Current Grad Students: A–F

Email: malvarado@ku.edu

Advisors: Caroline Chaboo & Michael Engel

Education:

• Current master's student in entomology
• M.S. in entomology from La Molina University (Perú), 2011

• B.S. in biology from San Marcos University (Perú), 2006

Hometown: Perú

Research Interests: Ichneumonidae

Publications:

• Mabel Alvarado, Santiago Bordera & Alexander Rodríguez-Berrío. (in press). First record of Oxytorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from South America, with description of a new species of Oxytorus Förster, 1869. Biologia.
• Grados, J., Figueroa, L. y Alvarado, M. 2010. Insectos: Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera) y Arctiidae (Lepidoptera), en Figueroa, J. y Stucchi, M. (Editores). Biodiversidad de los alrededores de Puerto Maldonado. Línea Base ambiental del EIA del lote 111, Madre de Dios, Perú. IPyD Ingenieros y AICB. Lima, Perú. 224 pp.

• M. Alvarado, A. Rodríguez-Berrío & S. Bordera-Sanjuan. 2010. Colección de Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) del Museo de Entomología "Klaus Raven B." y del Museo de Historia Natural de la UNMSM, Perú. En Toledo, V. H.  Corona, A. M., Flores, A. P., Tovar, E., Coronado, J. M. Ruíz-Cancino, E (Editores). II Taller Internacional de Recursos Naturales. Red de Cuerpos Académicos, México.  107 pp.

Grants:

• 2010.National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (Perú) to check material deposited in the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio), Costa Rica (2 weeks, supervisor: Ronald Zuniga) ($900).
• 2009. The Tambopara Reserve Society - Peru, to develop the project: “Progress on the biodiversity of the Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) in the Tambopata National Reserve, Madre de Dios” ($900).

Email: mja43@ku.edu

Advisor: Robert Moyle

Education:

• Current doctoral candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology
• B.S. in natural resources from Cornell University, 2004

Hometown: Baldwin, NY

Research Interests: Speciation, diversification, phylogenetics, and biogeography of Neotropical birds. Evolution of vocalizations in birds.

Recent Publications:

• Peterson, A.T., M.J. Andersen, S. Bodbyl-Roels, P. Hosner, Á. Nyári, C. Oliveros and M. Papeş. 2009. A prototype forecasting system for bird-borne disease spread in North America based on migratory bird movements. Epidemics 1(4): 240-249
• Tobias, J. A., Lebbin, D. J., Aleixo, A., Andersen, M. J., Guilherme E., Hosner, P. A., N. and Seddon. 2008. Distribution, behavior, and conservation status of the Rufous Twistwing (Cnipodectes superrufus). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120(1):38–49.
• Lebbin, D. J., Hosner, P. A., Andersen, M. J., Valdez, U., and W. P. Tori. 2007. First description of the nest and eggs of the White-lined Antbird (Percnostola lophotes) and breeding observations of poorly known birds inhabiting Guadua bamboo in Southeastern Peru. Boletín SAO 17(2):119–132.
• Andersen, M. J., Lebbin, D. J., and P. H. Hosner. 2007. First photographic evidence of Veery (Catharus fuscescens) for Peru. Boletín SAO 17(1):36-38.

• Lebbin, D. J., Harvey, M. G., Lenz, T. C., Andersen, M. J., & J. M. Ellis. 2007. Mixed-species flock of fall migrant birds foraging at night by artificial light. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119(3):502-506.

Recent Presentations:

• Andersen, M. J., Oliveros, C., Nyári, Á. S., Filari, C. E. and R. G. Moyle. 2010. A molecular phylogeny of the variable kingfisher (Ceyx lepidus). American Ornithologist’s Union Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, February. Contributed Oral Paper.

• Andersen, M. J. and R. G. Moyle. 2009. A molecular phylogeny of the variable kingfisher (Aves: Ceyx lepidus) reveals a novel endemic Philippines lineage. University of Kansas Natural History Museum Graduate Student Organization Annual Retreat, Lawrence, KS, USA, October.  Contributed oral paper.

Recent Awards:

• 2010-2011 Using a multi-locus, coalescent framework to study patterns of genetic variation across an insular avian hybrid zone. Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research. $700.00.
• 2010 Student Travel Award. American Ornithologist’s Union. $210.
• 2008. Panorama Small Grant. Redefining biogeographic patterns in the avifauna of the Apurimac Valley Peru: A collections-based approach to describe species and their distributions. $700.
• 2008. Tinker Summer Field Research Grant. Southern cone biological inventorying: Providing a tool for training conservation workers. $555.50.

Email: ajbarley@ku.edu

Advisor: Rafe Brown

Education:

• Current Ph.D. candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology
• B.S. in biological science from California State University, Sacramento.

Hometown: Pinole, CA

Research interests: Adaptive radiations, phylogenetics and evolution of reptiles and amphibians

Recent Publications:

• Fuiten, A.M., L.J. Welton, A.C. Diesmos, A.J. Barley, B. Oberheide, M.V. Duya, E.L.B. Rico, R.M. Brown. in press. New species of stream frog (Sanguirana) from the mountains of Luzon Island, Philippines. Herpetologica.
• Spinks, P.Q., R.C. Thomson, A.J. Barley, C.E. Newman, H.B. Shaffer. 2010. Testing avian, squamate and mammalian nuclear markers for cross amplification in turtles. Conservation Genetics Resources 2(1): 127-129.
• Barley, A.J., R.M. Coleman. 2010. Habitat structure affects aggression in convict cichlids Archocentrus nigrofasciatus. Current Zoology 56(1): 1-5.
• Barley, AJ, PQ Spinks, RC Thomson, HB Shaffer. 2010. Fourteen nuclear genes provide phylogenetic resolution for difficult nodes in the turtle tree of life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 55: 1189-1194.

Recent Presentations:

• Barley, A.J., Brown, R.M., Burbrink, F., Lawson, R. 2010. Phylogenetics, biogeography, and color pattern evolution in old world cat-eyed snakes (genus Boiga). Annual Evolution meeting, Portland, OR.
• Barley, AJ, PQ Spinks, RC Thomson, and HB Shaffer. 2009. Using multiple nuclear loci to infer higher level systematic relationships in turtles. Annual Evolution meeting, Moscow, ID.

• Barley, AJ and RM Coleman. 2009. Habitat structure directly affects aggression in convict cichlids, Archocentrus nigrofasciatus. CSU statewide research competition, 2nd place, undergraduate biological science.

