Research Interests
- Evolution of symbiosis
- Evolutionary diversification
- Ant/Insect macroevolution
- Host-associated microbes
- Molecular systematics and phylogenomics
- Biogeography of insects
- Ant-plant and ant-bacteria symbioses
- Coevolution of ant-associated gut bacteria
- Biodiversity genomics
- Tropical field research
- Scientific education and outreach
- Increasing diversity in the sciences
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Positions
– Martha N. and John C. Moser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. (2019 – present)
– Director and Curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. (2019 – present)
– Robert A. Pritzker Director of the Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Department of Science and Education (2017 – 2018)
– Associate Curator (tenured), Field Museum of Natural History, Department of Science and Education (2014 – 2018)
– Assistant Curator (tenure-track), Field Museum of Natural History, Department of Science and Education (2008 – 2014)
– Faculty Member & Lecturer, University of Chicago, Committee on Evolutionary Biology (2008 – Forward)
– Miller Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology & Environmental Science, Policy and Management Departments (2007-2008)
Education
– Ph.D. Harvard University (2003 – 2007)
– M.A. San Francisco State University/California Academy of Sciences (2000 – 2003)
– B.S. San Francisco State University (1996 – 2000)
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I am interested in the origin, evolution, and adaptation of species and maintenance of symbioses, and in particular, how different factors may influence patterns of diversification. More specifically I am interested in how we can use diverse tools including molecular methods, next-generation sequencing, and comparative genomics with field-based research to address these questions.
Teasing apart the factors that have lead to the prolific diversity of the ants is an active line of research in my lab. From the rise of the flowering plants, associations ants have with other insects and plants, to their microbial community are all potential underlying factors that may have facilitated their ecological dominance in almost all terrestrial ecosystems.
Molecular phylogenetics and phylogenomics are powerful tools for inferring the evolutionary history and diversification of biodiversity. By using diverse tools and analytical methods I am working to understand the macroevolutionary factors that have facilitated the evolutionary success of insects and shaped their biogeographic distributions.
By uncovering the diversity and putative function of host-associated microbes we may begin to understand how these interactions are driving the evolution of both partners. Much of my research focuses on gut-associated bacteria in the ants. By coupling this information with data on diet, trophic ecology, evolutionary history and biogeography, I hope to gain a better understanding of how intimate interactions influence patterns of diversity.
Moreover I am also currently pursuing research focusing on understanding biogeographic patterns and historical processes that have shaped distributions of ants in the lowland tropical rainforests of Australia, within the Neotropics, and between the Nearctic and Neotropics on both the evolutionary and contemporary timescales. Using information about current species distributions, genetic diversity, the impact of invasive ants, evolutionary history, and endosymbiotic bacterial communities I hope understand how past climate change has impacted current species and if this information can better inform us to protect biodiversity.
Ultimately I am interested in teasing apart the evolutionary history of social insects and their gut-associated microbes and using this information to better understand the broad-scale evolutionary patterns of life.
I also believe strongly in scientific education and outreach (please visit our Scientific Education and Outreach webpage here). For me this spans teaching university courses to directly supervising students at all educational levels to interacting with other educational programs to working with local school children to creating and being involved in online and digital learning resources for all ages. I founded the Field Museum Women In Science group, which includes paid internship opportunities for young women and girls. Engaging students at all educational levels and the public more generally is an important aspect of sharing science for me.
Graduate students interested in joining the Moreau Lab are encouraged to contact me and apply to the Department of Entomology or the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. Postdoctoral researchers interested in joining the Moreau Lab are encouraged to contact me to discuss possibilities. There are also volunteer and undergraduate intern opportunities in my lab through Cornell University starting 2019. For more information, please our Join Us! page.
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Corrie Saux Moreau
Cornell University
Department of Entomology
129 Garden Ave.
3136 Comstock Hall
Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
Office: (607) 255-4934
Email: corrie.moreau@cornell.edu
Website: http://moreaulab.org
Born: New Orleans, Louisiana; U.S. Citizen
Positions
(2019 – present) Martha N. and John C. Moser Endowed Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
(2019 – present) Director and Curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
(2017 – 2018) Robert A. Pritzker Director of the Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History Department of Science and Education, Chicago, IL.
(2014 – 2018) Associate Curator (tenured), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL in the Department of Zoology, Division of Insects.
(2008 – 2014) Assistant Curator (tenure-track), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL in the Department of Zoology, Division of Insects.
(2008 – Forward) Faculty Member & Lecturer, University of Chicago, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Chicago, IL.
(2007 – 2008) Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley in the Integrative Biology / Environmental Science, Policy & Management Departments.
Education
(2003 – 2007) Ph.D. Harvard University. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. Dissertation project on the evolution and diversification of ants. Advisors: Drs. Naomi E. Pierce and Edward O. Wilson.
(2000 – 2003) M.A. San Francisco State University / California Academy of Sciences. Biology, Ecology and Systematics. Master’s thesis project on the molecular phylogeny of Dracula ants. Advisors: Drs. Greg S. Spicer and Brian L. Fisher.
(1996 – 2000) B.S. San Francisco State University. Biology, Zoology concentration, Entomology emphasis.
Publications
(For PDF copies of all publications please visit the Publications page)
Peer-Reviewed
Moreau, C. S., Darby, A. M., Demery, A.-J. C., Arcila Hernández, L. M. & Meaders, C. L. (2022). A framework for educating and empowering students by teaching about history and consequences of bias in STEM. Invited for a special DEI focused issue of Pathogens and Disease 80(1): 1-8.
Blanchard, B. D. & Moreau, C. S. (2022). Defensive spines are associated with large geographic range but not diversification in spiny ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Polyrhachis). Systematic Entomology 1-13.
de Oliveira, A. A., de Carvalho, A. E., Ramalho, M. O., Moreau, C. S., Harakava, R. & Bueno, O. C. (2022). Exploring the diversity and potential interactions of bacterial and fungal endophytes associated with olive trees (Olea europaea) and their impact on herbivore preference. Microbiological Research 263: 127128.
Price, S. L., Blanchard, B. D., Powell, S., Blaimer, B. B. & Moreau, C. S. (2022). Phylogenomics and fossil data inform the systematics and geographic range evolution of a diverse Neotropical ant lineage. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(1): 9; 1–13.
Greer, J. A. & Moreau, C. S. (2022). Phylogenetic analysis and trait evolution of ant cocoons. Insect Systematics and Evolution 53: 60-77.
Gorneau, J. A., Rheims, C. A., Moreau, C. S. & Rayor, L. S. (2022) Huntsman spider phylogeny informs evolution of life history, egg sacs, and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution 174: 107530.
Moreau, C. S. & Pierce, N. E. (2022). Obituary Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) – Naturalist, synthesizer and conservation champion. Invited obituary in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Moreau, C. S. & Ware, J. L. (2021). Fund natural-history museums, not de-extinction. Nature 598: 32.
Duplais, C., Sarou-Kanian, V., Massiot, D., Hassan, A., Perrone, B., Estevez, Y., Wertz, J. T., Martineau, E., Farjon, J., Giraudeau, P. & Moreau, C. S. (2021). Gut bacteria are essential for normal cuticle development in herbivorous turtle ants. Nature Communications 12: 676.
Grewe, F., Kronforst, M. R., Pierce, N. E. & Moreau, C. S. (2021). Museum genomics reveals the Xerces blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces) was a distinct species driven to extinction. Biology Letters 17: 20210123.
Flynn, P. J., D’Amelio, C., Sanders, J. G., Russell, J. A. & Moreau, C. S. (2021). Localization of bacterial communities within gut compartments across Cephalotes ants. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 87(8): e02803-20.
McKenzie, S. K., Winston, M. E., Grewe, F., Vargas-Asensio, G., Rodriguez, N., Rubin, B. E. R., Catalina, M., von Beeren, C., Moreau, C. S., Suen, G., Pinto-Tomás, A. A., & Kronauer, D. J. C. (2021). The genomic basis of army ant chemosensory adaptations. Molecular Ecology 30: 6627-6641.
Chanson, A., Moreau, C. S. & Duplais, C. (2021). Assessing biosynthetic gene cluster diversity of specialized metabolites in the conserved gut symbionts of herbivorous turtle ants. Frontiers in Microbiology 12: 678100.
Gotelli, N. J., Booher, D. B., Urban, M. C., Ulrich, W., Suarez, A. V., Skelly, D. K., Russell, D. J., Rowe, R. J., Rothendler, M., Rios, N., Rehan, S. M., Ni, G., Moreau, C. S., Magurran, A. E., Jones, F. A. M., Graves, G. R., Fiera, C., Burkhardt, U. & Primack, R. B. (2021). Estimating species relative abundances from museum records. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 00: 1-13.
Ramalho, M. O., Kim, Z., Wang, S. & Moreau, C. S. (2021). Wolbachia across social insects: Patterns and implications. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 114(2): 206-218..
Moreau, C. S. (2020). Symbiosis among ants and microbes. Invited review for a special issue of Current Opinion in Insect Science 39:1-5.
Ramalho, M. O. & Moreau, C. S. (2020). The evolution and biogeography of Wolbachia in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invited for a special issue in Diversity 12: 426.
Ramalho, M. O., Martins, C. & Moreau, C. S. (2020) Myrmecology: Majority of females only within the colony. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi – Ciências Naturais 15(1): 17-26.
Martins, C. & Moreau, C. S. (2020). Influence of host phylogeny, geographical location and seed harvesting diet on the bacterial community of globally distributed Pheidole ants. PeerJ 8:e8492.
Blanchard, B. D., Nakamura, A., Cao, M. Chen, S. T. & Moreau, C. S. (2020). Spine and dine: Foraging behavior, competitive dynamics, and predator-prey interactions support the escape-and-radiate hypothesis in spiny ants. Ecology & Evolution 10: 5852-5863.
Supriya, K., Price, T. D. & Moreau, C. S. (2020). Competition with insectivorous ants as a contributor to low songbird diversity at low elevations in the eastern Himalaya. Ecology & Evolution 10: 4280-4290.
Ramalho, M. O., Gibson, J. C., Duplais, C., Orivel, J., Suarez, A. V. & Moreau, C. S. (2020). Development but not diet alters microbial communities in the Neotropical arboreal trap jaw ant Daceton armigerum: an exploratory study. Scientific Reports 10: 7350.
Birer, C., Moreau, C. S., Tysklind, N., Zinger, L. & Duplais, C. (2020). Disentangling the sources of ant cuticular microbiota of two Amazonian ant species sharing a common arboreal nest. Molecular Ecology 29(7): 1372-1385.
Reeves, D. D., Price, S. L., Ramalho, M. O. & Moreau, C. S. (2020). The diversity and distribution of Wolbachia, Rhizobiales, and Ophiocordyceps within the widespread Neotropical turtle ant, Cephalotes atratus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Neotropical Entomology 49: 52–60.
Moreau, C. S. (2020). “Intestinal symbionts” in Encyclopedia of Social Insects. Starr, C. K. (Ed.). Springer Publishing Company.
Borowiec, M., Moreau, C. & Rabeling, C. (2020). “Ants: Phylogeny and Classification” in Encyclopedia of Social Insects. Starr, C. K. (Ed.). Springer Publishing Company
Reeves, D. D. & Moreau, C. S. (2019). The evolution of foraging behavior in ants. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 77(2): 351-363.
Pinheiro, H. T., Moreau, C. S., Daly, M. & Rocha, L. A. (2019). Will DNA barcoding meet taxonomic needs? Science 365(6456): 873-874.
