Art Woods
Division of Biological Sciences
University of Montana
32 Campus Drive HS104
Missoula, MT 59812 USA
(406) 243-5234
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Education
1992 - 1998Ph.D. University of Washington, Department of Zoology (Joel G. Kingsolver)
1991 - 1992Research associate at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA
1991B.S. in Biology, Stanford University
Professional Experience
2011 -Associate Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula
2006 - 2010Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula
2001-2006Research scientist and lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences (Section of Integrative Biology) at the University of Texas at Austin.
2000-2001Postdoctoral research associate, Biological stoichiometry (NSF Integrated Research Challenges in Environmental Biology), advisors: Drs. Jon F. Harrison and James J. Elser.
1998-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Insect Science, Dept. of Biology, ArizonaStateUniversity, Postdoctoral advisor: Dr. Jon F. Harrison
Professional Service
2015 - Associate Editor, Integrative and Comparative Biology
2013 - Associate Editor, Journal of Insect Physiology
2013 - Associate Editor, American Naturalist
2011 – 2015Associate Editor, Functional Ecology
2011 – 2012Chair, Division of Ecology and Evolution, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
Research interests: Insect physiology, plant-insect interactions, environmental biophysics, acclimation and plasticity, temperature and oxygen biology, gas exchange, ecological and evolutionary physiology, evolution of physiological systems
Grants
2015 – 2016With Dr. Michael Dillon (Univ. Wyoming) and Dr. Mike Sears (Clemson Univ.) NSF IOS ‘Beyond the mean: Biological impacts of changes in temperature variation’. $15,475 to support a symposium at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR (Jan 2016)
2014 – 2017Co-PI with Dr. Bret Toblaske (Univ. Montana) and Dr. Amy Moran (Univ. Hawaii) NSF ‘Collaborative Research: Body size, oxygen, and vulnerability to climate change in Antarctic Pycnogonida.’ UM part: $277,559; total amount: $571,402.
2009 – 2014NSF ‘CAREER: Leaf microclimates and plant-insect interactions.’ $837,000.
2009University of Montana small grant for exploratory research ($4,900): The physiological ecology of an insect extended phenotype.
2009MILES and EPSCoR funding for two undergraduates—Tia Hunter and Brian Foster ($5,000 fellowships from MILES each & $1,500 each from EPSCoR)
2009Co-PI with Drs. James McClintock, Charles Amsler, Bill Baker, and Amy Moran. NSF: Advances in Antarctic Marine Biology Symposium $16,948.
2005 - 2008Co-PI with Dr. Amy Moran (UNC-Chapel Hill) NSF: ‘Collaborative Research: Effects of oxygen and temperature on egg mass function of Southern Ocean marine invertebrates.’ My part $238,000; total amount $532,000.
2005 – 2006Co-PI with Dr. Mary Poteet (UT-Austin). Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (Austin): ‘Physiological and behavioral responses of a
Euryceasosorum to variation in levels of dissolved oxygen and conductivity.’ $90,000.
2004Three separate grants to undergraduates in my lab from UT’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship program ($1,000, $1,000, and $900).
2003NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates $14,000
2002 – 2003 NSF ‘QEIB: Gas exchange across insect eggshells’ IBN-0213087, $53,000.