Recent Awards:

• 2010. Barley, A.J. Funding to attend 2010 Annual Evolution meeting (Talk title listed above). $300. EEB funding.
• 2010. Barley, A.J. Funding to attend 2010 Annual Evolution meeting (Talk title listed above). BI funding. $300.

Email: narayani@ku.edu

Advisor: A. Townsend Peterson

Education:

• Current Ph.D. candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology
• M.S. in computer science form the University of Pune, India, 1993
• B.S. in computer science from the University of Pune, India , 1991

Hometown: Bangalore, India

Research Interests: Ecological niche modeling, biodiversity informatics, remote sensing, GIS

Recent Publications:

• Alberto Jiménez-Valverde, Narayani Barve, Andrés Lira-Noriega, Sean P. Maher, Yoshinori Nakazawa, Monica Papeş, Jorge Soberón, Jeet Sukumaran & A. Townsend Peterson.2011. Dominant Climate Influences on North American Bird Distributions. Global Ecology and Biogeography, (Global Ecol. Biogeogr.) 20, 114–118
• A. T. Peterson, N. Barve, L. Mauricio Binib, J. A. Diniz-Filhob, A. Jiménez-Valverde, A. Lira-Noriega, J. Lobo, S. Maher, P. de Marco, Jr., E. Martínez-Meyer, Y. Nakazawa and J. Soberón. 2009. The climate envelope may not be empty. PNAS, 106(16) E47.
• SavitaS., Narayani Barve, Priya Davidar. 2008., Response of ants to disturbance gradients in and around Bangalore, India,  Tropical Ecology 49(2): 235-243.
• N. Lyngdoh, S.H. Santosh, B.T. Ramesha, M. Nageswara Rao, G. Ravikanth, N. Barve, K. N. Ganeshaiah, R. Uma Shananker. 2005. Rattan species richness and population genetic structure of Calamus flagellum in North-Eastern Himalaya, India. J. Bamboo and Rattan 4(3): 293-307

Email: bentlage@ku.edu

Advisor: Paulyn Cartwright

Education:

• Current doctoral candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology
• M.S. in zoology from the University of Hannover, 2006
• Germany; Pre-degree in biology from the University of Kiel, Germany, 2003

Hometown: Born in Bielefeld, Germany but grew up in a small village called Horn-Bad Meinberg. Since then has lived and studied at various places and institutions in Germany, Australia and the US.

Research Interests: Patterns and processes governing ocean biogeography; current study system of choice are jellyfishes, in particular the coastal shelf inhabiting box-jellyfishes (Cubozoa) and the open-ocean medusae of Trachylina (Hydrozoa); phylogenetic analyses; GIS based modeling methods; taxonomy of study animals

Recent Publications:

• Collins G, Bentlage B, Gillan W, Lynn TH, Morandini AC, Marques A (in press) Naming the Bonaire banded box jelly, Tamoya ohboya, n. sp. (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Tamoyidae). Zootaxa.
• Bentlage B (2010) Carybdea alata auct.: rediscovery of the Alatina grandis type. Zootaxa 2713: 52-54.
• Bentlage, B., Cartwright, P., Yanagihara, A.A., Lewis C., Richards, G.S., and Collins A.G. 2010. Evolution of box jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates. Proc. R. Soc. B. 277, 493–501.
• Bentlage, B., Peterson, A.T., and Cartwright, P. 2009. Inferring distributions of chirodropid box-jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) in geographic and ecological space using ecological niche modeling. Marine Ecology Progress Series 384: 121-133.
• Lewis, C. and Bentlage B. 2009. Clarifying the identity o the Japanese Habu-kurage, Chironex yamaguchii, sp. nov. (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida). Zootaxa 2030: 59-65.
• Collins, A.G., Bentlage, B., Lindner, A., Lindsay, D., Haddock, S.H.D., Jarms, G., Norenburg, J.L., Jankowski, T., and Cartwright, P. 2008. Phylogenetics of Trachylina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) with new insights on the evolution of some problematical taxa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 88: 1673-1685.
• Bentlage, B. and Wörheide, G. 2007. Low genetic structuring among Pericharax heteroraphis (Porifera: Calcarea) populations from the Great Barrier Reef (Australia), revealed by analysis of nrDNA and nuclear intron sequences. Coral Reefs 26: 807-816.
• Collins, A.G., Bentlage, B., Matsumoto, G.I., Haddock, S.H.D., Osborn, K.J., Schierwater, B. 2006. Solution to the phylogenetic enigma of Tetraplatia, a worm-shaped cnidarian. Biology Letters 2:120-124.

Recent Presentations:

• Bentlage B, Cartwright P (2010) “Biogeography and ecological niche modeling of holopelagic hydrozoans” Workshop of the Hydrozoan Society, Porto Cesareo (Lecce), Italy. (Published Abstract)
• Bentlage B (2010) “Phylogenetics and taxonomy of box jellyfishes” 3^rd Jellyfish Blooms Symposium, Mar del Plata, Argentina. (Published Abstract)
• Bentlage B, Cartwright P (2010) “Modeling species' potential distributions in 3D” AGU/ASLO/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. (Published Abstract )
• Bentlage B, Cartwright P, Collins AG (2010) “Evolution of box jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Cubozoa)”  Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Seattle, WA. (Published Abstract)
• Collins AG, Bentlage B, Gillan W, Lynn TH, Marques AC, MorandiniAC (2010) “Naming the Bonaire banded box jelly, the dynamic science side of a public species naming contest” Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Seattle, WA. (Published Abstract)
• Collins, A. G., Nizinski, M., Wilson, R., Lewis, C. A., Lindsay, D., Bentlage, B., P. Cartwright  Biodiversity of medusozoan cnidarians.  2009. 9th Northeast Fisheries Science Center Symposium, Newport, RI, January. (Poster)
• Bentlage B., Peterson A.T., Li X., Collins A.G., and Cartwright P. 2009. Biogeography of open ocean jellyfishes: integrating ecological niche modeling and phylogeography in a 3D environment; Invited presentation, Bioclimatic and niche-based models of species distributions: now and in the future, INTECOL 10, Brisbane, Australia.
• Bentlage B., Cartwright P., Collins A.G. 2009. Diversity and phylogenetic systematics of box jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates; The ninth NEFSC Science Symposium, Leading the way: Advances in Fisheries Research in the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. Newport, RI.
• Bentlage, B., Collins, A.G., and Cartwright, P. 2008. Phylogenetics of Cubozoa and a progress report on marine niche modeling; Third Annual Cnidarian Tree of Life Meeting, La Paz, Mexico.
• Bentlage, B., Collins, A.G., and Cartwright, P. 2008. Phylogenetics and environmental space occupation of box-jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Cubozoa); Evolution, Minneapolis, MN, June.
• Bentlage, B. 2007. Conservatism of ecological niches in Cubozoa; Second Annual Cnidarian Tree of Life Workshop and Student-Postdoc Symposium, Cnidarian Phylogenetics and Evolution, St. John, USVI.
• Bentlage, B., Collins, A.G., Cartwright, P. 2007. Prospects of molecular systematics for Cubozoa; Second International Jellyfish Blooms Symposium, Gold Coast, AUS, June. (Poster)
• Collins, A.G., Bentlage, B., Haddock, S.H.D., Jankowski, T., Lindsay, D.J., Pagès, F., and Cartwright, P. 2007. Phylogenetics of Trachylina; Sixth Workshop of the Hydrozoan Society, Plymouth, UK, June.
• Bentlage, B. 2007. Ecological niche conservatism in box-jellyfishes; Second International Jellyfish Blooms Symposium, Diversity: from Adenine to Zoogeography, Gold Coast, AUS, June.
• Bentlage, B., and Wörheide, G. 2007. Phylogeography of Pericharax heteroraphis (Porifera) from the Great Barrier Reef; Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Biogeography and Phylogenetics, Phoenix, AZ, January.

