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CURRICULUMVITAE
CHRISTOPHERJ.SCHNEIDER
DepartmentofBiology,BostonUniversity,5CummingtonMall,Boston,MA02215,USAemail:[email protected]:617-353-5566
website:http://people.bu.edu/cschneidPresentPositions
2015–present Professor,DepartmentofBiology,BostonUniversity2005–present Associate,MuseumofComparativeZoology,HarvardUniversity2002–present SeniorResearchFellow,CenterforTropicalResearch,Instituteofthe
Environment&Sustainability,UCLA
Degrees
Ph.D.1993 UniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeley(Zoology)M.A. 1987 UniversityofTexasatAustin(BiologicalSciences)B.S. 1982 LewisandClarkCollege,Portland,Oregon(Biology)
PreviousPositionsandProfessionalExperience
2005-2015 AssociateProfessor,DepartmentofBiology,BostonUniversity2012–2014 Director,CenterforEcologyandConservationBiology,BostonUniversity2011–2012 ActingDirector,CenterforEcologyandConservationBiology,BostonUniversity1998–2011 AssociateDirector,CenterforEcologyandConservationBiology,Boston
University1998–2004 AssistantProfessorofBiology,BostonUniversity1994–1998 SeniorResearchOfficer,Systematics,Biogeography,andEvolutionProgramme,
CooperativeResearchCentreforTropicalRainforestEcologyandManagement,DepartmentofZoology,UniversityofQueensland,Australia
1993–1994 PostDoctoralResearcher,MolecularSystematicsLaboratory,MuseumofVertebrateZoology,UniversityofCaliforniaBerkeley
AreasofSpecialization
Speciation,molecularecology,systematicsandpopulationgenetics,evolutionarybiology,herpetology,tropicalbiologyandconservation
ProfessionalMembershipandService
AssociateEditor,TheAmericanNaturalist,2004–2007SocietyofSystematicBiologistsSocietyfortheStudyofEvolutionAmericanSocietyofIchthyologistsandHerpetologistsAmericanSocietyofNaturalists
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RecordofExtramuralSupport
08/01/11–07/31/15NSF(DEB)“CollaborativeResearch:Thegeneticsofconvergenceatmultiplelevels:TheevolutionofcolorfuldewlapsinAnolis.PI:ChristopherJ.Schneider.TotalAward:$458,192.
06/01/10–05/31/12NSF(DEB)“DissertationResearch:GeneticsofcolorfulpigmentationinAnolislizards.”PI:ChristopherJ.Schneider;Ph.DCandidate:NicholasG.Crawford.TotalAward:$15,000
06/15/04-6/14/08 NASA"QuantifyingPatternsofBiodiversityinaChangingClimate:IntegratingBiologicalPointandProcessDatawithRemotelySensedEnvironmentalParameters."PI:ThomasB.Smith,UCLA.Co-PIs:ChristopherJ.Schneider(BU),SassanSaatchi(NASA/JPL),RobertK.Wayne(UCLA).TotalAward:$1,200,000.BUsubaward$216,872.
09/01/04-05/31/07 NSF(DEB)"SystematicsandTaxonomyoftherhacophoridAnuranRadiationinSriLanka."PI:ChristopherSchneider(BU).Co-PI:JamesHanken,HarvardUniversity.TotalAward:$250,000.
10/01/04–09/30/07NSF(DBI)"FacilitiesimprovementattheTiputiniBiodiversityStationinEasternEcuador."PI:TomKunz(BU).Co-PI:ChristopherJ.SchneiderandLauraM.MacLatchy(BU).TotalAward:$193,700.
04/01/04-03/31/05 NationalGeographicSociety.“Speciesdiversityandphylogenyofdirect-developingrhacophoridfrogsinSriLanka”.PI:ChristopherSchneider(BU).TotalAward:$24,300.
07/01/03–06/30/04NSF(EquipmentandInstrumentation)"PurchaseofanewcapillarysequencerfortheBiologyDepartmentatBostonUniversity."PI:MichaelSorenson.Co-PI's:ChristopherSchneider,JohnR.Finnerty,JohnCelenza.TotalAward:$102,887.
10/01/99-09/30/03 NationalScienceFoundationIntegratedResearchChallengesinEnvironmentalBiology(IRCEB)."Across-disciplinarystudyofevolutionaryprocessesthatsustainrainforestdiversity."PI:ThomasSmith(UCLA).Co-PI's:ChristopherSchneider(BU),CraigMoritz(UCBerkeley),RobertWayne(UCLA).TotalAward$2,619,068.BUsub-award$602,421.