Refereed Journal Articles(* = grad student, ** = postdoc, *** = undergrad)
69. Lane, SJ*, CM Shishido*, AL Moran, BW Tobalske, and HA Woods (in review) No effects and no control of epibionts in two species of temperate pycnogonids. Biological Bulletin.*grad students
68. Kingsolver, JG, HA Woods (2016) Beyond thermal performance curves: Modeling time-dependent effects of thermal stress on ectotherm growth rates. American Naturalist 187, DOI: 10.1086/684786
67. Powers, DR, BW Tobalske, JK Wilson*, HA Woods, KR Corder (2015) Heat dissipation duringhovering and forward flightin hummingbirds. Royal Society Open Science2: 150598. Media coverage in The Times, Science Online, and the BBC.*grad student
66. Wilson*, JK, HA Woods (2015) Protection via parasitism: Datura odors attract parasitoid flies, which inhibit Manduca larvae from feeding and growing. Oecologia 179, 1159–1171.*grad student
65. Van Atta***, KJ, KA Potter, HA Woods (2015) Effects of UV-B on environmental preference and egg parasitization by Trichogramma Wasps (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae). J. Entomological Science 50, 318-325.***undergraduate student
64. Sprague*, JC, HA Woods (2015) Costs and benefits of underground pupal chambers constructed by insects: a test using Manduca sexta. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology8, 521 - 534.*grad student
63.Wilson*, JK, A Kessler, HA Woods (2015) Noisy communication via airborne infochemicals. BioScience65, 667 - 677.doi: 10.1093/biosci/biv062*grad student
62. Corcoran*, AJ, HA Woods (2015) Negligible energetic cost of sonar jamming in a bat-moth interaction.Canadian Journal of Zoology93, 331 – 335.*grad student
61. Woods, HA, ME Dillon, S Pincebourde (2015) The roles of microclimatic diversity and behavior in mediating the responses of ectotherms to climate change. Journal of Thermal Biology 54, 86 – 97. doi:10.1016/j.jtherbio.2014.10.002
60. Caillon*, R, C Suppo, J Casas, HA Woods, S Pincebourde (2014) Warming decreases thermal heterogeneity of leaf surfaces: implications for behavioural thermoregulation by arthropods. Functional Ecology 28, 1449 – 1458. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12288, *grad student
59. Woods, HA (2014) Mosaic physiology from developmental noise: within-organism physiological diversity as an alternative to phenotypic plasticity and phenotypic flexibility. Journal of Experimental Biology217, 35-45. doi:10.1242/jeb.089698. I did the cover art on this one! And the paper was highlighted in a discussion of the symposium volume, in Inside JEB
58. Kerr***, ED, C Phelan, HA Woods (2013) Subtle direct effects of rising atmospheric CO2 on insect eggs. Physiological Entomology38, 302 - 305.***undergrad
57. Potter** KA & HA Woods (2013) Immobile and tough vs. mobile and weak: effects of UVB radiation on eggs and larvae of Manduca sexta. Physiological Entomology 38, 246 - 252.**postdoc
56. Potter**, KA, HA Woods, S Pincebourde (2013) Microclimatic challenges in global change biology. Global Change Biology 19, 2932 – 2939. DOI:10.1111/gcb.12257 **postdoc
55. Woods HA (2013) Ontogenetic changes in the body temperature of an insect herbivore. Functional Ecology27, 1322 - 1331.
54. Breuner, CW, RS Sprague*, SH Patterson*, HA Woods (2013) Environment, behavior and physiology: do birds use barometric pressure to predict storms?Journal of Experimental Biology 216,1982-1990, doi:10.1242/jeb.081067. Spotlight in Inside JEB*grad student
53. Woods HA & JK Wilson* (2013) An information hypothesis for the evolution of homeostasis. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28, 283 – 289.*grad student
52. Potter** KA & HA Woods (2012) Trichogramma parasitoids alter the metabolic physiology of Manduca eggs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 279, 3572 – 3576. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1050 **postdoc
51. Pincebourde S & HA Woods (2012) Climate uncertainty on leaf surfaces: perspectives on the leaf microclimate from biophysical ecology. Functional Ecology26, 844 - 853.doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02013.x. This article is also part of a virtual issue in Functional Ecology on ecophysiological forecasting
50.Förster** TD & HA Woods (2012) Mechanisms of tracheal filling in insects. Biological Reviews88, 1 – 14. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00233.x**postdoc
49. Moran AL & HA Woods (2012) Why might they be giants? Towards an understanding of polar gigantism. Journal of Experimental Biology215, 1995-2002. doi:10.1242/jeb.067066
48. Potter**, KA & HA Woods (2012) The physiology of insect eggs: no evidence for the evolutionof abiotic stress physiology among populations of Manduca sexta. Functional Ecology26, 112–122DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01912.x**postdoc
47. Kingsolver JG, HA Woods, LB Buckley, KA Potter**, H MacLean*, JK Higgins* (2011) Complex life cycles and the responses of insects to climate change. Integrative and Comparative Biology51,719-732.doi:10.1093/icb/icr015*grad student, **postdoc
46. Valdés Á., AL Moran, HA Woods (2011)Revision of several poorly known Antarcticaeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca:Gastropoda), with the description ofa new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK.92, 1161–1174. doi:10.1017/S0025315411000348
45. Valdés Á., AL Moran, HA Woods (2011) A new species of Armodoris (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia, Akiodorididae) from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Polar Biology 34, 459 - 463.