Recent Awards:

• 2010 EEB travel grant to support attendance of the 3^rd Jellyfish Blooms Symposium in Argentina.
• 2009-2010 Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, “Biogeography of Open Ocean Jellyfishes” ($31,000)
• 2009-2011 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grant DEB 0910237, “Biogeography of Open Ocean Hydrozans (Cnidaria: Medusozoa)” ($14,990)
• 2008 Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Support to attend the "Evolution 2008" meeting, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN ($300)
• 2007 PADI Foundation, "An Integrative Approach to Understanding Species' Distributions and Relationships of Australiasian Box-Jellyfishes (Cubozoa; Cnidaria)" ($5,970)
• 2007 Ohio State University and the Willi Hennig Society, Fellowship to attend the "North American Workshop in Cladistic Methods", Columbus OH ($700)
• 2007 Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and KU Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center, Support to attend the 2^nd Cnidarian Tree of Life Workshop and Student-Postdoc Symposium, Cnidarian Phylogenetics and Evolution, St. John, USVI ($400)

Email: jbergene@ku.edu

Advisor: Edith Taylor

Education

• Current master's student in ecology and evolutionary biology

• B.S. in biology from the University of Kansas, 2010

Hometown: Gardner, KS

Research Interests: Paleobotany

Recent Publications:

• Escapa, I., Taylor, E.L., Cúneo, N.R., Bomfleur, B., Bergene, J., Serbet, R., and Taylor, T.N. In review. Triassic floras of Antarctica: Plant diversity and distribution in high paleolatitude communities. PALAIOS.

Recent Presentations:

• Serbet, R., Taylor, E.L., Bergene, J., and Taylor, T.N., 2010. Paleobotanical collections at the University of Kansas: Commitment to excellence: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (Denver, 30 Oct-4 Nov 2010). Abstract 181018, p. 568.

Recent Awards:

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Antarctic megafossil floras across the Permian-Triassic boundary. Honorable Mention. 2011.
• KU Botany Endowment Fund. For travel to BSA conference. $350. 2010.

Email: scheetah@ku.edu

Advisors: John Kelly

Education: Current Ph.D. candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology; B.S. in biology from Calvin College, Honors.

Hometown: Grand Rapids, MI

Research Interests: Evolutionary ecology, mating systems, pollinator-plant interactions

Recent Publications:

• Peterson, A.T., M.J. Andersen, S. Bodbyl-Roels, P. Hosner, Á. Nyári, C. Oliveros and M. Papeş. 2009. A prototype forecasting system for bird-borne disease spread in North America based on migratory bird movements. Epidemics 1(4): 240-249
• Eds. Bodbyl, S.A. and Roach, K. Laboratory Exercises. Johnson, Kelly. 2009. Pearson Custom Publishing, Pearson Education.

Recent Presentations:

• Bodbyl Roels, S.A. and A. Townsend Peterson. 2010. “Comparing Remotely-sensed Data Products via Ecological Niche Modeling.” Annual GIS Day @ KU, November.
• Bodbyl Roels, S.A. and J.K. Kelly. 2010. “Rapid Evolution Caused by Pollinator Loss.” Society for the Study of Evolution, Evolution meeting, Portland, Oregon. June.
• Bodbyl Roels, S.A. and J.K. Kelly.2009. Experimental Evolution of Mating System under Varying Pollinator Availability in Mimulus guttatus. Ecological Genomics Symposium. Kansas City, Kansas. November. (Poster)
• Bodbyl-Roels, S.A. and A.T. Peterson. 2009. A prototype forecasting system for spread of bird-borne diseases in North America; American Ornithologists Union (AOU) conference, Philadelphia, PA, August. 
• Bodbyl-Roels, S.A. and J.K. Kelly. 2009.  Experimental evolution of mating system under varying pollinator availability in Mimulus guttatus; Evolution conference, Moscow, ID, June.
• Kerr, B.A., Bodbyl Roels, S.A. and W. Statham. 2009. Building Strength Enabling Environments (Helping Women Thru Danger Zones and Keeping Them in Science           Careers). Wakonse Conference for College Teaching, Shelby, Michigan. May. Invited panelist.
• Bodbyl Roels, S.A. and J.K. Kelly. 2009. Experimental Evolution of Mating System under Varying Pollinator Availability in Mimulus guttatus. Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference (MEEC), Lincoln, Nebraska. March.

Recent Awards:

• 2010. (Co-PI) Kelly, J.K. (PI). University of Kansas Botany Endowment     Fund. Summer Fellowship. Investigating pollinator-plant interactions between Bombus and Mimulus. $2,500.00.
• 2010. National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. Experimental Evolution of Mating System under Varying Pollinator Availability in Mimulus guttatus.
• 2009. University of Kansas Botany Endowment Funds Summer Scholarships.  Mary Harkey Hall Award in Plant Biology.
• 2009. University of Kansas Botany Endowment Funds Summer Scholarships.  Florene B. Fratcher Botany Fellowship.
• 2009. American Ornithologist's Union. Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Award.
• 2008. Small Grants Program University of Kansas Field Station and Ecological Reserves. Effect of Seed Predation and Disturbance on Wild and Crop-Wild Sunflowers.
• 2008. University of Kansas Botany Endowment Funds. Mary Harkey Hall Award. Effect of Seed Predation and Disturbance on Wild and Crop-Wild Sunflowers.
• 2008. University of Kansas Botany Endowment Fund. Mary Harkey Hall Award. Experimental Evolution of Mating System under Varying Pollinator Availability in Mimulus guttatus.