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PeerReviewedPublications
*DenotespapersonwhichIamcorrespondingauthorbutforwhichIamnotfirstauthor.†Postdocfrommylab.‡Graduatestudent.§Undergraduatestudent.
2015‡MeegaskumburaM,SenevirathneG,BijuSD,SonaliG,‡MeegaskumburaS,PethiyagodaR,
HankenJ,SchneiderCJ(2015)Patternsofreproductive-modeevolutioninOldWorldtreefrogs(Anura,Rhacophoridae)ZoologicaScripta44,509–522.DOI:10.1111/zsc.12121
2014GrahamCH,CarnavalAC,CadenaCD,ZamudioKR,TobertsTE,ParraJL,McCainCM,Bowie
RCK,MoritzC,BainesSB,SchneiderCJ,VanDerWalJ,RahbekC,KozakKH,SandersNJ(2014)Theoriginandmaintenanceofmontanediversity:integratingevolutionaryandecologicalprocesses.Ecography:Articlefirstpublishedonline:2JUN2014DOI:10.1111/ecog.00578
2013‡KieswetterCM,SchneiderCJ(2013)PhylogeographyinthenorthernAndes:Complex
historyandcrypticdiversityinacloudforestfrog,Pristimantisw-nigrum(Craugastoridae).MolecularPhylogeneticsandEvolution69:417-429.
§MuñozMM,‡CrawfordNG,†McGreevyTJJr.,§MessanaNJ,§TarvinRD,§RevellLJ,§ZandvlietRM,§HopwoodJM,§MockE,SchneiderAL,SchneiderCJ(2013)DivergenceincolorationandecologicalspeciationintheAnolismarmoratusspeciescomplex.MolecularEcology22:2668-2682.
FullerTL,ThomassenHA,PeralvoM,BuermannW,MilaB,‡KieswetterCM,‡Jarrin-VP,
CameronDevittSE,MasonE,SchweizerRM,SchluneggerJ,ChanJ,WangO,SchneiderCJ,PollingerJP,SaatchiS,GrahamCH,WayneRK,SmithTB(2013)Intraspecificmorphologicalandgeneticvariationofcommonspeciespredictsrangesofthreatenedones.ProceedingsRoyalSocietyLondon(SeriesB)280:20130423.
2012KronforstMR,BarshGS,KoppA,MalletJ,MonteiroA,MullenSP,ProtasM,RosenblumEB,
SchneiderCJ,HoekstraHE(2012)Unravelingthethreadofnature’stapestry:thegeneticsofdiversityandconvergenceinanimalpigmentation.PigmentCell&MelanomaResearch25:411-433.
‡MeegaskumburaS,‡MeegaskumburaM,SchneiderCJ(2012)Re-evaluationofthe
taxonomyoftheSriLankanpigmyshrewSuncusfellowesgordoni(Soricidae:Crocidurinae)anditsphylogeneticrelationshipwithS.etruscus.Zootaxa3187:57-68.
2011AlfoldiJ,DiPalmaF,GrabherrM,WilliamsC,KongL,MauceliE,RusselP,LoweCBGlorR,
JaffeJD,RayDA,BoissinotS,BotkaC,ColbourneJK,FujitaMK,MorenoRG,tenHallersBF,HausslerD,HegerA,HeimanD,JanesDE,JohnsonJ,deJongPJ,KoriabineMY,LaraMC,NovickP,OrganCL,PeachSE,PoeS,deQueirozK,SangerT,SearleS,ShedlockAM,SmithJD,SmithZ,SwoffordR,Turner-MaierJ,WadeJ,YoungS,ZadissaA,GenomeSequencingPlatformandWholeGenomeAssemblyTeam,EdwardsSV,GlennT,
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SchneiderCJ,LososJB,LanderES,BreenM,PontingCP,Lindblad-TohK.(2011)ThegenomeofAnoliscarolinensis,thegreenanolelizard,andacomparativeanalysiswithbirdsandmammals.Nature477:587-591.
KusumiK,KulathinalRJ,AbzhanovA,BoissinotS,CrawfordNG,FairclothBC,GlennTC,
JanesDE,LososJB,MenkeDB,PoeS,SangerTJ,SchneiderCJ,StapleyJ,WadeJ,andWilson-RawlsJ(2011)DevelopingaCommunity-BasedGeneticNomenclatureforAnoleLizards.BMCGenomics12:554-566.
