Professional Titles

• Curator of Marine Biology, Virginia Museum of Natural History
• Adjunct Professor, Biology Department, Appalachian State University, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, George Mason University
• Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Education

• Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 1974
• MS in Zoology, University of New Hampshire, 1970
• AB in Geology and Biology, Brown University, 1966

Research Interests

• Bryozoan systematics
• Ecology and evolution of colonial organisms
• Marine biodiversity and conservation
• Taxonomic procedure and nomenclature

Recent Professional Service

• Editorial Board, Journal of Natural History, 2002-
• International Bryozoology Association, Councilor 1998-2004, President 2007-10.
• Member at Large, American Microscopical Society, 1997-99, President, 2007. 
• Virginia Natural History Society, Councilor, 1997-99, President, 2006.
• Commissioner, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 2009-

Selected Publications

• Winston, J. E. (1999) Describing Species:  Practical Taxonomic Procedure for Biologists.  New York:  Columbia University Press.
• Winston, J. E. And Migotto, A. E. (2005).  A new encrusting interstitial marine fauna from Brazil.Invertebrate Biology. 124(1):79-87.
• Winston, J. E. (2005). Re-description and revision of Smitt’s “Floridan Bryozoa” in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. VMNH Memoir 7:1-152.
• Winston, J.  E. and Woollacott, R. M. 2009. Scientific results of the Hassler Expedition, Bryozoa, no. 1. Barbados. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 159(5): 239-300.
• Winston, J. E. 2010. Life in the colonies: learning the alien ways of colonial organisms.  Integrative and Comparative Biology, 50 (6): 919-933.
• Hayward, P. J. and Winston, J. E. 2011. Bryozoa collected by the United States AntarcticResearch Program: new taxa and new records. Journal of Natural History, 45 (37-38): 2259-2338.