Email: r999b826@ku.edu

Advisor: James Thorp

Education:

• Current doctoral aspirant in ecology and evolutionary biology

• B.A. in zoology and chemistry from Ohio Wesleyan University, 2011.

Hometown: Glen Ellyn, IL

Research Interests: River ecology

Presentations:

• Bowes, R.E., Panhuis, T.P., and S.J. Hankison. 2011. Mate preferences associated with MHC alleles in the sailfin molly, Poecilia Latipinna. Joint Meeting of Animal Behavior Society and International Ethological Society (Behavior 2011), Bloomington, IN, July. (Poster)
• Bowes, R.E. 2011. Mate preferences associated with MHC alleles in the sailfin molly, Poecilia Latipinna. Zoology Research Seminar, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH, April.
• Bowes, R.E. 2010. Repeatability and consistency in the three spined stickleback. Patricia Belt Conrades Summer Science Research Symposium, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH, August. (Poster)
• Bowes, R.E. 2010. Repeatability and consistency in the three spined stickleback. Ohio Wesleyan University Summer Science Research Program, Delaware, OH, June.

• Bowes, R.E. 2009. Physiological Responses to Abscisic Acid in Arabidopsis Wild Type Compared to ABA-Insensitive Mutant (abi1). Ohio Wesleyan University Science Poster Symposium, Delaware, OH, April. (Poster)

Awards:

• National Science Foundation/Animal Behavior Society Charles Turner Award, 2011
• Ohio Wesleyan University Elizabeth Cass Wills Prize for Graduate Study in Zoology, 2011
• Ohio Wesleyan University Theory to Practice Grant Program, 201

Email: l441c205@ku.edu

Advisor: A. Townsend Peterson

Education:

• Current doctoral aspirant in ecology and evolutionary biology
• M.S. in geography from Michigan State University, 2010

• B.A. in geography from Michigan State University, 2008

Research Interests: Modeling spatial distributions of disease hosts, vectors, and reservoirs, and their relationships to natural environments under changing ecological conditions, using remote sensing, GIS technologies, and predictive modeling approaches.

Publications:

• Stevens S, Campbell L, Urquahrt G, Kramer D, Qi J (2011). Examining complexities of forest cover change during armed conflict on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast. Biodiversity and Conservation, DOI 10.1007/s10531-011-0093-1.

Select Presentations:

• Campbell LP, Finley AO, Benbow ME, van Ravensway J, Small P, Johnson RC, Sopoh G, Merritt R, Qi J. Spatial Relationships of Landscape Structure and Buruli Ulcer Disease in Benin, West Africa. Oral presentation 2010 Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference, March 22-25, 2010, Atlantic City, NJ.
• Campbell LP, Finley AO, Benbow ME, van Ravensway J, Small P, Johnson RC, Soppin G, Merritt R, Qi J. Quantifying Relationships between Landscape Patterns and Environmental Bacteria Infections: Buruli Ulcer Disease, Benin, Africa. Poster presentation 2009 GeoMed Conference, November 14-16, 2009, Charleston, SC.

• Campbell LP, van Ravensway J, Benbow ME, Small P, Johnson RC, Soppin G, Merritt R, Qi J. Exploring Environmental Factors Related to Buruli Ulcer Disease within the Couffu and Oueme Watersheds in Benin, Africa. Oral presentation World Health Organization Annual Meeting of the Global Buruli Ulcer Initiative 31 March – 2 April 2009, Cotonou, Benin.

Awards:

• 2011 IGERT C-CHANGE Trainee

Email: j844c323@ku.edu

Advisor: Joy Ward

Education:

• Current doctoral aspirant in ecology and evolutionary biology
• M.S. in biology from Kansas State University

• B.S. in biology from the University of Central Arkansas

Hometown: North Little Rock, AR

Research Interests: Broadly, I am interested in how climate change, stressors, and anthropogenic modifications of ecosystems influence the ecology of plants.  I use leaf-level and whole plant physiological and isotopic measurements as tools to infer how plants might respond to said climatic changes, stressors, or anthropogenic modifications.  My previous research experiences have focused on the physiological responses of invasive plant species.

Recent Publications:

• Carter, J.M, J.B. Nippert. Pending Revisions. Leaf-level physiological response of Tamarix ramosissima to increasing salinity.  Journal of Arid Environments.
• Carter, J.M., J.B. Nippert.  In Review.  Physiological responses of Tamarix ramosissima to increasing salinity in a controlled environment.  The Journal of Experimental Botany.

• Carter, J.M., R. Steiger.  In Review. Isotopic fractionation of 13C in C3 and C4 photosynthetic pathways:  complex name, simple teaching.  The Science Teacher.

Recent Presentations:

• 2010   Carter, J.M., & J.B., Nippert.  The Maintenance of Physiological Functioning of Tamarix ramosissima across a broad soil salinity gradient.  95th Annual ESA meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
• 2010   Carter, J.M., & R. Steiger.  Isotopic Fractionation of 13C in C3 and C4 Photosynthetic Pathways:  Complex Name, Simple Teaching.  2010 Annual NSF GK12 meeting, Washington, D.C.
• 2010   Carter, J.M., & J.B. Nippert.  The Maintenance of Physiological Functioning of Tamarix ramosissima across a broad soil salinity gradient.  36th Annual Kansas State University Division of Biology Student Research Forum, Manhattan, KS.

• 2009   Carter, J.M., & J.B. Nippert   Tamarix leaf and whole plant physiological response to increasing salinity.   Tamarisk and Russian Olive Research Conference, Reno, NV.

