Emlen Bio.

My Mentors:
(chronological order)

George Eickwort

William Provine

Peter Grant (Ph.D. supervisor)

Carlos Martinez del Rio

William Eberhard

Mary Jane West Eberhard

H. Frederik Nijhout

Address:

Division of Biological Sciences

The University of Montana

Missoula, Montana 59812
Ph: (406) 243-2535
Fax: (406) 243-4184
E-mail: Doug.Emlen@mso.umt.edu

Education:

Ph.D.  Princeton University, Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1994

B. A.  Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, 1989

Professional Positions:

NSF Environmental Biology Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. Zoology, Duke University, July 1994 -July 1996.

Assistant Professor, Division of Biology, University of Montana, 1996 - 2001.

Associate Professor, Division of Biology, University of Montana, 2002 - 2007.

Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, 2008 - present.                 

Awards/Honors:

Invited Panelist, Gordon Research Conference: "Genes & Behavior", Lucca, Barga, Italy, Feb. 2008.

Elected to the Council, Society for the Study of Evolution (2007-2009).

Invited Speaker, National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium: "In the Light of Evolution: Adaptation and Complex Design" Beckman Center of the National Academies, Irvine CA, November 30 - December 2, 2006.

Invited Speaker, Atwood Lecture , University of Toronto, Sept. 2006.

Invited Speaker, George Willimas Lecture, Stony Brook University, Sept. 2006.

Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference: "Genes & Behavior", Irvine CA, Feb. 2006.

Participant in National Academy of Sciences Beckman Frontiers of Science Symposium, Irvine, California, November 14-16, 2002

Presidential Early Career Award, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C. 2001.

American Society of Naturalists Young Investigator Prize, June 1997.

 

Research Grants:

National Science Foundation Program in Physiological and Structural Systems, Organism-Environment Interactions ("Collaborative Research: Genetic mechanisms of conditional-expression and trait exaggeration in weapons of sexual selection") with Laura Corley- Lavine (Washington State University) and Ian Dworkin (Michigan State University). OEI-0919781, August 2009 - July 2014. $655,452.

National Science Foundation Program in Physiological and Structural Systems,  Organism-Environment Interactions (“Collaborative Research: Insulin and limb-patterning pathway activities in the horns of beetles: An integrative study of the mechanisms of allometry, dimorphism, branching & curves”). IOS-0642409. April 2007 – March 2009. $265,000. [Co-PI: Laura Corley-Lavine]         

National Science Foundation CAREER Award ("Development and evolution of exaggerated morphologies in insects: An integrated study of beetles with horns"). IBN-0092873, July 2001–June 2006. $650,000.

National Science Foundation Award Supplement: $62,429 (July 2003-June 2004)

National Science Foundation Program in Integrative Biology, Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology (“Does development bias the evolution of beetle horns?”) IBN-9807932, July 1998-June 2001. $250,000.

NSF Program in Integrative Biology, Developmental Mechanisms IBN-0078320 ("Insects as models for integrating development with evolution"), Symposium Grant for the International Congress of Entomology at Iguassu Falls, Brazil, August 2000; $15,700. Co-PI: Jason A. Hodin.

NSF Program in Integrative Biology, Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology IBN-9723637 (“Does development bias the evolution of beetle horns?”), July 1997 -June 1998.  $40,000.

NSF-MONTS Program award #291832 (“Does Development bias the evolution of beetle horns?”), July 1997 - June 1998. $23,000.

NSF postdoctoral research fellowship in environmental biology DEB-9403323 (“Developmental basis of male dimorphism in the dung beetleOnthophagus taurus”) July 1994 - June 1996.
                       
NSF dissertation improvement grant DEB-924088 (“Evolution of bimodal male horn length variation in the dung beetle Onthophagus acuminatus”) March 1 -December 30, 1993.

Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship (July 1992 - January 1993).

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute short-term fellowship (1991).

Princeton University graduate fellowship (1989 - 1994).

 

Teaching:

Spring 2009

Behavior & Evolution, 4 credits, 50 students

Instructor Evaluation: 5.0 (5 = perfect, 1 = very poor)

