Devin M. Drown

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EDUCATION

2004 - Current

Ph.D. candidate. School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Co-advisors: Dr. Mark Dybdahl and Dr. Richard Gomulkiewicz

1997-2000

Graduate studies. Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Advisor: Dr. Dale Clayton

1993-1996

B.A. honors. Department of Biology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

PUBLICATIONS

Gomulkiewicz R, Drown DM, Dybdahl MF, Godsoe W, Nuismer SL, Pepin KM, Ridenhour BJ, Smith CI, and Yoder JB. 2007. Do’s and Don’ts of testing the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution. Heredity 98: 249-258.

Meekan MG, Vigliola L, Doherty PJ, Drown DM, Jones E, and Barber PH. 2007. Genetic identity determines risk of post-settlement mortality in a coral reef fish. Ecology 88: 1263–1277.

Moyer BR, Drown DM, and Clayton DH. 2002. Low humidity reduces ectoparasite pressure: implications for host life history evolution. Oikos 97: 223-228.

Johnson KP, Williams BL, Drown DM, Adams RJ, and Clayton DH. 2002. The population genetics of host specificity: Genetic differentiation in dove lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Molecular Ecology 11:25-38.

Clayton DH and Drown DM. 2001. Critical evaluation of five methods for quantifying chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Journal of Parasitology 87: 1291-300.

Johnson KP, Drown DM, and Clayton DH. 2001. A data based parsimony method of cophylogenetic analysis. Zoologica Scripta 30: 79-87.

Drown DM and Brown JM. 1998. Molecular phylogeny of North American oak-galling Cynipini (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) supports need for generic revision. Pp 241-246. The Biology of Gall-Inducing Arthropods (Csoka, G., W. J. Mattson, G. N. Stone, and P. W. Price eds). Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-199. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station.

Drown DM, Dybdahl MF and Gomulkiewicz R. Rapid short-term evolutionary response in dispersal. submitted

GRANTS

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2008): Local Adaptation and Diversification in Parasites. Washington State University ($12,000)

FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS

NSF IGERT (2007-2009) Program in Evolutionary Modeling Graduate Fellowship, Washington State University

Brislawn Graduate Fellowship (2009), Washington State University

McNeil Memorial Graduate Fellowship (2007), Washington State University

Graduate Scholar Award (2004, 2005), Washington State University

Smith Science Award (1996), Grinnell College

PRESENTATIONS*/ POSTERS

Last 5 years

Drown DM, Dybdahl MF, and Gomulkiewicz R. 2009. Migration evolution under the influence of antagonistic coevolution. Evolution 2009, Moscow, ID.*

Drown DM and Boyette A. 2008. The evolution and transmission of disease avoidance behaviors. IPEM Seminar, Pullman, WA.*

Drown DM, Dybdahl MF, and Gomulkiewicz R. 2008 Modeling dispersal in a temporally dynamic spatial patchwork. Palouse Ecology Evolution Seminar, Moscow, ID.*

Drown DM, Dybdahl MF, and Gomulkiewicz R. 2008. Genetic structure, spatial structure, and the evolution of migration. EvoWIBO: Evolutionary biologists in the Pacific Northwest, Port Townsend, WA.

Drown DM, Dybdahl MF, and Gomulkiewicz R. 2007 Evolution of migration in a coevolutionary system. Evolutionary Genetics of Host-Parasite Relationships, Roscoff, France.

Drown DM and Dybdahl MF. 2006. Host phylogeography in a coevolutionary system: influence on parasite adaptation and cladogenesis. Society for the Study of Evolution, Stony Brook, NY.*

Drown DM and Dybdahl MF. 2005. Phylogeography of New Zealand Mud Snails: Empirical and theoretical investigations of dispersal in a coevolutionary system. EcoLunch, Pullman, WA.*

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IPEM Fellow, Washington State University (2007-2009)

Competitive training fellowship which required interdisciplinary coursework and novel research project spanning Biological and Anthropological fields.

Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute (2008)

Competitive training and cooperative novel research in complex behaviors.

Research Assistant, Washington State University (2004-2006)

Responsible for full time research towards my dissertation.

Senior Research Technician, Boston University (2002-2004)

Studying population structure and mating systems in various marine organisms using molecular techniques.

Lab Technician, University of Pittsburgh (1997)

Assisted with greenhouse and field experiments in plant evolutionary ecology. Set up a molecular lab for population genetic work and directed training.

Research Assistant, Grinnell College (1996)

Independent project on the molecular phylogenetics of North American oak galling Cynipid Wasps.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Washington State University (2005-2009)

Introductory Organismal Biology lab, Guest Lectures in: Introduction to Mathematical Biology, Principles of Organic Evolution

Boston University (2003)

Molecular Ecology and Evolution (including lab)

University of Utah (1997-2000)

Molecular Evolution (including lab), Principles of Ecology and Evolution, Principles of Biology II, Organismal Diversity Form and Function

Grinnell College (1995-1996)

Molecular Genetics (including lab), Introduction to Evolution and Ecology (including lab), Structure and Function of Organisms (including lab)

PUBLIC OUTREACH

Blog on peer reviewed research in coevolution (at http://coevolvers.blogspot.com/) (2009 - current)

Created public museum display (image) on speciation for the Conner Museum of vertebrates at Washington State University in collaboration with Chad Brock. (2007)