Recent Awards:

• NSF Climate Change IGERT Fellow, 2011-2016.
• John C. Frazier Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Research in Plant Science, Kansas State University Division of Biology, 2010
• National Science Foundation Fellowship, Kansas State University Gk-12 EiDROP program, 2009

Email: chanko@ku.edu

Advisor: Rafe Brown

Education:

• Current doctoral aspirant in ecology and evolutionary biology
• M.Sc. in environment and development from the National University of Malaysia

• B.Sc. in biology (zoology) from the National University of Malaysia

Hometown: Malaysia

Research Interests: Systematics and phylogeography of southeast Asian amphibians and reptiles

Publications:

• Grismer, L.L., Quah, E.S.H., Siler, C.D., Chan, K.O., Wood, P.L.Jr., Grismer, J.L., Shahrul, A.M.S. & Norhayati, A. 2011. Peninsular Malaysia’s first limbless lizard: a new species of skink of the genus Larutia (Böhme) from Pulau Pinang with a phylogeny of the genus. Zootaxa, 2799, 29–40.
• Grismer, L.L., Shahrul, A.M.S., Quah, E.S.L., Muin, M.A., Chan, K.O., Grismer, J.L. & Norhayati, A. 2010. A new spiny, prehensile-tailed species ofCyrtodactylus(Squamata: Gekkonidae)from Peninsular Malaysia with a preliminary hypothesis of relationships basedon morphology. Zootaxa, 2625, 40–52.
• Chan, K.O. & Norhayati, A. 2010. A new insular species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northeastern Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2389, 47–56.
• Grismer, L.L., Chan, K.O., Quah, E.S.L., Muin, M.A., Savage, A.E., Grismer, J,L, Norhayati, A., Greer, L.F. & Remigio, A-C. 2010. Another new, diminutive Rock Gecko (Cnemaspis Strauch) from Peninsular Malaysia and a discussion of resource partitioning in sympatric species pairs. Zootaxa, 2569, 55–66.
• Chan, K.O., Grismer, L.L., Shahrul, A.M.S., Quah, E.S.L., Muin, M.A., Savage, A.E., Grismer, J.L., Norhayati, A., Remigio, A-C. & Greer, L.F. 2010. A new endemic rock Gecko Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Gunung Jerai, Kedah, northwestern Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2576: 59–68.
• Grismer, L.L. & Chan, K.O. 2010. Another new Rock Gecko (genus Cnemaspis Strauch 1887) from Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2419: 51–62.
• Chan, K.O. & Grismer, L.L. 2010. Re-assessment of the Reinwardt’s Gliding Frog, Rhacophorus reinwardtii  (Schlegel 1840) (Anura: Rhacophoridae) in Southern Thailand and  Peninsular Malaysia and its re-description as a new species. Zootaxa, 2505: 40–50.
• Ngo, V.T. & Chan, K.O. 2010. A new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1826 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Khanh Hoa province, Southern Vietnam. Zootaxa, 2504: 47–60.
• Wood, P. L. Jr., Grismer, J.L., Grismer, L. L., Norhayati, A., Chan, K. O., & Bauer, A.  2009. Two new montane species of Acanthosaura Gray, 1831 (Squamata: Agamidae) from Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2012: 28–46.
• Grismer, L. L., Norhayati, A., Chan, K.O., Daicus, B., Muin, M.A., Wood, P.L.Jr. & Grismer, J.L. 2009.  Two new diminutive species of Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2019, 40-56.

• Chan, K. O., Grismer, L. L., Norhayati, A., & Daicus, B. 2009.  A new species of Gastrophrynoides (Anura: Microhylidae): an addition to a previously monotypic genus and a new genus for Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2124: 63–68.

Presentations:

• Chan, K.O. 2009. Notes on some poorly know frogs from Peninsular Malaysia. Conference on Biology of the Amphibians in the Sunda Region, South-East Asia, Kuching, Sarawak, 28 Sept – 1 Oct.
• Chan, K.O. 2009. The herpetofauna of Melaka Forest Reserve. Biological Diversity Expedition to Melaka, Forestry Department of Melaka and Peninsular Malaysia, 31 March – 2 April.
• Chan, K.O. 2008. Herpetofauna of Gunung Angsi Forest. Scientific Expedition to Gunung Angsi forest Reserve, Forestry Department of Negeri Sembilan and Peninsular Malaysia, 4–5 May.
• Chan, K.O. 2008. Amphibians and reptiles of Cameron Highlands. Biological Diversity Expedition to Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Forestry Department of Pahang and Peninsular Malaysia, 3–5 August.
• Chan, K.O. 2008. A survey on the Herpetofauna at Machinchang Granite Geoforest, Pulau Langkawi, Peninsular Malaysia. Langkawi Research Centre Symposium, Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 16–17 Dec.

Email: eschang1@gmail.com

Mentor: Paulyn Cartwright

Education:

• Current master's student in ecology and evolutionary biology

• B.A. in biology from Swarthmore College, 2011

Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland

Research Interests: Invertebrate phylogenetics and evolution, evolutionary developmental biology

Email: iera@ku.edu

Advisor: Joy Ward

Education:

• Current doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology
• M.S. in botany from the University of Jabalpur, India

• B.S. in biology from the University of Jabalpur, India

Recent Publication:

• Loubna Kerkeb,Indrani Mukherjee,IeraChatterjee,Brett Lahner,David E. SaltandErin L. Connolly. 2008. Iron-Induced Turnover of the Arabidopsis IRON-REGULATED TRANSPORTER1 Metal Transporter Requires Lysine Residues. Plant Physiology 146: 1964-1973.

Email: xichen@ku.edu

Advisor: Justin Blumenstiel

Education:

• Current doctoral aspirant in ecology and evolutionary biology
• M.S. in biology from Liaoning Normal University, 2011

• B.S. in biology from Ahnui Agricultural College, 2008

Hometown: Hefei, China

Research Interests: Evolutionary genetics and molecular evolution

Publications:

• M. Xie, L. Zhang, R. Cai, X. Chen, X. Ji, F. Ma. 2010. Feature analysis of the base mutations in coding region (BMCRs) of human syndrome-related genes. Journal of Liaoning Normal University ( Nature Science Edition), 2010-02.
• Song, Yumei, Chen, Xi, and Chen, Xueping. 2010. Nonparallel accumulation of synonymous and non‐synonymous substitutions on human and chimpanzee chromosomes, Journal of University of Science and Technology of China 40 (5).

• X. Ma, J. Li‐Ling, Q. Huang, X. Chen, L. Hou, F. Ma. 2009. Systematic analysis of alternative promoters correlated with alternative splicing in human genes. Genomics 93(5): 420‐425.

Awards:

• 2008. University Excellent Thesis, Ahnui Agricultural College.
• 2007. Outstanding Student Scholarship, Anhui Agricultural College.
• 2006. Outstanding Student Scholarship, Anhui Agricultural College.

Email: jjhays@ku.edu

Advisor: Kirsten Jensen

Education: Current doctoral candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology; M.S. in biology from Sam Houston State University; B.S. in biology from Peru State College.

