Armin P. Moczek
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Armin P. Moczek, Ph.D, Assistant Professor
Department of Biology, Indiana Molecular Biology Institute, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Program in Cognitive SciencesPostal Address:
Indiana University, 915 E. Third Street
Myers Hall 150, Bloomington, IN 47405-7107phone (office): 812-856 1468
phone (lab): 812-856 1783
e-mail: armin@indiana.edu
2002 Ph.D Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC.
1996 M.S. Zoology Julius-Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany.
1992 B.S. Biology Julius-Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany
2004- present Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University
2002-2004 Postdoctoral Research with Drs. Lisa Nagy and Diana Wheeler
Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona
Emphasis: Evolutionary developmental genetics of horned beetles.1996-2001 Graduate Research with Dr. H.Frederik Nijhout
Department of Zoology, Duke University
Emphasis: Rapid evolution of polyphenic development in exotic beetle populations.1994-1995 Independent Research with Dr. Peter Klopfer
Department of Zoology, Duke University
Emphasis: Genetic, behavioral, and ecological mechanisms of beetle polyphenisms.1994 Independent Research with Prof. Konrad Fiedler and Prof. B. Hölldobler
Department of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, Univ. of Würzburg, Germany
Emphasis: Communication via substrate-borne vibrations between lycaenid caterpillars and ants.1992-1993 Research Assistant with Prof. Dr. K. Eduard Linsenmair
Department of Sociobiology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Germany
Emphasis: Mechanisms maintaining arboreal biodiversity in the tropics.
2008 Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award
2007 Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award
2004 American Society of Naturalists (ASN) Young Investigator Prize
2002 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching Fellow
2001 Katherine Stern Dissertation Year Fellowship
1999 National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Improvement Grant
1999 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching (honorable mention), Duke University
1998 Sally Hughes Schrader / Sigma Xi Travel Award for International Research
1998 Duke University Graduate Award for International Research
1998 North Carolina Academy of Science Robert R. Bryden Graduate Research Award
1997 Duke University Graduate Award for International Research
1997 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research
1994 German Academic Exchange Service Scholar
2008-11: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) Phenotypic integration during development and evolution
of beetle horns; PI: J. Andrews, CoPI: A.P. Moczek; Program: Physiological and Structural Systems ($472,914)2008-10: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) Evolution, development, and diversification of beetle horns; Developmental Mechanisms Program ($538,111)
2008-10: US-ISRAEL BINATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (BSF) Proteome Profiling of the Horned Beetle Onthophagus taurus; PI: A.P. Moczek, CoPI: Yoram Yerushalmi ($120,000)
2008-09: ELI LILLY AND COMPANY FOUNDATION; Holland Summer Enrichment Program: Second Year Experience ($115,500)
2007-09: METACyt MEDB-Node Evolution and Development, Developmental plasticity and Evolution (year 1+2: $50,000)
2007-08: METACyt Renewal, Evolution and development of novelty and diversity in horned beetles (year 2: $55,000)
2006-07: METACyt MEDB-Node Evolution and Development, Evolution and development of novelty and diversity in horned beetles (year 1: $50,000)
2005-07: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) Development and evolution of beetle horns; Developmental Mechanisms Program ($395,000 )
2002-04: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching Grant, Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona ($138,000)
2001 Katherine Stern Dissertation Fellowship
2000 Dissertation Improvement Grant, Department of Zoology, Duke University
1999-02: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) Dissertation Improvement Grant IBN 9972567
1998 Sally Hughes Schrader / Sigma Xi Travel Award for International Research
1998 Duke University Graduate Award for International Research
1998 North Carolina Academy of Science Robert R. Bryden Graduate Research Award
1997 Duke University Graduate Award for International Research
1998 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research
Evolution and Development, Ecological Development, Developmental Plasticity
Evolution of Phenotypic Novelties, Allometry, Behavioral Ecology and Sexual Selection,
Insect Genomics, Insect Endocrinology, Invasive Species and Post-Invasion Evolution
Natural History of Onthophagus beetles
Reviewer for:
Scientific Journals: Acta Oecologica, Animal Behavior, American Naturalist, Behavioral Ecology, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Ecological Entomology, Ecology, Evolution, Evolution & Development, Evolutionary Ecology Research, Journal of Molecular Biology, Journal of Zoology, Journal of Ethology, Journal of Insect Behavior, Journal of Insect Science, Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, Complexity
Funding Agencies: National Science Foundation, Natural Environment Research Council UK, Sigma Xi, California Department of Agriculture, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
2008- present Associate Editor, Journal of Insect Science
2008 - present Faculty Representative for Jim Holland Summer Enrichment Program
2008 - present Faculty Representative for Lilly Scholars Minority Outreach Program
2008 - present Indiana Molecular Biology Institute (IMBI) Executive Committee
2006-2007 EEB Search Committee
2006-present EEB Web Site Committee
2005 EEB Graduate Admissions Committee
2004-present IGERT Evolution, Development & Genomics Steering Committee
2002-2003 NIH PERT Postdoc Selection Committee, Center for Insect Science
1999-2000 Graduate Student Steering Committee, Duke University, Department of Zoology
- Indiana University:
Every Fall Entomology, Lecture and Laboratory course (Z373)- Every Spring Seminar: Developmental Plasticity and Evolution (Z620)
- in addition:
- Spring 2006, Tropical Biology 2 week intensive field course in Costa Rica (L433)
University of Arizona:
Summer 2004 Insect Biodiversity and Land Use Change in Sonora, Mexico (Ento 495/595) Visiting Faculty, Field Instructor and Guest LecturerDuke University
1997-2001 Gregor Mendel Impersonator and Guest Lecturer for Biology 25, The Science of Life, on Mendelian Genetics
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2006 Society for the Study of Evolution, Stony Brook, NY.
