SUMMARY OF WFU FACULTY INFORMATION FORMS
For Biology
Reporting
Professional Activities
Reynolda Campus
2006-2007
I. Publications, Performances, Exhibits
III. Editorships, Offices, and
Consultancies
I.
Publications, Performances, Exhibits
Awkerman, J. A., K. P. Huyvaert, J. Mangel, J. Alfaro Shigueto, and D. J. Anderson. 2006. Incidental and intentional catch threatens Galápagos waved albatross. Biological Conservation 133:483-489.
Maness, T. J., M. A. Westbrock, and D. J. Anderson. 2007. Ontogenic sex ratio variation in Nazca Boobies ends in male-biased adult sex ratio. Waterbirds 30:10-16.
Awkerman, J. A., K. Hobson, and D. J. Anderson. 2007. Isotopic (δ15N and δ13C) evidence for intersexual foraging differences and temporal variation in habitat use in waved albatrosses. Canadian Journal of Zoology 85:273-279.
Browne, Carole
Browne, C.L., Swan, J.B., Rankin, E.E., Calvert, H. Griffiths, S. and Tytell, M. (2007) Extracellular heat shock protein 70 has novel functional effects on sea urchin eggs and coelomocytes. J. Exp. Biol. 210:1275-1287
Browne, Robert
Browne, R. A. and P. M. Ferree. 2007. Genetic structure of Southern Appalachian “sky-island” populations of the red-backed vole. Journal of Mammalogy 83:106- 116.
Conner, William
W. E. Conner (2006) Gestalt entomology. American Scientist 94:470-471.
J. R. Barber and W. E. Conner (2006) Tiger moth responses to simulated
bat attack: Timing and duty cycle. Journal of Experimental Biology
209:2637-2650.
Garrett, S. E., W. E. Conner, L. Roque-Albelo. 2007. Alkaloid protection of Utetheisa galapagensis (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) against an invertebrate and a vertebrate predator in the Galápagos Islands. Journal of Galápagos Research (in press).
Jordan, A. T., and W. E. Conner. 2007. Dietary basis for developmental plasticity of an androconial structure in the salt marsh moth Estigmene acrea: A comparison with Creatonotus gangis (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society (in press).
Jordan, A. T. and W. E. Conner. 2007. The morphogenetic effects of alkaloidal metabolites on the development of the coremata in the salt marsh moth, Estigmene acrea (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Archives of Insect Physiology and Biochemistry (submitted).
Barber, J.R. and W. E. Conner. 2007. Acoustic mimicry in a predator-prey interaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (in press).
Barber, J. R. and W. E. Conner. 2007. Hawkmoths produce ultrasound in response to tactile stimulation and a simulated bat attack. Naturwissenschaften (in press).
Dimock, Ronald
Dodd, B. J., M. C. Barnhart, C. L. Rogers-Lowery, T. B. Fobian, R. V. Dimock, Jr., 2006. Persistence of host response against glochidia larvae in Micropterus salmoides. Fish Shellfish. Immunol. 21: 473-484.
Rogers-Lowery, C. L., R. V. Dimock, Jr. and R. E. Kuhn. 2007. Antibody response of bluegill sunfish during development of acquired resistance against the larvae of the freshwater mussel Utterbackia imbecillis Develop. Comp. Immunol. 31: 143-155.
Esch, Gerald
“Parasites
and Infectious Disease: Discovery by Serendipity, and Otherwise.” Published (30
May 2007) by
Fahrbach, Susan
Velarde, R.A., Robinson, G.E., and Fahrbach, S.E. (2006) Nuclear receptors of the honey bee: annotation and expression in the adult brain. Insect Molecular Biology 15: 583-595.
Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium (2006) Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Nature 443:931-949.
Johnson, A. Daniel
Johnson
AD. 2007. Chlamydomonas as a Model For Undergraduate Investigative
Laboratories.. Proceedings of the 28th Conference of the
Association for Biology Laboratory Education, 28: 95–100.
Johnson, Erik
Birse,
R.T., E.C. Johnson*, P.H. Taghert, and D.R. Nassel. (2006). A
widely-distributed Drosophila G
protein-coupled receptor (CG7887) is
activated by endogenous tachykinin-related peptides. J. Neurobiol. 66: 33-46.