Hometown: Shubert, NE

Research Interests: Reevaluating the taxonomy of several lecanicephalidean genera currently recognized as genera inquirenda parasitizing batoids in the Indo-Pacific and addressing their family level relationships. Investigating host-parasite relationships, specifically those lecanicephalideans parasitizing multiple species of the spotted eagle ray genus, Aetobatus. Interrelationships of the Lecanicephalidea.

Recent Publications:

• Cielocha, J. J., T. J. Cook, and R. E. Clopton. 2011 Host Utilization and Distribution of Nubenocephalid Gregarines (Eugregarinorida: Actinocephalidae) Parasitizing Argia spp. (Odonata: Zygoptera) in the Central United States. Comparative Parasitology 78(1): 152-160. DOI: 10.1654/4459.1
• Cielocha, J. J. and K. Jensen. 2011. The description of a most unusual lecanicephalidean cestode, Hexacanalis folifer n. sp. (Lecanicephalidea), from the zonetail butterfly ray, Gymnura zonura (Bleeker) (Rajiformes: Gymnuridae), with a redescription of the type species, H. abruptus (Southwell, 1911) Perrenoud, 1931 and comments on the validity of the genus. Systematic Parasitology 79: 1-16. DOI 10.1007/s11230-011-9291-1.
• Clopton, R. E., T. J. Cook, and J. J. Cielocha.2010 Nubenocephalus nickoli n. sp. and Nubenocephalus xunantunichensis n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida: Actinocephalidae) Parasitizing Damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera) in Belize, Central America. Comparative Parasitology. 77: 125-136.
• Hays, J.J., R.E. Clopton, T.J. Cook, and J.L. Cook. 2007. Revision of the genus Nubenocephalus and description of Nubenocephalus secundus n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Actinocephalidae) parasitizing adults of Argia sedula (Odonata: Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae) in the Primitive Texas Big Thicket, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology 74(2): 286-293.
• Clopton, R.E. and J. J. Hays. 2006. Revision of the genus Protomagalhaensia and description of Protomagalhaensia wolfi n. comb. (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida: Hirmocystidae) and Leidyana haasi n. comb. (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida: Leidyanidae) parasitizing the Lobster Cockroach, Nauphoeta cinerea (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae). Comparative Parasitiology 73(2): 137-156.
• Hays, J.J., R.E. Clopton, D.F. Cappaert, and D.R. Smitley. 2004. Revision of the genus Stictospora and description of Stictospora villani, n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida: Actinocephalidae) from larvae of the Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), in Michigan. Journal of Parasitology 90(6): 1450-1456.

Presentations at Meetings:

• Cielocha, J.J. and K. Jensen. 2011. On the validity of Flapocephalus Deshmukh, 1979 (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea) and its potential diversity. Southwestern Association of Parasitologists, University of Oklahoma Biological Station, Oklahoma, U.S.A., April.
• Cielocha, J.J., K. Jensen, and J. Borucinska. 2010. The taxonomic status of Hexacanalis (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea), with comments on pathology caused by one species of Hexacanalis from a butterfly ray in Indonesia. The XII International Congress of Parasitology, Melbourne, Australia, August. Poster.
• Cielocha, J.J. and K. Jensen. 2010. Investigating the validity of two questionable lecanicephalidean genera Cephalobothrium and Hexacanalis. American Society of Parasitologists, Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A., June.
• Clopton, R., T. Cook, and J. Cielocha. 2010. Revision of Nubenocephalus: Canalization, plasticity, and morphometric character analysis in gregarine taxonomy. American Society of Parasitologists, Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A., June.
• Cielocha, J.J. and K. Jensen. 2010. Investigating the validity of two questionable lecanicephalidean genera Cephalobothrium and Hexacanalis. Southwestern Association of Parasitologists, University of Oklahoma Biological Station, Oklahoma, U.S.A., April.
• Cielocha, J.J. and K. Jensen. 2009. Towards the stabilization of the lecanicephalidean genus Cephalobothrium and its allies. Southwestern Association of Parasitologists, University of Oklahoma Biological Station, Oklahoma, U.S.A., April.
• Hays, J.J., T.J. Cook, and R.E. Clopton. 2008. A biogeographical study of gregarines parasitizing Argia spp; The American Society of Parasitologists, Arlington, TX, June.
• Hays, J.J., T.J. Cook, and R.E. Clopton. 2008. A biogeographical study of gregarines parasitizing Argia spp. in Texas; Southwestern Association of Parasitologists, University of Oklahoma Biological Station, Kingston, OK, April.
• Hays, J.J., T.J. Cook, and R.E. Clopton. 2008. Argia spp. and their gregarines in 6 biogeographical provinces of Texas; Texas Academy of Science, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, March.
• Hays, J. J., T.J. Cook, and R.E. Clopton. 2007. Patterns of gregarine infection in Argia spp. across biogeographical provinces. American Society of Parasitologists; The First North American Congress of Parasitology, Mérida, Mexico, June.

Recent Awards:

• David A. Becker Memorial Award for Best Student Paper Presentation. Southwestern Association of Parasitologists, 2011, $300.
• NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, "Toward resolving lecanicephalidean familial relationships using morphology and molecules", 2011-2013, $14,555.
• Honorable Mention-Best Student Paper Competition. American Society of Parasitologists, Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A., 2010.
• Marc Dresden Student Travel Grant. Travel to American Society of Parasitologists annual meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A., 2010. $250.
• David A. Becker Memorial Award for Best Student Paper Presentation. Southwestern Association of Parasitologists, 2010.
• Alpha Omicron Phi Scholarship, Lawrence, Kansas, 2009, $1100.
• Honorable Mention-Best Student Paper Competition, Southwestern Association of Parasitologists, 2009.
• Ida H. Hyde Scholarship, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 2008, $2500.

Email: j018c471@ku.edu

Advisor: Lena Hileman

Education:

• Current doctoral aspirant in ecology and evolutionary biology

• B.S. in biology from Dickinson College, 2011

Hometown: Cranford, NJ

Research Interests: Plant epigenetics

Awards:

• 2007-2011. Benjamin Rush Scholarship for academic merit

Email: andreac@ku.edu

Advisor: Daphne Fautin

Education: Current Ph.D. candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology; Grad. Cert. in environmental management from Griffith University; B.S. (Hons I) in marine biology from the University of Queensland.