Supriya, K., Moreau, C. S., Sam, K. & Price, T. D. (2019). Global analysis of elevational gradients in arthropod abundance. Frontiers in Biogeography 11(2): e43104.
Flynn, P. J. & Moreau, C. S. (2019). Assessing the diversity of endogenous viruses throughout ant genomes. Frontiers in Microbiology 10: 1139.
Kelly, M., Price, S. L., Ramalho, M. O. & Moreau, C. S. (2019). Diversity of Wolbachia associated with the giant turtle ant, Cephalotes atratus. Current Microbiology 76: 1330-1337.
Probst, R. S., Wray, B. D., Moreau, C. S. & Brandão, C. R. F. (2019). A phylogenetic analysis of the dirt ants, Basiceros Schulz (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Inferring life histories through morphological convergence. Insect Systematics and Diversity 3(4): 1-12.
Rubenstein, D. R., Ågren, J. A., Carbone, L., Hoekstra, H. E., Elde, N. C., Kapheim, K. M., Keller, L., Moreau, C. S., Toth, A. L., Yeaman, S. & Hofmann, H. A. (2019). Coevolution of genome architecture and social behavior. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34(9): 844-855.
Ramalho, M. O., Moreau, C. S. & Bueno, O. C. (2019). The potential role of environment in structuring the microbiota of Camponotus across parts of the body. Advances in Entomology 7(3): 47-70.
Rubin, B. E. R., Kautz, S., Wray, B. D. & Moreau, C. S. (2019). Dietary specialization in mutualistic acacia-ants affects abundance but not identity of host-associated bacteria. Molecular Ecology 28: 900-916.
Nelsen, M. P., Ree, R. H. & Moreau, C. S. (2018). Ant-plant interactions evolved through increasing interdependence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 115(48): 12253-12258.
Hu, Y., Łukasik, P., Sanders, J. G., D’Amelio, C. L., Millar, J. S., Vann, D. R., Lan, Y., Newton, J. A., Schotanus, M., Kronauer, D. J. C., Pierce, N. E., Moreau, C. S., Wertz, J. T., Engel, P. & Russell, J. A. (2018). Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a highly conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome. Nature Communications 9: 964.
Dennis, T. P. W., Flynn, P. J.*, Marciel de Souza, W., Singer, J. B., Moreau, C. S., Wilson, S. J. and Gifford, R. J. (2018). Insights into circovirus host range from the genomic fossil record. Journal of Virology 92(16): e00145-18.
Loreto, R. G., Araújo, J. P. M., Kepler, R. M., Fleming, K. R., Moreau, C. S. & Hughes, D. P. (2018). Evidence for convergent evolution of host parasitic manipulation in response to environmental conditions. Evolution 72(10): 2144-2155.
Parfrey, L. W., Moreau, C. S. & Russell, J. A. (2018). Introduction: The host-associated microbiome: Pattern, process, and function. Molecular Ecology 27: 1749-1765.
Ramalho, M. O., Vieira, A. S., Pereira, M. C., Moreau, C. S. & Bueno, O. C. (2018). Transovarian transmission of Blochmannia and Wolbachia endosymbionts in the Neotropical weaver ant Camponotus textor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Current Microbiology 78: 866-873.
Short, A. E. Z., Dikow, T. & Moreau, C. S. (2018). Entomological collections in the age of big data. Annual Review of Entomology 63: 513-530.
Ramalho, M. O., Bueno, O. C. & Moreau, C. S. (2017). Species-specific signatures of the microbiome from Camponotus and Colobopsis ants across developmental stages. PLOS ONE 12(11): e0187461.
Drew, J. A., Moreau, C. S. & Stiassny, M. L. J. (2017). Digitization of museum collections improves diversity in biodiversity science and education. In press at Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Moreau, C. S. & Rubin, B. E. R. (2017). Diversity and persistence of the gut microbiome of the giant Neotropical bullet ant. For an invited special issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology 57(4): 682-689.
Moreau, C. S. & Wray, B. D. (2017). An empirical test of reduced-representation genomics to infer species-level phylogenies for two ant groups. For an invited issue of Insect Systematics and Diversity 1(2): 1-8.
Kamhi, J. F., Arganda, S., Moreau, C. S. & Traniello, J. F. A. (2017). Origins of aminergic regulation of behavior in complex insect social systems. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 11:74.
Yao, L., Li, H., Martin, R. D., Moreau, C. S. & Malhi, R. S. (2017). Tracing the phylogeographic history of Southeast Asian long-tailed macaques through mitogenomes of museum specimens. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 116: 227-238.
Łukasik, P., Newton, J. A., Sanders, J. G., Hu, Y., Moreau, C. S., Kronauer, D. J. C., O’Donnell, S., Koga, R., & Russell, J. A. (2017). The structured diversity of specialized gut symbionts of the New World army ants. Molecular Ecology 26(14): 3808-3825.
Ramalho, M. O., Bueno, O. C. & Moreau, C. S. (2017). Microbial composition of spiny ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Polyrhachis) across their geographic range. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17: 96.
Pringle, E. G. & Moreau, C. S. (2017). Community analysis of microbial sharing and specialization in a Costa Rican ant-plant-hemipteran symbiosis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284: 20162770.
Winston, M. E., Thompson, A., Trujillo, G., Burchill, A. & Moreau, C. S. (2017). Novel approach to heritability detection suggests robustness to paternal genotype in a complex morphological trait. Ecology and Evolution 7(12): 4179-4191.
Blanchard, B. D. & Moreau, C. S. (2017). Defensive traits exhibit an evolutionary trade-off and drive diversification in ants. Evolution 71-2: 315-328.
Winston, M. E., Kronauer, D. & Moreau, C. S. (2017). Early and dynamic colonization of Central America drives speciation in Neotropical army ants. Molecular Ecology 26: 859-870.
Russell, J. A, Sanders, J. G. & Moreau, C. S. (2017). Hotspots for symbiosis: Function, evolution, and specificity of ant-microbe associations from trunk to tips of the ant phylogeny (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 24: 43-69.
Moreau, C. S. & Wilson, E. O. (2017). “The value of your and our collections” in Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Ants of Chicago. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Rubin, B. E. R. & Moreau, C. S. (2016). Comparative genomics reveals convergent rates of evolution in ant-plant mutualisms. Nature Communications 7: 12679.
Burchill, A. T. & Moreau, C. S. (2016). Colony size evolution in ants: Macroevolutionary trends. Insectes Sociaux 63(2): 291-298.
Mezger, D. & Moreau, C. S. (2016). Out of South-East Asia: Phylogeny and biogeography of the spiny ant genus Polyrhachis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 41: 369-378.
Holley, J. C., Moreau, C. S., Laird, J. G. & Suarez, A. V. (2016). Subcaste-specific evolution of head size in the ant genus Pheidole. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118(3): 472-485.
Johnson, R. A. & Moreau, C. S. (2016). A new ant genus from southern Argentina and southern Chile, Patagonomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4139(1): 1-31.
Moreau, C. S., Hugall, A. F., McDonald, K. R., Jamieson, B. G. M., & Moritz, C. (2015). An ancient divide in a contiguous rainforest: Endemic earthworms in the Australian wet tropics. PLOS ONE 10(9): e0136943.
NESCent Working Group on the Evolutionary Biology of the Built Environment, Martin, L. J., Adams, R. I., Bateman, A., Bik, H. M., Hawks, J., Hird, S. M., Hughes, D., Kembel, S. W., Kinney, K., Kolokotronis, S.-O., Levy, G., McClain, C., Meadow, J. F., Medina, R. F., Mhuireach, G., Moreau, C. S., Munshi-South, J., Nichols, L. M., Palmer, C., Popova, L., Schal, C., Täubel, M., Trautwein, M., Ugalde, J. & Dunn, R. R. (2015). Evolution of the indoor biome. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30 (4): 223-232.
Robson, S. K. A., Kohout, R. J., Beckenbach, A. T. & Moreau, C. S. (2015). Evolutionary transitions of complex labile traits: Silk weaving and arboreal nesting in Polyrhachis ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 69: 449-458.
Leavitt, S. D., Moreau, C. S., & Lumbsch, H. T. (2015). “The dynamic discipline of species delimitation: Progress towards effectively recognizing species boundaries in natural populations” pp. 11-44 in Upreti, D. K., Divakar, P. K., Shukla, V., & Bajpai, R. (Eds.) Recent Advances in LichenologyVolume 2. Springer Press, Berlin, Germany.
Moreau, C. S., Deyrup, M. A. & Davis, L. R. (2014). Ants of the Florida Keys: Species accounts, biogeography, and conservation (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Insect Science 14: e295.
Moreau, C. S. (2014). A practical guide to DNA extraction, PCR, and gene-based DNA sequencing in insects. Halteres 5: 32-42.
Rubin, B. E. R., Sanders, J. G., Hampton-Marcell, J., Owens, S., Gilbert, J. A. & Moreau, C. S. (2014). DNA extraction protocols cause differences in 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing efficiency but not in community profile composition or structure. MicrobiologyOpen 3(6): 910-921.
Wills, B. D., Moreau, C. S., Wray, B. D., Hoffmann, B. D. & Suarez, A. V. (2014). Body size variation and caste ratios in geographically distinct populations of the invasive big-headed ant, Pheidole megacephala. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113:423-438.
Muscedere, M. L., Gronenberg, W., Moreau, C. S. & Traniello, J. F. A. (2014) Investment in higher order central processing regions is not constrained by brain size in social insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 20140217.
Winston, M. E., Hampton Marcel, J., Zarraonaindia,, I., Owens, S. M., Moreau, C. S., Gilbert, J. A., Hartsel, J., Kennedy, S. J., & Gibbons, S. M. (2014) Understanding cultivar-specificity and soil determinants of the Cannabis microbiome. PLOS ONE 9(6): e99641.
Hu, Y., Łukasik, P., Moreau, C. S. & Russell, J. A. (2014) Correlates of gut community composition across an ant species (Cephalotes varians) elucidate causes and consequences of symbiotic variability. Molecular Ecology 23: 1284-1300.
Moreau, C. S. & Bell, C. D. (2013). Testing the museum versus cradle biological diversity hypothesis: Phylogeny, diversification, and ancestral biogeographic range evolution of the ants. Evolution 67(8): 2240-2257.
Kautz S., Rubin B. E. R. & Moreau C. S. (2013) Bacterial infections across the ants: Frequency and prevalence of Wolbachia, Spiroplasma, and Asaia. Invited paper for a special issue of “Ants and their Parasites” in Psyche 2013: e936341.
Johnson, R. A., Overson, R. P. & Moreau, C. S. (2013) A new species of seed-harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex hoelldobleri (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), from the Mohave and Sonoran deserts of North America. Zootaxa 3646(3): 201-227.
Moreau, C. S., Wray, B. D., Czekanski-Moir, J. E., & Rubin, B. E. R. (2013). DNA preservation: A test of commonly used preservatives for insects. Invertebrate Systematics 27: 81-86.
Kautz S., Rubin B. E. R., Russell, J. A. & Moreau C. S. (2013). Surveying the microbiome of ants: Comparing 454 pyrosequencing with traditional methods to uncover bacterial diversity. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79(2): 525-534.
Russell, J. A., Funaro, C. F., Giraldo, Y. M., Goldman-Huertas, B., Suh, D., Kronauer, D. J. C., Moreau, C. S. & Pierce, N. E. (2012). A veritable menagerie of heritable bacteria from ants, butterflies, and beyond: Broad molecular surveys and a systematic review. PLOS ONE: 7(12): e51027.