Johnson, E.C. (2006). Postgenomic approaches to resolve neuropeptide signaling in Drosophila. In Invertebrate Neuropeptides and Hormones: Basic Kowledge and Recent Advances. Honoo Satake Ed. Transworld Research Network. pp. 179-224.
Kron, Kathleen
Kron, K.A. and J.L. Luteyn. 2006. Origins and biogeographic patterns in
Ericaceae: new insights from recent
phylogenetic analyses, Pp. 479-500. In:
Friis,
Kuhn, Raymond
Aldridge, J. R., Mary Jennett and R. E. Kuhn. 2007. Uptake and secretion of host proteins by Taenia crassiceps metacestodes. Journal of Parasitology 92(5): 1101-1102.
Rogers-Lowery, C. L., R. V. Dimock, Jr., and R. E. Kuhn. 2006. Antibody response of bluegill sunfish during development of acquired resistance against the larvae of the freshwater mussel Utterbackia imbecillus. Comparative and Developmental Immunology 31(2): 143-155.
Aldridge, J. R., Mary Jennett and R. E. Kuhn. 2006. Balb/cJ male mice do not feminize after infection with larval Taenia crassiceps. Journal of Parasitology 93: 190-191.
Muday, Gloria
Muday, GK, Brady1, SR, Argueso, C., Deruère, J, Kieber, JJ, and DeLong, A.
(2006) RCN1-regulated
phosphatase activity and EIN2 modulate hypocotyl gravitropism by a mechanism
that does not require ethylene signaling. Plant Physiology: 141:
1617-1629
Sibout, R, Sukumar, P, Hettiarachchi, C, Holm, M, Muday, GK
and Hardtke, CS (2006) Opposite root
growth phenotypes of hy5 vs. hy5 hyh
correlate with increased constitutive auxin signaling. PLOS Genetics: 2:1898-1911
Muday, GK and Rahman, A (In press) Auxin transport and the
integration of gravitropic growth. In
Plant Tropisms: eds
Silman, Miles
Silman, M.
R. and C. Krisel. 2006. Getting
to the root of tree neighborhoods: hectare-scale root zones of a Neotropical
fig. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22: 727-730.
Bush, M.
B., M. R. Silman, M. B. de Toledo C. M. C. S.
Listopad W. D. Gosling, C. Williams, P. E. de Oliveira, C. Krisel. 2007. Holocene
fire and occupation in
(Featured in
Bush, M.
B., M. R. Silman, and C. M. C. S. Listopad. 2007. Climate change and human
occupation in Peruvian Amazonia: a paleoecological perspective. Journal
of Biogeography. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01704.
Silver,
Silver W.L. Clapp T.R., Stone L.M., and
Smith, William
Smith, WK and DM Johnson.
2006. Biophysical effects of
altitude on plant gas exchange. In Biophysical
Plant Ecology: Perspectives and Trends.
Johnson, D.M., and W.K. Smith. 2006.
Refugial forests of the southern
Smith, WK, Johnson, DM, and K Reinhardt. 2006. The Alpine
Akhalkatsi, M, Abdaladze, O,
Nakhutsrishvili, G, and WK Smith. 2006. Facilitation of seedling microsites by Rhododendron caucasicum extends the Betula litwinowii alpine treeline (Caucasus Mountains,
Germino, MJ,
Smith, WK and DM Johnson. 2006. Biophysical effects of altitude on plant gas exchange. In Biophysical Plant Ecology: Perspectives and Trends. Springer, NY.
Smith, WK., Reinhardt, KA, and
DM Johnson. 2006. The Alpine
Akhalkatsi, M, O Abdaladze, G Nakhutsrishvili, and WK Smith.
2006.
Facilitation
of seedling microsites by Rhododendron caucasicum extends the Betula litwinowii alpine treeline (Caucasus Mountains,
Germino MJ, Hasselquist NJ, McGonigle TM, Smith WK, Sheridan P. 2006. Colonization of conifer seedling roots by fungal mycelium in an alpine-treeline ecotone: Relationships to microsite, developmental stage, and ecophysiology of seedlings. Can J Forest Res, in press.
Johnson, DM and WK Smith. 2007. Low
clouds and cloud immersion enhance photosynthesis in understory species of a
Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest (
Johnson, DM and WK Smith. 2007. Limitations to photosynthetic carbon gain in timberline Abies lasiocarpa seedlings during prolonged drought. Can J Forest Res, in press.
