Jorge Santiago-Blay
Dr., Resident Research Associate
The focus of my research seeks to provide answers to this question: What processes cause and what patterns correlate with speciation and biodiversity? Because my training, experience, and interests are multidisciplinary, I seek answers from numerous areas of biology, including paleobiology, ecology, behavior, development, genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, and others using different biological systems. Also, I research a variety of aspects of the history of science, including biology, chemistry, physics, etc. as well as different aspects of education. Therefore, I can comfortably accommodate volunteers, preferably remotely. who wish to do research with me on a wide variety of topics of mutual interest particularly, but not exclusively, arthropods and plants.
Geographic Focus
Background And Education
Awards And Honors
- Pojeta Award, conferred by Paleontological Society, 2024
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Poczai, Péter and Santiago-Blay, Jorge. 2022. "Chip Off the Old Block: Generation, Development, and Ancestral Concepts of Heredity." Frontiers in Genetics, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.814436. 2022
- Poczai, Péter, Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Sekerák, Jiří, Bariska, István, and Szabó, Attila T. 2022. "Mimush Sheep and the Spectre of Inbreeding: Historical Background for Festetics's Organic and Genetic Laws Four Decades Before Mendel's Experiments in Peas." Journal of the History of Biology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-022-09678-5. 2022
- Poczai, Péter and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2022. "Themes of Biological Inheritance in Early Nineteenth Century Sheep Breeding as Revealed by J. M. Ehrenfels." Genes, 13, (8). (Molecular Mechanism Analysis of Important Traits and Breeding of New Breeds of Sheep) https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13081311. 2022
- Lambert, Joseph B., Santiago-Blay, Jorge, Wu, Yuyang, Contreras, Tayde A., Johnson, Connor L., and Bisulca, Christina M. 2021. "Characterization of Phenolic Plant Exudates by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy." Journal of natural products, 84, (9) 2511–2524. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.1c00522. 2021
- Poczai, Péter, Santiago-Blay, Jorge, Sekerák, Jiří, and Szabó, Attila T. 2021. "How Political Repression Stifled the Nascent Foundations of Heredity Research before Mendel in Central European Sheep Breeding Societies." Philosophies, 6, (2) 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies6020041. 2021
- Poczai, Péter and Santiago-Blay, Jorge. 2021. "Principles and biological concepts of heredity before Mendel." Biology Direct, 16, (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13062-021-00308-4. 2021
- Lambert, Joseph B., Nguyen, Truongan V., Levy, Allison J., Wu, Yuyang, and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2020. "Structural changes from heating amber and copal as observed by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy." Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 58, (9 (Special Issue)) 812–819. (NMR in Cultural Heritage) https://doi.org/10.1002/mrc.4992. 2020
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. and Lambert, Joseph B. 2017. "Plant Exudates and Amber: Their Origin and Uses." Arnoldia, 75, (1) 2–13. 2017
- Lambert, J. B., Levy, A. J., Niziolek, L. C., Feinman, G. M., Gayford, P. J., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., and Wu, Y. 2017. "The Resinous Cargo of the Java Sea Wreck." Archaeometry, 59, (5) 949–964. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12279. 2017
- Lambert, Joseph B., Levy, Allison J., Rueb, Nicole R., Nguyen, Truongan V., Wu, Yuyang, and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2016. "Amber from Japan: a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 3, (4) 231–253. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB3(4)Lambert.01. 2016
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Caprio, Michael A., McLane, Kevin, Maawad, Rebecca, Leeper, Patrick Blake, Henry, Cody Andrew, Royer, Joseph, and Brewster, Loren Glen. 2016. "An Illustrated, Step by Step Workflow for Digitizing Video Home Systems, Enhancing Their Visual Quality, Placing a Screen-Visible Time Stamp, and Tracking Movement Using Computer Vision Technology." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 4, (3) 174–214. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB4(3)SantiagoBlay01. 2016
- Gao, Taiping, Shih, ChungKun, Labandeira, Conrad C., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Yao, Yunzhi, and Ren, Dong. 2016. "Convergent evolution of ramified antennae in insect lineages from the Early Cretaceous of Northeastern China." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283, (1839). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1448. 2016
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2016. "Editorial: The First Three Years (2013-2015) of Life: The Excitement of Biology." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 4, (1) 1–2. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB4(1)SantiagoBlay.01. 2016
- Haug, Joachim T., Labandeira, Conrad C., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Haug, Carolin, and Brown, Susan. 2016. "Erratum to: Life habits, hox genes, and affinities of a 311 million-year-old holometabolan larva." BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16, (1) 169. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0725-x. 2016