CadenaCD,KozakKH,GómezJP,ParraJL,McCainCM,BowieRCK,CarnavalAC,MoritzC,
RahbekC,RobertsTE,SandersNJ,SchneiderCJ,VanDerWalJ,ZamudioKR,GrahamCH(2011)Latitude,elevationalclimaticzonation,andspeciationinNewWorldvertebrates.ProceedingsoftheRoyalSocietyofLondon(SeriesB)279:194-201.
ThomassenHA,FullerT,BuermannW,MilaB,‡KieswetterCM,‡JarrinP,CameronSE,Mason
E,SchweizerR,SchluneggerJ,ChanJ,WangO,PeralvoM,SchneiderCJ,GrahamCH,PollingerJP,SaatchiS,WayneRK,SmithTB(2011)Mappingevolutionaryprocess:amulti-taxaapproachtoconservationprioritization.EvolutionaryApplications4:397-413.
2010andprior‡MeegaskumburaS,‡MeegaskumburaM,SchneiderCJ(2010)Systematicrelationshipsand
taxonomyofSuncusmontanusandS.murinusfromSriLanka.MolecularPhylogeneticsandEvolution55:473-487.
ThomassenHA,BuermannW,MilaB,GrahamCH,CameronSE,SchneiderCJ,PollingerJP,
SaatchiS,WayneRKandSmithTB(2010)Modelingenvironmentallyassociatedmorphologicalandgeneticvariationinarainforestbird,anditsapplicationforconservationprioritization.EvolutionaryApplications3:1-16.
‡MeegaskumburaS,SchneiderCJ(2008)AtaxonomicevaluationoftheshrewSuncus
montanus(Soricidae:Crocidurinae)ofSriLankaandIndia.CeylonJ.Sci.(Bio.Sci.)37:129-136.
SchneiderCJ(2008)Exploitinggenomicresourcesinstudiesofspeciationandadaptive
radiationoflizardsinthegenusAnolis.IntegrativeandComparativeBiology48:520-526.‡ChaverriG,SchneiderCJ,KunzTH(2008)Matingsystemofthetent-makingbatArtibeus
watsoni(Chiroptera:Phyllostomidae).JournalofMammalogy89:1361-1371.‡MeegaskumburaS,‡MeegaskumburaM,PethiyagodaR,Manamendra-ArachchiK,
SchneiderCJ(2007)Crocidurahikmiya,anewshrew(Mammalia:Soricomorpha:Soricidae)fromSriLanka.Zootaxa1665:19-30.
‡CampbellP,SchneiderCJ,ZubaidA,AdnanAM,KunzTH(2007)Morphologicaland
ecologicalcorrelatesofcoexistenceinMalaysianfruitbats(Chiroptera:Pteropodidae).JournalofMammalogy88:105–118.
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‡MeegaskumburaM,Manamendra-ArachchiK,SchneiderCJ,PethiyagodaR(2007)NewspeciesamongstSriLanka’sextinctshrubfrogs(Amphibia:Rhacophoridae:Philautus).Zootaxa1397:1-15.
‡CampbellP,SchneiderCJ,AdnanAM,ZubaidA,KunzTH(2006)Comparativepopulation
structureofCynopterusfruitbatsinpeninsularMalaysiaandsouthernThailand.MolecularEcology15:29-47.
BahirMM,‡MeegaskumburaM,Manamendra-ArachchiK,SchneiderCJ,PethiyagodaR
(2005)ReproductionandterrestrialdirectdevelopmentinSriLankanshrubfrogs(Ranidae:Rhacophorinae:Philautus).RafflesBulletinofZoologySupplement13:339-350.
‡CampbellP,SchneiderCJ,AdnanAM,ZubaidA,KunzTH(2004)Phylogenyand
phylogeographyofOldWorldfruitbatsintheCynopterusbrachyotiscomplex.MolecularPhylogeneticsandEvolution33:764-781.
BossuytF,‡MeegaskumburaM,BeenaertsN,GowerDJ,PethiyagodaR,RoelantsK,Mannaert
A,WilkinsonM,BahirMM,Manamendra-ArachchiK,NgPKL,SchneiderCJ,OomenOV,MilinkovitchMC(2004)LocalendemismwithintheWesternGhats–SriLankabiodiversityhotspot.Science306:479-481.
GrahamCJ,RonSR,SantosJC,SchneiderCJ,MoritzC.(2004)Integratingphylogeneticsand
environmentalnichemodelstoexplorespeciationmechanismsindendrobatidfrogs.Evolution58:1781-1793.
HoskinCJ,CouperPJ,SchneiderCJ(2003)AnewspeciesofPhyllurus(Lacertilia:
Gekkonidae)andarevisedphylogenyandkeyfortheAustralianleaf-tailedgeckos.Australian.J.Zool.51:153-164.