2004 Society for the Study of Evolution, Fort Collins, CA.
2003 Society for the Study of Evolution, Chico, CA.
2002 IGERT Symposium on the Microevolution of Development, Bloomington, IN.
2001 Society for the Study of Evolution, Knoxville, TN.
2000 International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Zürich.
2000 Society for the Study of Evolution, Bloomington, IN.
2000 Society for Integrative Biology, Atlanta, GA. (Am. Zool. 39: 12A).
1999 Society for the Study of Evolution, Madison, WI.
1999 Conference on the Evolution and Development of Insect Color Patterns. Madison, WI.
SYMPOSIA
2008 Co-organized by David Pfennig (UNC Chapel Hill) and Armin Moczek (IU Bloomington); Symposium sponsored by the Animal Behavior Society for the 2008 International Meeting, Snowbird, UT. Symposium title: Pathways to novelty and diversity: the causes and consequences of polyphenism
INVITED SYMPOSIA PRESENTATIONS
2009 74th Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Quantitative Biology - Evolution: The Molecular Landscape. Cold Spring Harbor, New York, May-June 2009
2008 Ontario Ecology and Ethology Colloquium; Geometric Morphometrics: Applications in Ecology and Evolution. Guelph, April 2008.
2008 European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Symposium title: From polyphenism to complex life cycles; Ghent, Belgium, July 2008.
2008 International Congress of Entomology, (ICE); double invitation: (i) Reproduction and Development section; Symposium on Evolution and Development of Integrated Phenotypes. (ii) Physiology and Biochemistry section, Symposium on Juvenile Hormone in Adult Physiology and Behavior: The Roads Less Traveled. Durban, South Africa, July 2008
2008 Integrating Evolution, Development, and Genomics (IEDG) bi-annual meeting, UC Berkeley (invitation on behalf of the Graduate Students in Integrative Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley)
2008 PLENARY speaker, Canadian Society of Zoologists Annual Meeting on Comparative Morphology & Development; Symposium title: Innovation in Development & Evolution Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA
2007 India Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Symposium title: Phenotypic and Developmental Plasticity; Trivandrum, Kerala, India -declined-
2006 IGERT Symposium on the Evolution of Novel Features, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN (invited by the graduate students)
2006 Symposium on Animal Behavior and Diversity, Department of Ethology, Kyoto, Japan (invited by the graduate students)
2006 International Darwin Day, Eastern Illinois University -declined-
2005 European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Symposium on Functional Evo-Devo, Cracow, Poland
2004 ASN Young Investigator Award Symposium, American Society of Naturalists, Fort Collins, CA
2004 International Congress of Entomology, Symposium on Insect Morphometrics, Brisbane, Australia
INVITED DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS
2009 University of California, Davis, Department of Evolution and Ecology, Davis, CA
2009 University of California, St. Barbara, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, St. Barbara, CA
2008 Julius Maximilians University (LMU) Munich, Department of Biology. Munich, Germany
2008 University of Maryland, Department of Entomology & Department of Molecular and Cell Biology joint invitation; College Park, MD -postponed-
2008 Iowa State University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Ames, IA
2008 DePauw University, Department of Biology, Greencastle, IN
2007 Stanford University Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA (invited by the graduate students)
2007 Washington University, St. Louis, Department of Biology, St. Louis, MO
2007 University of California, Irvine, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Irvine, CA -postponed-
2007 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Department of Zoology, Norman, OK (invited by the graduate students)
2006 Purdue University, Department of Biological Sciences, West Lafayette, IN
2006 National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) Workshop on Genetic Networks, Keys, Fl
2006 University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CO
2006 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Biology, Chapel Hill, NC
2006 International Darwin Day, Eastern Illinois University, IL
2005 University of Toronto at Scarborough, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Toronto, Canada
2005 Indiana University, Biocomplexity Seminar Series, Bloomington, IN
2005 Indiana University, IGERT Seminar Series, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN
2005 Indiana University, Jim Holland Summer Enrichment Program Lecture, Bloomington, IN
2004 Swarthmore College, Department of Biology, Swarthmore, PA
2004 Indiana University, Center for Integrative Studies in Animal Behavior, CISAB, IN
2004 Indiana University, Department of Biology, MCDB Research Seminar Series, IN
2004 Indiana University, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN
2004 Rice University, Department of Biology, Houston, TX
2004 Lehigh University, Department of Biology, Bethlehem, PA
2003 University of Puerto Rico, Department of Biology, San Juan, PR
2003 University of New Mexico, Department of Biology, Albuquerque, NM
2002 University of Arizona, Department of Entomology, Tucson, AZ
2002 University of Arkansas, Department of Biological Sciences, Fayetteville, AS
2002 University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ
2001 University of North Carolina, Department of Biology, Greensboro, NC
2001 University of Georgia, Department of Entomology, Athens, GA
2001 Western Carolina University, Department of Biology, NC
2000 University of Würzburg, Department of Tropical Ecology and Sociobiology, Germany
2000 University of Leiden, Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, Holland