Sebastian Kvist

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Sebastian Kvist is the Royal Ontario Museum's curator of invertebrate zoology, and a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at nearby University of Toronto.[1] He specializes in leech biology.[2]

In 2016 Forbes magazine quoted Kvist when identifying a "mysterious purple orb", found during the deep descent of a research submarine.[3] Kvist said he thought it was a pleurobranch, a soft-bodied marine mollusc.

In 2017, Kvist was one of the scientists who classified Websteroprion Armstrongi, a long marine worm, with a toothed jaw that snapped shut on prey.[4]

In June, 2019, he was called upon to classify 5,000 contraband leech seized from a smuggler.[1]

Kvist earned his undergraduate and Master's degrees at the University of Gothenburg.[5] He earned his PhD in 2012 at the Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History.[6][7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Ontario Man “Leeched” of Money By Court After Trying to Smuggle in Thousands of Leeches". Thunder Bay Newsledger (Toronto). 2019-06-05. http://www.netnewsledger.com/2019/06/05/ontario-man-leeched-of-money-by-court-after-trying-to-smuggle-in-thousands-of-leeches/. Retrieved 2019-10-29. "The leeches were taken into custody and sent to the Royal Ontario Museum where they were identified. According to Sebastian Kvist, curator of invertebrate zoology, the species is identified as Hirudo verbana, one of the only two leeches regulated under wildlife trade. Kvist explains that these leeches have been protected from overharvesting because of their medicinal properties since 1823. However, this species is also considered invasive when brought to new locations." 
  2. James Gorman (2019-10-28). "Meet the Bloodsuckers: Vampires get all the attention at this time of year, but bloodthirsty leeches, insects and birds are just as compelling — and they’re real". The New York Times: p. D1. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/science/vampires-blood-leeches.html. Retrieved 2019-10-29. "And if you keep them as pets and you forget to buy leech food — Dr. Kvist buys cattle blood and sausage casing from the butcher, and makes tasty little blood balloons — you can always feed them your own blood. Dr. Kvist does so, on occasion, as do other leechologists." 
  3. Shaena Montanari (2016-07-30). "Scientists Discover Perplexing Purple Orb At The Bottom Of The Sea". Forbes magazine. https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaenamontanari/2016/07/30/scientists-discover-perplexing-purple-orb-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea/#7bc1f128d272. Retrieved 2019-10-29. 
  4. Nicole Mortillaro (2017-02-24). "New species of gigantic, toothy worm identified in Canadian fossil collection". CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/400-million-year-old-gigantic-worm-1.3996315. Retrieved 2019-10-29. 
  5. "Sebastian Kvist: Assistant Professor". University of Toronto. http://www.eeb.utoronto.ca/people/d-faculty/skvist.htm. Retrieved 2019-10-29. 
  6. Tamar Lewin (2011-07-22). "The Critter People". The New York Times: p. ED22. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24naturalhistory-t.html. Retrieved 2019-10-29. "'In most university biology departments, they want graduate students to teach the big introductory premed classes,' says Sebastian Kvist, a third-year student from Sweden whose study of leeches has taken him to Mexico, Canada and New Jersey. 'Here,' he says, 'there are a lot of choices.'" 
  7. Mary Beth Griggs (2011-05-04). "Leech Eggs Need Love, Too". Live Science magazine. https://www.livescience.com/14019-leech-eggs-parents-species-ria.html. Retrieved 2019-10-29. "Kvist and Oceguera-Figueroa's research was funded by a Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant for the study of North American fauna through the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School and was recently published in American Museum Novitates, a peer-reviewed scientific journal at the Museum."