Here are example CVs of EEB students, corresponding to their time in the program. From these you can see how the students were progressing through the program in terms of coursework, funding, publications, etc.
Note that these CVs are not to represent any fixed EEB “tracks”, instead, they are to illustrate the program’s flexibility.
Infectious Disease Dynamics - Lauren Castro
Lauren A. Castro
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Analysis, Intelligence, and Technology Division
Information Systems and Modeling (A-1)
P.O.Box 1663, MS P939
Los Alamos, NM 87545
T 505.803.7089
lcastro@lanl.gov
Education
2019 PhD, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior The University of Texas at Austin,
CGPA: 3.98/4
Relevant Courses: Statistical Modeling I, Bayesian Statistics, Population Genetics, Computational
Phylogenetic Methods, Host-Parasite Coevolution % Ecology
2013 BA, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cum Laude Princeton University,
Certificate: Latin American Studies
CGPA: 3.46/4
PhD Dissertation
Title Modeling Uncertainty in Pathogen Transmission and Evolution for Infectious
Disease Management
Advisor Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers
Committee Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers (PhD in Biological Sciences from Stanford University), Dr.
Claus O. Wilke (PhD in Theoretical Physics from Ruhr University Bochum), Dr. James
Bull (PhD in Biology from University of Utah), Dr. Thomas Leitner (PhD in Virology
from Karolinska Institute)
Description Using stochastic simulations of multi-scale viral systems to study operational strategies
for integrating pathogen genomic and epidemiological data
Research Experience
2019-Present Postdoctoral Research Associate Analytics, Intelligence, and Technology Division
& Center for Nonlinear Studies, LANL
Mentors: Sara Del Valle, Carrie Manore
2014-2019 Doctoral Student UT Austin
Advisor: Lauren Ancel Meyers
2018 Graduate Research Intern Theoretical Division, LANL
Mentor: Thomas Leitner
2018 Visiting Student Research Collaborator Princeton University
Sponsor: Bryan Grenfell
2014-2015 Graduate Research Assistant Department of Integrative Biology, UT Austin
Supervisor: Lauren Ancel Meyers
2013-2014 Post Baccalaureate Student Defense Systems and Analysis Division, LANL
Mentor: Alina Deshpande
2012-2013 Undergraduate Research Student Princeton University
Advisor: Andrew Dobson
Publications
*Co-author, **Student project I led
Submitted/In
Preparation
[1] Manore C, Kempfert K, Parikh N, Fairchild G, Ziemann A, Saij A, Osthus D, Martinez
K, Castro LA, Generous N, Del Valle S. Unlocking the predictive power of heterogeneous
data to build an operational dengue forecasting system. Submitted to Journal of the
Royal Society Interface.
[2] Castro LA, Meyers LA, Leitner T, Romero-Severson E. Within-host HIV-1 biological
processes reflected in deconstructed Ancestral Recombination Graphs. In preparation
for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
[3] Castro LA, Lui W, Pastore Y Piontti A, Generous N, Gomez M, Vespignani A,
Santillana M, Manore C, Del Valle S. Using heterogeneous data to predict features of
dengue outbreaks in Brazil. In prep.
Peerreviewed
[1] Castro LA, Bedford T, Meyers LA. Early prediction of antigenic transitions for
influenza A/H3N2. PLOS Computational Biology. 2020 Feb 18;16(2):e1007683.
[2] Morrison M*, Castro LA*,**, Meyers LA. Conscientious vaccination exemptions in
kindergarten to eighth-grade children across Texas schools from 2012-2018: A Regression
Analysis. PLOS Medicine. 2020 Mar 10;17(3):e1003049.
[3] Velappan N, Daughton AR, Fairchild G, Rosenberger WE, Generous N, Chitanvis
ME, Altherr FM, Castro LA, Priedhorksy R, Abeyta EL, Narango LA, Hollander AD,
Vuyisich G, Lillo AM, Cloyd EK, Vaidya AR, Deshpande A. Analytics for Investigation
of Disease Outbreaks (AIDO) - A web-based analytic facilitating situational awareness in
unfolding disease outbreaks. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. JMIR public health
and surveillance. 2019;5(1):e12032.
[4] Chen X, Castro LA, Dimitrov NB, Meyers, LA. Uncertainty analysis of species
distribution models. PloS One. 2019;14(5).
[5] Castro LA*, Fox SJ*, Chen X, Liu K, Bellan SE, Dimitrov NB, Galvani AP, Meyers
LA. Real-time Zika risk assessment in the United States. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2017
Dec 1;17(1):284.
[6] Margevicius KJ, Generous N, Aveyta E, Althouse B, Burkom H, Castro L, Daughton
A, Del Valle SY, Fairchild G, Hyman JM, Kiang R, Morse AP, Pancerella CM, Pullum L,
Ramanathan A, Schlegelmilch J, Scott A, Taylor-McCabe K, Vespignani A, Deshpande
A. The Biosurveillance Analytics Resource Directory (BARD): Facilitating the Use of
Epidemiological Models for Infectious Disease Surveillance. PloS One. 2016;11(1).
[7] Althouse BM, Scarpino SV, Meyers LA, Ayers JW, Bargsten M, Baumbach J,
Brownstein JS, Castro L, Clapham H, Cummings DAT, Del Valle S, Eubank S, Fairchild
G, Finelli L, Generous N, George D, HarperDR, Hebert-Dufresne L, Johansson MA,
Konky K, Lipsitch M, Millinovich G, Miller JD, Nsoesie EO, Olson DR, Paul M, Polgreen
PM, Priedhorsky R, Read JM, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Smith DJ, Stefansen C, Swerdlow
DL, Thomson D, Vespignani A, Wesolowski A. Enhancing Disease Surveillance with Novel
Data Streams: Challenges and Opportunities. EPJ Data Science. 2015 Dec;4(1):1-8.
[8] Deshpande A, Abetya E, Castro L, Daughton A, Fairchild G, Generous N, Priedhorsky
R, Taylor-McCabe K, Velappan N. The Surveillance Window Application (SWAP): A
Web-Hosted Tool to Facilitate Situational Awareness during Outbreaks. In Workshops
at the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2015 Apr 1.
[9] Castro LA, Peterson JK, Saldana A, Perea MY, Calzada JE, Pineda V, Dobson AP,
Gottdenker, NL. Flight Behavior and Performance of Rhodnius pallescens (Hempitera:
Reduviidae) on a Tethered Flight Mill. Journal of medical entomology. 2014 Sep
1;51(5):1010-8.
[10] Generous N, Margevicius KJ, Taylor-McCabe KJ, Brown M, Daniel WB, Castro
L, Hengartner A, Deshpande A. Selecting Essential Information for Biosruveillance – A
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. PLoS One. 2014 9(1): e86601.
