EDUCATION
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
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
2009-present Associate
Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University
2004- 2009 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.
AWARDS
AND HONORS
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
GRANTS
RECEIVED
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)
2009-10:
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
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
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
EDITORIAL
SERVICE
Reviewer for:
Scientific Journals: Acta Oecologica; Animal Behavior; American Naturalist; Behavioral Ecology; Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; Bioscience; Ecological Entomology; Ecology; European Journal of Entomology; Evolution; Evolution & Development; Evolutionary Ecology Research; Infection, Genetics and Evolution; Journal of Molecular Biology; Journal of Zoology; Journal of Ethology; Journal of Insect Behavior; Journal of Insect Science; Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution; Oecologia ; Proceedings of the Royal Society of London; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London; PloS 1; Complexity; Zoology
Funding Agencies: National Science Foundation, Natural Environment Research Council UK, Sigma Xi, California Department of Agriculture, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research; German Research Foundation; Czech Science Foundation; European Research Council; Antwerp Research Council.
2008 Associate
Editor, Evolution (onset
of editorship postponed)
2008 Invitation to serve as Lead Guest Editor
of Special Issue of Psyche: A Journal of Entomology ¬- declined
2008-
2009 Associate Editor, Journal of Insect Science
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2009 - present Director, Graduate Program in Evolutionary Biology, Ecology & Behavior
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
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
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 Lecturer
Duke 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 and WORKING GROUPS
2009-2010 Co-organized
by David Pfennig (UNC Chapel Hill) and Armin Moczek
(IU Bloomington); National Evolutionary Sythesis Center (NESCent)
Working-group
(12 participants, 4 meetings over 2 years) on: Evolution and development of polyphenism:
pathways to innovation
and diversification
2009 Co-organized
by Emilie Snell-Rood and Armin Moczek (IU Bloomington); Symposium
sponsored by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology for
the 2009 International
Meeting, Turin, Italy. Symposium title: On the origins
of novelty in development and evolution:
from cryptic genetic variation to genetic accommodation
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
2010 European Society of Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED); Double Invitation: Symposia on (i) Segmentation and Head Patterning in Arthropods; (ii) The Molecular and Developmental Mechanisms Underlying Phenotypic Diversification; July 6-9; Paris, France.
2010 International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI); Keynote speaker for Symposium on Evolution of morphological novelty in social insects, August 8-14; Copenhagen, Denmark.
2009 European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB); Symposium on The origins of
novelty in development and evolution, Turin, Italy, August 24-29 2009;
2009 74th Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Quantitative Biology
- Evolution: The Molecular Landscape. Cold Spring Harbor,
New York, May-June 2009
2009 Symposium on Advances
in Evolution since Darwin; University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada,
May 20-21 2009. -declined-
2009 Royal
Entomological Society 2009 Annual Meeting, Sheffield, UK, July 15-15
2009
2008 Santa
Fe Institute Workshop; workshop title: Principles of repurposing.
Santa
Fe, July 2008.
2008 National
Academy of Sciences & Centre
National de la Recherce Scientfique; France-U.S. Frontiers of
Science Symposium,
Roscoff, France, November 20-22, 2008.
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
2010 University of Chicago, Lecture Series on Evolutionary Morphology, Chicago, IL.
2010 University of Dayton, Department of Biology, Dayton OH.
2009 University
of California, Davis, Department of Evolution and Ecology,
Davis, CA
2009 University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Program in Ecology,
Evolution and Conservation Biology, Urbana, IL
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 Department of Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland -postponed-
2008 Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2008 Indiana
State University, Department of Biology, Terre Haute, IN
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