Kautz, S., Ballhorn, D. J., Kroiß, J., Pauls, S. U., Moreau, C. S., Eilmus, S., Strohm, E. & Heil, M. (2012). Host plant use by competing acacia-ants: Mutualists monopolize while parasites share hosts. PLOS ONE 7(5): e37691.
Rubin, B. E. R., Ree, R. H. & Moreau, C. S. (2012). Inferring phylogenies from RAD sequence data. PLOS ONE 7(4) e33394.
Anderson, K. E., Russell, J. A., Moreau, C. S., Kautz, S., Sullam, K., Hu, Y., Basinger, U., Mott, B. M., Buck, N. & Wheeler, D. E. (2012). Highly similar microbial communities are shared among related and trophically similar ant species. Molecular Ecology 21: 2282-2296. [Cover image]
Moreau, C. S. & Bell, C. D. (2011). Fossil cross-validation of the dated ant phylogeny (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Americana 117: 127-133.
Sarnet, E. M. & Moreau, C. S. (2011). Biogeography and morphological evolution in a Pacific island ant radiation. Molecular Ecology 20: 114-130.
Moreau, C. S. (2011). What do molecular clocks tell us about the evolution of ants? (Invited Instant Symposium review) American Entomologist 57(1): 52-53.
Funaro, C. F., Kronauer, D. J. C., Moreau, C. S., Goldman-Huertas, B., Pierce, N. E. & Russell, J. A. (2011). Army ants and other arthropods harbor host-specific clades of Entomoplasmatales bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77: 346-350. [Cover image]
Kautz, S. & Moreau, C. S. (2011). Creating Encyclopedia of Life’s species pages for ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): What we have done and what remains to be done. Myrmecological News 14:69-72.
Russell, J. A.+, Moreau, C. S.+, Goldman-Huertas, B. M., Fujiwara, M., Lohman, D. J. & Pierce, N. E. (2009). Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106: 21236-21241. [+ co-first authorship]
Moreau, C. S. (2009). Inferring ant evolution in the age of molecular data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 12: 201-210.
Russell, J. A., Goldman-Huertas, B. M., Moreau, C. S., Baldo, L., Stahlhut, J. K., Werren, J. H. & Pierce, N. E. (2009). Specialization and geographic isolation among Wolbachia symbiontsfrom ants and Lycaenid butterflies. Evolution 63: 624-640.
Moreau, C. S. (2008). Unraveling the evolutionary history of the “hyperdiverse” ant genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 224-239.
Dejean, A., Moreau, C. S., Kenne, M. & Leponce, M. (2008). The raiding success of Pheidole megacephala on other ants in both its native and introduced ranges. Comptes Rendus Biologies 331: 631-635.
Canfield, M. R., Greene, E., Moreau, C. S. & Pierce, N. E. (2008). Exploring phenotypic plasticity in emerald moths: A phylogeny of the genus Nemoria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 477-487.
Dejean, A., Kenne, M. & Moreau, C. S. (2007). Predatory abilities favour the success of the invasive ant Pheidole megacephala in an introduced area. Journal of Applied Entomology 131: 625-629.
Dejean, A., Moreau, C. S., Uzac, P., Le Breton, J. & Kenne, M. (2007). The predatory behavior of Pheidole megacephala. Comptes Rendus Biologies 330: 701-709.
Moreau, C. S., Bell, C. D., Vila, R., Archibald, S. B., & Pierce, N. P. (2006). Phylogeny of the ants: Diversification in the age of angiosperms. Science312: 101–104. [Cover image – Photo by C.S. Moreau]
Archibald, S. B., Cover, S. P. & Moreau, C. S. (2006). Bulldog ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and history of the subfamily (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99: 487–523.
Blackburn, D. C. & Moreau, C. S. (2006). Ontogenetic diet change in the arthroleptid frog Schoutedenella xenodactyloides. Journal of Herpetology 40: 388-394.
Dejean, A., Le Breton, J., Suzzoni, J. P., Orivell, J, & Saux-Moreau*, C. (2005). Influence of interspecific competition on the recruitment behavior and liquid food transport in the tramp ant species Pheidole megacephala. Naturwissenschaften 92: 324–327.
Saux*, C., Fisher, B. L. & Spicer, G. S. (2004). Dracula ant phylogeny as inferred by nuclear 28S rDNA sequences and implications for ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Amblyoponinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 457–468.
Saux*, C., Simon, C. M. & Spicer, G. S. (2003). Phylogeny of the dragonfly and damselfly order Odonata as inferred by mitochondrial 12S rRNA sequences. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 96: 693–699.
Book Reviews, Forums, Reports, and Editorials
Boomsma, J. J., Brady, S. G., Dunn, R. R., Gadau, J., Heinze, J., Keller, L., Moreau, C. S., Sanders, N. J., Schrader, L., Schultz, T. R., Sundström, L., Ward, P. S., Wcislo, W. T., Zhang, G. & The GAGA Consortium. (2017). The Global Ant Genomics Alliance (GAGA). Forum piece for Myrmecological News 25: 61-66.
Gilbert, J. A., Bao, Y., Wang, H., Sansone, S.-A., Edmunds, S. C., Morrison, N., Meyer, F., Schriml, L. M., Davies, N., Sterk, P., Wilkening, J., Garrity, G. M., Field, D., Robbins, R., Smith, D. P., Mizrachi, I. & Moreau, C. S. (2012). Report of the 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting, Shenzhen, China, March 4–7, 2012. Standards in Genomic Sciences 6: 6020276.
Schluns, H., Moreau, C. S., Zettel, H., Schlick-Steiner, B. C., & Steiner, F. (2011). Editorial for the Ross H. Crozier Memorial Volume. Myrmecological News 15: iii-iv.
Moreau, C. S. (2010). Book review of “Anthill” by E. O. Wilson. American Entomologist 56(4): 252.
Moreau, C. S. (2008). Invited book review of “Ants of North America: A guide to the genera” by B. L. Fisher and S. P. Cover. Quarterly Review of Biology 83: 223.
* Previous name(s). All future publications will be under the name Moreau.
Awards & Honors
Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. 2021.
Cornell Graduate Diversity & Inclusion Faculty Champion Award. 2021.
Entomological Society of American Fellow 2020: https://www.entsoc.org/ten-entomologists-honored-2020-fellows-entomological-society-america
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow 2018: https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-honors-accomplished-scientists-2018-elected-fellows
National Geographic Women of Impact feature 2018: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/ants-evolution-corrie-moreau-women-in-biology/
Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Honor Society) elected full member. 2018.
Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. German-American Frontiers of Science, Potsdam, Germany. March 2016.
Included in “15 Brilliant Women Bridging the Gender Gap in Science” (2015): http://guff.com/15-brilliant-women-bridging-the-gender-gap-in-science
Included in “10 Women Scientists You Should Follow on Twitter” (2014): http://discov-her.com/en/article/10-women-scientists-you-should-follow-on-twitter
Distinguished Visiting Scholar – James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia in the Center for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change. January – February 2013.
U.C. Berkeley – Miller Fellow. Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Fall 2007).
Genera and Species named after Corrie Moreau:
Corrieopone – ponerine ant genus
Strumigenys moreauviae – trap-jaw ant species
Ophiocordyceps corriemoreauae – zombie fungus species that infects the giant turtle ant
Glyptapanteles corriemoreauae – parasitic braconid wasp species
Honorary Appointments
E.O. Wilson Foundation – Half-Earth Project Educator Ambassador. 2020-present.
Cornell Institute of Host-Microbe Interactions and Disease (CIHMID) – Faculty Member. 2019–present.
Field Museum of Natural History – Research Associate in the Integrative Research Center. 2019–present.
Center for Tropical Research at the University of California, Los Angeles – Senior Research Fellow. 2015–present.
The Microbiome Center at the University of Chicago – Faculty Member. 2016–2018.
Advisory and Governing Boards
Global Ant Genomics Alliance (GAGA; http://antgenomics.dk) – Governing Board: J. J. Boomsma, S. G. Brady, J. Gadau, J. Heinze, C. S. Moreau, N. J. Sanders, L. Schrader, T. R. Schultz, L. Sundström, P. S. Ward, W. T. Wcislo, & G. Zhang (2016–2021).
TwISLE – Twitter and Informal Science Learning and Engagement (TwISLE): Developing appropriate measures (NSF funded award to PI Daniel Light, Education Development Center, Inc.) 2014–2016.
Leadership Training
Crain’s Leadership Academy – Nominated for and attended Crain’s Leadership Academy hosted by Crain’s Business, Chicago, IL, USA. 2016.
Grants & Funding
External Funding
National Science Foundation (NSF DEB 1701352) – Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) titled “Morphological evolution, specialization, and functional ecology in a diverse genus of ants” to support research by graduate student Benjamin Blanchard. Awarded to Moreau & Blanchard 2017-2019.
National Science Foundation (NSF) – Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site grant titled “Evolution of Biodiversity Across the Tree of Life”. Lead PI in collaboration with Dr. Thorsten Lumbsch (Co-PI) 2016-2019.
National Science Foundation (NSF) – Dimensions of Biodiversity (DoB) grant titled: “Dimensions: Identifying how the ecological and evolutionary interactions between host and symbiont shape holobiont biodiversity”. Lead PI in collaboration with Dr. Jacob Russell (Drexel University), Dr. Scott Powell (George Washington University), and Dr. John Wertz (Calvin College) 2015-2020.
National Science Foundation (NSF) – Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) Behavioral Systems cluster grant titled: “Collaborative Research: Social selection and brain evolution in ants”. Collaborative grant with Dr. James Traniello (Boston University) and Dr. Wulfila Gronenberg (University of Arizona) 2014-2018.
National Science Foundation (NSF) –Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) titled “Dissertation Research: Bridging micro- and macroevolution in a top Neotropical predator” to support research by graduate student Max Winston. Awarded to Moreau & Winston 2015-2017.
National Academies Keck Future Initiative (NAKFI) – Proposal for workshops to collaborate on “The evolution of antagonists in a social world”. Collaborative grant with Lead PI Dr. David Hughes (Pennsylvaia State University), Co-PI Dr. Corrie Moreau (Field Museum of Natural History), Co-PI Ms. Kelly Rooker (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Co-PI Mr. Tyler Massaro (University of Tennessee, Knoxville). Awarded to Lead PI 2015.
French National Centre for Scientific Research – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) – Proposal to Nouragues Travel Grants program titled “Evolution of symbiont complexity and diet shifts in arboreal ants” to conduct scientific fieldwork in French Guiana. Awarded to Moreau 2015.
National Science Foundation (NSF) – DEB Population and Community Ecology Cluster grant titled: “Inferring bacterial roles in the evolution of trophic level across the ants” in collaboration with Dr. Jacob Russell (Drexel University) 2011 – 2014.
National Geographic Society (NGS) – Committee on Research and Exploration titled “The role of historical and future climate change in shaping the distribution and evolution of rainforest ants and their endosymbiotic bacteria in Australia” 2014.
National Science Foundation (NSF) – Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) titled “Dissertation Research: The evolution of plant-ants: mutualism and the gut microbiome” to support research by graduate student Benjamin Rubin. Awarded to Moreau & Rubin 2013-2014.
U.S. Department of Education – Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) grant titled: “Graduate Training in Evolutionary Environmental Biology”. Collaborative grant with University of Chicago’s Committee on Evolutionary Biology: Dr. Susan Kidwell (UChicago) and Dr. Corrie Moreau (Field Museum) Co-Directors of GAANN Steering Committee. Awarded three full-time Ph.D. student training support positions for three years 2012-2015.