Hometown: Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Previous employment:

• Research Assistant—Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
  http://www.mtq.qm.qld.gov.au/
• Research Assistant—Queensland Museum, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
  http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/

Research Interests: Taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny of Actiniaria (sea anemones), cnidarian biology and phylogeny, invertebrate zoology, marine biology, symbiosis

Dissertation Research: Character analysis of branched outgrowths and spherical defensive structures: implications for taxonomy and phylogeny of sea anemones

Publications:

• Crowther, AL, DG Fautin, and CC Wallace. 2011. Stylobates birtlesi sp. n., a new species of carcinoecium-forming sea anemone (Cnidaria: Actiniaria: Actiniidae) from eastern Australia. Zookeys 89:33–48.
• Fautin, DG, AL Crowther, and CC Wallace. 2008. Sea anemones (Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Actiniaria) of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54:35–64.
• Khan, RN, JHA Becker, AL Crowther, and ID Lawn. 2004. Spatial distribution of symbiotic shrimps (Periclimenes holthuisi, P. brevicarpalis, Thor amboinensis) on the sea anemone Stichodactyla haddoni. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 84:201–203.
• Khan, RN, JHA Becker, AL Crowther, and ID Lawn. 2003. Sea anemone host selection by the symbiotic saddled shrimp Periclimenes holthuisi. Marine and Freshwater Research 54:653–656.

Popular articles:

• Crowther, A.L. and Wallace, C.C. (2005) Australia's Sea Anemones. Biologue (an ABRS Publication) 30:14-15.

Recent Presentations:

• Crowther, A.L. 2010. Tropical sea anemones with branched outgrowths and spherical defensive structures: a revision based on molecules and morphology.  Marine Biodiversity Meeting, NCB Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. 1 April.
• Crowther, A.L. 2009.  Indo-Pacific sea anemones possessing branched outgrowths: how many species? Sigma Xi Research Paper Competition, April.
• Crowther, A.L., Cartwright, P., Daly, M., & Fautin, D.G. 2010. Evolution of column morphology in Aliciidae (Cnidaria, Hexacorallia, Actiniaria) inferred from a molecular phylogeny. Evolution. Portland, OR. June.
• Crowther, A.L. 2009. Does size matter? Species delineation of Indo-Pacific sea anemones possessing branched outgrowths. The University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Graduate Student Organziation Retreat. Lawrence, KS. October.
• Crowther, A.L. 2009. Indo-Pacific sea anemones possessing branched outgrowths: how many species?  141st Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, Topeka, KS.  First place in PhD oral presentation section. March.
• Crowther, A.L. 2008. Taxonomic uncertainty in the sea anemone genus Lebrunia. Xth Young Systematists’ Forum, London, UK. December.
• Crowther, A.L.  2008.  Taxonomic uncertainty in the sea anemone genus Lebrunia. Panorama Presentation Series, The University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute. October.
• Crowther, A.L. 2008.  Sea anemones with elaborate outgrowths and spherical defensive structures. Panorama Presentation Series, The University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute. September.
• Crowther, A.L., M. Daly, and D.G. Fautin. 2008.  Sea anemones possessing branched outgrowths and spherical defensive structures. Assembling the Tree of Life: Cnidaria annual meeting, La Paz, Mexico. July.
• Crowther, A.L. 2008.  Shell-forming sea anemones from Australia. The Biological Sciences Alumni Advisory Board Spring Research Symposium. The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. April. [poster]
• Crowther, A.L.  2008.  A symbiotic relationship between a sea anemone Bunodeopsis? and the crab Lybia.  Sigma Xi Research Paper Competition, the University of Kansas. April.
• Crowther, A.L., Fautin, D.G., and Daly, M. 2008. Systematic position of Thalassianthidae among sea anemones using mitochondrial and nuclear genes; Annual meeting of the Society of Comparative and Integrative Biology, San Antonio, TX, January.
• Crowther, A.L. and Fautin, D.G. 2008. Shell-forming sea anemones from Australia; Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, January. (Poster)
• Crowther, A.L. 2008. A symbiotic relationship between a sea anemone Bunodeopsis? and the crab Lybia; Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Student Research Paper Competition, University of Kansas Chapter, Lawrence, KS, April.
• Crowther, A.L. 2007. A symbiotic relationship between a sea anemone Bunodeopsis? and the crab Lybia; The University of Kansas Natural History Museum Graduate Student Organization Retreat, Lawrence, KS, November.
• Crowther, A.L. 2007. A new species of shell-forming sea anemone from Australia; Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Student Research Paper Competition, University of Kansas Chapter, Lawrence, KS, March. Third place in early graduate student division.

Recent Awards:

• Graduate Scholarly Presentation Travel Award, University of Kansas, 2010, $400.
• Martin Fellowship, National Museum of Natural History Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands, 2009, 2500€
• Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem Program, Smithsonian Institution, Summer 2009, $1250.
• Kansas Academy of Science Student Presentation Award, Spring 2009, $300.
• Kansas Academy of Science Student Research Grant, Fall 2008, $1000.
• AMNH Lerner Gray Fund for Marine Research, Spring 2008, $1250.
• Smithsonian short-term visitor scholarship, 2008, $1875.
• The University of Kansas Women's Club Scholarship. 2008-2009, $1250.
• Panorama Small Grant Program, The University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, Spring 2008, $950.
• Travel Grant, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Kansas, Spring 2008, $300.
• Panorama Small Grant Program, The University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, Spring 2007, $850.
• Travel Grant, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Kansas, Spring 2007, $200.
• Friday Harbor Laboratories Financial Aid to attend Comparative Embryology course, The University of Washington, Summer 2007, $1200.
• Ida Hyde Scholarship, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Kansas, Fall 2006, $3000.

Email: steved@ku.edu

Mentor: Michael Engel

Education:

• Current doctoral candidate in entomology
• M.A. in entomology from the University of Kansas, 2008
• B.S. in entomology with honors from the University of Maryland, 2005

Hometown: Gaithersburg, MD

Research Interests: Phylogenetics of Curculionoidea, systematics of baridine weevils, fossil weevils, and evolutionary development of the weevil rostrum.

Recent Publications:

• Davis. S. R. 2011. Delimiting baridine weevil evolution (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society  161(1): 88-156.
• Davis, S. R., Engel, M. S., and Ren, D. 2010. A pupal caddisfly from the Early Cretaceous of China (Trichoptera). Cretaceous Research 31: 1-4.
• Davis, S. R. and Engel, M. S. 2010. Antiquity and evolution of prosternal horns in baridine weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Journal of Paleontology 84(5): 918-926.
• Omar, Y. M., Zhang, R., and Davis, S. R. 2010. Description of a new species of Pentarthrum Wollaston (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae) from China with an annotated checklist to species of the world. Zootaxa 2629: 47-60.

