PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
International
Union for the
Study of Social Insects
President, North American Section, 1990
Secretary-Treasurer, North American Section,
1984-86
North American Section Delegate, Congress
Committee: 10th Int'l. Congress,
Munich, 1986;
11th
Int'l. Congress,
Bangalore,
1990; 12th Int'l.
Congress, Paris, 1994
Steering Committee, 9th International Congress,
Boulder,
1982
Chairman, Nominating Committee,
Western Hemisphere Section, 1981
Organization for Tropical Studies
Nominating Committee,
Chair 2007-08
Research Fellowship Advisory Committee,
1999-2002; Chair 2002-03
Education Committee, 1995-2002
Board of Directors / Assembly of Delegates
Institutional
Representative, 1992-95, 2002-03, 2007
Attending Substitute for
Institutional Representative, 1996-2000
Proposals Reviewer
European Science Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
National Science Foundation
Smithsonian Institute Scholarly Studies Program
U.S. - Israel Binational Science Foundation
Panelist
National Science
Foundation, Animal Behavior Panel
Journal of the
Kansas
Entomological Society
Publication Committee, 2001- 2010
Manuscripts Reviewer
American Midland Naturalist; American
Museum Novitates; The American Naturalist; Animal Behaviour;
Annals of the Entomological Society
of America; Behavioral Ecology; Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology;
Bioscience; Biotropica; Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society; Biological Reviews; BMC
Evolutionary Biology,;
Canadian Entomologist; Caribbean Journal of Science; Current Biology; Ecological
Entomology;
Ecology; Entomological News; Entomological Science; Ethology, Ethology,
Ecology & Evolution;
Evolution; Frontiers in Zoology; Insectes Sociaux; Journal of African Zoology; Journal of Comparative Physiology A;
Journal of Comparative Physiology B; Journal of Ethology; Journal of Experimental Biology;
Journal of Hymenoptera Research; Journal of Insect Behavior; Journal of Insect Physiology,;
Journal of the Kansas Entomological
Society;
Molecular Ecology; Naturwissenschaften;
PLoS ONE; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Proceedings of the Royal Society of
London B;
Psyche; Science; Tropical Zoology;
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews; Zoomorphology
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE, University of
Missouri-St. Louis
Department of Biology
Chair, 2005-07
Director of Graduate Studies, 1992-94
Associate Director of Graduate Studies, 1990-92
Coordinator of Graduate Student Affairs,
1989-90
Chancellor’s Office
Chair, search committee for the E. Desmond Lee
and Family Fund Professorship in Zoological Studies, 1998-99
COMMUNITY SERVICE (Professionally Relevant)
St. Louis
Audubon Society:
Board of Directors,
1989-91
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
North Carolina
State University
Lower
division course
Introductory Biology I
Upper
division/graduate course
Animal Social Behavior
University of
Missouri
-
St. Louis
Non-majors' courses
General Biology; General
Biology in distance learning format; Environmental Biology;
Environmental Biology
in distance learning format; Global Ecology (with lab)
Lower division courses
Introductory Biology;
Introductory Biology II (with lab); Ecology (with lab); Vertebrate
Biology (with lab)
Upper division/graduate courses
Animal Behavior (with lab);
Entomology (with lab); Field Biology (lab); Biochemical
Communication;
Animal Societies and
Aggregations; Social Insects; Evolution of Sociality
Senior Seminars
On Human Nature;
macroevolution; pioneering biologists; Science as a Way of
Knowing;
The Evolution and
Extinction of the Dinosaurs; topics in evolution
Graduate Seminars
biogeography; evolution of sex;
sexual selection; the writings of Charles Darwin; species and
speciation;
life histories and their evolution; tropical insect ecology;
polyphenisms in behavior and ecology
University
of Kansas
Non-majors' course:
Insects
and Man
Graduate course:
Social
Insects
Washington
University
Non-majors' course:
An
Introduction to Biology
Upper division/graduate course:
Ecology
University
of Illinois
Non-majors’
course:
Insects and People
Graduate
seminar:
Evolution of Social Insects
Organization for Tropical Studies (
Costa Rica)
Graduate course, "Tropical Biology, An
Ecological Approach":
Co-coordinator – OTS
02-3
Resource faculty –
OTS 91-1, OTS 93-1, OTS 95-1, OTS 01-3,
OTS 09-3
Teaching assistant –
OTS 71-1
Undergraduate Semester Abroad Program
Resource faculty, Fall 2000
POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE,
University
of
Missouri –
St. Louis
Istvan Karsai (Ph.D. 1991, József Attila University,
Hungary)
1998-2000:
Nourishment
and development in
Polistes metricus paper wasps
GRADUATE STUDENTS,
University
of
Missouri –
St. Louis
Barry M. Kayes (B.A.,
Wellsley
College; M.Ed.,
Washington University)
M.S. 1977:
"Protein
digestion in four species of
Polistes wasps"
Pamela S. Mitchell (B.A.