Encyclopedia of Life – Biodiversity Synthesis Meeting. Funding to support a meeting of 30 members of the ant community to facilitate research collaboration 2009.
Foundation Funding
Polk Family Charitable Fund – Exploring genomes to understand the evolution of caste systems. (2016).
Negaunee Foundation – Insect-plant co-evolution in space and time. In collaboration with Dr. Richard Ree (2015).
Women’s Board of the Field Museum – Yearly funds to support the Field Museum Women In Science (FMWIS) summer internship program. (2014).
Negaunee Foundation – Museonomics – a new era of genomics in understanding and using scientific museum collections. (2014).
Negaunee Foundation – What can we learn from museum specimens? Cataloging collections at the Field Museum. (2013).
Negaunee Foundation – Ant symbioses in Costa Rican rainforests. (2012).
The Grainger Foundation – Comparative Genomics of Ant-Plant Mutualisms (2011).
Negaunee Foundation – Ant Diversity, Biogeography and Conservation in the Florida Keys (2010).
The Grainger Foundation – Ant Species Diversity and Bacterial Endosymbiosis (2010).
Bertha Lebus Foundation – Exploring Ant Genomics (2010).
Women’s Board Field Dreams – Support for research (2009 & 2016).
Marshall Field Fund – Support of several field collecting trips to Australia, Peru and Florida Keys (2009-2013).
Postdoctoral Funding
Miller Fellow at U.C. Berkeley. Awarded for up to three years of salary and research support for postdoctoral research as a Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science Postdoctoral Fellow (Fall 2007).
University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Awarded for up to two years of salary support for postdoctoral research at a University of California campus. (Declined).
Teaching Experience
Cornell University. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – The Science Behind Bias seminar. Fall 2020.
Cornell University. Graduate Professional Development in Entomology. Fall 2020, Fall 2021.
Cornell University. ModelBased Phylogenetics and Hypothesis Testing. Spring 2020.
University of Chicago. Reconstructing the Tree of Life: An introduction to phylogenetics. Co-taught lecture and computer laboratory with Dr. Richard Ree. Autumn 2009, 2011, 2013.
University of Chicago. GAANN graduate seminar. Lead weekly discussions of scientific literature around diverse themes. Winter 2014.
The Ant Course. Invited instructor (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) and teaching assistant (2002, 2003) in USA, Venezuela, Borneo, Uganda, and Peru for this field based course.
Harvard University. Molecular Ecology and Evolution. Graduate teaching fellow for Dr. Scott V. Edwards. 2006.
Harvard University. Animal Behavior. Graduate teaching fellow for Dr. Naomi E. Pierce. 2004.
San Francisco State University. Molecular Techniques in Ecology and Evolution. Graduate teaching assistant for Dr. Greg S. Spicer. 2001.
San Francisco State University. Insect Taxonomy. Graduate teaching assistant for Dr. John E. Hafernik. 2001.
San Francisco State University. General Entomology. Student teaching assistant for Dr. Stan C. Williams. 2001.
San Francisco State University. Medical Entomology. Student teaching assistant for Dr. Stan C. Williams. 2000.
Scientific Education Outreach
(also please visit our Outreach page)
Podcast interview for the KUOW “THE WILD with Chris Morgan” podcast (2020): https://kuow.org/stories/the-tiniest-farmer-on-earth
Podcast interview for the Biology of Superheroes podcast (2020): https://thebiologyofsuperheroespodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-16-antman-the-biology-of-ants/
Podcast interview for Brains On! children’s podcast (2020): https://www.brainson.org/shows/2020/08/11/poop-party-your-poo-questions-answered
Video interview and podcast for Ferment TV as part of Ginkgo Bioworks “Emergent Ecologies in Art and Science” with artist Anicka Yi (2020).
Podcast interview for There Are No Girls On the Internet podcast (2020): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/there-are-no-girls-on-the-internet/id1520715907?i=1000495457304
Video presentation for “A Scientist Walks Into A Bar” via the Hideout Bar in Chicago (2020).
Interviewed for three videos as an E.O. Wilson Foundation Half-Earth Project Educator (2020): https://www.half-earthproject.org/half-earth-project-educator-ambassadors/#resources
Featured on National Geographic Women of Impact (2018): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/ants-evolution-corrie-moreau-women-in-biology/
Featured in Swarm Intelligence video for Massive Science (2018): https://massivesci.com/articles/naked-mole-rat-ant-colony-swarm-intelligence/
Featured on the Ant Network video series “Turtle Ants, Gut Microbes, & Citizen Science” (2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9LAKRDraKw
Interviewed for Insectes Sociaux blog (“Interview with a Social Insect Scientist”): https://insectessociaux.com/2017/09/16/interview-with-a-social-insect-scientist-corrie-moreau/
Featured in the “Office Hours” YouTube series (2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zk2Fvt6eyY&feature=youtu.be
Interviewed for This Week in Evolution (TWiEVO) podcast (2016): http://www.microbe.tv/twievo/twievo-13/
Interviewed for STEMxm podcast (2016): http://www.stemxm.com/
Interviewed for Tumble podcast (2016): http://www.sciencepodcastforkids.com/
Featured in the “Office Hours” YouTube series (2016): https://youtu.be/PwvtelLCCEA
Featured in Smithsonian Magazine for their annual “Field Notes” interview (2016).
Video presentation for National Academies of Sciences – Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium (2016): https://vimeo.com/159801735
Invited lecture for Illinois Humanities Council Elective Studies Supper Club, A monthly lecture and dinner series in which artists gather to hear from and meet exciting thinkers from outside of the arts (2016): https://www.ilhumanities.org/program/elective-studies/
Interviewed for “Science For the People” podcast (2016): http://www.scienceforthepeople.ca/episodes/insects-en-masse
Featured on The Brain Scoop YouTube channel for a video titled “Bullet Ant Venom” (2015): https://youtu.be/wNCD3rLbCBk
Featured on The Brain Scoop YouTube channel for a video titled “Dissecting Ants” (2015): https://youtu.be/D0HGz4RPLwc
Public seminar for Pint of Science, a global science festival, on the diversity and function of animal associated bacteria (2015): http://pintofscience.us/event/we-didnt-choose-the-bug-life-it-chose-us/
Public seminar for Evolution @ Revolution Brewery on the role of microbes in human and ant evolution (2015): http://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/programs/evolution-revolution
Blog interview for Your Wild Life “Before They Were Scientists (2014): http://www.yourwildlife.org/2014/12/before-they-were-scientists-corrie-moreau/
Radio interview for Chicago Public Radio WBEZ Worldview program EcoMyths (2014):
https://soundcloud.com/wbez-worldview/ecomyths-bugs-are-out-to-get-us AND- http://www.ecomythsalliance.org/2014/10/myth-bugs-are-out-to-get-you/
Interviewed for Chicagoist online article “Ask a Scientist” (2014): http://chicagoist.com/2014/09/27/ask_a_scientist_an_insect_edition_w.php
Appeared on The Brain scoop YouTube channel for a video titled “Into Peru” (2014): http://youtu.be/8XosNhRNGkI?list=UUkyfHZ6bY2TjqbJhiH8Y2QQ
Video interview for Fields of Thought series (June 2014): http://www.fieldmuseum.org/multimedia/video-fields-thought
Featured on The Brain Scoop YouTube channel for a video titled “Romantic Ants” (February 2014): http://youtu.be/hWWw3SHCIAw
Invited panel participant “Evolution of Evolution: Darwin’s Impact on Natural Science” for the Lookingglass Theater’s “In the Garden: A Darwinian Love Story” play about Charles and Emma Darwin: http://lookingglasstheatre.org/event_page/in-the-garden-a-darwinian-love-story/
Lead scientific tours for the Field Museum’s Dozin’ with the Dinos overnight program (2014).
Provided photographs, scientific content, video, and interviewed for Science News iPad article: “It’s alive: Turtle ants have just one trick, but it’s a good one” (September 2013).
Participated in a freely available online video discussion on the host-microbes and the hologenome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNHl0abqhEk
Guest blog post on Your Wild Life “Not all bugs in your home are bad”: http://www.yourwildlife.org/2013/05/not-all-the-bugs-in-your-home-are-bad/
Created a double-sided “Ants of the Florida Keys” poster and list of K-12 educator resources that comply with the US national Next Generation Science Standards, so teachers can extend the use of the poster for teaching about biodiversity, ecology and evolution in the classroom. These resources were mailed to over 350 K-12 science teachers in southern Florida and the Chicago region (March 2013). Download a copy of the poster and teaching resources on our Outreach page.
Blog interview for Cool Science Job in Chicago (March 2013): http://letubeu.com/2013/02/26/coming-soon-cool-science-job-in-chicago-studying-ants-at-the-field-museum/
Lead workshop and lecture for the Youth Design Team academic course offered through the Field Museum (October 2012). This course for academic credit gives students in 10th – 12th grade from across the Chicago region the opportunity to actively participate in science, museum studies, and exhibit design.
Interviewed by the Chicago Tribune for an article about urban ant collecting and citizen science (July 2012): http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-citizen-sci-ants-20120727,0,433557.story
Interviewed for NPR’s News Blog “The Two Way” about the NPR AntCam (May 2012): http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/05/18/153035706/fungus-fruit-flies-old-age-its-the-end-times-for-nprs-antcam
Video interview for Field Museum Women’s Board “Women in Science” programs (April 2012): http://vimeo.com/42737450
Content contributor for “Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention” public museum exhibit at the Field Museum of Natural History (open May 2012 – December 2012).
Radio interview for Chicago radio station (101.9 fm) on “MIX Matters” (April 2012): http://www.wtmx.com/podcasts/mixmatters/20120417-The_Romance_of_Ants_at_the_Field_Museum_with_curator_Dr._Corrie_Moreau.mp3
Content advisor for the Field Museum freely available iPhone application “Specimania” (November 2011): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/specimania/id480234800?mt=8
Video interview for the Field Museum’s “The Field Revealed” series on “Turtle ants” (September 2011): http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/multimedia/video-turtle-ants -or- http://vimeo.com/29457507.
Interviewed for the “Science at FMNH” podcast series (August 2011): http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/sciencepodcasts
Gave a tour and presentation to high school teachers-in-training as part of the University of Chicago’s Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP) (June 2011).
Gave scientific tours of the Field Museum’s Insect Collections and DNA Discovery Center to two groups of students for the CIMBY High School Science Summit (May 2011).
Participated in the IMLS funded “Parents as Educators” workshop series “Investigations into Science” sponsored by the Field Museum’s Education Department (April 2011).
Gave seminar on teaching evolution in the classroom to elementary high school teachers as part of the Early Elementary Science Partnership (E2SP) program (March 2011).
CoolHub Global Science Seminar presentation for STEM teaching and learning. Online, realtime, interactive presentation to high school students from around the world titled “Ants, DNA, and Bacteria, Oh My!” (October 2010): http://coolhub.imsa.edu/cybercollab/web/global-science-seminar/public-view-of-project
Lead curator for “The Romance of Ants” public museum exhibit at the Field Museum of Natural History (open July 2010 – October 2012 – over 500,000 visitors to exhibit): http://fieldmuseum.org/happening/exhibits/romance-ants -and- Download a copy of the graphic novel here.
Featured Scientist for the Field Museum’s Expeditions website which included creating three short videos about my research and ants and climate change (January – March 2010): http://expeditions.fieldmuseum.org/australian-ants
Held workshop for Field Museum undergraduates, interns, and volunteers on applying to graduate school in the sciences (November 2008; July 2009; July 2010; July 2011).
Gave a lecture and participated in the short film created for the exhibit for the FMNH Museology Course for middle school students from Chicago area schools (January 2010).