- Lambert, Joseph B., Johnson, Connor L., Nguyen, Tam M., Wu, Yuyang, and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2016. "Ferns, Cycads, Ginkgo, and Gnetophytes: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Characterization of Exudates from Exotic Plant Sources." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 4, (3) 215–232. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB4(3)Lambert.01. 2016
- Martins, Thaynara S., Moreira, Felipe F. F., Mercado, Javier E., and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2016. "Lecto- and Paralectotype Designations and Redescription of Arachnocoris alboannulatus Costa Lima, 1927 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nabidae)." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 4, (3) 165–173. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB4(3)Martins.01. 2016
- Mercado, Javier E., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., and Webb, Michael D. 2016. "Review of the West Indian Arachnocoris Scott, 1881 (Hemiptera: Nabidae), with Descriptions of Two New Species, and a Catalog of the Species." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 4, (1) 32–71. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB4(1)Mercado.01. 2016
- Labandeira, Conrad C., Yang, Qiang, Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Hotton, Carol L., Monteiro, Antónia, Wang, Yong-Jie, Goreva, Yulia S., Shih, ChungKun, Siljeström, Sandra, Rose, Tim R., Dilcher, David L., and Ren, Dong. 2016. "The evolutionary convergence of mid-Mesozoic lacewings and Cenozoic butterflies." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283, (1824). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2893. 2016
- Shaffer, S. C., Eshbach, B., and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2015. "A dual approach to fostering under-prepared student success: Focusing on doing and becoming." InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 10 79–91. 2015
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2015. "Editorial: On Insect Molting and Metamorphosis." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 3, (3) 205–206. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB3(3)Santiago-Blay.01. 2015
- Lambert, Joseph B., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Wu, Yuyang, and Levy, Allison J. 2015. "Examination of amber and related materials by NMR spectroscopy: NMR of amber." Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 53, (1) 2–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrc.4121. 2015
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2015. "Index for Volume 3 (2015) of Life: The Excitement of Biology." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 3, (4) 304–307. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB3(4)Santiago-Blay.03. 2015
- Haug, Joachim T., Labandeira, Conrad C., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Haug, Carolin, and Brown, Susan. 2015. "Life habits, hox genes, and affinities of a 311 million-year-old holometabolan larva." BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15, (1) 208. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0428-8. 2015
- Lambert, Joseph B., Johnson, Connor L., Levy, Allison J., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., and Wu, Yuyang. 2015. "Molecular Classification of Exudates from the Monocots, Magnoliids, and Basal Eudicots." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 3, (2) 83–117. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB3(2)Lambert.01. 2015
- Mercado, Javier E. and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2015. "Multiple Model Mimicry and Feeding Behavior of the Spider Web-Inhabiting Damsel Bug, Arachnocoris berytoides Uhler (Hemiptera: Nabidae), from Puerto Rico." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 3, (1) 20–32. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB3(1)Mercado.01. 2015
- Lambert, Joseph, Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Rodríguez Ramos, Reniel, Wu, Yuyang, and Levy, Allison J. 2015. "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Examination of Fossilized, Semi-fossilized, and Modern Resins from the Caribbean Basin and Surrounding Regions." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 2, (4) 180–209. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB2(4)Lambert.01. 2015
- Schmitt, Michael and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2015. "Pierre H.A. Jolivet, the spiritus rector of leaf beetle research, with a list of his publications." ZooKeys, 547 1–33. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.547.6758. 2015
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Shaffer, Suzanne C., and Eshbach, Barbara. 2015. "SENCERizing a Biology General Education (Gen-Ed) Course." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 3, (1) 33–56. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB3(1)Santiago-Blay.02. 2015
- Lambert, Joseph B., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Wu, Yuyang, and Levy, Allison J. 2015. "The History and Structure of Stantienite." Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 40, (2) 86–94. 2015
- Thijssen, Michiel and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2014. "A heartfelt farewell to the readers and friends of: Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews." Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, 7, (2-4) 79–80. https://doi.org/10.1163/18749836-07021079. 2014
- Cabrera-Asencio, Irma, Vélez, Alberto L., Henríquez, Santos A., and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2013. "Melicoccus bijugatus Jacquin (Sapindaceae), quenepa: A new host plant record for the Citrus Fruit Borer, Gymnandrosoma aurantianum Lima, 1927 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and the genus Gymnandrosoma in Puerto Rico." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 1, (1) 3–16. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB1(1)Cabrera.02. 2013