*‡MeegaskumburaM,BossuytF,PethiyagodaR,Manamendra-ArachchiK,BahirM,
MilinkovitchMC,SchneiderCJ(2002)SriLanka:Anamphibianhotspot.Science298:379
SmithTB,SchneiderCJ,HolderK(2001)Refugialisolationversusecologicalgradients:
Testingalternativemechanismsofevolutionarydivergenceinfourrainforestvertebrates.Genetica112:383-398.
KnoxAK,LososJB,SchneiderCJ(2001)Adaptiveradiationversusintraspecific
differentiation:MorphologicalvariationinCaribbeanAnolislizards.JournalofEvolutionaryBiology14:904-909.
Stuart-FoxDM,SchneiderCJ,MoritzC,CouperPJ(2001)Comparativephylogeographyof
threerainforestrestrictedlizardsfrommideastQueensland.AustralianJournalofZoology49:119-127.
†‡KingstonT,LaraMC,JonesG,AkbarZ,KunzTH,SchneiderCJ(2001).Acoustic
divergenceintwocrypticHipposiderosspecies:aroleforsocialselection?ProceedingsoftheRoyalSocietyofLondonSeriesB268:1381-1386.
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SchneiderCJ,LososJB,deQueirozK(2001).EvolutionaryrelationshipsoftheAnolis
bimaculatusgroupfromtheNorthernLesserAntilles.JournalofHerpetology35:1-12.MoritzC,PattonJL,SchneiderCJ,SmithTB(2000)Diversificationofrainforestfaunas:An
integratedmolecularapproach.AnnualReviewsofEcologyandSystematics31:533-563.CouperPJ,SchneiderCJ,HoskinC,CovacevichJA(2000).Australianleaf-tailedgeckos:
Phylogeny,anewgenus,twonewspeciesandothernewdata.MemoirsoftheQueenslandMuseum45:253-265.
SchneiderCJ,SmithTB,LarisonB,MoritzC(1999).Atestofalternativemodelsof
diversificationintropicalrainforests:Ecologicalgradientsversusrainforestrefugia.ProceedingsoftheNationalAcademyofSciencesUSA96:13869-13873.
SchneiderCJandMoritzC(1999).RainforestrefugiaandevolutioninAustralia'sWet
Tropics.ProceedingsoftheRoyalSocietyofLondonSeriesB266:191-196.SchneiderCJ,CunninghamM,MoritzC(1998)Comparativephylogeographyandthe
evolutionofreptilesandamphibiansendemictotheWetTropicsrainforestsofAustralia.MolecularEcology7:487-498.
WakeDBandSchneiderCJ(1998)Taxonomyoftheplethodontidsalamandergenus
Ensatina.Herpetologica54:279-298.CouperPJ,SchneiderCJ,CovacevichJA(1997)AnewspeciesofSaltuarius(Lacertilia:
Gekkonidae)fromgranite-based,openforestsofeasternAustralia.MemoirsoftheQueenslandMuseum42:91-96.
SchneiderCJ(1996)Distinguishingbetweenprimaryandsecondaryintergradationamong
morphologicallydifferentiatedpopulationsofAnolismarmoratus.MolecularEcology5:239-249.
MoritzC,Schneider,CJandWakeDB(1992)EvolutionaryrelationshipswithintheEnsatina
eschscholtziicomplexconfirmtheringspeciesinterpretation.SystematicBiology41:273-291.
BookChapters†LaraMC,GeiseL,SchneiderCJ(2005).Patternsofsmallmammaldiversificationinthe
AtlanticForestofBrazil.Pages311-333in:E.LaceyandP.Myers(eds.)MammalianDiversification:FromChromosomestoPhylogeography.UniversityofCaliforniaPublicationsinZoology.
SchneiderCJ&WilliamsSE(2005).EffectsofQuaternaryClimateChangeonRainforest
Diversity:InsightsfromSpatialAnalysesofSpeciesandGenesinAustralia'sWetTropics.Pages401-424in:E.Bermingham,C.W.Dick,andC.Moritz(eds.)TropicalRainforests:Past,Present,andFuture.UniversityofChicagoPress.
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MoritzC,JosephL,CunninghamM,SchneiderCJ(1997)MolecularperspectivesonhistoricalfragmentationofAustraliantropicalandsubtropicalrainforest:Implicationsforconservation.Pages442-454in:WFLauranceandROBierregaard(eds.)TropicalForestRemnants:Ecology,ManagementandConservationofFragmentedCommunities.UniversityofChicagoPress,Chicago.