summa cum laude,
St. Louis University)
M.S. 1981:
"Nesting
biology of the black and yellow mud dauber,
Sceliphron
caementarium (Drury):
A study of behavioral and
nutritional factors"
Jennifer L. Johnson (B.A.,
University
of
Missouri -
St. Louis)
M.S. 1981:
"Captive
rearing of bumblebees,
Bombus spp. (Hymenoptera: Apidae),
with a behavioral analysis of foundress queens
in mature colonies of
Bombus
griseocollis DeGeer"
Bernice B. DeMarco (B.S.,
Purdue University)
M.S. 1982:
"Population
studies of a paper wasp,
Polistes metricus Say"
Carol S. Ferguson (B.S.,
Oregon State
University)
M.S. 1984:
"Near
nest orientation in the black and yellow mud dauber,
Sceliphron
caementarium (Drury)"
David A. Landes (B.S.,
Central Missouri
State University)
M.S. 1985:
"Field
studies on blue mud daubers (
Chalybion) in eastern
Missouri"
Anthony M. Rossi (B.A.
magna cum laude,
University of
Missouri -
St. Louis)
M.S. 1986:
"Developmental
consequences of supplemental nourishment in the paper wasp
Polistes
metricus Say"
Anthony W. Lorsbach (B.A.,
University
of
Missouri -
St. Louis)
M.S. 1988:
"Response
of
Monochamus carolinensis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) to
alpha-pinene, a host pine volatile"
Margaret A. Dove (B.S.,
University
of
Missouri -
St. Louis)
M.S. 1995:
“Demographic
consequences of supplemental nourishment in the paperwasp
Polistes
metricus Say.”
Jon N. Seal (B.S., B.A.,
University
of
Missouri -
St. Louis)
M.S. 1998:
“Morphology
and protein responses to colony-level nourishment manipulations in
two broods of the paperwasp
Polistes metricus Say”
Ellen Susanne Greenlee (B.S.,
University of Michigan)
M.S. 2000. “Fire season effects on
Orthoptera populations at Hunkah and Bogart Prairies at
Prairie State Park”
Gerardo R. Borjas (Licenciatura,
Universidad Autonoma de Honduras; M.S., Syracuse University)
Certificate in Tropical Biology and
Conservation, 2000
John A. Eimes (B.S., University of Missouri-St. Louis) (Patricia
G. Parker, principal co-advisor)
M.S. 2004:
"Genetic
similarity, mate choice and extra-pair fertilization in the
Mexican jay (
Aphelocoma ultramarina)"
Edgar Javier Hernandez (Biólogo, Universidad Nacional de
Colombia) (Zuleyma Tang-
Martinez,
co-advisor)
Ph.D. 2012
: "Photoperiod
effects on life history parameters of the bumble bee Bombus impatiens"
INVITED SOCIETY / SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS
1970.
Cooper
Ornithological Society,
Berkeley,
CA.
1974.
Cambridge Entomological Club,
Cambridge,
MA
(
Harvard
University)
1980. First International Symposium on Social Insects in the
Tropics, Cocoyoc, Mexico.
1982.
International
Union for the Study of Social
Insects, Ninth International Congress, Boulder, CO.
1990.
International
Union for the Study of Social Insects, Eleventh International
Congress,
Bangalore,
India.
1992.
Entomological
Society of
America,
National Annual Meeting,
Baltimore,
MD.
1992.
Junior
Science, Engineering and Humanities Symposium,
St. Louis, MO.
1993.
Eastern
Missouri Society for Paleontology,
St. Louis, MO.
1994.
International
Union for the Study of Social Insects, Twelfth International
Congress,
Paris,
France.
1994.
National
Association of Biology Teachers, National Annual Convention,
St. Louis, MO.
1995.
Entomological
Society of
America,
National Annual Meeting,
Las
Vegas, NV.