44. Potter**, KA, G Davidowitz, HA Woods (2011) Cross-stage consequences of egg temperature in the insect Manduca sexta. Functional Ecology 25, 548 – 556. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01807.x**postdoc
43. Woods HA, MF Poteet, PD Hitchings***, RA Brain, BW Brooks (2010) Conservation physiology of the plethodontid salamanders Eurycea nana and E. sosorum: response to declining dissolved oxygen. Copeia2010(4), 540 - 553.
42. Moran AL &HA Woods (2010) Limits to diffusive O2 transport: flow, form, and function in nudibranch egg masses from temperate and polar regions. PLoS One 5, e12113. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012113.g002
41. Woods, HA & JN Smith (2010) Universal model for water costs of gas exchange by animals and plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107, 8469 – 8474.
40. Mullen LB*, HA Woods, MK Schwartz, AJ Sepulveda, WH Lowe (2010) Scale-dependent genetic structure of the Idaho giant salamander (Dicamptodonaterrimus) in stream networks. Molecular Ecology 19, 898-909.*grad student
39. Potter*, KA, G Davidowitz, HA Woods (2009) Insect eggs protected from high temperatures by limited homeothermy of plant leaves. Journal of Experimental Biology 212, 3448 – 3454.*grad student
38. Woods, HA, JC Sprague*, JN Smith (2009) Cavitation in the embryonic tracheal system of Manduca sexta.Journal of Experimental Biology 212, 3296-3304. *grad student
37. Cahan, SA, AB Daly, T Schwander, HA Woods (2009) Genetic caste determination does not impose growth rate costs in Pogonomyrmex harvester ants. Functional Ecology. Early view PDF published online.
36. Woods, HA (2009) Water loss and gas exchange by eggs of Manduca sexta: trading off costs and benefits. Journal of Insect Physiology56, 480 - 487.
35. Woods, HA, AL Moran, CP Arango, L Mullen* & C Shields* (2008) Oxygen hypothesis of polar gigantism not supported by performance of Antarctic pycnogonids in hypoxia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Published online: DOI:10.1098/rspb.2008.1489 (research highlight in Nature). *grad student
34. Woods, HA & AL Moran (2008). Temperature-oxygen interactions in Antarctic nudibranch egg masses. Journal of Experimental Biology 211, 798 - 804.
33. Woods, HA & AL Moran (2008) Oxygen profiles in egg masses predicted from a diffusion-reaction model. Journal of Experimental Biology 211, 790 - 797.
32. Woods, HA & RD Podolsky (2007). Photosynthesis drives oxygen levels in near-shore gastropod egg masses. Biological Bulletin 213, 88-94.
31. Raguso, RA, T Ojeda-Avila*, S Desai, MK Jurkiewicz & HA Woods. (2007) The influence of larval diet on adult feeding behaviour in the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta. Journal of Insect Physiology 53, 923–932.*grad student
30. Moran, AL & HA Woods (2007) Oxygen in egg masses: interactive effects of temperature, age, and egg-mass morphology on oxygen supply to embryos. Journal of Experimental Biology210, 722-731.