Reinhardt,,
K and WK Smith. 2007. Understory sapling gas exchange in
relict spruce-fir cloud forests of the southern Appalachian Mountains,
Zeyl, Clifford
Zeyl, C., and S. P. Otto. 2007.
A short history of recombination in yeast. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 223-225.
Zeyl, C.
2007. Evolutionary genetics: a
piggyback ride to adaptation and diversity.
Current
Biology (Dispatch) 17: R333-335.
Zeyl, C.
2007. How missing genes
interact. Nature Genetics (News &
Views) 39:440-442.
Zeyl,
C. 2006.
Evolutionary genetics: choosing
to evolve. Current Biology (Dispatch)
16: R87-R89.
Anderson, David
Mechanisms of
Population Differentiation and Phylogeography of Brown Boobies: Physical and Non-Physical Barriers to Gene
Flow. Jamie A. Morris-Pocock, David J. Anderson, Tammy E. Steeves, and Vicki
L. Friesen. Annual Meeting, Pacific
Seabird Group,
Variability in the Pacific Decadal
Oscilation Index and Demography of a Tropical Booby. David
J. Anderson and Howard M. Townsend. Annual Meeting, Pacific Seabird Group,
Testing the Criteria for Parapatric Speciation using two species
of Pacific Searbird Blue-footed and Peruvian Boobies. Scott Taylor, Dave Anderson,
Carlos Zavalaga, Vicki Friesen. Annual
Meeting, Pacific Seabird Group,
Use of Seabird Tracking Information to Improve
Estimats of Fisheries by Catch. Ramunas
Zydelis, David Hyrenbach, Rebecca Lewison, Michelle Sims, Daniel Dunn, Jason J.
Roberts, and David J. Anderson. Annual Meeting,
Pacific Seabird Group,
Ashley-Ross, Miriam
“Kinematics of level terrestrial
and underwater walking in the
“From water to land: what
salamanders can teach us about the evolution of locomotion” Invited seminar,
“From water to land: what
salamanders can teach us about the evolution of locomotion” Invited seminar,
Browne, Robert
Invited to be a participant in The
Oxford Round Table (
Conner, William
Sound Strategies: Acoustic Aposematism, mimicry and sonar
jamming in the Bat-Moth Arms Race. Invited Speaker. Department of Behavior,
Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics.
Sound Strategies: Acoustic Aposematism, mimicry and sonar
jamming in the Bat-Moth Arms Race. Invited Speaker. Department of Entomology,
Dimock,
Ronald
Dimock, R. V., Jr. 2007. An
insider’s guide to clam gills. Annual Meeting, Association of Southeastern Biologists,
Esch,
Gerald
Invited Speaker: Gerald D.
Schmidt Memorial Lecture: Parasites and
Infectious Disease”. Rocky Mountain Conference of Parasitologists,
Camp, L., G.Esch, and H. Eure.
“Parasitism by Dabaylia potomaca in Helisoma anceps”. ICOPA X,
Negovetich, N. and G. Esch. “Cost of
parasitic castration in Helisoma anceps.”
ICOPA X,
Eure,
Herman
Published Abstract for 11th
International Congress of Parasitology, June 6-11, 2006,
Fahrbach,
Susan
Invited Symposium Speaker, XV Congress of the International
Title: Experience-dependent Plasticity in the Mushroom Bodies of the Honey Bee
Invited Seminar Speaker,
Title: Using the Honey Bee to Study Brain Plasticity, Pre-Genome and Post-Genome
Malechuk, A. and Fahrbach, S.E. The effects of caffeine on
honey bees in a feeding table learning paradigm. Presented at the
Dobrin, S. and Fahrbach, S.E. Mimicking foraging experience
in the honey bee mushroom body: an examination of dendritic arbors. Presented
at the
Invited departmental seminars at the Department of Biology,
Johnson,
A. Daniel
Conducting two, half–day workshops at
the Association of Biology Lab Education Annual Conference at the
An Outcomes–Centered Approach to
Course and Curriculum Development. Dept. of Biology,
Necrosis in Atherosclerotic Lesions
in ApoE–/– Mice is Preceded by Loss of Hsp72: Are Oxysterols to Blame? Dept. of
Biology,
Johnson,
Erik
Isaac R.E., E. C. Johnson,
and A.D. Shirras (2006). Metabolic Inactivation of PDF in Adult Drosophila by Neprilysin. Neurobiology
of Drosophila,
Kron,
Kathleen
Kron, K.A.