- Lambert, Joseph B., Johnson, Connor L., Donnelly, Eric W., Heckenbach, Eric A., Wu, Yuyang, and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2013. "Exudates from the Asterids: Characterization by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 1, (1) 17–52. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB1(1)Lambert.03. 2013
- Lambert, Joseph B., Donnelly, Eric W., Heckenbach, Eric A., Johnson, Connor L., Kozminski, Michael A., Wu, Yuyang, and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2013. "Molecular classification of the natural exudates of the rosids." Phytochemistry, 94 171–183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2013.06.013. 2013
- Zhang, Weitung, Shih, ChungKun, Labandeira, Conrad C., Sohn, Jae-Cheon, Davis, Donald R., Santago-Blay, Jorge, Flint, Oliver S., Jr., and Ren, Dong. 2013. "New Fossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Amphiesmenoptera) from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Northeastern China." PLoS ONE, 8, (11) 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079500. 2013
- Lambert, Joseph B., Levy, Allison J., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., and Wu, Yuyang. 2013. "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Characterization of Indonesian Amber." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 1, (3) 136–155. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB1(3)Lambert.02. 2013
- Azar, Dany, Engel, Michael S., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Krogmann, Lars, Jarzembowski, Edmund, and Nel, André. 2013. "Selected papers from the 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber Byblos, Lebanon,14-18 April 2013." Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, 6, (1-2) 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1163/18749836-06021070. 2013
- Ramos, Reniel Rodríguez, Jiménez, Jaime Pagán, Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Lambert, Joseph B., and Craig, Patrick R. 2013. "Some indigenous uses of plants in pre-Columbian Puerto Rico." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 1, (1) 83–90. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB1(1)Rodriguez.09. 2013
- Wozniak, Robert H. and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2013. "Trouble at Tyson Alley: James Mark Baldwin’s Arrest in a Baltimore Bordello." History of Psychology, 16, (4) 227–248. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033575. 2013
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Jolivet, Pierre, and Verma, Krishna K. 2012. "A natural history of conspecific aggregations in terrestrial arthropods, with emphasis on cycloalexy in leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)." Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, 5, (3-4) 289–355. https://doi.org/10.1163/18749836-05031054. 2012
- Lang, Harry G. and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2012. "Contributions of deaf people to entomology: A hidden legacy." Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, 5, (2012) 223–268. https://doi.org/10.1163/18749836-05031052. 2012
- Lambert, J. B., Tsai, C. Y. H., Shah, M. C., Hurtley, A. E., and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2012. "Distinguishing amber and copal classes by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy." Archaeometry, 54, (2) 332–348. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2011.00625.x. 2012
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2012. "¿Existe ámbar en Puerto Rico? ¡Sí!." La Cordillera. 2012
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Lambert, Joseph B., and Creasman, P. P. 2011. "Expanded Application of Dendrochronology Collections: Collect and Save Exudates." Tree-Ring Research, 67, (1) 67–68. https://doi.org/10.3959/2010-7.1. 2011
- Lambert, Joseph B., Heckenbach, Eric A., Wu, Yuyang, and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2010. "Characterization of Plant Exudates by Principal-Component and Cluster Analyses with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Variables." Journal of Natural Products, 73, (10) 1643–1648. https://doi.org/10.1021/np100318n. 2010
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. and Lambert, Joseph B. 2010. "Desert plants and their exudates." Desert Plants, 26, (1) 3–8. 2010
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. and Lambert, Joseph B. 2010. "Legumes and their exudates." Aridus, 22, (1) 1–6. 2010
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Lambert, Joseph B., and Pagán-Jiménez, Jaime R. 2010. "Use of plant exudates by humans. Request for samples." The SAA Archaeological Record, 10, (4) 57. 2010
- Ren, Dong, Labandeira, Conrad C., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Rasnitsyn, Alexandr, Shih, ChungKun, Bashkuev, Alexei, Logan, M. Amelia V., Hotton, Carol L., and Dilcher, David. 2009. "A probable pollination mode before angiosperms: Eurasian, long-proboscid scorpionflies." Science, 326, (5954) 840–847. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1178338. 2009
- McCafferty, W. P. and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2009. "A new Cretaceous mayfly fossil from Burmese amber (Ephemeroptera: Australiphemeridae)." Entomological News, 119, (5) 492–496. https://doi.org/10.3157/0013-872X-119.5.492. 2009
- Lambert, Joseph B., Heckenbach, Eric A., Hurtley, Anna E., Wu, Yuyang, and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2009. "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Characterization of Legume Exudates." Journal of Natural Products, 72, (6) 1028–1035. https://doi.org/10.1021/np900188j. 2009
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2009. "Systematics and some aspects of the biology of the scorpions (Arachnida) of the Greater Puerto Rico Region: A biosystematic synopsis." Entomological News, 120, (1) 109–124. https://doi.org/10.3157/021.120.0107. 2009