Gave lecture and lead tour to the summer 2010 “High School Transformation Project” Chicago public high school science interns – June 2010.
Gave two lectures for the FMNH-AAAS Middle School Summit on Evolution to promote science education to middle school students from Chicago inner city schools (January 2009).
Participated in the AAAS “Breakfast with Scientists” event to encourage retention of high school students in science careers (January 2009).
Gave four lectures to minority public high school students at Oakland (California) Leadership Public Schools College Park titled “What do scientists do and how do you become one” (October 2008).
Gave a lecture to the DePaul STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) advancement program to 25 minority students at Truman College in collaboration with DePaul College (September 2008).
Served on a faculty panel for the University of Chicago’s Ethics course for all Biology graduate students (April 2010).
Answer questions from the general public as an “expert” on Antweb’s AntAsk blog (http://www.antweb.org/antblog/).
Participated on several occasions in the “Talk to the Scientist” hour in the Field Museum’s pubic exhibit DNA Discovery Center.
Lead tours of Field Museum’s scientific collections and/or DNA laboratory for many university, high school, and donor groups.
Participated in the Year of Science “Zine-a-thon Contest” 2009 as a Judge: http://www.yearofscience2009.org/about/zine-judges.html
Professional Service to Discipline
Editorial Board – Editorial Boards:
Editorial Board – Associate Editor, Systematic Biology journal 2020 – present.
Editorial Board – Associate Editor, Evolution Letters journal 2020 – present.
Editorial Advisory Board – Advisory Board Member, Current Research in Insect Science journal 2020 – present.
Editorial Board – Editorial Board Member, Molecular Ecology journal 2014 – present.
Editorial Board – Editorial Board Member, Molecular Ecology Resources journal 2014 – present.
Editorial Board – Editorial Board Member, Biology Letters journal 2017 – present.
Editorial Board – Recommender, Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology (PCI Evol Bio) 2017 – present.
Editorial Board – Editorial Board Member, Applied and Environmental Microbiology journal 2015 – present.
Editorial Board – Subject Editor, Ecography journal 2014–2017.
Editorial Board – Editor, Axios Review (an independent peer-review service) 2013–present.
Editorial Board – Section Editor, PLOS ONE journal 2013–2016.
Editorial Board – Academic Editor, PLOS ONE journal 2009–2016.
Editorial Board – Review Editor, Frontiers In Phylogenetics, Phylogenomics, and Systematics journal 2013–2016.
Editorial Board – Review Editor, Frontiers In Systems Microbiology journal 2013–2016.
Editorial Board – Subject Editor, Myrmecological News journal 2011–2016.
Editorial Board – Editor, Halteres journal 2013–2016.
Scientific Society Service:
Nominations Committee Member for the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) 2018–2021.
Invited member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) “SciLine” which is a free service to connect print, broadcast, and digital media journalists working on science-related stories with experts from academia and industry who can articulately explain and opine on scientific findings and issues in the news 2017–present.
Invited member of the Entomological Society of America’s “long-term, in-house list of expert entomology sources for media relations efforts” 2017–present.
Member of the Ento Allies – The purpose of Ento Allies is to create visible and vetted colleagues that are available for conference attendees to talk to confidentially about their concerns, and to support them during our annual Entomology conferences. (https://entoallies.org) 2016–present.
Member of the Evo Allies – The purpose of Evo Allies is to create visible and vetted colleagues that are available for conference attendees to talk to confidentially about their concerns, and to support them during our annual Evolution conferences. (https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/safe-evolution.html) 2019–present.
Committee on Diversity and Inclusion for the Entomological Society of America member-at-large 2018–2020.
Elected to the Council for the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) 2014–2017.
Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). Membership Committee member 2009–2010.
Entomological Society of America annual meeting student competition moderator and judge 2007 & 2011; symposium moderator 2013.
Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). Graduate Student Award Competition judge. 2013.
Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) member 2012–present.
Organized and hosted the following symposium at a scientific conference: “Biogeography, macroecology and macroevolutionary dynamics of social insects” at the International Union for the Study of Social Insects in Queensland, Australia (2014).
Scientific Community Service:
Curator of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) (Formicidae – ants). 2009–present.
Curator of Florida Keys Ants on Antweb (http://www.antweb.org/floridakeys.jsp) 2011–present.
Curator of Queensland Australia Ants on Antweb (http://www.antweb.org/queensland.jsp) 2011–present.
Chicago Area Joint Ant Lab Meetings – Organize and host yearly scientific meetings of ant/social insect researchers (undergraduates through professors) from across the greater Chicago/Midwest area (usually 20-50 attendees) 2011–2013.
Expert on Antweb’s AntAsk blog (http://www.antweb.org/antblog/), where we field questions from ~200 people per year. 2010–2014.
Formicidae Barcode of Life participant. 2008–present.
Global Ant Project (GAP), oversight committee member (http://gap.entclub.org/). 2008–present.
Global Ant Project (GAP), organized, hosted, and obtained funding for a meeting of 30 ant biologists as part of an Encyclopedia of Life Biodiversity Synthesis Meeting. 2009.
NSF Grant Panel officer: February 2011 & April 2012.
NSF invited workshop participant: July 2011 (São Carlos, Brazil); November 2011 (Atlanta, Georgia, USA); February 2016 (Washington, D.C., USA).
Invited Seminars
Plenary, Keynote, and Distinguished Invited Seminars:
Picture A Scientist women in science event at Montana State University invited Keynote speaker. October 2020.
Cornell University – Cornell Tropical Biology & Conservation Symposium invited Keynote speaker. October 2019.
Simpósio de Mirmecologia – An International Ant Meeting invited Keynote speaker, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 2019
Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution, Entomological Society of Canada, and Acadian Entomological Society joint conference invited Plenary speaker, Fredericton, Canada. August 2019.
Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) National Conference invited Keynote speaker, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. June 2018.
Harvard Plant Biology Symposium: Natural History Collections in the Anthropocene, Boston, MA, USA. May 2018.
Jane Goodall Field Museum Women In Science event invited event moderator, Chicago, IL, USA. April 2018.
Genomics and Collections: Adaptation to Macroevolution conference and workshop invited speaker, Australia National University and CSIRO, Canberra, Australia. September 2017.
Annual Yosemite Symbiosis Workshop invited Keynote speaker, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Yosemite National Park. May 2017.
X-STEM Extreme STEM Symposium for the USA Science & Engineering Festival invited “top” science speaker, Washington, D.C., USA. April 2017.
March for Science Iowa invited rally speaker, Des Moines, IA, USA. April 2017.
Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference (MEEC) invited Keynote speaker, Champagne-Urbana, IL, USA. March 2017.
Wildlife Institute of India and University of Chicago Center in Delhi “The Role of Parks and Sanctuaries in Protecting India’s Biodiversity” invited Keynote speaker, New Delhi, India. May 2016.
Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation invited speaker. German-American Frontiers of Science, Potsdam, Germany. March 2016.
Invertebrates in Education & Conservation Conference (IECC) invited Keynote Lecture, Rio Rico, Arizona, USA. July 2015.
University of Kansas invited Distinguished Michener Speaker – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Lawrence, Kansas. October 2012.
Australasian Evolution Society meetings invited Plenary (Keynote) Lecture, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. September 2011.
Invited Institutional and Departmental Seminars:
Invited Institutional and Departmental Scientific Seminars:
Indiana University Bloomington – Department of Biology. October 2021.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles (virtual) – Research and Collections. October 2021.
Clemson University (virtual) – Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. September 2021.
University of Colorado Denver (virtual) – Department of Integrative Biology. September 2021.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de São Paulo, Brazil – Unlocking the power of collections through digitization (virtual). May 2021.
Cornell University – Cornell Academics and Professors Emeriti (CAPE). May 2021.
Drexel University (virtual) – Department of Biology. April 2021.
Mississippi State University (virtual) – Department of Biological Sciences (invited graduate student seminar speaker). April 2021.
University of Maryland (virtual) – Department of Entomology. March 2021.
Wichita State University (virtual) – Department of Biology. February 2021.
Boston University (virtual) – Department of Biology. February 2021.
Washington State University (virtual) – Department of Entomology. February 2021.
California Academy of Sciences (virtual) – Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability. October 2020.
Cornell University – Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. October 2020.
University of California San Diego (virtual) – Department of Biological Sciences (invited graduate student seminar speaker). October 2020.
University of Copenhagen (virtual) – Center for Social Evolution. May 2020.
Brown University – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (invited postdoctoral researchers seminar speaker). February 2020.
Syracuse University – Department of Biology. February 2020.
University of California, Davis – Department of Entomology. January 2020.
Cornell University – Cornell Trustees Council Annual Meeting. October 2019.
Elmira College – College Lecture Series in the Sciences. October 2019.
Sorbonne Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 5è – IEES seminar. September 2019.
Université de Tours – IRBI seminar. September 2019.
Cornell University – Cornell Institute for Host Microbe Interactions and Disease (CIHMID) symposium. July 2019.
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology – Insect-microbe symposium. May 2019.
University of Helsinki – Viiki Campus HiLife seminar series. May 2019.
University of Wisconsin, Madison – Department of Entomology (invited graduate student seminar speaker). May 2019.
Harvard University – Harvard Museum of Natural History public seminar speaker. April 2019.
Harvard University – Museum of Comparative Zoology seminar. April 2019.
Princeton University – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. March 2019.
University of Louisville – Department of Biology (invited graduate student seminar speaker). March 2019.
Claremont Colleges – Distinguished Speaker in Biological Sciences. March 2019.
Cornell University – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. November 2018.
Texas A&M University – Departments of Entomology and Ecology and Evolution (invited graduate student seminar speaker). October 2018.
Cornell University – EvoEvent: Exploring the Tree of Life. September 2018.
University of Nevada, Reno – Department of Biology. March 2018.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) – Ecology of Forests of Guiana (EcoFoG) Kourou, French Guiana. March 2018.
Montana State University – Department of Microbiology and Immunology. February 2018.
Virginia Tech – Departments of Entomology and Biology (invited graduate student seminar speaker). January 2018.
Cornell University – Department of Entomology. October 2017.
University of Georgia – Department of Entomology. October 2017.
Chicago State University – Schienbuck Scholarship Speaker. October 2017.
University of New South Wales, Australia – Evolution and Ecology Research Centre (invited graduate student seminar speaker). September 2017.
São Paulo State University (UNESP), Rio Claro, Brazil – Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology. May 2017.
Iowa State University – Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology. April 2017.
Columbia University – Social Evolution and Genome Complexity symposium. March 2017.
Northwestern University – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. February 2017.
Harvard University – Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Zoology (invited graduate student seminar speaker). November 2016.
University of Connecticut – Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. November 2016.
Louisiana State University – Department of Biological Sciences. October 2016.
Loyola University, Chicago – Department of Biology. October 2016.
University of Idaho – Department of Biology Randall Women In Science speaker. September 2016
Southern Illinois University – Department of Zoology (invited graduate student seminar speaker). April 2016.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) – Reserve des Nouragues Camp Parare Station in French Guiana. March 2016.
University of Oklahoma – Department of Biology (invited graduate student seminar speaker). February 2016.
Rutgers University / New Jersey Institute of Technology – Wilhoft lecture in Ecology and Evolution (invited graduate student seminar speaker). December 2015.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History – Frontiers in Phylogenetics Fall Symposium – Coevolution Across Scales. September 2015.
University of Florida – Department of Entomology. September 2015.
Museu de Zoologia of the University of São Paulo, Brazil (MZSP). June 2015.