[11] Margevicius KJ, Generous N, Taylor-McCabe KJ, Brown M, Daniel WB, Castro L,
Hengartner A, Deshpande A. Advancing a Framework to Enable Characterization and
Evaluation of Data Streams Useful for Biosurveillance. PLoS One. 2014 9(1).
Technical
Reports
[1] Castro L, Chen X, Dimitrov NB, Meyers LA. Texas Arbovirus Risk. (2015) Texas
ScholarWorks.
[2] Deshpande A, Brown MG, Castro LA, Daniel, WB, Generous EN, Hengartner A,
Longo JF, Margevicius KJ, McCabe KJ, Parliman ZA. A Systematic Evaluation of
Traditional and Non-Traditional Data Streams for Integrated Global Biosurveillance -
Final Report. (2013) LA-UR-13-22891.
Contributed Presentations and Workshops
2019 Presentation, "Incorporating viral evolution into infectious disease modeling to improve
health outcomes." B-Division Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,
New Mexico
Participant, "Food, Energy, and Water Systems ReACt Workshop." New Mexico State
University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
2018 Presentation, "The Early Emergence Dynamics and Prediction of Influenza A H3N2
Antigenic Evolution." 7th Annual Conference to Increase Diversity in Mathematical
Modeling & Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Invited, Presentation, "Bioinformatics: Applications to Proactively Predict and Analyze
Public Health Threats." Oak Ridge Associated Universities 73rd Annual Meeting, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee
2017 Guest Lecture, "Population Ecology." The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2016 Invited, Presentation, "Determining Appropriate Surveillance Triggers for Implementing
Zika Control Measures in Texas." Integrative Biology Graduate Research Symposium,
Austin, Texas
Presentation, "Species distribution modeling of arbovirus vector species." Diseases in
Nature Transmissible to Man Conference, Galveston, Texas
Presentation, "The Surveillance Window Application: A web-hosted tool to facilitate
situational awareness during outbreaks." AAAI-15: World Wide Web and Public Health
Intelligence Workshop, Austin, Texas
2014 Participant, "Next Generation Surveillance for the Next Pandemic Workshop." The Santa
Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2013 Presentation, "Enhancing Situational Awareness by Ground Truthing with Historical
Outbreaks." International Society of Disease Surveillance Conference, New Orleans,
Louisiana
Poster Presentations
2020 "The role of seasonality and climatic factors in the spatiotemporal transmission dynamics
of dengue in Brazil." Conference on Data Analysis, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2019 "Within-host HIV evolutionary dynamics reflected in deconstructed ancestral recombination
graph." Epidemics Seventh International Conferences on Infectious
Disease Dynamics, Charleston, South Carolina
"Elucidating the within-host evolutionary mechanisms of Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Type-1." Los Alamos National Laboratory Postdoctoral Research Symposium,
Los Alamos, New Mexico
2017 "Dominance dynamics of novel influenza A/H3N2 antigenic types." Epidemics Sixth
International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics, Sitges, Spain
"Surety BioEvent App." Biosurveillance Ecosystem and BSV Analytic Applications
Technical Interchange Meeting, Alexandria, Virginia
2016 "Real-time Zika Risk Assessment in the United States." Models of Infectious Disease
Agent Study Network Meeting, Reston, Virginia
2013 "Characterization and Trypanosome Effects on the Flight Performance of Rhodnius
pallescens." Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference, Penn
State Pennsylvania
2012 "Multiplexed detection of citrus pathogens using a LANL patented assay." Los Alamos
National Laboratory Student Symposium, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Fellowships and Grants
2020 Center for Nonlinear Studies Postdoctoral Research Fellow: LANL, 50% funding
support for 2 years
2016–2019 National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship: $102,000,
5-10% acceptance rate
2017, 2018 Graduate Dean’s Prestigious Fellowship Supplement: UT Austin, $2,000
2015 Research Startup Grant: UT Austin, $2,000
2014–2016 CNS Dean’s Office Recruitment Fellowship: UT Austin, $75,000
2012–2013 3 Senior Thesis Research Grants: Princeton University, $5,000
Competitive Workshops, Awards, and Honors
2020 American Mathematical Society’s Mathematics Research Community
(MRC) Working Group on Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: Ecological Models
Across Multiple Scales: Postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19
2019 Postdoctoral Leadership Institute, Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics
and Native Americans in Science
2018 Acceptance - Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School
2015 Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases Workshop,
University of Washington
2013 Small Team Distinguished Performance Award: Biosurveillance Data
Streams, LANL
2011 LANL Spot Award, D-3 Group, recognized for work ethic and team dedication
Best Poster, LANL Student Symposium, D Division
2013-2017 Travel Grants, Awarded 4 competitive grants for travel to conferences and workshops
Institutional Service
2019 Integrated Biology Graduate Research Symposium Committee UT Austin
2017-2018 Graduate Student Representative (Nominated) College of Natural Sciences (CNS)
Dean Search Committee, UT Austin
2016–2019 Graduate Student Representative (Nominated) CNS Diversity & Inclusion Committee,
UT Austin
2015–2019 Department Representative (Nominated) CNS Dean’s Office Graduate Council,
UT Austin
Professional Activities
Memberships (National) American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Society of
the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in STEM (SACNAS)
(Local) Los Alamos National Laboratory AtomicWomen, Los Alamos Postdoc Association
Journal
Reviewer
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLoS Medicine, Virus Evolution
Mentoring Experience and Training
2017-2019 Mentor for Mathematics/Biology Honors Student independent research project on
modeling the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of conscientious vaccination exemptions in
Texas, resulting in a peer-reviewed publication. (UT Austin).
2016-2017 Concentration in Teaching and Mentoring, Completed the UT Austin CNS 3 course
series that provides an introduction to pedagogy, a practical experience in curriculum
design and teaching, and training in effective mentoring (UT Austin).
Outreach Activities
2016–2019 Co-founder and member of the Austin Science Advocates, a student group aimed at
improving communication between scientists, the public, and policymakers.
2016–2018 Volunteer for Breakthrough, an organization directed towards helping first-generation,
low-income students apply and graduate from college. (2018) College application
coach for high school senior. (2017). Statistics tutor for UT Austin undergraduate
freshman. (2016-2017). Math and science tutor for high school freshmen at Austin High School.
Behavior - Luke Redding
Curriculum Vitae
Luke Reding
Section of Integrative Biology
University of Texas at Austin
lukereding@utexas.edu
Education:
University of Texas at Austin. Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior.