• Davis, S. R. and Davis, D. R. 2009. Neotropical Tineidae VIII: Falsivalva, a new genus of Tineidae from Austral South America with extreme modification of the male post-abdominal    terga (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea).  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 111 (2): 378-392.
• Davis. S. R. 2009. Morphology of Baridinae and related groups (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Zookeys 10: 1-136.
• Davis, S. R. and Engel, M. S. 2009. An Orthognathine weevil of the genus Mesocordylus in Dominican Amber (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Dryophthoridae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 59: 233-238.
• Davis, S., Gentili-Poole, P., and Mitter, C. 2008. A revision of the Cossulinae of Costa Rica and cladistic analysis of the world species (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154: 222-277.
• Davis, S.R. and Engel, M.S. 2007. A new ambrosia beetle in Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae). Alavesia 1: 121-124.
• Davis, S.R. 2007. Wing locking mechanisms in the weevil subfamily Baridine (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Entomological Research 37(suppl. 1): A103.
• Omar, Y.M., Zhang, R., and Davis, S.R. 2007. On the genus Stereoborus Wollaston (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae) with description of a new species from China. The Coleopterist's Bulletin 61(2): 200-207.

Recent Presentations:

• Davis, S.R. and Engel, M.S. 2010. Early evolution of the weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea): evidence from the Yixian Formation, China, and the Karatau site, Kazakhstan. Entomological Society of America annual meeting, San Diego, California. 13 December. Oral paper.
• Davis, S.R., Engel, M.S., Legalov, A., and Ren, D. 2010. Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Yixian Formation, China. 5th International Conference on Fossil Insects, Arthropods, and Amber (Fossils X3), Beijing, China. 23 August. Poster presentation.
• Davis, S.R. 2010. Preliminary studies on rostrum development in the rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Graduate Student Research Competition, University of Kansas. 31 March. Poster presentation.
• Davis, S.R. 2009. Preliminary studies on rostrum development in the rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Entomological Society of America annual meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana. December. (Poster)
• Davis, S.R. and Yoshitake, H. 2009. Phylogenetic study of the weevil subfamily Ceutorhynchinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) based on morphology. Entomological Society of America annual meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana. December. (Poster)
• Davis, S.R. 2009. Evolution of baridine weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae). Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 9 June. Invited oral paper.
• Davis, S.R. 2008. Evolution of horny weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae). Entomological Society of America annual meeting, Reno, Nevada. 17 November. Oral paper.
• Davis, S.R. 2007. Phylogeny of Baridinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America; San Diego, CA, December.
• Davis, S.R. 2007. Wing locking mechanisms in the weevil subfamily Baridinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae); Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, San Diego, CA, December. (Poster)
• Davis, S.R. 2007. Weevil diversity in Miocene Dominican amber: A preliminary overview (Coleoptera: Curculionidae); Annual meeting of the Central States Entomological Society, Emporia, KS, April.

Recent Awards:

• NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, "Evolution of the weevils and development of the weevil rostrum (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea", 2011-2013 ($14,824).
• Foreign Language Area Scholarship (Japanese), 2010-2011
• Foreign Language Area Scholarship (Japanese), 2009-2010
• NSF East Asia-Pacific Summer Institutes fellowship, 2009
• EEB Travel Award, 2009.
• KU Entomology Endowment Travel Grant, 2009
• NSF East Asia-Pacific Summer Institutes fellowship, 2008
• Foreign Language Area Scholarship, 2007–08
• Foreign Language Area Scholarship (Chinese), 2007-2008
• NSF East Asia-Pacific Summer Institutes fellowship, 2006

Email: taroeldredge@ku.edu

Advisor: Andrew Short

Education: Current Ph.D. aspirant in entomology; B.S. in entomology from Cornell University

Hometown: Tokyo, Japan

Research Interests: Systematics, evolution, and behavior of the beetle family Staphylinidae

Publications

• Eldredge, K.T. 2010. A new species of Myrmedonata Cameron from eastern Kansas (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). ZooKeys. 53: 17-24. doi: 10.3897/zookeys@@.493.

Recent Presentations:

• 2010. Eldredge, K.T. Revisiting the taxonomy of some North American Lomechusini (Aleocharinae). Staphylinidae Meeting XXV, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 13-16.
• 2007. Eldredge. K.T. Revision of the genus Hapalaraea (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae). Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. San Diego, California, USA, December.

Awards:

• 2009. University of Kansas Diversity Fellowship ($20,000)
• 2007. Department of Entomology, Cornell University. Support to attend the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, San Diego, California, USA ($250)

Email: amfuiten@ku.edu

Advisors: Rafe Brown and Linda Trueb

Education: Current Ph.D. aspirant in ecology and evolutionary biology; B.S. in biology from the University of San Francisco

Hometown: Forest Grove, OR

Research Interests: Systematics, phylogenetics, and biogeography of Southeast Asian amphibians and reptiles

Recent Publications:

• Fuiten, A. M., L. J. Welton, A. C. Diesmos, A. J. Barley, B. Oberheide, M. V. Duya, E. L. B. Rico, and R. M. Brown. 2011. A New Species of Stream Frog (Sanguirana) from the Mountains of Luzon Island, Philippines. Herpetologica 67(1). In press.

Recent Presentations:

• Fuiten, A. 2010. Osteological Correlates of Ecomorph Variation in the Anuran Family Ceratobatrachidae, Presentation, Annual Graduate Student Organization Retreat, Lawrence, Kansas, October.
• Fuiten, A. 2010. Osteological Correlates of Ecomorph Variation in the Anuran Family Ceratobatrachidae, Poster, Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Providence, Rhode Island, July. Poster.
• Fuiten, A. 2009. Amolops species diversity in Myanmar. University of Kansas, Natural History Museum Graduate Student Organization Retreat, Lawrence, KS, October.
• Fuiten, A. 2008. Four new Amolops species from Myanmar, Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Montreal, Canada, July. (Poster)

Awards:

• EEB Travel Award, University of Kansas, 2010.
• Biology Department Grant-in-Aid for Student Research and Travel, University of San Francisco, 2008.
• Valedictorian Finalist, University of San Francisco, 2008.
• Robert Bellarmine Award for Academic Excellence, St. Ignatius Institute, University of San Francisco, 2008.