University of Chicago – Department of Ecology and Evolution Natural History seminar. June 2015.
Harvard University – Symposium honoring Dr. Naomi Pierce. May 2015.
Field Museum of Natural History – A. Watson Armour III Seminar. April 2015.
University of Utah – Department of Biology. March 2015.
Lake Forest College – Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society (invited undergraduate student seminar speaker). March 2015.
University of California, Los Angeles – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. February 2015.
University of Tulsa – Department of Biological Sciences (invited graduate student seminar speaker). February 2015.
Cornell University – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. January 2015.
Emory University – Department of Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution. January 2015.
Stanford University – Department of Biology. November 2014.
Portland State University – Department of Biology. November 2014.
Michigan State University – Department of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior. September 2014.
Northeastern Illinois University – Student Center for Science Engagement. September 2014.
Purdue University – Department of Entomology seminar. March 2014.
University of New Orleans – Department of Biology seminar. February 2014.
University of Vermont – Department of Biology seminar. September 2013.
North Carolina State University – Department of Entomology invited graduate student seminar speaker. May 2013.
George Washington University – Department of Biology seminar. April 2013.
James Cook University, Australia – School of Marine and Tropical Biology. February 2013.
University of Michigan – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology seminar. December 2012.
University of Wisconsin, Madison – Department of Entomology seminar. November 2012.
Rockefeller University – Laboratory of Insect Social Evolution seminar. September 2012.
University of California, Berkeley – Symposium honoring Dr. Craig Moritz. May 2012.
University of Central Florida – Department of Biology seminar. March 2012.
Earlham College – Department of Biology seminar. March 2012.
University of California, Riverside – Department of Biology seminar. February 2012.
Pennsylvania State University – Department of Entomology seminar. January 2012.
Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science (UC Berkeley) – Miller Annual Symposium. June 2011.
Drexel University – Department of Biology seminar series. May 2011.
American Museum of Natural History – Richard Gilder Graduate School seminar series. March 2011.
University of Chicago – Evolutionary Morphology seminar series. February 2011.
University of Guelph – Department of Integrative Biology seminar. September 2010.
Michigan State University – Department of Entomology seminar. September 2010.
Rutgers University – Divergence Time Estimation Symposium. January 2010.
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana – Department of Entomology seminar. September 2009.
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee – Department of Biology seminar. March 2009.
Arizona State University – Ant Genomics meeting at the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity. January 2009.
University of Chicago – Evolutionary Morphology seminar series. October 2008.
San Francisco State University – Department of Biology seminar. October 2008.
University of Illinois, Chicago – Department of Ecology and Evolution seminar. September 2008.
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago – Field Museum Women’s Board Outreach Luncheon and Panel Discussion. May 2008.
University of California, Berkeley – Museum of Vertebrate Zoology seminar. October 2007.
Boston University – Department of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution seminar. December 2006.
University of Texas, El Paso – Department of Biological Sciences seminar. October 2006.
School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – Scientific presentation on social insects to compliment an art exhibit titled “Mound.” September 2005.
Invited Diversity in Science Seminars and Workshops:
University of New South Wales, Australia – Gender Bias In Science workshop presentation. September 2017.
Chicago area NSF REU intern workshop – Diversity in Science seminar and workshop presentation. Annually 2016-2018.
Rutgers University/New Jersey Institute of Technology – Women In Science workshop presentation. December 2015.
Evolution Meeting in Brazil – Women In Science Luncheon co-organized and facilitated the workshop and breakout groups. June 2015.
NSF iDigBio “Broadening Diversity in the Biological Sciences Workshop” at the Field Museum of Natural History on issues related to women in science. September 2014.
Field Museum Women In Science – Presentation on issues faced by underrepresented groups in STEM fields. March 2013,
Scientific Conference Presentations
Invited Panel Participant: Moreau, C. S. (2020). Entomology & Technology: Conversations on Addressing ESA’s Science Policy Priorities through Convergence “Connecting science, technology, and natural history collections to inform and understand entomological biodiversity loss” Entomological Society of America virtual conference.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2020). Ant Microbiomes. Entomological Society of America virtual conference.
Invited Discussion Forum Participant. (2020). Combining phylogenies and ecological data layers. Society of Systematic Biologists Meeting, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2018). Female dominated societies: From ants to entomology. Entomological Society of America Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S., Sarou-Kanian, V., Massiot, D., Estevez, Y., Russell, J., Martineau, E., Giraudeau, P., Farjon, J. & Duplais, C. (2018). Evidence for the contribution of gut symbionts to the cuticle formation in herbivorous turtle ants Cephalotes varians through NMR spectroscopy. Entomological Society of America Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2017). The diversity and function of gut bacteria in herbivorous ants. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2016). How I became a rainforest explorer: Ant genomes to microbiomes. Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) in Long Beach, California, USA.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2016). Ant evolution in the age of genomics. International Congress of Entomology. Orlando, Florida, USA.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S., Powell, S., Wertz, J., & Russell, J. A (2016). The role of gut microbes in ant evolution. Evolution Meetings (Society for the Study of Evolution), Austin, Texas, USA.
Invited (Keynote) Lecture: Moreau, C. S. (2015). The evolution of symbiosis in ants and how I became a cartoon character. Invertebrates in Education & Conservation Conference (IECC), Rio Rico, Arizona, USA.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2015). The interplay of abiotic and biotic factors in driving diversification in the ants. Evolution Meetings (Society for the Study of Evolution), Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2014). The interplay of abiotic and biotic factors in driving diversification in the ants . Entomological Society of America Meeting, Portland, OR, USA.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2014). The evolution, diversification, and biogeography of the ants. International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. & Russell, J. R. (2014). The evolution and ecology of ant gut microbiomes. Evolution Meetings (Society for the Study of Evolution), Raleigh, NC, USA.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2014). Scientific outreach: Creating meaningful educational content to reach diverse audiences. North Central Branch Entomological Society of America Meeting, Des Moines, IA, USA.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2014). The evolution and loss of complex behaviors in social insects: Silk weaving and arboreal nesting in Polyrhachis spiny ants. North Central Branch Entomological Society of America Meeting, Des Moines, IA, USA.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2013). The evolution of the ants: From phylogenies to the microbiome. XXI Simpósio de Mirmecologia: an International Ant Meeting, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. & Russell, J. R. (2013). The evolution and ecology of ant gut microbiomes. Entomological Society of America Meeting, Austin, TX, USA.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2013). Sharing science with diverse audiences (or how I became a cartoon character). Entomological Society of America Meeting, Austin, TX, USA.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. & Robson, S. K. A. (2013). The evolution and loss of complex behaviors in social insects: Silk weaving and arboreal nesting in Polyrhachis spiny ants. Evolution Meetings (Society for the Study of Evolution), Snowbird, UT, USA.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2012). Exploring the host-associated microbiome of ant species. Genomic Standards Consortium, BGI, Shenzhen, China.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2011). The evolution of ants and their endosymbiotic bacteria from the Australian Wet Tropics. Entomological Society of America Meeting, Reno, NV.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2010). What do molecular clocks tell us about evolution of ants? Entomological Society of America Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2010). Biogeography of ants in the Australian wet tropics. Evolution Meetings (Society for the Study of Evolution), Portland, OR.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2010). Biogeography of ants in the Australian wet tropics. Social Insect Meetings (International Union for the Study of Social Insects), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S., Russell, J. R., & Pierce, N. P. (2009). Endosymbionts and the evolution of herbivory in ants and the diversification of the ants. Entomological Society of America Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2009). Biogeography of ants in the Australian wet tropics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological Society of America Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S. (2007). Systematics and Evolutionary History of the Ant Genus Pheidole. Entomological Society of America Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S., Bell, C. D., Vila, R., Archibald, S. B., & Pierce, N. P. (2006). Ants, Clocks, and Rocks: The Phylogeny and Diversification of Modern Ants. Evolution Meetings (Society for the Study of Evolution), Stony Brook, NY.
Invited Oral Paper: Moreau, C. S., Bell, C. D., Vila, R., Archibald, S. B., & Pierce, N. P. (2006). Ants, Clocks, and Rocks: The Phylogeny and Diversification of Modern Ants. Social Insect Meetings (International Union for the Study of Social Insects), Washington D.C.
Oral Paper: Saux, C., Fisher, B. L. & Spicer, G. S. (2003). Dracula Ant Relations and Implications for Systematics. Evolution Meetings (Society for the Study of Evolution), Chico, CA.
Poster Presentation: Saux, C., Fisher, B. L. & Spicer, G. S. (2001). Monophyly of Amblyoponini ants evaluated based on molecular evidence. Entomological Society of America Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Poster Presentation: Saux, C., Fisher, B. L. & Spicer, G. S. (2001). Molecular systematics of ants (tribe Amblyoponini) based on three genes. Evolution Meetings (Society for the Study of Evolution), Knoxville, TN.
Workshops, Research, & Field Experiences
Workshops:
Half Earth Day – Map of Life conference and invited workshop participant hosted by the E. O. Wilson Foundation, U.C. Berkeley, California, USA. October 2019.
Genomics and Collections: Adaptation to Macroevolution conference and workshop invited speaker, Australia National University and CSIRO, Canberra, Australia. September 2017.
Social Evolution and Genome Complexity workshop and invited speaker at Columbia University, New York, New York. March 2017.
Wildlife Institute of India and University of Chicago Center in Delhi “The Role of Parks and Sanctuaries in Protecting India’s Biodiversity” invited Keynote speaker, conference speaker, and conference participant in New Delhi, India. May 2016.
Kavli Frontiers of Science – National Academy of Sciences and Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation invited conference participation in Potsdam, Germany. March 2016.
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) “Collective Behavior: From Cells to Societies” invited conference participant in Irvine, California, USA. November 2014.
NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center) “Evolution and community ecology of host-associated microbiota” invited workshop participant in Durham, North Carolina, USA. October 2014.
Large Data Management Genomic Biodiversity Summit (sponsored by Microsoft and Internet2) at the University of Kansas invited conference and panelist participant in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. September 2014.
NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center) “Evolution of the Indoor Biome” invited workshop participant in Durham, North Carolina, USA. June 2013.
Workshop In Molecular Evolution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The Workshop consists of a series of lectures, demonstrations, and computer labs that cover various aspects of molecular evolution. August 2005.
CIPRES Graduate Student Retreat: Taos, New Mexico. The retreat is focused on bringing together biologists, mathematicians, and computer scientists to discuss issues in networks, multiple sequence analysis, phylogenetic reconstruction, modeling and simulation, and databases. July 2005.
Research Experiences:
Visiting Scholar – James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia invited Visiting Scholar in the Center for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change. January – February 2013.
Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California. Guest Researcher of the Evolutionary Genomics Group. August 2001–June 2003.
South African Museum in Cape Town, South Africa. Five-week visit to work in the scientific collections. March 2002–April 2002.
Field Experiences:
India: West Bengal – Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mouchaki National Park. 2016.
French Guiana: Nouragues Field Station. March 2016.
Panama: Field research at Barro Colorado Island (BCI) and Gamboa. January 2015.
Borneo, Malaysia: Field research and invited Ant Course instructor in Malau Basin Conservation Area. July 2014.
Peru: Field research and invited Ant Course instructor in Villa Carmen, Manu Biosphere Reserve. August 2013.
Florida, USA: Field research at Archbold Biological Station. March 2013.
Uganda, Africa: Field research and invited Ant Course instructor in Kabale Biological Station August 2012.
Costa Rica: Field research at Santa Rosa National Park. June 2012.
Borneo, Malaysia: Field research and invited Ant Course instructor in Danum Valley Research Center, August 2010.