Ph.D. Candidate
GPA: 3.9
College of William and Mary. B.S. Biology with Honors. Minor: Mathematics
Departmental Honors, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
GPA: 3.8
Publications:
Reding, L. and M. E. Cummings. 2016. Does sensory expansion benefit asexual species? An olfactory discrimination test in Amazon mollies. Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv168
Reding, L. 2015. Increased hatching success as a direct benefit of polyandry in birds. Evolution. doi:10.1111/evo.12553
Reding, L. P., H. A. Murphy & J. P. Swaddle. 2013. Sexual selection hinders adaptation in experimental populations of yeast. Biology Letters 9:20121202. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.1202
Awards and Fellowships:
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2013): $96,000
- Dean’s Prestigious Supplemental Award (2014): $1,000
- Center for Perceptual Studies Conference Travel Grant (2014): $500
- Preemptive Recruitment Fellowship, UT Austin (2012): $41,000 (tuition and stipend)
- Turner Award, Animal Behavior Society (2011)
- Student Conference Travel Award, funded by a HHMI grant through the College of William & Mary (2011), $300
Reviewer for:
- Journal of Animal Ecology
Research Funding:
- UT EEB DDIG-like grant (2016): $8000
- Animal Behavior Society Student Research Award (2016): $1000
- Texas EcoLab Grant (2012): $1600
- EEB Startup Grant (2012): $2000
- Dintersmith Fellowship, William and Mary (2011), $6000
- HHMI Summer Research Fellowship, through William and Mary (2011), $4000 (declined)
- Bruce Grant Award (2011), $1000
- HHMI Freshman Research Project , through William and Mary (2009), $500
Teaching Experience
- Teaching Assistant for Bio 311D: Introductory Biology for science majors
- 4.4/5 Instructor Rating, Fall 2013
- 4.5/5 Instructor Rating, Spring 2014
- 4.8/5 Instructor Rating, Summer 2014
- Computer Skills:
- Statistics: R
- Programming: R, Python, bash (in that order)
- Video analyses: ffmpeg
- Illustration: GIMP, Inkscape
- Animation: Blender
Graduate Coursework:
Biology: Introduction to Ecology, Evolution & Behavior; Sexual Selection and the Brain; Population Genetics; Supervised Teaching in the Biological Sciences, Methods in Ecological Genomics
Statistics: Introduction to Statistical Methods I & II; Data Analysis
Relevant Undergraduate Coursework:
Biology courses: Introductory Biology, Biochemistry, Genomics and Proteomics, Zoology, Botany, Developmental Biology, Molecular Genetics, Parasitology, Evolution of Organisms, Biostatistics, Animal Behavior, Sexual Selection
Non-biology science courses: General Chemistry (I & II), Organic Chemistry (I & II), Introductory Physics (I & II), Computational Problem Solving for Environmental Science, Instrumental Analysis
Mathematics Courses: Pre-Calculus, Calculus (I & II), Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Foundations of Higher Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Probability Theory
Outreach:
- GK-12 Program Associate
- This program pairs graduate students in the sciences with teachers in local school districts teaching STEM disciplines with the goal of educating young people about science and bolstering ties between the university and the community
- Through this program I have:
- Helped orchestrate a dinosaur puppet show for young children at Explore UT day. 7 March 2015.
- Helped ~150 4th and 5th grade girls learn about spectroscopy and light for UT’s Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. Photos here. 28 February 2015.
- Served as a science fair judge at Burnet Middle School. 4 February 2015.
- Served as a science fair judge at Blackland Prairie Elementary. 15 January 2015.
- The Cummings lab hosted a group of middle schoolers through the GirlAdvocates! program in 2014. We designed a series of hands-on activities to expose them to the sorts of work scientists do.
- I have trained and worked with 11 undergraduate students at UT:
- Luke Allen Stahl (Fall 2013 - Fall 2014)
- Lynette Strickland (Summer 2014)
- Mitch Anderson (Spring - Fall 2015)
- Joseph Xin (Spring - Spring 2016)
- Mariana Canek (Spring - Fall 2015)
- Avery Trudell (Spring -Summer 2015)
- Aurelia Allen (Spring 2016)
- Rachel Ellerd (Sumer 2016 - present)
- Rachel Koeter (Summer 2016 - present)
- Sam Meyers (Fall 2016)
- Samantha Kagel (Fall 2016)
- I have trained and worked with three high school students:
- Mystee Atles. Fall 2015 - Spring 2016. Developed project on testing cognition in fish.
- Quin Hricik. Summer 2016. Quit helped me analyze some data related to a project in slime molds.
- Isaac Carol. Fall 2016 - Spring 2017. Testing mate choice copying in fish.
- I tutored 8th grade students weekly in science and math weekly at Webb Middle School in Austin (Fall 2015 - Spring 2016). The student body of Webb is 86% Hispanic and 97% economically disadvantaged.
- In the Fall 2013, I organized and led a reading group for graduate students and post-docs focused on behavioral ecology. This meeting routinely included students from the anthropology department.
Presentations:
Brain, Behavior, and Evolution Seminar, UT Austin, October 2015
“Decision rules and mate choice in swordtails”
Animal Behavior Society, August 2014
“Do asexual mollies use chemical cues to avoid associating with infected individuals?”
EMBO Conference Series: Experimental Evolution Approaches to Evolution and Ecology Using Yeast (Poster), October 2012
“Sexual selection hinders adaptation in experiment yeast populations.”
presented by Dr. Helen Murphy
Graduate Seminar in Brain, Behavior, & Evolution, UT Austin (Talk), October 2012
“Can sexual selection drive extinction processes? An examination from birds to yeast”
Honors Colloquium, College of William and Mary (Talk), February 2012
“Sexual selection and extinction in yeast”
Southeastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Meeting (Poster Presentation), October 2011
“Does sexual selection drive extinction and speciation processes in yeast?”
Biology Homecoming Reception, Biology Department, William and Mary (Poster Presentation), October 2011
“Does sexual selection drive extinction and speciation processes in yeast?”
William and Mary Summer Research Showcase (Poster Presentation), September 2011
“Does sexual selection drive extinction and speciation processes in yeast?”
Joint Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society and the International Ethological Conference (Contributed Talk), July 2011
“Does sexual selection predict extinction threat risk in African birds?”
NIH Summer Poster Session, August 2010
William and Mary Undergraduate Research Symposium (Poster Presentation), February 2010
"Sexed to Death? Does Sexual Selection Explain Threat Status in Modern Birds?"