29. Woods HA & RT Bonnecaze (2006). Insect eggs at a transition between reaction and diffusion limitation: temperature, oxygen, and water. Journal of Theoretical Biology 243, 483–492.
28. Zrubek***, B & HA Woods (2006). Insect eggs exert rapid control over an oxygen-water tradeoff. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273, 831–834. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3374)***undergrad
27. Watts, T, HA Woods, S Hargand, JJ Elser, TA Markow (2006). Biological stoichiometry of growth in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Insect Physiology 52, 187 – 193.
26. Gillooly, JF, AP Allen, JH Brown, JJ Elser, CM del Rio, VM Savage, GB West, WH Woodruff, and HA Woods (2005) The metabolic basis of whole-organism RNA and phosphorus content. Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesUSA 102, 11923-11927.
25. Woods HA, RT Bonnecaze, B Zrubek*** (2005) Oxygen and water flux across eggshells of Manduca sexta. Journal of Experimental Biology208, 1297-1308.***undergrad
24. Woods, HA and RI Hill* (2004) Temperature-dependent oxygen limitation in insect eggs. Journal of Experimental Biology 207, 2267 - 2276.*grad student
23. Woods, HA, WF Fagan, JJ Elser, and JF Harrison. (2004) Allometric and phylogenetic variation in insect phosphorus content. Functional Ecology 18, 103 - 109.
22. Perkins, MC*, HA Woods, JJ Elser, and JF Harrison (2004) Dietary phosphorus variation affects the growth of larval Manduca sexta. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology55, 153–168.*grad student
21. Woods, HA, W Makino*, J Cotner, S Hobbie, JF Harrison, K Acharya*, and JJ Elser (2003) Temperature and the chemical composition of poikilothermic organisms.Functional Ecology 17, 237-245. *grad student
20. Ojeda-Avila*, T, HA Woods, and RA Raguso (2003) Effects of dietary variation on growth, composition, and maturation of Manduca sexta. Journal of Insect Physiology 49, 293 – 306.*grad student
19. Woods, HAand JF Harrison (2002) Interpreting rejections of the beneficial acclimation hypothesis: when is physiological plasticity adaptive? Evolution 56, 1863 – 1866.
18. Fagan, WF, E Siemann,RF Denno, C Mitter, A Huberty, HA Woods, and JJ Elser (2002) Nitrogen in insects: Implications for trophic complexity and species diversification. American Naturalist 160, 784-802.
17. Woods, HA, MC Perkins, JJ Elser, and JF Harrison (2002) Absorption and storage of phosphorus by larval Manduca sexta.Journal of Insect Physiology 48, 555-564.
16. Woods, HA and MS Singer (2001) Contrasting responses to desiccation and starvation by eggs and neonates of two Lepidoptera. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 74, 594-606.
15. Frazier, MR, HA Woods, JF Harrison (2001) Interactive effects of rearing temperature and oxygen on the development of Drosophila melanogaster. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 74, 641-650.
14. Woods, HA, CE Sorenson, A Stephenson, JF Harrison (2001) A simple allozyme method for distinguishing all life stages of Manduca sexta and M. quinquemaculata. EntomologiaExperimentalisetApplicata98, 109-113.
13. Woods, HAand JF Harrison (2001)The beneficial acclimation hypothesis versus acclimation of specific traits: physiological change in water-stressed Manduca sexta caterpillars.Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 74, 32-44.
12. Woods, HA and EA Bernays (2000) Water homeostasis by wild larvae of Manduca sexta. Physiological Entomology 25, 82-87.
11. Bernays, EA and HA Woods(2000) Foraging in nature by larvae of Manduca sexta--influenced by an endogenous oscillation. Journal of Insect Physiology 46, 825-836.
10. Petersen, C, HA Woods, JG Kingsolver (2000) Stage-specific effects of temperature and dietary protein on growth and survival of Manduca sexta caterpillars. Physiological Entomology 25, 35-40.
