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, June 1994

B. A.  Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, May, 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 – present.                 

Awards:

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 Naturalists Young Investigator Prize, June 1997.

Research Grants:

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).

 

Invited Seminars:

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;