ReviewsandCommentariesLososJB,SchneiderCJ(2009)Anolislizards.CurrentBiology19:R316-318.SmithTB,KarkS,SchneiderCJ,WayneRK,MoritzC(2001)Biodiversityhotspotsand
beyond:theneedforpreservingenvironmentaltransitions.TREE16:431.SchneiderCJ(2000).Naturalselectionandspeciation.ProceedingsoftheNationalAcademy
ofSciencesUSA97:12398-12399.
ConferencePresentationsandInvitedSeminars(since2000).*Presenterformulti-authoredpresentations;†Postdoc;‡Graduatestudent;§Undergraduate
07/13 GenomicsoflocaladaptationandcolorfulpigmentationinAnolislizards.NGCrawford‡*,TJMcGreevy†,CJSchneider.JointmeetingSocietyfortheStudyofEvolution,SocietyforSystematicBiologyandAmericanSocietyofNaturalists.
08/12 ThegeneticbasisofphenotypicdiversityanddivergenceinAnolismarmoratus.CJ
Schneider*,NGCrawford‡,TJMcGreevy†.SeventhWorldCongressofHerpetology,Vancouver,BC.
07/12 Crazyquilting:ThegenomicsoflocaladaptationanddivergencewithgeneflowinAnolis
marmoratus.CJSchneider*,NGCrawford‡,TJMcGreevy†.JointmeetingSocietyfortheStudyofEvolution,SocietyforSystematicBiologyandAmericanSocietyofNaturalists.Ottawa,Canada.
10/11 GeneticsandgenomicsofcolorfulpigmentationinAnolislizards.Universityof
Massachusetts,Boston.InvitedSpeaker.04/10 GeneticsandEvolutionofcolorfulpigmentationinAnolislizards.RadcliffeSymposium
on“TheGeneticsandEvolutionofAnimalColoration”,RadcliffeInstitute,Cambridge,MA.InvitedSpeaker.
10/09 GeneticsandGenomicsofcolorfulpigmentationinAnolis.BroadInstitute,Cambridge,
MA.InvitedSpeaker.10/09 GenomescanidentifiestwolociassociatedwithcolorpolymorphisminAnolis
marmoratus.RDTarvin§,NGCrawford‡,CJSchneider*.SymposiumontheBiologyofAnolis,HarvardUniversity.
07/09 GeneticsofcolorfulpigmentationinAnolislizards.NGCrawford‡*,HEHoekstra,JB
Losos,CJSchneider.GordonConference:Evolutionary&EcologicalFunctionalGenomics.Tilton,NH.
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04/09 AdaptivespeciationinAnolislizards.IowaStateUniversity.InvitedSpeaker.02/09 Localadaptation,sexualselectionandspeciationinAnolislizards.DarwinDays,Salem
StateCollege,InvitedSpeaker.01/09 Evolutionofdewlappigmentationinanolinelizards.NGCrawford‡*,HEHoekstra,JB
Losos,CJSchneider.SocietyofIntegrativeandComparativeBiology,AnnualMeeting,Boston,MA.
11/07 AnimalspeciesandSpeciation.FirstPortoAllegreEvolutionaryBiologyWorkshop,
UniversidadeFederaldoRioGrandedoSul,PortoAllegre,Brazil.Invitedspeaker.03/07 “Thereisgrandeurinthisviewoflife”:Darwin,Evolution,ScienceandSociety.Boston
MuseumofScience.InvitedpresentationforBostonareahighschoolstudentscoincidingwiththeopeningofthe“DarwinExhibit”,fromtheAmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory.
07/06 SpeciationinAnolislizards.NationalEvolutionarySynthesisCenter(NESCENT)
symposiumonCaribbeanBiogeography,DominicanRepublic.InvitedSpeaker.02/05 GeographicVariation,SelectionandSpeciation:DidDarwinhaveitright?Northeastern
University.GraduateStudentInvitedSpeaker.10/03 Speciationasapopulationprocess:Therelativerolesofselectionanddrift.Missouri
BotanicalGarden50thAnnualSystematicsSymposium.InvitedSpeaker.10/03 Selection,DriftandSpeciation.UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst.Invited
Speaker.06/02 AnewlydiscoveredadaptiveradiationofrhacophoridtreefrogsinSriLanka.American
SocietyofIchthyologistsandHerpetologistsAnnualMeeting,KansasCity,MO.06/02 LightenvironmentanddivergenceofcolorandpatternintheAnolismarmoratus
complex.AmericanSocietyofIchthyologistsandHerpetologistsAnnualMeeting,KansasCity,MO.