Development & Evolution, 3 credits, 20 students
Instructor Evaluation: 4.7

Fall 2008

The Art of Writing Effective Grant Proposals, 2 credits, 13 students

Instructor Evaluation: 4.9

Spring 2008

Behavior & Evolution, 4 credits, 55 students

Instructor Evaluation: 4.9

Insect Biology/Entomology, 4 credits, 20 students
Instructor Evaluation: 5.0

Fall 2007

The Art of Writing Effective Grant Proposals, 2 credits, 11 students

Instructor Evaluation: 4.5

Spring 2007

Development & Evolution, 3 credits, 15 students

Instructor Evaluation: 4.8

Insect Biology/Entomology, 4 credits, 25 students
Instructor Evaluation: 4.9

Spring 2006

Behavior & Evolution, 4 credits, 25 students

Instructor Evaluation: 4.8

Insect Biology/Entomology, 4 credits, 30 students
Instructor Evaluation: 4.8

Spring 2005

Advanced Topics in Evolution, 3 credits, 12 students

Instructor Evaluation: 4.7

Insect Biology/Entomology, 4 credits, 30 students
Instructor Evaluation: 4.8

Spring 2003

Introductory Biology, 4 credits, 150 students (one of four instructors)

Instructor Evaluation: 4.6 (Emlen portion of course)

Insect Biology/Entomology, 4 credits, 35 students
Instructor Evaluation: 4.9

The Art of Writing Effective Grant Proposals, 2 credits, 10 students (6 were subsequently awarded NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants)

Instructor Evaluation: 5.0

Spring 2002

Insect Behavior & Evolution, 4 credits, 21 students

Instructor Evaluation: 4.9

Insect Biology/Entomology, 4 credits, 28 students
Instructor Evaluation: 4.8

Spring 2001

Insect Behavior & Evolution, 4 credits, 33 students

Instructor Evaluation: 4.9

Advanced Topics in Sexual Selection , 2 credits, 33 students
Instructor Evaluation: 5.0

Honors Introductory Biology, 3 credits, 60 students (one of four instructors)
Instructor Evaluation: 4.3 (Emlen segment of the course)

Fall 2000

Insect Biology/Entomology, 4 credits, 30 students
Instructor Evaluation: 4.9

Spring 2000

Insect Behavior & Evolution, 4 credits, 30 students

Instructor Evaluation: 4.9

Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity, 2 credits, 10 students
Instructor Evaluation: 4.8

Fall 1999

Insect Biology/Entomology, 4 credits, 35 students
Instructor Evaluation: 4.6

Spring 1999

Insect Behavior & Evolution, 4 credits, 30 students

Instructor Evaluation: 4.9

Fall 1998

Insect Biology/Entomology, 4 credits, 47 students
Instructor Evaluation: 1.27 (1 = perfect, 5 = very poor)

Spring 1998

Insect Behavior & Evolution, 4 credits, 35 students

Instructor Evaluation: 1.13

1996-1997 Introduction to Behavioral Evology, Fall and Spring, Duke University

1995 Mentor, Duke University Neuroscience "Mechanisms of Behavior" program (Funded by a NSF REU)

1993 Evolution (teaching assistant)

1992 Comparative Physiology (teaching assistant and guest lecturer)

1989 Field Biology (teaching assistant)

 

Invited Seminars:

Department of Ecology & Evolutioanry Biology, University of Arizona, March 2009.

Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior program, Michigan State University, Feb. 2009.

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Sept. 2008 (Festschrift to honor Peter & Rosemary Grant).

Gordon Research Conference, "Genes & Behavior", Lucca, Barga, Italy, Feb. 2008.
(Discussion Leader)

Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Sept. 2007.

Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Sept. 2007.

Department of Biology, Victoria University, Wellington New Zealand, June 2007.

National Academy of Sciences Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium “In the Light of Evolution: Adaptation and Complex Design” Irvine, CA, December 1 & 2, 2006. http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=SACKLER_Evolution

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto. Sept. 2006 (Atwood Lecture; invited by the graduate students)

Department of Ecology & Evolution, Stony Brook University, Sept. 2006. (George Williams Lecture; invited by the graduate students)

Gordon Research Conference, Genes & Behavior, Irvine CA, February 2006

Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, October 2005

Evolution Seminar Series, University of Wisconsin, October 2005

Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, October 2005 (J. T. Emlen Distinguished Lecture Series)
---- Highlighted in The Why? Files (“Bizarre beetle horns” by Paroma Basu, October 2005)

Progress in Evolutionary Ecology Colloquium: A Celebration of the Research of Peter and Rosemary Grant,

University of British Columbia, August 2005

Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism Workshop, Universität Zürich and Centro de Stefano Franscini, Switzerland, August 2005

Department of Biology, Florida State University, April 2005 (invited by the graduate students)

Ecology & Evolution Seminar, Florida State University, April 2005

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, December 2004.

International Congress of Entomology (two invited symposium presentations), Brisbane, Australia, August 2004.

American Society of Naturalists, Vice-Presidential Symposium, Annual meetings of the SSE, ASN and SSB, Ft. Collins, Colorado, June 2004.

School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, March 2004.