2006. Evolution of non-green
Ericaceae: prospects and problems. American Society of Plant Taxonomists &
Botanical Society of
Kuhn,
Raymond
Thirty-third Fancy Gap Immunoparasitology Workshop, Oct. 2006: Comparative resistance of male and female RAG-/- mice to infection with larval Taenia crassiceps.
Muday,
Gloria
Altered Auxin Transport and Root Development in the scdl Mutant. With Kasee Metcalf and Tanya Falbel at the FASEB Plant Developmental Mechanisms Summer Research Conference July, 2007
Role of Auxin and Ethylene in Adventitious Root Formation in
Arabidopsis. With Poornima Sukumar at the FASEB
Plant Developmental Mechanisms Summer Research Conference July, 2007
Flavonoids and other regulators of Auxin Transprot Modulate
Root Dvelopment.
From Algae
to Arabidopsis: Auxin’s Role in Growth
and Developmental Polarity:
Silman, Miles
Invited participant, Statistics and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), Terrestrial Modeling Working Group. April 2007.
Ecological Society of America, 8/06 (2 papers)
American Geophysical Union 11/06 (1 paper)
Silver,
Atukorale,
V, Greene, M and Silver, W.L. (2007) Peripheral trigeminal nerve responses to
artificial sweeteners, KCl and NaCl. Presented at the Twenty Ninth Annual
Meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences.
Smith, William
Invited paper: Smith, WK. Mechanisms of Treeline Altitude and Migration:
Conifer Seedling Survival in the Treeline Ecotone. US Conference on
Treeline Ecosystems of North America, USFS and USGS,
Invited paper. The functional morphology and evolution of
the conifer needle. Symposium on the evolution of leaf shape, Botanical Society
of America,
(5 other papers were given by graduate students and colleagues at national and regional scientific meetings; one best paper student award was received)
Weigl, Peter
Conservation of the northern flying
squirrel Glaucomys sabrinus.
Invited symposium presentation.
Annual Meeting ASM 2006.
Winter aggregation behavior in southern flying squirrels. With K. Thorington ASM meeting, 2006.
Seminar. Department of Zoology, NC
The kinship component of winter aggregation in southern flying squirrels. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting. January 2007 with K. Thorington.
Zeyl, Clifford
Invited
Population Biology seminar,
Ashley-Ross,
Miriam
Chair of the committee and representative of the Division of Vertebrate Morphology to the Public Affairs Committee of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Secretary (interim appointment), Division of Comparative Biomechanics of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Browne, Robert
Outside Expert to U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service for delisting of endangered species status of Northern Flying Squirrel (8 hours)
Conner, William
Elected AAAS Fellow – 2007
Elected President of the Lepidopterists’ Society of
Research Affiliate of the Archbold Biological Station
Member of the Editorial Board of Insect Science, an Online
Journal in Insect Biology.
Curran, James
Three grant study sections for the NIH
Reviewer of two chapters from a high school biology text.
Dimock,
Ronald
Guest Editor, Northeastern Naturalist, spring 2007
Treasurer, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (3rd
3-yr term)
Chair, Finance Committee, Society for Integrative and Comparative
Biology
Member Executive Committee, Society for Integrative and Comparative
Biology
Member, Meritorious Teaching Award Committee, Association
of Southeastern Biologists
Esch,
Gerald
Editor, Journal of Parasitology
Review Panel, March 2007. “Ecology of Infectious Disease”. National Science Foundation,
Eure,
Herman
Consulting Editor, American Society of Parasitologists (ASP)
Special Projects Editor (ASP)
Fahrbach, Susan
Editorial Board: Hormones and Behavior
Editorial Board: Journal of Comparative Neurology
Editorial Board: Brain, Behavior, and Evolution
Johnson, A. Daniel
Board of Advisors Review Panel
for a new non–majors’ biology textbook to be published by McGraw Hill Higher
Education. The book is entitled “Concepts of Life,” by Marielle Hoefnagels,
from
Johnson, Erik
Consultant with
Kron, Kathleen
NSF Panel for Biotic Systems and Resources – Division of Environmental Biology (Fall 2006)
Editorial Board of the Edinburgh Journal of Botany 1995-present
Editorial Board of the Rhododendron Species Journal 2005-present
Editorial Board of Taxon: International Society of Plant Taxonomists 2005-present
Chair, Systematics Section, Botanical Society of America, 1996-1998; 2006-present
Kuhn, Raymond
Editorial Board – Veterinary Parasitology
Reviewer for several journals
Lane, Hugo
Past President, NAAHP (National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions)
NAAHP Ethics Committee – Chair
NAAHP Strategic Plan Task Force
NAAHP Historian
Muday, Gloria
United States Department of Agriculture, Plant Growth and Development Grant Panel Manager 11 month commitment August 2006-June 2007
Silman, Miles
Lyonia,
Journal of the
Chair, Ecological Society of
Science advisor to the Winston-Salem Journal’s editorial page.