02/02 Testingalternativemodelsforvertebratediversificationintropicalrainforests.
UniversityofConnecticutInvitedspeaker.02/02 Vertebratediversificationinthetropics:DidDarwinhaveitright?SalemStateCollege,
DarwinDaysCelebrationInvitedspeaker.01/02 Testingalternativemodelsforvertebratediversificationintropicalrainforests.
WashingtonUniversity(St.Louis)Invitedspeaker.01/02 Sensorydrive,lightenvironmentandtheevolutionofpolymorphismintheAnolis
marmoratuscomplex.WashingtonUniversity(St.Louis)Invitedspeaker.
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10/01 Sensorydrive,sexualselection,andspeciation.Wood'sHoleMarineBiologicalLaboratoriesseminarseriesInvitedspeaker.
10/01 Testinghypothesesofdiversificationintropicalrainforests.HarvardUniversityOEB
seminarseriesInvitedspeaker.06/00 Theroleofecologyandnaturalselectionindiversificationoftropicalrainforest
vertebrates.SocietyfortheStudyofEvolution,SocietyofSystematicBiologists,andAmericanSocietyofNaturalistsJointAnnualMeeting,BloomingtonIndiana.
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ProfessionalService
EditorialBoardsAssociateEditor,TheAmericanNaturalist,2004-2007
HarvardRadcliffeInstituteforAdvancedStudySpring2014ScienceFellowshipFinalistSelectionCommittee
NSFReviewPanelsFall2013EvolutionaryEcologyFullProposalReviewSpring2013EvolutionaryEcologyPreproposalReviewFall2008PhylogeographyandBiogeographyFullProposalReviewFall2004BiodiversitySurveysandInventoriesFullProposalReviewFall2003BiologicalResearchCollectionsFullProposalReview
AdHocReviewerfor:ProceedingsoftheNationalAcademyofSciencesUSA;ProceedingsoftheRoyalSocietyofLondon;Evolution;SystematicBiology;Genetics;JournalofHeredity;JournalofEvolutionaryBiology;MolecularEcology;MolecularBiologyandEvolution;MolecularPhylogenyandEvolution;Genetics,SelectionandEvolution;Copeia;Herpetologica;NationalScienceFoundation;NaturalEnvironmentResearchCouncil(UK);IsraelScienceFoundation;andAustralianResearchCouncil.
CollegeandUniversityService
2013–2014 Director,CenterforEcologyandConservationBiology,BostonUniversity2012–2014 CoreCurriculumNaturalSciencesAssociateDirector2011–2014 InstitutionalAnimalCareandUseCommittee2008–2009 BostonUniversityDarwinBicentennialCelebrationCommittee2002–2005 BostonUniversityAcademicPolicyCommittee
DepartmentalService
BUTropicalEcologyProgramDirector(2014–present)AssociateChairforEcology,BehaviorandEvolution(2010–2012)MarineBiologyFieldStationReview(2011)WorkedwithBUMPdirectorJohnFinnertyandScientificDivingSupervisorPhilLobeltoassessfieldfacilitiesforBUMPfieldcoursesinBelize.PromotionandTenureCommittee(2003–2005;2006–2009)Chair’sAdvisoryCommittee2004–2005GraduateAdmissionsCommittee.1999–2001
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SearchcommitteememberonsixsearchcommitteesatBostonUniversity.ServedonfoursearchcommitteesfortheEcology,Behavior,andEvolutiongroupintheBiologyDepartmentthatresultedinfourhires.ServedonasearchcommitteefortheBUMarineProgram(BUMP)thatresultedintwohires,andservedonasearchcommitteeintheGeographyDepartmentthatresultedinonehire.
Chairman'sadhocBUMPadvisorycommittee.Servedonthedepartmentchairman'sadhocadvisorycommitteefortheBostonUniversityMarineProgram(BUMP)tointegratetheMarineProgramwiththeEcology,Behavior,andEvolutionprogramontheBUCharlesRiverCampus.
PublicOutreachandEducation
PublicLecturesatBostonMuseumofScience.IpresentedinvitedpubliclecturesonevolutiontoBostonareahighschoolstudentsattheBostonMuseumofSciencein2007coincidingwiththeopeningoftheDarwinExhibitattheMuseumofScience.
PBSEvolutionProject.MyresearchwasfeaturedinthePBSEvolutionseries.Iservedasanadvisorandreviewerofweb-basededucationalmaterials(seehttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/),andIparticipatedintheproductionofeducationalvideosandmaterialsforhigh-schoolstudentsandcollegefreshmen.