Venezuela: Field research and invited Ant Course instructor in Rancho Grande. August 2008.
Australia: Field research in the Wet Tropics of Queensland. August–September 2007; June–July 2009; February 2013; July 2014.
Florida Keys: Field research. August 2006; August 2009; March 2010; October 2010; April 2011; August 2011; April 2015.
Peru: Field Research at Los Amigos Biological Station and Project Amazonias Conservation Area. May 2004.
Ecuador: Field Research at Tiputini Biological Station, Jatun Sacha Bilsa Biological Station, and Yasuni National Park. February 2004–April 2004.
Madagascar: Field expedition with California Academy of Sciences team. December 2001–March 2002.
Arizona, USA: Field research and invited Ant Course instructor at the Southwestern Research Station (SWRS). August 2001; August 2002; August 2003; August 2007; August 2009; August 2011; August 2015.
California, USA: Field research at the Zzyxx Desert Studies Field Station (SFSU) in the Mojave Desert. April 2001.
Educational Tour Leader Experiences:
Tanzania, Africa: Led Field Museum educational tour of 16 guests on safari through the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, Arusha National Park, and Olduvai Gorge. 2016.
Media Experiences
2020 Featured by The Cornell Daily Sun about my new seminar course addressing racism, bias, and exclusion in STEM: https://cornellsun.com/2020/09/14/7451056/
2020 Interviewed by Quanta Magazine about a recently published study on ant endosymbionts: https://www.quantamagazine.org/symbiotic-bacteria-tell-ant-embryos-how-to-develop-20200909/
2020 Interviewed by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung about ant symbiosis: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/ameisen-symbiose-blattlaus-1.4975353?reduced=true
2020 Interviewed by The Times of India about ant diversity: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ants-are-amazing-scientific-and-social-beings-we-humans-need-them/articleshow/76097345.cms
2019 Co-authored a popular press article for Natural History Magazine “Ants and Plants: New evidence of the long, coevolutionary road”.
2019 Interviewed by PBS News Hour about insect declines: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/butterflies-are-disappearing-in-ohio-heres-what-that-means-for-insects-everywhere
2019 Interviewed by Mongabay about insect declines: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-great-insect-dying-vanishing-act-in-europe-and-north-america/
2019 Interviewed by The Atlantic Magazine about the insect apocalypse: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/insect-apocalypse-really-upon-us/583018/
2018 Interviewed by National Geographic Magazine about a recently published study on ant nests: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/ants-head-hunters-attack-trap-jaw-enemies-nests/
2018 Featured alumni in SF State Magazine: https://magazine.sfsu.edu/fall-2018/class-notes
2018 Featured in a French fashion magazine Stylist France as a “New Face” to watch: https://cache.stylist.fr/data/fichier/flipbook/f232/mobile/index.html-p=18
2018 Featured on National Geographic Women of Impact: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/ants-evolution-corrie-moreau-women-in-biology/
2018 Featured profile in Crain’s Academy quarterly addition: http://www.crainsacademy.com/article/20180109/CRAINSACADEMY/180109911/crains-leadership-academy-c3-graduate-recently-named-director-of/
2018 Featured on the Ant Network video series ” Turtle Ants, Gut Microbes, & Citizen Science”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9LAKRDraKw
2017 Interviewed for Insectes Sociaux blog (“Interview with a Social Insect Scientist”): https://insectessociaux.com/2017/09/16/interview-with-a-social-insect-scientist-corrie-moreau/
2017 Interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine about a recently published study on trap-jaw ants: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/prying-apart-mighty-bite-malaysian-trap-jaw-ant-180964655/
2017 Research featured in Science Magazine: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6322/236
2016 – Interviewed for This Week in Evolution (TWiEVO) podcast: http://www.microbe.tv/twievo/twievo-13/
2016 – Interviewed by several media outlets including Nature Magazine, Discover Magazine, Science Daily, and Phys.org regarding our recent publication in Molecular Ecology.
2016 – Interviewed by several media outlets including Science Magazine, The Independent, Mental Floss, Science Daily, Genome Web, and Phys.org regarding our recent publication in Nature Communications.
2016 – Interviewed for Tumble podcast: http://www.sciencepodcastforkids.com/ – !The-Tale-of-How-Ants-Conquered-the-Earth-with-Corrie-Moreau/t6z7u/57c05029f97b695dfdf49541
2016 – Interviewed by several media outlets regarding the loss of the museum in New Delhi, India, including The Chicago Tribute, Political Science Magazine, etc.
2016 – Featured in Smithsonian Magazine for their annual “Field Notes” section.
2016 – Interviewed for “Science For the People” podcast (2016): http://www.scienceforthepeople.ca/episodes/insects-en-masse
2015 – Featured on The Brain Scoop YouTube channel for a video titled “Bullet Ant Venom”: https://youtu.be/wNCD3rLbCBk
2015 – Featured on The Brain Scoop YouTube channel for a video titled “Dissecting Ants”: https://youtu.be/D0HGz4RPLwc
2015 – Participated in a live video streaming Q&A via Periscope/Twitter with the host of The Brain Scoop, Emily Graslie, about the “Dissecting Ants” YouTube video.
2014 – Blog interview for Before They Were Scientists: http://www.yourwildlife.org/2014/12/before-they-were-scientists-corrie-moreau/
2014 – Radio interview for Chicago Public Radio WBEZ Worldview program EcoMyths:
https://soundcloud.com/wbez-worldview/ecomyths-bugs-are-out-to-get-us AND- http://www.ecomythsalliance.org/2014/10/myth-bugs-are-out-to-get-you/
2014 – Interviewed for Chicagoist online article “Ask a Scientist”: http://chicagoist.com/2014/09/27/ask_a_scientist_an_insect_edition_w.php
2014 – Featured on The Brain Scoop YouTube channel for a video titled “Into Peru”: http://youtu.be/8XosNhRNGkI?list=UUkyfHZ6bY2TjqbJhiH8Y2QQ
2014 – Video interview for Fields of Thought series: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/multimedia/video-fields-thought
2014 – Featured on The Brain Scoop YouTube channel for a video titled “Romantic Ants”: http://youtu.be/hWWw3SHCIAw
2014 – Interviewed by Science News for an article about host-associated microbes: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/microscopic-menagerie
2013 – Interviewed by National Geographic for an online article about a recent publication on acacia ants: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131106-ants-tree-acacia-food-mutualism/
2013 – Video and print interview about the annual Chicago Area Ant Lab meeting I host each year “An ant hill of insect experts converge on Chicago”: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=225460
2013 – Interviewed about honey bee colony collapse disorder for a web extra for a WTTW television segment: http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2013/08/26/web-extra-bee-colony-collapse-disorder
2013 – Interviewed by Science News regarding research on insect-microbe interactions: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/351368/description/Gut_microbes_may_put_barrier_between_species
2013 – Interviewed by Nature for an article about our recent publication in Evolution testing the “museum” versus “cradle” tropical diversity hypotheses in ants: http://www.nature.com/news/why-the-tropics-are-an-evolutionary-hotbed-1.12846
2012 – Interviewed by Nature for an article about Field Museum science cuts (December 2012): http://www.nature.com/news/chicago-s-field-museum-cuts-back-on-science-1.12105
2012 – Interviewed by the Chicago Tribune for an article about urban ant collecting and citizen science (July 2012): http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-citizen-sci-ants-20120727,0,433557.story
2012 – Interviewed for NPR’s News Blog “The Two Way” about the NPR AntCam (May 2012): http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/05/18/153035706/fungus-fruit-flies-old-age-its-the-end-times-for-nprs-antcam
2012 – Video interview for Field Museum Women’s Board “Women in Science” programs (April 2012): http://vimeo.com/42737450
2012 – Radio interview for Chicago radio station (101.9 fm) on “MIX Matters” (April 2012): http://www.wtmx.com/podcasts/mixmatters/20120417-The_Romance_of_Ants_at_the_Field_Museum_with_curator_Dr._Corrie_Moreau.mp3
2012 – Interviewed by Nature, Live Science, and Popular Mechanics about a recent paper published on ant development by several colleagues.
2011 – Interviewed by The Scientist for a print and online article on freely available and reliable phylogenetic software for novice users: http://the-scientist.com/2011/08/01/learning-to-become-a-tree-hugger/
2011 – Interviewed by American Scientist magazine for a print and online article about “The Romance of Ants” public museum exhibit: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2011/3/serious-science-comic-book-style
2011 – “The Romance of Ants” featured as “Buzz of the Week” on the Entomological Society of America website (April 2011): http://entsoc.org/buzz/romance-ants-graphic-novel
2011 – Interviewed by the Daily Herald for an article about increased ant populations and home invasions for the print and online newspaper: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110629/news/706299880/
2011 – Interviewed for Wisconsin Public Radio (www.wpr.org) Ideas Network for the Larry Meiller Show about ant biology and the Field Museum exhibit “The Romance of Ants”. The 40 minute live interview included questions via phone calls and emails from listener across Wisconsin. The 40 minute interview is available online: http://wpr.org/ideas/noteslist_idcall.cfm?noteslist=97466
2011 – Interviewed for the Northwestern Medill journalism school online news source for “The Romance of Ants” exhibit: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=182620
2010 – Lead curator for “The Romance of Ants” public museum exhibit at the Field Museum of Natural History (open July 2010 – January 2012): http://fieldmuseum.org/happening/exhibits/romance-ants -and- Download a copy of the graphic novel here.
2010 – Television interview for local FOX morning show for “The Romance of Ants” exhibit: http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/good_day/romance-ants-field-museum-exhibit-corrie-moreau-20100923
2010 – Radio interview for “Walking on Air” for “The Romance of Ants” exhibit: http://walkingonair.org/podcasts/walkingonair/2010-09-10-FullShow.m4a
2010 – Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch® website featured an interview (February) regarding our 2006 “Science” paper because it was identified by Thomson Reuters Essential Science IndicatorsSM to be one of the most cited papers in the research area of “early ant evolution”: http://sciencewatch.com/dr/erf/2010/10feberf/10feberfMore/
2010 – Featured scientist on the Field Museum’s “Expeditions” website and public exhibit interactive (February – April 2010): http://expeditions.fieldmuseum.org/australian-ants
2009 – Ant bacteria research published in PNAS in December 2009 highlighted on several media websites including Genome Web, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, First Science, among others.
2008 – National Geographic News online interview on new ant discovery (online article).
2008 – Science News magazine interview on new ant discovery (print journal and online).
2008 – Science News magazine interview on the Encyclopedia of Life (print journal and online).
2007 – Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) interview for the documentary film, “Ants”.
2007 – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Newspaper interview about insects and diversity.
2006 – National Public Radio (NPR) El Paso (KTEP) Science Studio invited guest speaker: http://www.sciencestudio.org/Biomedical%20&%20Health%20Science4.htm
2006 – Interviewed by New York Times, Boston Globe, Daily Telegraph, Science, Nature, and other print and online media sources regarding the publication and findings of our 2006 Science paper.