Department of Zoology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, March 2004

Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven CT, October 2003.

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, October 2003.

--- Highlighted in The Princeton Journal of Science and Technology (“Digging for answers” by Wenfei Tong,
May 2004).

Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman WA, September 2003.

Department of Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, September 2003.

Behavioral Phenotypes in Context Symposium, Animal Behavior Society Conference, Boisie ID, July 2003.

Physiology of Plasticity Symposium, Society of Integrative & Comparative Biology Conference, Toronto, CA, Jan. 2003.

Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, September 2002.

Department of Biology, Arizona State University, September 2002.

Undergraduate Research Symposium Plenary Lecture, University of Montana, April 2002.

Sigma Xi Lecture, University of Montana, March 2002.

Department of Biology, University of California at Riverside, October 2001.

Department of Biological Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Oct. 2001.

Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, August 2001 (Graduate Tutorial Speaker, 1 week of lectures, plus dept. seminar)

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univeersity of Kansas, Dec. 2000.

Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California at Davis, Nov. 2000.

Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Nov. 2000.

Department of Biology, Montana State University, Apr. 2000.

Frontiers in Animal Behavior Series, University of California at Davis, Apr. 2000.

Department of Biology, DePauw University, Greencastle IN, March 2000.

Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle WA, Feb. 2000.

Annual address to the Coleopterists Society, Entomological Society of America conference, Atlanta GA, December 1999.

Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia MO, Dec. 1999.

Department of Biology, Indiana University, March 1999.

Department of Biology, University of Houston, Jan. 1999.

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Nov. 1998.

Developmental Constraints and Evolution Workshop, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, September 1998.

Hormones and Behavior Symposium, Animal Behavior Society Meetings, Carbondale IL, July 1998.

Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, May 1998.

Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Feb., 1998.

Department of Zoology, Duke University, December 1997.

Department of Zoology, Cambridge University, U.K., November 1997.

Wellcome Institute (Michael Akam lab) Cambridge University, U.K., Nov. 1997.

Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, October 1997.

Young Investigator Symposium, Joint meetings of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of American Naturalists, Boulder Colorado, June 1997.

--- Selected for “News” article, Science, July 11, p. 184.

Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, February 1997.

Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, October 1996.

Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, October 1996.

Department of Biology, University of Montana, March 1996.

Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 1996.

Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, January 1996.

Department of Zoology, University of New Hampshire, April 1995.

Department of Zoology, Duke University, January 1995, February 1995.

 

Editorial / Panel Service:

Reviewer for:

American Naturalist, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Australian Journal of Zoology, BBSRC Research Grant (United Kiingdom), Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biological Conservation, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, BioScience, Biotropica, Coleopterists Bulletin, Conservation Biology, Ecological Entomology, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, Evolution & Development, Functional Ecology, Journal of Ethology, Journal of Insect Science, Journal of Zoology, National Science Foundation (Animal Behavior Program, Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology Program, Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms Program, Population Biology Program), Natural Environment Research Council, Natural History, Nature, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch Research Council), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Psyche, Quarterly Review of Biology, Science, Zoologica Scripta.

Panels & Editorial Boards:

NSF Panel Member (Integrative Organismal Systems)

NSF Panel Member (Animal Behavior – DDIG)

NSF Panel Member (Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology Panel)

Editorial Board, Behavioral Ecology

Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution).

 

University Committees:

Faculty Search Committee (Evolutionary Geneticist) (Chair) (2008-2009)
Curriculum Committee (2008, 2009)
Seminar Committee (2006, 2007, 2008)
Building Committee (for new BSD/Biology building) (2006, 2007)
Faculty Search Committee (Structural Biologist) (2006)
Faculty Search Committee (Associate Dean) (2005, 2006)
DBS Undergraduate Scholarship Committee (2006, 2007)
DBS Senior Awards Committee (2006, 2007)
Graduate Admissions Committee (chair) – successfully recruited 12 new graduate students (70% acceptance rate) (2004)
2003-2004 on sabbatical leave.
Faculty Search Committee (Plant Evolutionary Biologist) (2002)
Seminar Committee (2002)
Graduate Student Admissions Committee (2002)
Seminar Committee (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)
Graduate Student Admissions Committee (1999, 2000).
Faculty Search Committee, Plant Ecologist position (2001).
Reviewer for IBS-CORE undergraduate research grants program (1999).
Reviewer for University Small Grants program, 1998, 1999.
Grader for Student Evaluation Exams, 1998.
Faculty Search Committee, Wildlife Quantitative Ecologist position, Wildlife Program, (2001).
NSF-IGERT Grant planning and preparation committee, 2000-2001.
Murdoch Laboratory, Board Member (1999).