DarwinDaysspeaker(2002and2009).InvitedspeakerattheDarwinDayscelebrationhostedbySalemStateCollege,apublicoutreachandscienceeducationprojectinits30thyear.
TeachingandMentoringStudentsandPostdocs(minority*)Postdocs
AdamFreedman,NSFPostdoctoralResearchAssociate(2011–present).FormerpostdocwithJohnNovembreandRobertWayne,UCLA(2009–2011).
ThomasJ.McGreevy,NSFPostdoctoralFellow(2011–2013).Currentposition:Director,ConservationGeneticsLaboratory,UniversityofRhodeIsland.
MarciaLara,NSFsupportedSeniorResearchAssociate(1999–2002).Currentposition:SeniorOperationsStrategist,Biogen-Idec(2013–present).FormerManagerofMolecularBiologyProductionGroupandGeneticSequenceSampleRepository,BroadInstituteofHarvardandMIT(2003–2013).
JessicaWorthington-Wilmer,AmericanAssociationofUniversityWomenFellow(1999-2000);NSFsupportedResearchAssociate(2000-2001).Currentposition:Director,MolecularSystematicsProgramme,QueenslandMuseum,Brisbane,Australia(2002-present).
Ph.D.Students
WilliamCaffry(2014–present)NicholasCrawford(2007–2013).Currentposition:Postdoc,SarahTishkofflaboratory
atUPenn.
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CharlieKieswetter(2003–2011).Currentposition:Instructor,IntroductoryBiology,BU.
MadhavaMeegaskumbura(2000-2007).Currentposition:ProfessorofBiology,PeradeniyaUniversity,SriLanka(2009–present).EnvironmentalPostdoctoralFellow,HarvardUniversity(2007-2009);
SuyamaMeegaskumbura(2001-2007).Currentposition:ProfessorofBiology,PeradeniyaUniversity,SriLanka(2008–present).
PollyCampbell(withT.Kunz,2000–2005).Currentposition:Asst.Professor,OklahomaStateUniversity.
PabloJarrin*(withT.Kunz,2003-present).Currentposition:Director,PontificaUniversidadCatolicaYasuniBiologicalStation,Ecuador.
Master'sStudents
CorrineJoshu(M.S.2002)PabloJarrin*(withT.Kunz,M.S.2003)
UndergraduateStudentsNicholasMessana2011-12.UROPsupportedindependentresearch;AY2011-2012.ChristianRouldan*2010.SURFsupportedminorityresearchfellowship;Summer2010.AlexIng2009.UROPsupportedindependentresearch;Summer2009.RebeccaTarvin2008-2009.UROPsupportedindependentresearch;Summer,Fall2008.
Ph.D.student,UniversityofTexasatAustin,2010–present.MarthaMuñoz*2006.WorkforDistinction,Spring–Fall2006;UROPsupported
independentresearchSummer2006.Ph.D.studentHarvardUniversity2008–present.
LiamRevell2001–2003.SummerandFall2001SponsoredbyBostonUniversityResearchOpportunitiesforUndergraduatesProgram(UROP).IndependentresearchSpringandSummer2002.WorkforDistinctionAcademicYear2002–2003.Ph.D.HarvardUniversity,2009.Currentposition:AssistantProfessorofBiology,UniversityofMassachusetts,Boston2011–present.
BredaO'Donohoe2000–2001.Summer2000,academicyear2000–2001independentstudy.Ph.D.HarvardUniversity,2008.
AllisonFlaim2000–2001.Summer2000,academicyear2000–2001independentstudy.
TracyHeath2000.Summer–Fall2000independentstudy.Ph.D.UniversityofTexasatAustin2007.
JodiKansagor1999–2000.Summer1999NSFREU,Academicyear1999-2000independentstudy.