Societies and Committees
Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), member 1999–present
Entomological Society of America (ESA), member 1999–present
Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB), member 2004–present; member Membership Committee 2009–2010; elected Council Member 2014–2017
International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), member 2005–present
International Society of Hymenopterists (ISH), member 2006–present
Entomological Society of Queensland, member 2007–present
Association for Women in Science (AWIS), member 2008–present
American Association of University Women (AAUW), member 2008–present
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), member 2009–present
American Association for University Professors (AAUP), member 2009–2014; Secretary 2011–present
American Society of Naturalist (ASN), member 2011–present
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), member 2011–present
America Society for Microbiology (ASM), member 2012–present
Field Museum Women in Science (FMWIS), founder, steering committee, & member 2013–present
Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), member 2015–present
Mentoring Activities
Postdoctoral researchers:
Current:
– Manuela Ramalho: 2018–present
Past:
– Douglas Booher (Now: Postdoctoral Research – Yale University): 2018–2020
– Felix Grewe (Now: Director of the Genome Center – Field Museum): 2014–2016
– Stefanie Kautz (Now: Assistant Professor – Portland State University): 2009–2014
– Steve Leavitt (Now: Assistant Professor – Brigham Young University): 2013–2015
– Dirk Mezger (Now: Project Manager & Photographer – AntBase.net): 2013–2014
– Matthew Nelsen (Now: Postdoctoral Researcher – Field Museum): 2016–2018
– Shauna Price (Now: Assistant Teaching Professor – Loyola University Chicago): 2015–2018
– April Wright (Now: Assistant Professor – Southeastern Louisiana University): 2016–2017
Ph.D. graduate students (Primary thesis advisor):
Current:
– Megan Barkdull (Cornell University) primary thesis advisor: 2019–present
– Anaïs Chanson (University of French Guiana, France) co-advisor with Christophe Duplais: 2017–present
– Peter Flynn (University of Chicago) primary thesis advisor: 2016–present
– Leland Graber (Cornell University) primary thesis advisor: 2019–present
– Chloe Jelley (Cornell University) primary thesis advisor: 2020–present
Graduated:
– Benjamin Blanchard (University of Chicago) primary thesis advisor: 2014–2020
– Benjamin Rubin (University of Chicago) primary thesis advisor (now computational biologist at Adaptive Biotechnologies): 2009–2015
– Manuela Ramalho (UNESP Rio Claro, Brazil) co-advisor with Odair Bueno (now a postdoc at Cornell University): 2015–2017
– Supriya (University of Chicago) co-advisor with Trevor Price (now a postdoc at Arizona State University): 2014–2019
– Max Winston (University of Chicago) primary thesis advisor (now lead computational biologist at Indigo Agriculture): 2011–2017
– Lu Yao (University of Chicago) co-advisor with Bob Martin (now consultant at Bain & Company, Chicago): 2011–2016
Master’s graduate students (Primary thesis advisor):
Current:
– Phoebe Koenig (Cornell University) primary thesis advisor: 2020–present
Graduated:
– Jordan Greer (University of Chicago) primary thesis advisor (now Cell Press science writer): 2017–2019
Ph.D. graduate students (Thesis committee member):
Current:
– Benoit Bechade (Drexel University) thesis committee member: 2019–present
– Christian Cabuslay (Drexel University) thesis committee member: 2020–present
– Jennifer Houtz (Cornell University) thesis committee member: 2019–present
– Jesus Martinez-Gomez (Cornell University) thesis committee member: 2018–present
– Kyla O’Hearn (Cornell University) thesis committee member: 2020–present
– Daniella Prince (University of Louisville) thesis committee member: 2017–present
– Augusto Rampasso (Cornell University) thesis committee member: 2020–present
– Vivianna Sanchez (Cornell University) thesis committee member: 2019–present
– Lillian Senn (Cornell University) thesis committee member: 2020–present
Graduated:
– Doug Booher (University of California, Los Angeles) thesis committee member: 2013–2017
– Victoria Flores (University of Chicago) thesis committee member: 2014–2018
– Yi Hu (Drexel University) thesis committee member: 2010–2015
– Natalie Imirzian (Pennsylvania State University) thesis committee member: 2018–2020
– Daniela Palmer (University of Chicago) thesis committee member: 2014–2018
– Adam Salyer (Purdue University) thesis committee member: 2013–2017
– Laura Southcott (University of Chicago) thesis committee member: 2015–2019
Master’s graduate students (Thesis committee member):
– Lynika Strozier (Loyola University) thesis committee member: 2013–2017
Undergraduate senior thesis (Primary senior thesis advisor):
– Andrew Burchill (University of Chicago; now Ph.D. student at Arizona State University): 2014
– Jacob Gorneau (Cornell University; now Master’s student at San Francisco State University): 2020
– Zoe Kim (Cornell University): 2021
– Destiny Reeves (University of Chicago; now Research Assistant at University of Chicago): 2017
– Timothy Salazar (University of Chicago; Fulbright Fellow in Chile and now Ph.D. student at Cornell University): 2015
– Steven Wang (Cornell University): 2021
Undergraduate advisees:
Cornell University – research interns:
– Tamana Ahmadi (Cornell University): 2021-present
– Sam Cavanagh (Cornell University – Entomology major): 2020–present
– Cristina Gómez (Magdalena University, Colombia): Summer 2019 (CienciAmerica intern)
– Jacob Gorneau (Cornell University – Entomology major): 2019–2020
– Rashida Mohamed-Hinds (Cornell University – Microbiology major): 2019–2020
– Zoe Kim (Cornell University – Entomology major): 2019–present
– Corey Reese (Cornell University – Entomology major): 2020–present
– Vanessa Viveros (Los Medanos College, California): Summer 2019 (NSF REU intern)
– Steven Wang (Cornell University – Entomology major): 2019–present
– Jenna Webb (Cornell University – Biology major): 2020–present (CIHMID intern)
Cornell University – academic advisee:
– Juliet Bordon (Biological Sciences major): 2019–present
– Sam Cavanagh (Entomology major): 2020–present
– Nadia Halcomb (Entomology major): 2019–2020
– Zoe Kim (Entomology major): 2019–present
– Julie Lewis (Biological Sciences major): 2019–present
– Maxine Parry (Entomology major): 2019–present
– Corey Reese (Entomology major): 2020–present
– Steven Wang (Entomology major): 2019–present
Field Museum of Natural History:
– Aaron-Bereich Apilado (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): 2012–2013
– Jenna-Marie Antonucci (Loyola University): Summer 2009
– Patrick Belenky (University of Illinois, Chicago): 2013–2014
– Matthew Boot (Grand Valley State University): 2013–2015
– Simon Briggs (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): 2013–2014
– Andrew Burchill (University of Chicago): 2013–2014 (NSF REU intern 2013)
– Kelsey Choo (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): 2014–2015
– Jessica De Smet (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): 2009–2011
– Grant Doering (Arizona State University): Summer 2016 & 2017
– Ariel Fang (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): 2011–2014
– Manda Gibbs (Lake Forest College): FMWIS Kemper Scholar Summer 2014
– Charles Griggs (Middlebury College): Summer 2013
– Geneva Guinee (University of New England): Summer 2009
– Ali Gutowski (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): 2013–2014
– Caroline Hanson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): 2012–2013
– Mallory Hinz (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): 2013
– Madeline Jenkins (Beloit College): 2016–2018
– Madeleine Kelly (Harvard University): Summer 2017 (NSF REU intern 2018)
– Hanna Klaeser (Whitman College): Summers 2014 & 2016
– Rachel Kleban (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): 2014
– Stefanie Krim (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): 2013–2014
– Daniel Minh-Tu Le (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): 2011
– Elizabeth Loehler (Loyola University): Summer 2009 (NSF REU intern 2009)
– Ariadne Lumayag (DePaul University): Summer 2010 (NSF CIRRUS intern 2010)
– Paul Masonick (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): 2014
– Dreyvon McCray (Governor’s State University): Summer 2016 (NSF REU intern 2016)
– Katherine McDonnell (Tufts University): Summer 2013
– Steven Medina (Tulane University): Summer 2016
– William Montag (Bowdoin University): Summer 2010 & 2011 (NSF REU intern 2011)
– Stephanie Morgan (Beloit College): Summer 2013 (Field Museum Women In Science intern)
– Amanda Mulcahy (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): 2014
– Peter Nichols (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): 2014–2015
– Tricia Nicholson (University of Chicago): Summer 2018
– Timothy O’Connor (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): 2010
– Sean O’Fallon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): 2016–2017
– Destiny Reeves (University of Chicago): 2016–2017
– Ian Rines (Wofford College): Summer 2017 (NSF REU intern 2017)
– Estefany Romero (Concordia University Chicago): Summer 2015 (Field Museum Women In Science intern)
– Timothy Salazar (University of Chicago): 2014–2015
– Francesca Socki (Ohio Wesleyan University): Summer 2017 (NSF REU intern 2017)
– Kathleen Soler (DePaul University): 2009-2010
– Lynika Stozier (Dominican University): Summer 2011 & Summer 2013
– Andrea Thompson (Harold Washington College): 2014–2016
– Arista Tischner (University of Illinois, Chicago): 2011–2014 (NSF CIRRUS intern 2011; NSF REU intern 2012)
– Gabriel Trujillio (Lake Forest College): 2014–2015
– Mitchell Trychta (Rhodes College): Summer 2016
– Mariam Usmani (DePaul University): Summer 2009
– Cody Weinberger (University of Chicago): 2013
– Alexandra Westrich (School for the Art Institute of Chicago): 2009-2010
– Jesse Williams (Roosevelt University): 2013–2014
– Sara Zufan (Loyola University): 2009–2012 (NSF REU intern 2010)
High school interns:
– Alexandra Gray (Deerfield Academy High School): Summer 2010
– Charles Griggs (Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy): Spring 2012–Summer 2012
– Eveline Liu (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy): Fall 2013–Spring 2014
– Katherine McDonnell (St. Francis High School): Summer 2012
– Chelsea Wang (Naperville North High School): Summer 2013
Trainees:
– Frank Azorsa (visiting scientist – Museo de Historia Natural, Lima, Peru): 2009
– Caroline Birer (visiting postdoc): 2017
– Matt Boot (research assistant): 2015–2017
– Gracen Brilmyer (research assistant): 2011–2014
– Matthew Carson (visiting postdoctoral researcher – Northwestern University): 2012–2013
– Jesse Czekanski-Moir (research assistant): 2008–2010
– Amanda Oliveira (visiting Ph.D. student – UNESP Rio Claro, Brazil): 2020
– Rodolfo Probst (visiting master’s student from University of São Paulo): 2015; (research assistant) 2016
– Gregory Putzel (visiting postdoctoral researcher – Northwestern University): 2012–2014
– Manuela Ramalho (visiting Ph.D. student – UNESP Rio Claro, Brazil & CAPES Fellow): 2015
– Destiny Reeves (research assistant): 2017-2018
– Joseph Rowlett (research assistant): 2014–2015
– James Waters (visiting postdoctoral researcher – Princeton University): 2014
– Alexandra Westrich (research assistant): 2010–2012 & 2014–2015
– Brian Wray (research assistant): 2010–2017
Visiting Scientists/Professors:
– Dr. Christophe Duplais (Group Leader – Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS & Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell University) 2016–present
– Dr. Cíntia Martins (Professor at Federal University of Piauí, Brazil & Fulbright Junior Faculty Member Award at Field Museum) 2017–2018
Other:
– Faculty mentor at the Evolution Meetings for SSB/SSE Undergraduate Diversity program (one or two students each year): Portland, Oregon (2010); Snowbird, Utah (2013); Raleigh, North Carolina (2014); Austin, Texas (2016); Providence, Rhode Island (2019).
– One-on-one undergraduate mentor for Society of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS): Long Beach, California (2016); virtual (2020).
– Faculty mentor for Entomologists of Color (EntoPOC): Virtual (2020).
– Faculty mentor at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) for the Broadening Participation mentorship program: New Orleans, Louisiana (2017).
– Graduate Women In Science (GWIS) Chicago Eta chapter faculty mentor (one mentee pairing) (2015 – 2016).