Angeles Times, Orange County, Nov. 13, 1996.
"Inflammation may have a role in some heart
attack cases" Orange County Register, Nov.
13, 1996.
"Research links heart attack to runaway
inflammatory process" American Heart News,
AHA Nov. 12, 1996.
Publications
Selected Abstracts
Unique localization of matrix metalloproteinase
expression in ruptured vs. unruptured human coronary
artery plaques.
abstract: Victor, BC et al. Journal of the American
College of Cardiology 1996;27:38A
March 1996, American College of Cardiology Meeting,
Orlando, FL
Do inflammatory cells cause coronary artery plaque
rupture or are they recruited to sites after rupture?
abstract and moderated poster: Victor, BC and
Helfant, RH. Circulation 1996;94:I514
November 1996, American Heart Association Meeting,
New Orleans, LA
The unique localization of matrix-degrading macrophage
infiltrates in patients' ruptured atherosclerotic
plaques is also present in their unruptured coronary
arteries: patho-physiological implications.
abstract and oral presentation: Victor, BC and
Helfant, RH. Circulation 1996;94:I18
November 1996, American Heart Association Meeting,
New Orleans, LA
Comparison of matrix metalloproteinase expression
in stable, vulnerable, and ruptured atherosclerotic
plaques.
poster and abstract: Victor, BC and Helfant, RH.
May 1997, International Conference on Matrix Metalloproteinases
in Tissue Remodeling, San Francisco, CA
Papers
Victor, BC and Brothers, EB. Age and growth of
the fallfish Semotilus corporalis with
daily otolith increments as a method of annulus
verification. Canadian Journal of Zoology 1982;60:2543-50.
Victor, BC. Daily otolith increments and recruitment
in two coral reef wrasses, Thalassoma bifasciatum
and Halichoeres bivittatus. Marine Biology
1983;71:203-208.
Victor, BC. Recruitment and population dynamics
of a coral reef fish. Science 1983;219:419-20.
Victor, BC. Settlement and larval metamorphosis
produce distinct marks on the otoliths of Halichoeres
bivittatus. In: Reaka, ML, ed. The ecology
of deep and shallow reefs. Washington, DC: US
Dept of Commerce, 1983:47-51.
Victor, BC. Coral reef fish larvae: patch size
estimation and mixing in the plankton. Limnology
and Oceanography 1984;29:1116-9.
Wellington, GM and Victor, BC. El Nino mass coral
mortality: a test of resource limitation in a
coral reef damselfish population. Oecologia 1985;68:15-9.
Victor, BC. Larval settlement and juvenile mortality
in a recruitment-limited coral reef fish population.
Ecological Monographs 1986;56:145-60.
Victor, BC. The duration of the planktonic larval
stage of one hundred species of Pacific and Atlantic
wrasses (Family Labridae). Marine Biology 1986;90:317-26.
Victor, BC. Delayed metamorphosis with reduced
larval growth in a coral reef fish, Thalassoma
bifasciatum. Canadian Journal of Fisheries
and Aquatic Sciences 1986;43:1208-13.
Victor, BC. Growth, dispersal, and identification
of planktonic labrid and pomacentrid reef-fish
larvae in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Marine Biology
1987;95:145-52.
Victor, BC. The mating system of the Caribbean
rosy razorfish, Xyrichtys martinicensis.
Bulletin of Marine Science 1987;40:152-60.
Wellington, GM and Victor, BC. Variation in components
of reproductive success in an undersaturated population
of a coral reef damselfish: a field perspective.
American Naturalist 1988;131:588-601.
Robertson, DR, Green, DG and Victor, BC. Temporal
coupling of production and recruitment of larvae
of a Caribbean reef fish. Ecology 1988;69:370-381.
Wellington, GM and Victor, BC. Planktonic larval
duration of one hundred species of Pacific and
Atlantic damselfishes (Pomacentridae). Marine
Biology 1989;101:557-67.
Victor, BC. Settlement strategies and biogeography
of reef fishes. In: Sale, P, ed. The ecology of
fishes on coral reefs. Orlando, Florida: Academic
Press, 1991:231-60.
Wellington, GM and Victor, BC. Regional differences
in the planktonic larval duration of reef fishes
in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Marine Biology 1992;113:491-8.
New species discovery: Wellington, GM. Xyrichtys
victori, a new species of razorfish from the
Galapagos Islands (Teleostei: Labridae). Copeia
1992;4:1053-9.
Victor, BC and Wellington, GM. Endemism and the
planktonic larval duration of reef fishes in the
eastern Pacific Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress
Series 2000;205:241-8.
Victor, BC, Wellington, GM and Caldow, C. A review
of the razorfishes of the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Revista Biologia Tropical 2001;49, supp.2 101-110.
Riginos, C and Victor, BC. 2001. Larval spatial
distributions and other early life history characteristics
predict genetic differentiation in eastern Pacific
blennioid fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society,
London, 268: 1931-1936.
Victor, BC, Wellington, GM, Robertson, DR and
Ruttenberg, BI. 2001. The effect of the El Niño-Southern
Oscillation event on the distribution of reef-associated
labrid fishes in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Bulletin
of Marine Science, 69(1): 279-288.
Victor, BC. 2006. The late-stage larvae of Caribbean
gobies, eleotrids, and microdesmids: identification
guide and patterns of size and age at settlement.
(abstract) ASIH 2006 meetings.
Robertson, DR, Karg, F, Leao de Moura, R, Victor,
BC and Bernardi, G. 2006. Mechanisms of speciation
and faunal enrichment in Atlantic parrotfishes.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 40: 795-807.
Victor, BC. 2007. Coryphopterus kuna,
a new goby (Perciformes: Gobiidae: Gobiinae) from
the western Caribbean, with the identification
of the late larval stage and an estimate of the
pelagic larval duration. Zootaxa, 1526: 51-61.
Victor, BC. 2008. Redescription of Coryphopterus
tortugae (Jordan) and a new allied species
Coryphopterus bol (Perciformes: Gobiidae:
Gobiinae) from the tropical western Atlantic Ocean.
Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 1: 1-19.
Victor, BC, Hanner, R, Shivji, M, Hyde, J, and
Caldow, C. 2009. Identification of the larval
and juvenile stages of the Cubera Snapper, Lutjanus
cyanopterus, using DNA barcoding. Zootaxa,
2215: 24-36.
Victor, BC, Vasquez-Yeomans, L, Valdez-Moreno,
M, Wilk, L, Jones, DL, Lara, M, Caldow, C, and
Shivji, M. 2010. The larval, juvenile, and adult
stages of the Caribbean goby, Coryphopterus
kuna (Teleostei: Gobiidae): a reef fish with
a pelagic larval duration longer than the post-settlement
lifespan. Zootaxa, 2346: 53-61.
Victor, BC. 2010. The Redcheek Paradox: the
mismatch between genetic and phenotypic divergence
among deeply-divided mtDNA lineages in a coral-reef
goby, with the description of two new cryptic
species from the Caribbean Sea. Journal of the
Ocean Science Foundation, 3: 1-16.
Victor, BC and Randall, JE. 2010. Gramma
dejongi, a new basslet (Perciformes:Grammatidae)
from Cuba, a sympatric sibling Species of G.
loreto. Zoological Studies, 49: 865-871.
Victor, BC. 2010. Emblemariopsis carib
and Emblemariopsis arawak, two new chaenopsid
blennies from the Caribbean Sea: DNA barcoding
identifies males, females, and juveniles and distinguishes
sympatric cryptic species. Journal of the Ocean
Science Foundation, 4: 1-29.