Ecology - Colin Averil
Colin Averill
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow
Boston University – Department of Biology
5 Cummington Mall, Boston MA 02215
203.444.8925 caverill@bu.edu
www.colinaverill.weebly.com
E D U C A T I O N & E X P E R I E N C E
Postdoctoral Researcher, Boston University, Boston, MA 2015 - Present
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisors – Dr. Jennifer Talbot and Dr. Michael Dietze
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 2010 – 2015
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow
Advisor – Dr. Christine Hawkes
B.A. Boston University, Boston, MA 2004 – 2008
Biology, Specialization in Ecology and Conservation
Magna Cum Laude with Distinction in Biology
Senior Research Technician, Boston University, Boston, MA 2008 - 2010
Ecosystem Ecology
Advisor – Dr. Adrien Finzi
P U B L I C A T I O N S
Averill C., Rousk, J. and Hawkes C.V. 2015. Microbial-mediated changes in ecosystem nitrogen partitioning can delay progressive nitrogen limitation. Biogeochemistry.126: 11-23.
*featured in the Biogeochemistry Letters section, "manuscripts that present results that substantially advance the field or challenge entrenched ideas."
Averill C., Turner B.L. and Finzi A.C. 2014. Mycorrhizal mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage. Nature. 505: 543-545.
*Media coverage from TIME Magazine, ThinkProgress, KUT Austin NPR, Mongabay.com
Averill C. 2014. Divergence in plant and microbial allocation strategies explains continental patterns in microbial allocation and biogeochemical fluxes. Ecology Letters. 17: 1202-1210.
Giasson M.A., Averill C. and Finzi A.C. 2014. Correction factors for dissolved organic carbon extracted from soil, measured using the Mn (III)-pyrophosphate colorimetric method adapted for a microplate reader. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 78: 284-287.
Waring B.G., Averill C. and Hawkes C.V. 2013. Differences in fungal and bacterial physiology alter soil carbon and nitrogen cycling: insights from meta-analysis and theoretical models. Ecology Letters. 16: 887-894.
Kivlin S.N., Waring B.G., Averill C. and Hawkes C.V. 2013. Tradeoffs in microbial carbon allocation may mediate soil carbon storage in future climates. Frontiers in Microbiology. 4: 261.
Averill C. and Finzi A.C. 2011. Increasing plant dependence on organic nitrogen along an elevation gradient is reflected in nitrogen uptake rates and ecosystem δ15N at Mount Eisenhower, NH, USA. Ecology. 92: 883-891 (Ecosystem Ecology Faculty of 1000 Selection).
Averill C. and Finzi A.C. 2011. Plant regulation of microbial enzyme production in situ. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 43: 2457-2460
P U B L I C A T I O N S I N R E V I E W & P R E P *can provide upon request
Averill C. and Hawkes, C.V. in prep. Ectomycorrhizas slow soil carbon cycling.
Averill C., Waring, B.G. and Hawkes C.V. in prep. Historical precipitation predictably alters the shape and magnitude of microbial functional response to soil moisture.
A W A R D S A N D F E L L O W S H I P S
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Research Fellowship $138,000 over two years
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Mar 2015 |
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National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship $121,500 over three years
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Apr 2012 |
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Elizabeth Sulzman Award Awarded By the Biogeosciences Section of the Ecological Society of America for an outstanding manuscript published by a graduate student: Averill et al. 2014, Nature
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Aug 2015 |
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Outstanding Student Research in Ecology Award Awarded for the best paper by a graduate student in the field of Ecology by the Student Section of the Ecological Society of America: Averill et al. 2014, Nature
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Aug 2014 |
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Outstanding Student Research in Ecology Award Awarded for the best paper by an undergraduate student in the field of Ecology by the Student Section of the Ecological Society of America: Averill and Finzi 2011, Ecology
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Aug 2011 |
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Fungal Environmental Sampling Network Graduate Student Travel Award Ecological Society of America Meeting, $1,000
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Aug 2013 |
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Young Scientist Travel Award Enzymes in the Environment Conference, Bad Nauheim, Germany, $1850
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Jul 2011 |
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University of Texas at Austin Integrative Biology Recruitment Fellowship $24,000
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Sep 2010 |
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University of Texas at Austin Preemptive Fellowship $12,000
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Sep 2010 |
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University of Texas at Austin Deans Excellence Award $6,000
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Sep 2010 |
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Boston University Honors Thesis Work for Distinction Award
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Apr 2008 |
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Boston University Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship $3,500
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Jun 2007 |
G R A N T F U N D I N G
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National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improve Grant (DDIG) $20,085
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Mar 2014 |
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University of Texas at Austin Department of Ecology Evolution and Behavior Dissertation Improvement Grant $5,000
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Mar 2014 |
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University of Texas at Austin Graduate Program in Ecology Evolution and Behavior Start-up Grant $2,000
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Mar 2012 |
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Texas Ecolab Research Grant: Decomposition along the Edward’s Plateau- separating the effects of rainfall, microbial biomass, and extra-cellular enzymes $9,000
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Apr 2011 |
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Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Grants $1,000
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2007-2008 |
I N V I T E D P R E S E N T A T I O N S
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Enzyme production as a key mycorrhizal trait. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore MD
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Aug 2015 |
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Linking microbial ecology to ecosystem and Earth element cycles. University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Frostburg MD
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Jan 2015 |
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Stoichiometric vs. growth optimization in decomposer microbial ecosystems. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN
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Aug 2014 |
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Differences in fungal and bacterial physiology alter soil carbon and nitrogen cycling: synthesizing effects of microbial community structure using the Fungi and Bacteria (FAB) model. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
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Dec 2013 |
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The effect of mycorrhizal type on soil carbon storage across ecosystems. University of New Hampshire EOS Department, Durham, NH |
Jun 2012 |
C ON T RI B U T E D P R E S E N T A T I O N S
| Quantitative inhibition of soil carbon cycling by ectomycorrhizal fungi under field conditions. American Geophysical Inion Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA | Dec 2014 |
| Competition between ectomycorrhizas and free-living decomposers reduces decomposer activity. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN | Aug 2013 |
| Using Rayleigh isotope equations to predict foliar 15N signatures and form of nitrogen uptake across biomes. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin TX | Aug 2011 |
| Organic nitrogen uptake along an elevation gradient at Mount Eisenhower, NH, USA. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM | Aug 2009 |
W O R K I N G G R O U P S
| Invited participant: 2nd International Enzymes in the Environment RCN Workshop: Incorporating Enzymes and Microbial Physiology into Biogeochemical Models. | May 2012 |
O U T R E A C H A N D S E R V I C E
UT Austin Science Under the Stars 2010-2015
Lead organizer: Science under the Stars presents ecological research to the general public in a family friendly setting. Lectures are free, and held in the Brackenridge Field lab, an urban ecology lab in downtown Austin. I help coordinate and promote these events. I was the lead organizer of this group for the Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 academic semesters. www.scienceunderthestars.org
UT Austin Ecolunch Seminar Series Organizer Sept 2013-2015
Lead Organizer: EcoLunch is an opportunity for grad students, post docs, faculty and others to give a talk or get feedback on a new project or idea from a room full of ecologists in an informal setting. We encourage talks that are more interactive or discussion based that can take advantage of the audience’s expertise. I facilitate booking speakers and sending emails to the group as well as promoting the series within the department and university.
