Education

• Ph.D., Zoology, 1989 - Michigan State University

Dissertation: "Molecular Systematics and Biogeography of Some New World Microtus (Mammalia: Arvicolidae)"

• M.A., Systematics and Ecology, 1982 - University of Kansas

• A.B., Biology, Emphasis in Ecology, 1979 - University of California, Berkeley

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, January 1, 1996-present
• Research Associate, Laboratory of Dr. Michael F. Seldin, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 1994-1995.
• Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Dr. Lawrence G. Abele, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, 1992-1994.
• NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Dr. William F. Marzluff, Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, 1989-1992.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Michigan State University, 1982-1988.
• Curatorial Assistant, Division of Mammals, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1979-1982.
• Curatorial Technician, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 1979.

Grants Awards, and Honors

• NSF #DEB-0075306, Molecular systematics of rodents. 9/1/00-8/31/03. $219,984.
• NSF #IBN-9901618, SGER - El Nino influence on group formation in facultative group-living species. 2/1/99 - 1/31/00. co-PI with George Uetz. $24,934.
• University Research Council, “Weak selection for codon usage in rodents” 1 June 1998 - 31 May 1999. $3,000.
• University Research Council, Faculty Summer Fellowship, 1996. $3,500.
• University Research Council, “Direct cloning of nuclear genes for mammalian phylogeny” 1 June 1996 - 31 May 1997. $1,000
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Studies of Molecular Evolution. 1 May 1992 - 30 April 1994. $70,000.
• NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship #1F32GM13200, Evolution of the Rodent H3 Histone Gene Family. 1 May 1989 - 30 April 1992. $71,000.
• Anna M. Jackson Award, American Society of Mammalogists, 1989
• Michigan State University, College of Natural Science Continuing Graduate Fellowship, 1986-1987.
• NSF Grant BSR 8501437 - Dissertation Research: Molecular Systematics and Historical Ecology of the Genus Microtus (Mammalia: Arvicolidae). 15 May 1985 - 31 October 1987. $8,800.
• American Society of Mammalogists Grant-in-Aid, 1984. $400.

Invited Presentations

• 5th International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, Budapest, Hungary, 23 August 1996
• University of Cincinnati, 15 March 1995
• International Conference on HIV Sequence Variation and Statistical Methods, Columbus, Ohio, 6 March 1994
• University of Massachusetts, Boston, 5 April 1993
• Boston University. 22 December 1989
• Anna M. Jackson Honorarium paper, American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 16 June 1989
• University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology. 17 March 1985