9. Woods, HA (1999) Patterns and mechanisms of growth of fifth-instar Manduca sexta caterpillars following exposure to low- or high-protein food during early instars. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 72, 445-454.
8. Woods, HA and JG Kingsolver (1999) Feeding rate and the structure of protein digestion and absorption in lepidopteran midguts. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 42, 74-87.
7. Woods, HA and ME Chamberlin (1999) Effects of dietary protein concentration on L-proline transport by Manduca sexta midgut. Journal of Insect Physiology 45, 735-741.
6. Woods, HA (1999) Egg-mass size and cell size: effects of temperature on oxygen distribution. American Zoologist 39, 244-252.
5. Kingsolver, JG and HA Woods (1998) Interactions of temperature and dietary protein concentration in growth and feeding of Manduca sexta caterpillars. Physiological Entomology 23, 354-359.
4. Woods, HA and RL DeSilets, Jr. (1997) Egg-mass gel of Melanochlamysdiomedea (Bergh) protects embryos from low salinity. Biological Bulletin 193, 341-349.
3. Kingsolver, JG and HA Woods (1997) Thermal sensitivity of growth and feeding in Manduca sexta caterpillars. Physiological Zoology 70, 631-638.
2. Quattro, JM, DD Pollock, M Powell, HA Woods, and DA Powers (1995) Evolutionary relations among vertebrate muscle-type lactate dehydrogenases. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology 4, 224-231.
1. Quattro, JM, HA Woods, and DA Powers (1993) Sequence analysis of teleost retina-specific lactate dehydrogenase-C—evolutionary implications for the vertebrate lactate dehydrogenase gene family. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 90, 242-246.
Books
Martin, LB, HA Woods, CK Ghalambor (Eds.) Integrative Organismal Biology (2015),Wiley.
Harrison, JF, HA Woods, and SP Roberts (2012) Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Insects. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Book Chapters
Woods, HA & JK Wilson (2015) An elephant in the fog: unifying concepts of physiological stasis and change. In Integrative Organismal Biology (in press, to appear 2014) Eds. LB Martin, HA Woods, CK Ghalambor. Wiley.
Ghalambor, CK, LB Martin, HA Woods (2015) Plasticity, complexity, and the individual: towards a truly integrative organismal biology. In Integrative Organismal Biology (in press, to appear 2014) Eds. LB Martin, HA Woods, CK Ghalambor. Wiley.
HA Woods, LB Martin, Ghalambor, CK (2015) The central role of the individual in biology. In Integrative Organismal Biology (in press, to appear 2014) Eds. LB Martin, HA Woods, CK Ghalambor. Wiley.
Woods, HA (2009) Evolution of homeostatic physiological systems. Chapter in Phenotypic Plasticityof Insects: Mechanisms and Consequences. Eds. DW Whitman & TN Ananthakrishnan, Science Publishers, Enfield, NH.
Woods, HA & AL Moran (2007) Size and scaling. Chapter in Encylopedia of Tidepools. Eds MW Denny & SD Gaines. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Book reviews
Kingsolver, JG, HA Woods, G Gilchrist (1995)Review of PC Wainwright & SM Reilly. Ecological Morphology. Integrative Organismal Biology. Science, 267, 396.
Woods, A (2004) A bug’s strife: abiotic angst in the microcosmos. Review of SL ChownSW Nicolson Insect Physiological Ecology. Journal of Experimental Biology 207, 4489-4490.
Woods, HA (2009) Physiological principles meet information explosion. A review of JL Nation's Insect Physiology and Biochemistry, 2nd Edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton. Journal of Experimental Biology 212, 1065 - 1066.
Teaching article
Woods HA and C Chiu (2003) Wireless response technology in college classrooms. The Technology Source September/October 2003. Available online at
Service
University Committees
Global Leadership Initiative (GLI) task force member
Faculty Development Office steering committee, Chair in 2015 - 2016
For Division of Biological Sciences.