Boston University Bio Bugs April 2009-10
Panel Speaker: Biobugs puts Boston-area high school students in a lab setting, exposes them to cutting edge scientific equipment, and provides interactions with professional scientists. I talked with several high school biology classes about potential career paths in the natural sciences.
Peer Review: Biogeochemistry, Biogeosciences, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Ecological Monographs, FEMS Microbial Ecology, Global Change Biology, Journal of Ecology, Oecologia, New Phytologist, Plant and Soil, PLOS One, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Professional Memberships: American Geophysical Union, Ecological Society of America, Soil Ecology Society
T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E
GraduateTeaching Assistant, BIO 373, Ecology, Lead Instructor Dr. Tim Keitt. Taught Spring 2012, Spring 2013
R E L E V A N T C O U R S E W O R K
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BIO384C & D: Introduction to Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, I & II
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Fall 2010, Spring 2011 |
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BIO384K: Advanced Topics in Microbial Ecology
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Fall 2010 |
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SSC385: Modern Statistical Methods (emphasis in Bayesian Analysis)
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Spring 2011 |
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BIO384K: Advanced Topics in Microbial Ecology
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Fall 2011 |
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GEO381G: Geomicrobiology
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Fall 2011 |
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BIO384K: Behavioral Ecology
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Fall 2011 |
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BIO398TL Supervised Teaching in Biological Science
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Spring 2012 |
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BIO384K: Advanced Topics in Ecology
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Spring 2012 |
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BIO384K: Advanced Topics in Microbial Ecology
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Fall 2012 |
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BIO384K: Advanced Topics in Microbial Ecology
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Fall 2013 |
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M340L: Matrices and Matrix Calculations
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Fall 2014 |
Molecular Evolution - Benjamin Liebeskind
Curriculum Vitae
Benjamin J. Liebeskind
Graduate Student, Integrative Biology
University of Texas at Austin
Email: bliebeskind@austin.utexas.edu
Website: bliebeskind.github.io
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior - University of Texas at Austin (2009-2014)
Advisors: Drs. Harold Zakon and David Hillis.
Coursework: Introduction to evolution, ecology, and behavior. Phylogenetic perspectives on EEB. Population genetics. Modern statistical methods. Brain, behavior, and evolution. Directed study in ion channel physiology. Computational phylogenetics.
Outside Courses: Workshop on molecular evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA (summer 2012)
B.A., Liberal Arts - St. John’s College, Santa Fe (2003-2008).
APPOINTMENTS
Teaching Assistant, Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA (summer 2013, ’14)
Teaching Assistant, 2009 (F), 2010 (F&Sp), 2011 (F&Sp&Sum), 2012 (F&Sp), 2013 (Sp).
Classes assisted: Vertebrate Neurobiology - Neurobiology Lab - Ecology - Introductory Biology.
Research Assistant, 2010 (Sp&Sum), 2012 (Sum), 2013 (Sum) - 2014.
AWARDS
Outstanding Dissertation Award, University of Texas College of Natural Sciences 2014.
Runner-up, Hamilton Award, Evolution 2014.
Nominated, Hamilton Award, Evolution 2013.
SUPPORT
IB DDIG-like grant (University of Texas), Fall 2011: $7000
IB startup fellowship (University of Texas), Spring 2010: $2000
PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES
Talks:
Evolution 2014, Raleigh NC
SICB 2014, Austin TX
Evolution 2013, Snowbird UT.
Brain Behavior and Evolution 2013, University of Texas at Austin
Choanoflagellate Workshop 2011, Berkeley CA
Posters:
BEACON Congress 2013, Michigan State University
Evolution 2010, Portland OR.
PUBLICATIONS (* Co-first authorship)
Ghezzi*, Liebeskind*, Thompson, Atkinson, Zakon. “Ancient association between cation leak channels and Mid1 proteins is conserved in fungi and animals.” (2014) Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience; vol. 7 num. 00015. DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2014.00015
Liebeskind, Hillis, Zakon. “Independent acquisition of sodium selectivity in bacterial and animal sodium channels.” (2013) Current Biology; vol. 23 issue 21, R948-R949. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.09.025
Liebeskind, Hillis, Zakon. “Phylogeny Unites Animal Sodium Leak Channels with Fungal Calcium Channels in an Ancient, Voltage-Insensitive Clade.” (2012) Molecular Biology and Evolution; 29 (12), 3613-3616. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss182
Liebeskind. “Evolution of sodium channels and the new view of early nervous system evolution.” (2011) Communicative & Integrative Biology; 4(6), 679-683. DOI: 10.4161/cib.17069
Liebeskind, Hillis, Zakon. “Evolution of Sodium Channels Predates the Origin of Nervous Systems in Animals.” (2011) PNAS; vol. 108 no. 22, 9154-9159. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106363108
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
Teaching:
Computational Biology: I co-founded, designed and taught a biological computing working group for graduate students and post-docs at University of Texas (2013-14). The course has been continued and updated and is still offered: http://ccbb.biosci.utexas.edu/semesterlong.html. I also worked as a TA for a Software Carpentry workshop at University of Texas (2013)
Philosophy: I have maintained an interest in philosophy and the history of science from my undergraduate education and have led discussion groups for undergraduates through the Thomas Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas (http://liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/Book-Club/About.php) on writers as diverse as Allen Turing and Plato.
Undergraduate Training:
As a PhD student, I trained and guided two undergraduate researchers in bioinformatics, phylogenetic methods, and molecular biology. Both students are now in graduate school (North Carolina State University and the University of Chicago). As a postdoctoral fellow, I am currently training two students in yeast genetics and synthetic biology. In my commitment to undergraduate training I have always recruited widely and from underrepresented groups.
Public Outreach:
I have presented my research on public radio (http://www.kvrx.org/), on blogs (http://beacon-center.org/), for a local homeschooling group, and at a public lecture series which I helped organize for the year 2011 – 2012 (http://scienceunderthestars.org/about/). This lecture series is put on by graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin and provides free lectures on current research at UT geared towards a general audience and children. I have also participated in local science outreach events not related to my research, such as Darwin Day at the Texas Natural Science Center (http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/events/darwin/), where I created a station for children on the phylogeny of vertebrates.