Silver,
On nominations committee for Association for Chemoreception Sciences
Smith, William
Editor, Tree Physiology
Advisory Committee, Eurasian J
Co-Editor with Eric De LaCabrerra, Current Perspectives in Biophysical
Ecophysiology,
Weigl, Peter
Reviewer for 3 journals
Southern Appalachian
US Fish and Wildlife Service: Subcommittee on Natural Resources
Scientific witness in civil case Bush
vs Laclede Gas Co.,
Zeyl, Clifford
Member of the Editorial Board of the Federation of European Microbiological Studies Yeast Research
Ashley-Ross, Miriam
$199,688 From water to land: salamanders as a model for understanding the evolution of tetrapod locomotion (continuing grant). National Science Foundation.
Curran, James
$209, 205 Does the ribosomal
E site help hold the reading frame? National
Fahrbach, Susan
$5,000. “Neuroethology 2050”: Proposal for a Graduate Research Seminar in conjunction with the 2008 Gordon Research Conference in Behavior, Evolution, and Neurobiology. Gordon Research Conference.
Kron, Kathleen
$624,000 Collaborative Research: Phylogenetic, biogeographic, and monographic studies in the wintergreen group (Ericaceae, Gaultherieae). PI: K.A. Kron, co-PI, Peter Fritsch, California Academy of Sciences, 2007-2010. National Science Foundation
Muday, Gloria
$340,000. Ethylene and auxin crosstalk in control of root architecture. United States Department of Agriculture.
27,400. Mechanosensory
Transduction Gordon Research Conferences in 2007 and 2009. National
Silman, Miles
$18,560. Exploring the Diversity of Leaf-Inhabiting Microorganisms in Tropical Forests. National Geographic Foundation. Co-PI (Noah Fierer, UC-Bouler PI).
Silver,
$16,670 Multiple Mechanisms of Nasal
Chemoreception, yr 5. National
Smith, William
$30,000. Ecological facilitation by Rhodododendron causasicum extends the Betula litwinowii alpine treeline,
$50,000. Sustaining Relic Spruce-fir forests of
the
$14,380. Workshop on the Sustainability of
$4,792. Episodic versus daily stress effects on plant resource acquisition, survival, and fitness at the land-sea interface. NC Sea Grant Program.
Browne, Robert
$2,200. Internationalization Scholars Pgm. Mallon Foundation (International Studies).
$1,000. Science
Publication.
Curran, James
$10,000. Analysis of protein synthesis in E. coli by high-throughput pyrosequecing. Science Research Fund.
Johnson, Erik
$10,000. Neuroendocrine Circuits. Science Research Fund.
Lord, Pat
$1,250. ACE
Fellow Program. The Teaching and
Kuhn, Raymond
$6,731. Chytridiomycosis in amphibians. Science Research Fund.
Muday, Gloria
$19,936. Estrogen modulation of leptin synthesis and signaling with Dr. Mary Lou Voytko. Cross Campus Collaborative Research Fund.
Weigl, Peter
$9,000. Evolutionary basis for seasonal sociality in the flying squirrel Glaucomys volans. Science Research Fund.
Conner,
William
Electred, AAAS Fellow – March 2007
Esch,
Gerald
Elected, Honorary Member, Rocky Mountain Conference of Parasitologists, September 2006.
Kuhn,
Raymond
Recipient of the 2007
Lord,
Pat
Fall 2006 Delta Delta Delta Sorority Award for most influential Biology professor
Spring 2007 Delta Delta Delta Sorority Award for most influential Biology professor
April 2007