EDUCATION
| 1972-1977 | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Ph.D., May 1977 (thesis adviser: Peter F. Brussard; thesis title: "Patterns of variation and genetic differentiation in closely related species: the field crickets of eastern North America") |
| 1968-1969 | Department of Biochemistry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (withdrew February 1969) |
| 1967-1968 | Churchill College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England (studies in nerve and muscle physiology) |
| 1963-1967 | Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts; B.A., June 1967 |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 1996-2001 & 2006- |
Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (formerly Section of Ecology and Systematics), Cornell University | |
| 1991- | Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (formerly Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences), Cornell University | |
| 1989 | Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University, Oxford, England | |
| 1986-1990 | Associate Professor, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York | |
| 1982-1986 | Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut | |
| 1977-1982 | Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Yale University | |
| 1977 | Research Associate, Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University (Dr. Ronald Hoy) | |
| 1969-1972 | Research Assistant, Department of Biochemistry, Harvard Medical School (Dr. Susan Lowey) | |
| 1967 | Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University (Dr. Gustav Leinhard) (Summer) | |
| 1966 | Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University (Dr. Paul Doty) (Summer) | |
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of
Science, 1998-
Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1989
Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University, Fall Term 1981
Cornell Fellowship, 1972-1976
Churchill Fellowship, 1967-1968
Phi Beta Kappa, June 1967
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Editor-in-Chief, EVOLUTION, 2003-2006
Editorial Board, GENETICS, 2001-2003
Editorial Board, ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS,
1997-2001
Member, External Review Team, Department of Ecology and Evolution,
SUNY, Stony Book, 1997
Associate Editor, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 1993-1996
Member, Committee of Visitors, Systematic and Population Biology
Cluster, Division of Environmental Biology, NSF, May 1993
Associate Editor, EVOLUTION, 1991-1993
Member, External Committee to Review Programs in Molecular
Systematics and Population Biology at the Smithsonian Institution,
January 1992
Panel Member: Systematic Biology Program, NSF, 1987-1990; Population
Biology Program, NSF, Fall 1992
Participant, Meeting on the Asian Gypsy Moth sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, East Windsor, Connecticut, 1991
Secretary, Society for the Study of Evolution, 1985-1987
Coordinator, Population Biologists of New England, Spring Meeting,
1981
Board of Editors, AMERICAN SCIENTIST, 1980-1988
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Genetics Society of America
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society of Systematic Biology
INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS (1990-present)
| 2007 | Raleigh, North Carolina (Invited Seminar Speaker) |
| Banbury Conference, “Using Barcode Data in Studies of Molecular and Evolutionary Dynamics,” Cold Spring Harbor, New York (Invited Speaker/Organizer) | |
| University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Invited Seminar Speaker) | |
| Biology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Invited Seminar Speaker) | |
| 2006 | Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (Invited Seminar Speaker) |
| Presentation to Arts and Sciences Alumni, New York City (Invited Participant) | |
| Biology/Math Departments, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (Invited Seminar Speaker) | |
| Workshop at Mathematical Biosciences Institute, OSU, Columbus, Ohio (Invited Speaker) | |
| 2005 | Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (Invited Seminar Speaker) |
| 2004 | Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico (Invited Seminar Speaker) |
| 2003 | Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Invited Seminar Speaker) |
| CNRS/INRA, Montpellier, France (Invited Seminar Speaker) | |
| Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (Invited Seminar Speaker) | |
| 2002 | Entomology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (Invited Seminar Speaker) |
| 2001 | University of Maryland, Department of Zoology, College Park, Maryland (Invited Seminar Speaker) |
| Dartmouth College, Biology Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (Invited Seminar Speaker) | |
| Cornell Institute of Biology Teachers (Invited Seminar Speaker) | |
| 2000 | Seminar on Phylogeography, Hybridization, and Speciation in honor of Godrey Hewitt, Aussois, France (Invited Speaker) |
| Scripps Institute of Oceanography (Invited Speaker) | |
| Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Conference on Insect Chemical Ecology in the Molecular Era, Munich, Germany (Invited Speaker) | |
| 1999 | New England Molecular Evolutionary Biology Meeting, Albany, New York (Keynote Speaker) |
| 1997 | Department of Biology, Princeton University |
| Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University | |
| 1996 | Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis |
| Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside | |
| Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley | |
| Department of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz | |
| 1995 | Gypsy Moth Interagency Meeting, USDA, Annapolis, Maryland |
| Department of Biology, University of Rochester | |
| Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand | |
| Department of Zoology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand | |
| 1994 | Department of Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | |
| 1993 | Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia |
| Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe | |
| Department of Biology, Brown University | |
| Department of Biology, Wayne State University | |
| Department of Entomology, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station | |
| Symposium at Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Athens, Georgia | |
| 1992 | Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens |
| Symposium on "Insect Phylogenies from Nucleotide Sequences," National Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland | |
| 1991 | Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle | |
| Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces | |
| Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Arizona, Tucson | |
| Institut de Zoologie et d'Ecologie Animale, University of Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| 1990 | Symposium on Hybrid Zones and the Evolutionary Process, International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology IV, College Park, Maryland |
| Departments of Zoology and Botany, Washington State University, Pullman | |
| Department of Ecology, Evolutionary and Behavioral Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis |
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Current Majors
Maureen E. Carter, Ph.D., 2008;
Benjamin H. Hamilton, Ph.D., 2011; Erica L. Larson, Ph.D., 2012; Luana S. Maroja, Ph.D., 2008; Marie L. Nydam, Ph.D., 2009; Findley Ransler, Ph.D., 2012; James R. Walters, Ph.D., 2008
Former Majors
Sean P. Mullen, Ph.D., 2006; Erik B. Dopman, Ph.D., 2005; Leila T. Hatch, Ph.D., 2004; Charles L. Ross, Ph.D., 2000; Nathan R. Lovejoy, Ph.D., 1999;
Scott E. Stanley, Ph.D., 1999; Christopher S. Willett, Ph.D.,
1999; Laura A. Katz, Ph.D., 1996; Andrew V. Brower, Ph.D., 1994;
Benjamin B. Normark, Ph.D., 1994; Nelson D. Young, Ph.D., 1994;
Rob R. Ramey II, Ph.D., 1993; Beate D. Nuernberger, 1991; Timothy
M. Collins, Ph.D. (Yale), 1989; David Rand, Ph.D. (Yale), 1987;
William Lawrence, Ph.D. (Yale), 1986; Richard Grosberg, Ph.D.
(Yale), 1982; Daniel J. Howard, Ph.D. (Yale), 1982
POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS
Ryan Thum, 2004-2006; José Andres, 2003-2006; Ruth Hufbauer, 1999-2000; Richard
E. Broughton, 1997-1999; M. Damhnait McHugh, 1994-1996; Kerry
L. Shaw, 1993-1995; Bernard J. Crespi, 1991-1992; Brian D. Farrell,
1991-1992; Jonathan M. Brown, 1989-1991; Makio Takeda, 1978-1979