Ecological Genomics - Carly Kenkel
Curriculum Vitae
Carly D. Kenkel
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C0990, Austin, TX 78712
EMAIL: carly.kenkel@gmail.com
WORK: (512) 475-6424
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Aug 2014 Austin, TX
The University of Texas at Austin
Advisor: Dr. Mikhail Matz, Dept of Integrative Biology
B.S. in Marine Science, Summa Cum Laude. May 2007 Stony Brook, NY
The State University of New York at Stony Brook
FELLOWSHIPS:
• University of Texas at Austin Harrington Dissertation Fellowship, Sept 2013 – May 2014
• Fulbright Research Fellowship, Thailand, 2007-2008
FUNDING:
• NSF International Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology, DBI-1401165, $169,056, 2015-2016
• NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, DEB-1311220, $18,782, 2013
• UT Austin Departmental Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $8.000, 2012
• Graduate School Professional Development Award, $1,000, 2011
• P.E.O. Women’s International Graduate Fellowship, $15,000, 2011
• PADI Foundation Grant, $5,000, 2011
• Carl Gottfried Hartman Graduate Fellowship, $1,990, 2010
• NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) scholarship, $8,000, 2006
AWARDS:
• Second Place, Poster Competition, Second Annual Big Data in Biology Meeting, May 2014
• Finalist, Raymond B Huey Best Student Presentation, SICB Annual Meeting, Jan 2014
• Second Place, Proctor & Gamble Poster Competition, Univ of Texas at Austin, Oct 2013
• Outstanding Teaching Award, UT Austin School of Biological Sciences, May 2010
PUBLICATIONS:
Davies SW, Treml EA, Kenkel CD, Matz MV (2014) Exploring the role of Micronesian islands in the maintenance of coral genetic diversity in the Pacific Ocean. In review.
Quigley KM, Davies SW, Kenkel CD, Willis BL, Matz MV, Bay LK (2014) Deep-sequencing method for quantifying background abundances of Symbiodinium types: exploring the rare Symbiodinium biosphere in reef-building corals. PLoS ONE, 9(4):e94297.
Kenkel CD, Sheridan C, Leal MC, Bhagooli R, Castillo KD, Kurata N, McGinty E, Goulet TL, Matz M (2014) Diagnostic gene expression biomarkers of coral thermal stress. Molecular Ecology Resources, 14: 667-678.
Kenkel CD, Goodbody-Gringley G, Caillaud D, Davies S, Bartels E, Matz M (2013) Evidence for a host role in thermotolerance divergence between populations of the mustard hill coral (Porites astreoides) from different reef environments. Molecular Ecology, 22: 4335-4348.
Kenkel CD, Meyer E, Matz MV (2013) Gene expression under chronic heat stress in populations of the mustard hill coral (Porites astreoides) from different thermal environments. Molecular Ecology, 22: 4322-4334.
Hufmann LS, O’Connell LA, Kenkel CD, et al. (2012) Distribution of nonapeptide systems in the forebrain of an African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, 44: 86-97.
Kenkel CD, et al. (2011) Development of gene expression markers of acute heat-light stress in reef-building corals of the genus Porites. PLoS ONE, 6(10):e26914.
Kenkel CD, Traylor MR, Wiedenmann J, Salih A, Matz MV (2011) Fluorescence of coral larvae predicts their settlement response to crustose coralline algae and reflects stress. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278: 2691-2697.
Kenkel, CD. (2008) Coral disease: baseline surveys in the Andaman Sea and Gulf of Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin, 69: 43-53.
INVITED LECTURES:
• Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL, July 2014
• Penn State University, State College, PA, April 2014
• Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, April 2014
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD Australia, Dec 2013
• Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD Australia, July 2012
• Population Biology Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Jan 2012
• St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, Nov 2011
• Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL, June 2009
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
ò = Oral à = Poster
ò “Local adaptation in a Caribbean coral is associated with gene expression plasticity”, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, Austin, TX, January 2014, *Finalist, Raymond B Huey Best Student Presentation
à “Heritability of fitness-related traits in populations of Porites astreoides from different thermal environments”, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, Austin, TX, January 2014
à “Transcriptomic signatures of local adaptation in a Caribbean coral”, Gordon Research Conference on Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics, July 2013
ò “ Physiological and genetic underpinnings of local coral adaptation in the Florida Keys”, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 2013
à “Gene expression biomarkers of acute and chronic heat stress in a reef-building coral”, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 2013
ò “Evidence of local thermal adaptation in Porites astreoides in the Florida Keys” International Coral Reef Symposium, Cairns, QLD Australia, July 2012
ò “Evidence of local thermal adaptation in a Caribbean coral” International Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, January 2012
ò “Evidence of local thermal adaptation in a reef-building coral” Ecological Society of America Meeting, Austin, TX, August 2011
ò “Integrative gene expression analysis of stress response in Porites astreoides” International Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, January 2010
ò “Coral Disease in Thailand”, Coral Reefs Meeting, Phuket Marine Biological Center, May 2008
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
• Programming for Biologists, UT Austin, Jan – May 2014
• Integrative Biology Course, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, May 2013
• Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics, UT Austin Summer Statistics Institute, 2012
• Multivariate Data Analysis using R, UT Austin Summer Statistics Institute, 2012
GRADUATE COURSEWORK:
Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Univ. of Texas at Austin
• Genetics, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Program, Univ. of Texas at Austin
• Intro to Ecology, Evolution and Behavior I, Intro to Ecology, Evolution and Behavior II, Recent advances in Computational Biology, Behavioral Ecology, Issues in Population Biology, Evolution of Gene Regulation, Population Genetics
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin: Avg Instructor Rating: 4.6/5
• BIO165U - Systems Physiology Lab: fall 2012
• BIO325 - Genetics: fall 2009, fall 2010, fall 2011
• BIO448L - Invertebrate Biology: spring 2010, spring 2011, spring 2013
Assistant Instructor
• The Art of Gene Expression Analysis at Mote Tropical Research Lab, Summerland Key, FL; June 2013: taught laboratory and bioinformatic protocols for RNAseq and QPCR.