Ph.D.ThesisCommittees
LaurenFreidman(current)–SecondReaderJeffDaCosta(current)–SecondReaderJesseDelia(current)–SecondReaderKatyStryjewski(current)KariRyder(2010)BredaZimkus(2008)–HarvardUniversityEricCrandall(2007)–SecondReaderDavidBlackburn(2007)–HarvardUniversityGlorianaChaverri(2006)
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KevinNjabo(2006)–SecondReaderRyanHarrigan(2006)–SecondReaderBenRinehart(2006)MarcioPie(2006)MaureenMazza(2006CellandMolecularBiology)PatrickBurton(2004)–SecondReaderChrisBalakrishnan(2004)–SecondReaderJamieBechtel(2001)–ThirdReaderElizabethStacy(2001)–SecondReaderJayStorz(2000)–SecondReaderColinBrent(1999)–ThirdReader
M.S.ThesisCommittees
MarkMaguire(Geography2002)RebeccaFrench(2001)JenniferBaldacci(2001)
HistoryofteachingatBUSemester Course
NumberCourseTitle Credit
HoursEnrolment Course
RatingInstructorRating
AdditionalInformation
S2014 BI416/616
Herpetology 2 14 Co-taughtwithKarenWarkentin
S2014 CC106 CoreNaturalSciences
4 63 CourseCoordinator;Co-taughtwithtwootherinstructors
F2013 BI107 IntroductoryBiology
2 500 Co-taughtwiththreeotherinstructors
S2013 CC106 CoreNaturalSciences
4 52 3.47 3.60 CourseCoordinator;Co-taughtwithtwootherinstructors
F2012 BI107 IntroductoryBiology
2 500 3.72 3.91 Co-taughtwiththreeotherinstructors
F2012 BI309 Evolution 2 80 3.89 4.22 Co-taughtwithSeanMullen.TF:KristinaCohen.
S2012 CC106 CoreNaturalSciences
4 125 Co-taughtwithfourotherinstructors
F2011 BI581 AnimalCommunicationandSignal
2 9 4.22 4.89
SchneiderCV14
Evolution
F2011 BI512 MammalianEcology
4 9 4.13 4.50 SubstitutedforTomKunzduringfinalsixweeksofthecourse.TF:ElizabethBraundeTorrez
F2011 BI107 IntroductoryBiology
2 475 3.84 3.89 Co-taughtwiththreeotherinstructors
S2011 BI309 Evolution
4 66 4.04 4.37 TF:NickCrawford
F2010 BI581 SeminarinBiodiversity
2 5 4.00 4.17
F2010 BI107 IntroductoryBiology
2 570 3.85 4.00 Co-taughtwiththreeotherinstructors
S2010 BI309 Evolution
4 43 4.00 4.26 TF:MarioMuscedere
F2009 BI581 NaturalSelectionandAdaptation
2 5 4.83 4.83
F2009 BI107 IntroductoryBiology
2 500 3.67 3.67 Co-taughtwiththreeotherinstructors
S2009 BI582 FrontiersinEcology,BehaviorandEvolution
2 6 5.00 5.00
S2009 BI309 Evolution
4 39 4.06 4.43
F2008 BI107 IntroductoryBiology
2 500 3.70 3.91 Co-taughtwiththreeotherinstructors
S2008 BI504 Evolution
4 35 4.18 4.43
F2007 BI549 MolecularPhylogeneticsandEvolution
2 6 3.67 4.50 Co-taughtwithMikeSorenson
F2007 BI107 IntroductoryBiology
2 500 3.67 3.75 Co-taughtwiththreeotherinstructors
S2007 BI504 Evolution
4 40 4.24 4.59
SchneiderCV15
F2006 BI581 Ecologicaland
EvolutionaryFunctionalGenomics
2 8 4.14 4.86
F2006 BI107 IntroductoryBiology
2 500 3.57 3.69 Co-taughtwiththreeotherinstructors
F2005–S2006
Sabbaticalleave
S04 BI504 Evolution 4 29 3.91 4.17
F03 BI107 IntroductoryBiology
2 500 3.57 4.05 Co-taughtwiththreeotherinstructors
F03 BI549 MolecularPhylogeneticsandEvolution
2 23 4.06 4.22 Co-taughtwithMikeSorenson
S03 BI504 Evolution 4 23 4.25 4.65 Forthisandallsubsequentsemesters,1=Poorand5=Excellent.
F02 BI581 SeminarinAdaptiveRadiation
2 13 1.73 1.36 Forthisandallprevioussemesters,1=Outstanding,5=VeryPoor.
F02 BI107 IntroductoryBiology
2 400 2.54 2.15 Co-taughtwiththreeotherinstructors
S02 BI504 Evolution
4 38 2.10 1.70 TF:CorrieJoshu
F01 BI107 IntroductoryBiology
2 372 2.58 2.14 Co-taughtwiththreeotherinstructors
F01 BI549 MolecularPhylogenetics&Evolution
2 13 1.70 1.60 Co-taughtwithMikeSorenson
S01 BI504 Evolution
4 33 2.56 1.87 TF:ChrisBalakrishnan
S01 BI582 SeminarinSpeciation
2 11 1.71 1.50
F00 BI107 Introductory 2 460 2.59 2.51 Co-taughtwiththree