1996.
Fifth
International Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology,
Budapest, Hungary.
1996.
Twentieth
International Congress of Entomology,
Florence, Italy.
1997.
Animal
Behavior Society, Midwest Regional Conference,
Columbus, OH.
1998.
Twenty-first
International Congress of Entomology,
Foz du Iguazu, Brazil.
1998.
Entomological
Society of
America,
National Annual Meeting,
Montreal,
Canada.
2000.
Junior
Science, Engineering and Humanities Symposium,
St. Louis, MO.
2001.
International
Union for the Study of Social Insects, Meeting of the European
Sections,
Berlin,
Germany.
2001.
Entomological
Society of
America,
National Annual Meeting,
San
Diego, CA.
2002.
International
Union for the Study of Social Insects, Fourteenth International
Congress,
Sapporo,
Japan.
2003.
International
Symposium: Social Insects: Behavioural, Ecological and
Evolutionary Approach.
St. Petersburg, Russia.
2005.
International
Symposium:
Polistes Paper Wasps – The Emergence
of a Model Genus.
Talloires,
France.
2006.
International
Union for the Study of Social Insects, Fifteenth International
Congress,
Washington,
DC.
2006.
Entomological
Society of
America,
National Annual Meeting,
Indianapolis,
IN.
2008. Twenty-third International Congress of
Entomology,
Durban,
South Africa.
2009. Thirty-first International Ethological
Conference, Rennes, France.
2009. Entomological Society of America, National Annual Meeting,
Indianapolis, IN.
INVITED SEMINARS
University
of Arizona,
University of Arkansas,
University
of
California –
Los Angeles,
University
of Colorado,
Universidad de Costa Rica,
University of Georgia (x2),
Harvard University,
University of Illinois
(x2),
Indiana
State University, Iowa State
University,
University
of Kansas
(x4),
Kansas
State University,
University of Kentucky,
University
of Michigan,
University of
Missouri -
Columbia (x4),
North Carolina State
University
(x3), University of North Carolina, The
Ohio State
University,
Saint Louis University (x3),
Universidad de São Paulo - Ribierão
Preto, Southern
Illinois University
– Edwardsville,
State University
of
New York –
Albany,
Utah State University,
Washington
University
(x2),
University of the West Indies - Saint Augustine,
University of
Wisconsin
(x2),
Western
Carolina University,
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (x3)
CONTRIBUTED
PAPERS
International Biological Program, Convergent Evolution Subprogram
1973:
San Diego, CA
First International Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary
Biology
1973:
Boulder, CO
Ecological Society of
America / American
Institute of Biological Sciences
1974:
Tempe, AZ
1975:
Athens, GA
1976:
Corvallis, OR
International Congress of Entomology
XV, 1976:
Washington, DC
XVI, 1980:
Kyoto, Japan
XXI, 2000:
Foz du Iguazu, Brazil
American Society of Zoologists
1978:
Richmond, VA
North American Section of the International
Union
for the Study of Social Insects /
Entomological Society of
America
1979:
Denver, CO; 1980:
Atlanta, GA;
1982:
Detroit, MI;
1984:
San Antonio, TX;
1986:
Reno, NV;
1988:
Lexington, KY (2 papers); 1989:
San Antonio, TX; 1990:
Reno, NV;
1991:
New Orleans, LA; 1993:
Indianapolis,
IN;
1994:
Dallas,
TX; 1996:
Louisville,
KY;
1998:
Las Vegas, NV; 2001:
San Diego, CA; 2002:
Ft.
Lauderdale, FL
Entomological Society of
America, North
Central Branch
1982:
St. Louis, MO
International Congress of the International
Union for the Study of Social Insects
Tenth, 1986:
Munich, Germany
Sixteenth, 2010: Copenhagen, Denmark
Midwest Conference on Population
Biology
1994:
Columbia, MO.
George Eickwort Memorial Symposium
1994:
Ithaca, NY.
North American Section of the International Union for the Study of
Social Insects (“break-outs”)
1996:
Boulder, CO
2000:
Fayetteville, AR
2004:
Tempe, AZ
2012: Greensboro, NC
European Sections of the International
Union
for the Study of Social Insects
2001:
Berlin, Germany
American Genetics Association
2008:
Raleigh, NC
Society for the Study of Evolution
2008:
Minneapolis, MN
2010: Portland, OR