• QPCR for Coral Biologists at Mote Tropical Research Lab, Summerland Key, FL; 2010, 2011
• Biomarkers of Coral Health and Disease Advanced Course at Mote Tropical Research Lab, Summerland Key, FL; July 2009
BROADER IMPACTS: B BROADER IMPACTS:
• Manuscript Review: PLoS Genetics, BMC Genomics, PLoS ONE, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Biology Open
• Undergraduate Education
- - Student Mentoring: Monica Traylor, Sarah Guermond, Anna Percy, Albert Almanza, Karen Pereia, Sam Setta, Kathryn Thompson, Chris Wood, Ava Ibanez
- - Invited presentation, Marine Science Club UT Austin, 2013
- - SURGE Roads to research invited discussion panelist, 2011
• K-12 Education
- Science Under the Stars Public Lecture Series, Children’s Table Coordinator, 2013-2014
- Data Nuggets http://datanuggets.org/2014/03/coral-bleaching-and-climate-change/
- UT High School Research Internship Program mentor 2011-12: Raven Mitchum-Babicki
- Career Day: Galindo Elementary 2013, Barrington Elementary 2010
- Girl Scouts STEM FEST volunteer, 2011
• Science Communication
- Darwin Day Presenter, Texas Memorial Museum 2013
- Radio interview “They Blinded me with Science”, KVRX, UT Austin, 2011
- Science Under the Stars Public Lecture Series Presenter 2011
- Annual Women In Science Day @ Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
Marine Ecology - Andria Salas
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2018 PhD in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
GPA: 4.0/4.0
2011 MS in Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, NC
GPA: 4.0/4.0
2007 BS in Biology, Aquatic Sciences, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI GPA: 3.89/4.0 (magna cum laude), Honors College
Current
Postdoctoral Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
Dates: February 2019–present
Advisor: Dr. T. Aran Mooney
Previous Research Experience
PhD in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Dissertation: Predicting the influence of source and receiver variation in the use of acoustic cues by larval fishes
Advisors: Dr. Timothy Keitt (Integrative Biology) & Dr. Preston Wilson (Mechanical Engineering)
Scope of work: Independently designed dissertation research questions and research program. Formed collaborations across departments and institutes to effectively address the multidisciplinary needs of the work. Secured funding and planned logistics for international fieldwork. Conducted in-situ binary choice experiments to test juvenile fish attraction to reef sounds. Recorded the vocalizations of individual Amphichthys cryptocentrus toadfish males and analyzed species-level call characteristics to inform social behavior and evidence for acoustic competition. Used SCUBA to deploy and maintain hydrophones for long-term, simultaneous passive acoustic recordings at coral reef sites. Analyzed recordings using Raven and primarily Matlab programming, and used long-term data sets as input into an individual-based model, coded in R, to test the influence of predicted acoustic cues on larval fish settlement success. Conducted acoustic propagation measurements in the field, and used data to validate an acoustic propagation model in Matlab to predict the sound field experienced by larval fishes. Analyzed high-resolution X-ray computed tomography (HRXCT) data from Scianops ocellatus larvae using Avizo. Modeled the acoustic behavior of scanned swim bladder and otolith surfaces using COMSOL Multiphysics to predict how the swim bladder contributes to pressure detection in larval fishes.
Dates: August 2011–December 2018
Research Assistant, Knobles Scientific Analysis, Austin, TX
Project: Acoustic measurements and analysis on Golden Cheek Warbler (Setophaga chrysoparia) response to anthropogenic sound at Balcones Canyonland Preserve locations.
Advisors: Drs. Preston Wilson and David Knobles
Skills: Deployment and maintenance of terrestrial recording units.
Dates: February 2017–June 2017
Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Project: Modelling the resonance frequency of two-lobed fish swim bladders (Danio rerio)
PI: Dr. Preston Wilson
Skills: Analysis of HRXCT data using Avizo; modelling resonance of imported swim bladder surfaces using COMSOL Multiphysics.
Dates: January 2016–May 2016
Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Project: Physiological Genomics of Panicum: Exploring Switchgrass Responses to Climate Change
PIs: Drs. Timothy Keitt, Thomas Juenger, and Christine Hawkes
Skills: Modeling switchgrass yields using ALMANAC and parameterization from experimental data.
Date: August 2012−May 2013; January 2014−May 2014
MS in Marine Science, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
Thesis: Indirect effects in trophic and evolutionary networks
Advisor: Dr. Stuart R. Borrett
Skills: Ecological modeling and network analysis, programming in Matlab and R, experience using NSF TeraGrid at Cornell University. Independent project design and implementation.
Dates: August 2008−May 2011
Research Technician, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Project: Rapid contemporary evolution in Bythotrephes morphology and behavior since invasion in the Great Lakes.
PIs: Dr. Andrea Jeager-Miehls, co-advised by Drs. Andrew McAdam and Scott Peacor
Skills: Rearing of zooplankton, resurrection of resting eggs, aquaculture, microscopy, general lab duties, collecting zooplankton via plankton tows and trawls, and boxcoring.
Dates: May 2007−May 2008
NSF Research for Undergraduates Program, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester, VA
Project: The Effects of Habitat Degradation on the Diets of Estuarine Benthivoric Nekton.
Mentors: Drs. Linda Schaffner and David Gillett
Skills: Dissection, gut content analyses, microcopy, animal collection via castnetting and trapping.
Dates: May 2006−August 2006
McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Project: Diel Summer Movement Patterns of Fish in Sickle Creek, Manistee County, MI.
Mentor: Dr. Eric Snyder
Skills: Electrofishing, fish handling and measurements, habitat assessment.
Dates: May 2005−August 2005
Other Professional Experience
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NOAA Sea Grant Fellow, John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, Silver Spring, MD
Date: February 2018–January 2019
Position: Deepwater Horizon Programmatic Evaluation Coordinator, NOAA Restoration Center, Office of Habitat Conservation, National Marine Fisheries Service
Tasks: Coordinated and supported a group of NOAA scientists to address the cross-resource and ecosystem-level monitoring and adaptive management needs of the Gulf of Mexico in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Assisted with technical analysis for a pilot study of the aggregate impacts of coastal habitat restoration and served as NOAA’s main point of contact for the participating federal and state agencies. Assisted with development of external engagement strategies and helped in the review of project-level monitoring and adaptive management plans.
Publications
Journal publications
Salas AK, PS Wilson, LA Fuiman. (2019). Ontogenetic change in predicted acoustic pressure sensitivity in larval red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus). Journal of Experimental Biology 222: jeb201962. doi: 10.1242/jeb.201962
Salas AK, AH Altieri, PS Wilson, TH Keitt. (2018). Predicting the reef acoustic cuescape from the perspective of larval fishes across a habitat quality gradient. Marine Ecology Progress Series 605: 173−193.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12737
Salas AK, PS Wilson, and MJ Ryan. (2018). Acoustic communication in the Bocon toadfish, Amphichthys cryptocentrus. Environmental Biology of Fishes 101: 1175–1193.
doi: 10.1007/s10641-018-0767-6
Borrett SR, MA Freeze, AK Salas. (2011). Equivalence of the realized input and output oriented indirect effects metric. Ecological Modelling. 222: 2142−2148.
doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.04.003
Salas AK, SB Borrett. (2011). Evidence for the dominance of indirect effects in 50 trophically-based ecosystem networks. Ecological Modelling: 222: 1192−1204.
doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.12.002
Borrett SB, AK Salas. (2010). Evidence for resource homogenization in 50 trophic ecosystem networks. Ecological Modelling 221: 1710−1716.
doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.04.004
Salas AK, EB Snyder. (2010). Diel fish habitat selection in a tributary stream. American Midland Naturalist 163: 33-43. doi: 10.1674/0003-0031-163.1.33
In prep
Salas AK, MS Ballard, TA Mooney, PS Wilson. Frequency-dependent spatial heterogeneity in the predicted sound fields experienced by settling reef fish larvae. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
Song Z, AK Salas, E Montie, Y Zhang, TA Mooney. Source levels and near-field propagation of snaps emitted by the snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis and Alpheus angulosus in pressure and particle motion. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Book chapter
Keitt TH, C Addis, D Mitchell, A Salas, CV Hawkes (2016) Climate change, microbes, and soil carbon cycling. In: Marxsen J, Liebig J (eds) Climate Change and Microbial Ecology: Current and Future Trends. Caister Academic Press, Norwich, UK, pp. 220.
