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| Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | E-mail: | chkuo {at} email {dot} arizona {dot} edu |
| University of Arizona | Phone: | +1-520-626-8661 |
| Tucson, AZ 85721 | Fax: | +1-520-621-3709 |
| 2008-present | Postdoctoral Research Associate
Laboratory of Dr. Howard Ochman and Dr. Nancy Moran, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona. |
| 2003-2008 | Ph.D., Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Advised by Dr. Daniel Promislow and Dr. Jessica Kissinger. |
| 2000-2003 | M.S., Interdepartmental Genetics Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Advised by Dr. Fredric Janzen. |
| 1999-2000 | Graduate student, Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Advised by Dr. Kae-Kang Hwu. |
| 1998-1999 | Research Assistant, Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. |
| 1994-1998 | B.S., Department of Botany, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. |
| 2007-2008 | Graduate School Dissertation Completion Assistantship, University of Georgia. |
| 2007 | Student Travel Grant, American Genetic Association. |
| 2006-2007 | Kirby and Jan Alton Graduate Research Fellowship, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia. |
| 2006 | James L. Carmon Honorarium for Innovative Use of Computers, University of Georgia Research Foundation. |
| 2004-2006 | National Institute of Health Training Grant, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia. |
| 2006 | Franklin College Mini-Grant for Travel, University of Georgia. |
| 2006 | Graduate Student Travel Fund, University of Georgia. |
| 2005 | Student Travel Grant, National Institute of Health. |
| 2005 | Graduate Student Travel Fund, University of Georgia. |
| 2004 | Graduate Student Travel Fund, University of Georgia. |
| 2003 | Professional Advancement Grant for Travel, Iowa State University. |
| 2002 | Professional Advancement Grant for Travel, Iowa State University. |
| 2002 | Grants-in-Aid for Research, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. |
| 2001 | Linnaeus Fund Research Award, Chelonian Research Foundation. |
| 2000 | Professional Advancement Grant for Travel, Iowa State University. |
| 1997 | Undergraduate Research Projects Fellowship, National Science Council, Taiwan. |
| 1994-1998 | Natural Science Talented Students Fellowship (seven semesters), Ministry of Education, Taiwan. |
| 1994-1998 | Presidential Award (two semesters, spring 1997 and spring 1995), National Taiwan University. |
, Ochman H. 2009. Inferring clocks when lacking rocks: the variable rates of molecular evolution in bacteria. Biology Direct, 4, 35. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-35
, Ochman H. 2009. Deletional bias across the three domains of life. Genome Biology and Evolution, 2009, 145-152. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evp016
, Moran NA, Ochman H. 2009. The consequences of genetic drift for bacterial genome complexity. Genome Research, 19, 1450-1454. DOI: 10.1101/gr.091785.109
, Ochman H. 2009. The fate of new bacterial genes. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 33, 38-43. DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2008.00140.x
, Wares JP, Kissinger JC. 2008. The apicomplexan whole genome phylogeny: an analysis of incongruence among gene trees. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 25, 2689-2698. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn213
, Kissinger JC. 2008. Consistent and contrasting properties of lineage-specific genes in the apicomplexan parasites Plasmodium and Theileria. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8, 108. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-108
, Avise JC. 2008. Does organismal pedigree impact the magnitude of topological congruence among gene trees for unlinked loci? Genetica, 132, 219-225. DOI: 10.1007/s10709-007-9167-0
, Corby-Harris V, Promislow DEL. 2008. The unavoidable costs and unexpected benefits of parasitism: population and metapopulation models of parasite-mediated competition. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 250, 244-256. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.10.004
, Janzen FJ. 2007. Longevity, overlapping generations, and conservation of turtle populations. Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter, 11, 18-23.