Curriculum committee,2013 -
Graduate admissions committee. 2013 –
Seminar organizer. 2009 – 2011. I wasthe organizer of the 4 o’clock Wednesday biology seminar.
Web committee. I and the web committee have led significant redesigns of the DBS website over the past several years. In addition, I contribute stories about faculty and student accomplishments to the News & Events section of our website.
Committee service for students with other main advisors: Alina Niklison (MS, Fall 2008); Laura Young (MS in Exercise Science, 2008); Ashley King (MS, Spring 2009); Adam Sepulveda (PhD 2010); Nora Lahr (PhD); Ania Majewska (MS); Erin McCullough (PhD); Juan Oteyza (PhD); Jennifer Smith (PhD); Riccardo Ton (PhD); Kristen Crandell (PhD); Thomas Förster (PhD 2010, Humboldt Univ, Berlin), Andrew Boyce (PhD), Brett Klassen van Oorschot (PhD), Kristen Crandell (PhD 2015), Robin Caillon (PhD, University of Tours, France), Robert Niese (PhD), Devin O’Brien (PhD)
Service outside the University.
2003. Member of an external review committee that evaluated the Department of Biology at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
2008. Served on an NSF review panel that reviewed proposals for postdoctoral fellowships from across the biological sciences. Washington D.C.
2009. Served on an NSF review panel “Integrative Organismal Systems”, Washington D.C.
2009 - 2012. Chair-elect of the Division of Ecology and Evolution in the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Will assume chairmanship at the Jan, 2011 meeting in Salt Lake City, UT.
2009 - 2010. Co-organized symposium at the meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (Seattle, WA) titled “Advances in Antarctic Marine Biology”. In support of this symposium, we received $15,000 from NSF.
2010. Co-organized symposium with Peter Frappell (Univ. Tasmania) at the meeting of the American Physiology Society (Westminster, CO) titled “Environmental Adaptations of Cardio-respiratory Systems” with 8 speakers.
2010. Served on the PhD committee of Thomas Förster (Humboldt Universitat in Berlin, Germany, major professor Dr. Stefan Hetz). Attended his defense in Berlin on June 8, 2010.
2014. Evaluated two tenure review packets (for professors at Colorado College & Clemson University)
2015 – 2016. Co-organizing a symposium for the 2016 meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (Portland) titled Beyond the Mean: Biological Impacts of Changes in Patterns of Temperature Variation.
Research Presentations and Talks at Professional Meetings
Colorado State University, Ft. Collins (2015)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (2015)
American Physiological Society meeting, San Diego (2014)
HETEROCLIM conference in Loches, France (2014)
Plenary talk at the Society for Experimental Biology, Manchester, UK (2014)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Francisco (2014)
University of Montana, Missoula (2013)
University of Florida, Gainesville (2013)
University of North Texas, Dallas (2013)
Royal Dutch Zoological Society symposium for best thesis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013)
Company of Biologists Symposium on Stress, Mürren, Switzerland (2013)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Francisco (2013)
Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l’insecte, Univ. François Rabelais, Tours, France (2012)
University of Montana, Missoula (2012)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Salt Lake City (2011)
American Physiological Society, Westminster, CO (2010)
Southwest Research Station, Portal, AZ (2010)
University of Washington, Seattle (2010)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Seattle (2010)
University of Montana, Missoula (2009)
North DakotaStateUniversity (2009)
TexasA&MUniversity, College Station (2008)
International Congress of Entomology, Durban, South Africa (2008)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Antonio (2008)
University of Montana, Missoula (2007)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Phoenix (2007)
Station Research Talk, McMurdo Station, Antarctica (2006)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Orlando (2006)
FridayHarbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor (2005)
Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula (2005)
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin (2004)
Gordon Research Conference: Metabolic Basis of Ecology, Bates College, Maine (2004)
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada (2004)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, New Orleans (2004)
OhioUniversity, Athens, OH (2003)
Nevada EPSCoR meeting, Las Vegas (2003)