Presentations
Salas AK, MS Ballard, TA Mooney, PS Wilson. (2020). Considering the Soundscape from the Larval Fish Perspective: Predicting the Depth and Frequency Dependence of the Acoustic Cues Received during the Settlement Process. Ocean Sciences, San Diego, California. Oral presentation.
Salas AK, PS Wilson, LA Fuiman. (2019). Modelled ontogenetic change in acoustic pressure sensitivity in larval red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus). The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life Conference, Den Haag, The Netherlands. Poster and speed talk presentation.
Salas AK. (2018). The role of reef acoustic cues in the pelagic stage of reef fish larvae. NOAA Knauss Brown Bag Lecture Series, Silver Spring, Maryland. Oral presentation.
Salas AK, PS Wilson, MS Ballard, AH Altieri, TH Keitt. (2017). The role of intermittent, short range cues on larval fish settlement. 41st Annual Larval Fish Conference, Austin, Texas. Oral Presentation. *AFS Early Life History Section Sally L. Richardson Best Student Paper Award.
Salas AK, PS Wilson, MS Ballard, AH Altieri, TH Keitt. (2017). Predicting the cuescape from the reef soundscape and its role in larval fish settlement. 3rd Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and European Acoustics Association, Boston, Massachusetts. Oral Presentation.
Salas AK, PS Wilson. (2017). Soundscape detection by fishes through the interaction of the swim bladder and otoliths. Tomography for Scientific Advancement Symposium North America, Austin, Texas. Poster presentation. *First Place poster competition.
Salas AK, PS Wilson, MS Ballard, AH Altieri, TH Keitt. (2016). Navigating the soundscape: The role of acoustic cues in the settlement behavior of larval reef fishes. 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii. Oral presentation, presented by P. Wilson.
Salas AK, PS Wilson, MS Ballard, AH Altieri, TH Keitt. (2016). Listening to the reef: Will it help a larval fish find its way? International Congress on the Biology of Fish, San Marcos, Texas. Oral presentation.
Salas AK, PS Wilson, AH Altieri, TH Keitt. (2013). The potential use of reef acoustic cues in ontogenetic niche shifts by juvenile fish. 22nd Biennial Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Conference, San Diego, California. Oral presentation.
Borrett SR, AK Salas. (2010). Evidence for resource homogenization in 50 trophic ecosystem networks. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Oral presentation, presented by S. Borrett.
Salas AK, SR Borrett. (2009). Evidence for the dominance of indirect effects in trophically-based ecosystem networks. International Society for Ecological Modeling, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Oral presentation.
Salas AK, SR Borrett. (2009). Indirect effects in trophic and evolutionary networks. Center for Marine Science Prospectus Symposium, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Poster presentation.
Salas AK, SR Borrett. (2009). Modeling indirect selective pressure in a co-evolving community: preliminary work. Darwin's Legacy: Evolution's Impact on Science and Culture Student Conference, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Poster presentation.
Salas AK, D Gillett, L Schaffner. (2006 and 2007). The Effects of Habitat Degradation on the Diets of Estuarine Benthivoric Nekton. Student Symposium, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester, Virginia, and 2007 Student Scholarship Day, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan. Oral presentations.
Salas AK, EB Snyder. (2005). Diel summer movement patterns of fish in Sickle Creek, Manistee County, Michigan. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Oral presentation. *Janice Fenske Memorial Award for Outstanding Students
Grant Funding/Academic Honors/Awards
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sea Grant
John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship (2018) ($61,500)
American Fisheries Society Texas Chapter
Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Scholarship (2017) ($1,500)
American Museum of Natural History
Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research (2015) ($2,500)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Short-term Fellowship (2013) ($3,800)
Travel Award (2013) ($500)
University of Texas at Austin
Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Department Endowment for Zoology ($8,000)
Scholarship for Excellence (2015)
Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Department Start-up Grant (2011) ($2,000)
Recruitment Fellowship (2011) ($24,000)
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Center for Marine Science James F. Merritt Fellowship (2008) ($48,000)
Center for Marine Science Academic Achievement Award (2009)
Center for Marine Science Travel Grant (2009) ($400)
Graduate School Travel Grant (2009) ($400)
Grand Valley State University
University Honors College (Fall 2003-Spring 2007)
Biology Department’s Outstanding Graduating Senior Award (2007)
Deans List (Fall 2003-Spring 2007)
Outstanding Biology Major Award (Fall 2003-Spring 2007)
Nominated for the Glenn A. Niemeyer Award (highest academic honor; 2006 and 2007)
Bert Price Scholarship ($24,627)
Award of Excellence Scholarship ($4,800)
Bert Price Endowment Scholarship ($1,550)
Other
Sigma Xi, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Tri Beta Biological Society
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Fall and Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall and Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 at The University of Texas at Austin.
Bio 311C Introductory Biology 1. Undergraduate Course. Professor: Dr. K. Sathasivan.
Guest Lecturer, 2010, University of North Carolina Wilmington. Fundamentals of Ecological Modelling. Graduate Course. Professor: Dr. Stuart R. Borrett.
Professional, Extracurricular, and Service Activities
Professional Activities
American Academy of Underwater Sciences Diving certification (WHOI) July 2019
PADI Advanced Open Water SCUBA certification - Summer 2009
UNCW David J. Sieren Herbarium, Collections Manager August 2010−December 2010
Mathematical Biology and Numerical Analysis Workshop, University of Georgia August 2009
UNCW Biology Graduate Student Association - 2008−2011
Toastmasters International 2005−2007
Electrofishing certification Spring 2005
Journal Review
Marine Ecology Progress Series
Volunteer Work
Science Under the Stars Public Outreach (seminar series) September 2011–December 2016
Spring Lake Aquacorps Dive Program,
Texas State University, The Meadows Center for the Environment May 2016
Grand Valley State University Rowing Team 2003−2007
Co-captain for 2006−2007 season, Most Improved Award for 2005−2006 season, Silver medal 2006 and 2007 Dad Vail National Collegiate Championships