, Avise JC. 2005. Phylogeographic breaks in low-dispersal species: the emergence of concordance across gene trees. Genetica, 124, 179-186. DOI: 10.1007/s10709-005-2095-y
, Janzen FJ. 2004. Genetic effects of a persistent bottleneck on a natural population of ornate box turtles (Terrapene ornata). Conservation Genetics, 5, 425-437. DOI: 10.1023/B:COGE.0000041020.54140.45
, Janzen FJ. 2003. BottleSim: a bottleneck simulation program for long-lived species with overlapping generations. Molecular Ecology Notes, 3, 669-673. DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-8286.2003.00532.x
Kissinger JC, . 2007. Evolution and comparative genomics of Toxoplasma gondii. In: Toxoplasma: Molecular and Cellular Biology. Eds. J. Ajioka and D. Soldati. Horizon Press. ISBN: 978-1-904933-34-2.
, Moran A, Ochman H. 2009. Non-adaptive shrinkage of bacterial genomes. Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (Iowa City, Iowa).
, Kissinger J. 2007. Phylogenomic analyses reveal complex evolutionary history of apicomplexan parasites. Mechanisms of Genome Evolution Symposium (Bloomington, Indiana).
, Kissinger J. 2007. Not all genes are equally useful for inferring phylogenies: identification of phylogenetically informative genes and the biological implications. University of Georgia Computational and Systems Biology Symposium (Athens, Georgia) and University of Georgia Molecular Parasitology and Vector Biology Symposium (Athens, Georgia).
, Kissinger J. 2006. Investigating parasite biology and evolution through phylogenomic analyses. Genomics of Closely Related Organisms Meeting (Tucson, Arizona).
, Oliveira A, Kissinger J. 2005. Phylogenomics done backwards, let the genomes speak! University of Georgia Computational and Systems Biology Symposium (Athens, Georgia) and Georgia Tech/ORNL International Conference on Bioinformatics (Atlanta, Georgia).
, Oliveira A, Kissinger J. 2005. Comparative analysis of gene content in the Apicomplexa. University of Georgia Molecular Parasitology and Vector Biology Symposium (Athens, Georgia).
, Promislow DEL. 2005. A mathematical model of host resource allocation evolution: trade-offs between reproduction and immunity. Southeastern Ecology and Evolution Conference (Athens, Georgia).
, Promislow DEL. 2004. Epistatic interactions in scale-free networks. Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Meeting (Fort Collins, Colorado).
, Janzen FJ. 2003. BottleSim: a simulation algorithm of the genetic consequences of bottlenecks for long-lived species with overlapping generations. Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Meeting (Chico, California).
, Janzen FJ. 2002. Genetic variation in natural ornate box turtle populations. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Meeting (Kansas City, Missouri) and Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Meeting (Urbana, Illinois).
| 2005 | Teaching Assistant, Evolutionary Biology (GENE/BIOL 3000), University of Georgia. |
| 2002 | Experienced International Teaching Assistant, International Teaching Assistant Orientation Workshop, Iowa State University. |
| 2001-2002 | Teaching Assistant and Webmaster, Genetics Laboratory (BIOL 301L), Iowa State University. |
Graduate student representative on the Evolutionary Theory search committee. Department of Genetics, University of Georgia.
Referee for Aging Cell, Animal Conservation, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, and Molecular Ecology.
Grant reviewer for National Science Foundation.
Dr. Howard Ochman (Postdoc advisor)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
Email: hochman {at} email {dot} arizona {dot} edu; Phone: +1-520-626-8355
Dr. Daniel Promislow (Ph.D. co-advisor)
Department of Genetics,
University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA
Email: promislow {at} uga {dot} edu; Phone: +1-706-542-1715
Dr. Jessica Kissinger (Ph.D. co-advisor)
Department of Genetics,
University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA
Email: jkissing {at} uga {dot} edu; Phone: +1-706-542-6265
Dr. John Avise (Dissertation committee member)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
Email: javise {at} uci {dot} edu; Phone: +1-949-824-3925
Dr. Fredric Janzen (M.S. advisor)
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology,
Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 USA
Email: fjanzen {at} iastate {dot} edu; Phone: +1-515-294-4230
Dr. Kae-Kang Hwu (Graduate advisor)
Department of Agronomy,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Email: khwu {at} ntu {dot} edu {dot} tw; Phone: +886-2-3366-4761