Academic history
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mammalogy, 2001-2003
New York, NY, USA
My lab is funded
currently by a grant from the National Science Foundation (DEB-0717357; Systematic
Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Program, Division of Environmental Biology)
entitled “Integrating systematics and GIS modeling: biogeography of spiny
pocket mice (Heteromyidae) in South America" Read
more and see Research.
Recent Lab News:
We have received funding for
a second REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates)
supplement to my NSF grant (see above). This supplement will allow one
undergraduate in-depth training in many aspects of modern systematics and
biogeography.
In May 2009, Mariya
Shcheglovitova (see
People) completed
her undergraduate Honors Thesis in Biology, entitled "A jackknife approach
to tuning Maximum Entropy models of species geographic distributions with few
occurrence records: tests with spiny pocket mice (Heteromys) in South
America."
Mariya
Shcheglovitova (see
People) was awarded
the 2009 Gerald Brenner Scholarship from the Division of Science at CCNY (one of
the highest honors bestowed by the Division).
In May 2009, Samuel
Glickman (see
People) was awarded
the Edmund Baermann Scholarship from the Department of Biology at CCNY (the
highest honor for sophomores and juniors granted by the Department).
Eliécer Gutiérrez
(see
People) received grants from the
American Society of Mammalogists and the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund of the American
Museum of Natural History. The grants will support his summer 2009
DNA-sequencing research on the
phylogenetics and biogeography of mouse opossums of the genus Marmosa.
Tatiana
Caldera-Andara is a visiting research scholar for several months, conducting
phylogenetic research associated with our NSF grant.
She is a master's student at the Universidad Simón
Bolívar supervised by Dr.
Marisol Aguilera, one of our Venezuelan collaborators. While in the U.S.,
Tatiana is working with our lab and with Dr. Duke S. Rogers, our collaborator on
Heteromys phylogenetics (see Research).
Aleks Radosavljevic,
Mariya
Shcheglovitova, and Darla Thomas (see
People) won
travel awards from the International Biogeography Society to attend and present
their work at the biennial meeting of the Society in Mérida, Mexico in January
2009. Read
more (third story)
Darla Thomas (see
People) was selected as an Undergraduate Diversity
Scholar; this
funded
her travel to Evolution 2008, the joint meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution,
American Society of Naturalists, and the Society for Systematic Biology. Read
more (fourth story)
Selected Press:
138th
@ Convent, City
College of New York (3 Students Receive Grants to Attend Biogeography Meeting;
third story)
138th
@ Convent, City
College of New York (Biology Senior Darla Thomas Presents at Evolution Meeting;
fourth story)
Essential
Science Indicators (New Hot Paper; Elith et al., 2006; modeling species distributions)
Nature
(Research Highlights; Elith et al., 2006; modeling species distributions)
Blackwell
(Press Releases; Elith et al., 2006; modeling species distributions)
City
College of New York (Recent News; Anderson and Timm, 2006; new species of rodent
from Costa Rica)
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