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
Membership Committee, 2008-
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 Institution Scholarly Studies Program
Panelist
National Science Foundation,
Animal Behavior Panel
Journal
of the
Kansas
Entomological Society
Publication
Committee, 2001-
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
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
Naturwissenschaften
Proceedings
of the National
Academy of Sciences
Science
Tropical
Zoology
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; readings in evolutionary biology; frontiers of biology;
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)
M.S.
2004:
Genetic similarity, mate choice
and extra-pair fertilization in the Mexican jay (
Aphelocoma
ultramarina).
(Patricia G. Parker,
principal co-advisor)
Edgar
Javier Hernandez (Biólogo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Ph.D.
student 2005-
(Zuleyma Tang-
Martinez,
co-advisor)
INVITED SOCIETY / SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS
1970.
Cooper Ornithological Society,
Berkeley, CA.
1974.
Cambridge Entomological Club,
Cambridge,
MA (
Harvard University)
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
California
–
Los Angeles
University
of Colorado
Universidad
de Costa Rica
University
of Georgia (x2)
University
of Illinois (x2)
Indiana 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)
The
Ohio State University
University
of the West Indies -
Saint
Augustine
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 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
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
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