- McCafferty, W. P. and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2008. "A New Cretaceous Mayfly from Burmese Amber (Ephemeroptera: Australiphemeridae)." Entomological news, 119, (5) 492–496. https://doi.org/10.3157/0013-872X-119.5.492. 2008
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Ratcliffe, Brett C., Krell, Frank-T, and Anderson, Robert. 2008. "Allotypes should be from the type series: a position paper for reinstating Recommendation 72A from the third edition of the Code that defines the term allotype." The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 65, (4) 260–264. 2008
- Lambert, Joseph B., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., and Anderson, Ken B. 2008. "Chemical Signatures of Fossilized Resins and Recent Plant Exudates." Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 47, (50) 9608–9616. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200705973. 2008
- Ferrington, L. C.,Jr., Masteller, E. C., and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2008. "Comparison and significance of Chironomidae emergence from Lake Erie and Presque Isle Bay, Erie, Pennsylvania, U. S. A." Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal (História Natural), 13 21–28. 2008
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2008. "Lubricating jelly helps improve image clarity of inclusions entombed in amber and copal." Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 44, (2) 209–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2008.10697557. 2008
- Segarra-Carmona, Alejandro E., Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., and Escudero, Jaime. 2008. "Nillo Eelis Virkki, Cytogeneticist: In Memoriam (1924-2005)." Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico, 92, (3-4) 245–256. 2008
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. and Virkki, Niilo. 2008. "On the XO sex chromosome system of Aulacoscelis melanocera Stal (Aulacoscelinae: Chrysomelidae: Coleoptera)." Hereditas, 111, (2) 99–102. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1601-5223.1989.tb00383.x. 2008
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. and Lambert, Joseph B. 2007. "Ambers Botanical Origins Revealed." American Scientist, 95 150–157. 2007
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. and Lambert, Joseph B. 2007. "Aux sources de lambre." Pour la Science, 356 70–75. 2007
- Lambert, Joseph B., Wu, Yuyang, Kozminski, Michael A., and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2007. "Characterization of eucalyptus and chemically related exudates by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy." Australian Journal of Chemistry, 60, (11) 862–870. https://doi.org/10.1071/CH07163. 2007
- Lambert, Joseph B., Kozminski, Michael A., and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2007. "Distinctions among conifer exudates by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy." Journal of natural products, 70, (8) 1283–1294. https://doi.org/10.1021/np0701982. 2007
- Lambert, Joseph B., Kozminski, Michael A., Fahlstrom, Carl A., and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2007. "Proton nuclear magnetic resonance characterization of resins from the family Pinaceae." Journal of natural products, 70, (2) 188–195. https://doi.org/10.1021/np060486i. 2007
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Chapter
- Lambert, Joseph B., Wu, Yuyang, and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2016. "High-Resolution Solid State NMR Spectroscopy of Cultural Organic Material." In Modern Magnetic Resonance. 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28275-6_26-1. 2016
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., Wilson, B. C., and Taylor, C. E. 2010. "Biodiversity of Chironomidae larvae (Diptera) and Oligochaeta (Annelida) in Snyder's Branch Creek (Salem, Virginia, United States of America): Testing for ecological discontinuities." In Proceedings of the XV International Symposium on Chironomidae, 12-14 August 2003. Ferrington, Jr,L.C., editor. 156–167. Minneapolis, Minnesota: The University of Minnesota. 2010
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Review
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2016. [Book review] "Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 4, (1), 80–85. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB4(1)SantiagoBlay.02. 2016
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2015. [Book review] "Narciso Rabell Cabrero (1873-1928): Naturalista y Servidor Publico Pepiniano -- Biografia y Notas Genealogicas by Angel M. Nieves-Rivera and Edgar J. Maiz Lopez." Life: The Excitement of Biology, 3, (1), 57–59. https://doi.org/10.9784/LEB3(1)Santiago-Blay.03. 2015
- Santiago-Blay, Jorge A. 2010. [Book review] "Atlas of biodiversity risk." Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, 3, (2), 161–162. 2010
Editor Of
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Book
- Azar, Dany, Engel, Michael, Jarzembowski, Edmund, Krogmann, L., Nel, A., and Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., editors. 2013. Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber. Brill. 2013
- Jolivet, Pierre, Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., and Schmitt, Michael, editors. 2011. Research on Chrysomelidae. Sofia, Bulgaria: Pensoft. 2011
- Jolivet, Pierre, Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., and Schmitt, Michael, editors. 2009. Research on Chrysomelidae. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 2009
- Jolivet, Pierre, Santiago-Blay, Jorge A., and Schmitt, Michael, editors. 2008. Research on Chrysomelidae. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 2008