1978 - 1984 Research Assistant at S.U.N.Y./Stony Brook; Biochemical population genetics of marine bivalves.
1984 Ph. D. in Ecology and Evolution from the State University of New York at Stony Brook; Dissertation title: Biochemical Population Genetics of Phosphoglucose isomerase and a - Glycerophosphate Dehydrogenase in Waterstriders (Gerridae:Hemiptera); Advisor: R. K. Koehn
1984 - 1987 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of M. A. Rankin; Developmental and physiological genetics of wing polymorphism; reproductive endocrinology.
1986-(November 13, 1986 - February 10, 1987) Visiting scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Alain Strambi; C.N.R.S. Laboratorie de Neurobiologie, Marseille, France; Radioimmunoassay of juvenile hormone and ecdysone.
1987 - 1988 NATO Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. S. S. Tobe, University of Toronto, Canada. In vitro biosynthesis of juvenile hormone.
1988 - 1994 Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 - 0118.
Dec 1992-Jan 1993 Visiting Scientist at the Sericultural Experiment Station, Tsukuba, Japan. Visit fully funded by the Japanese government. Endocrine regulation of wing polymorphism in a Japanese cricket.
1994-2001 Associate Professor of Biological Sciences. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 - 0118.
1999 (Feb-November) Visiting Scientist in the Biotechnology Program, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, Australia (Laboratory of Dr. John Oakeshott, Program Director; Cloning and characterization of juvenile hormone esterase genes in Gryllus (crickets).
2001-Present Professor of Biological Sciences. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 - 0118.
2002, 2003 (November-December) Visiting Scientist in the Biotechnology Program, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, Australia (Laboratory of Dr. John Oakeshott, Program Director; Cloning and characterization of juvenile hormone esterase genes in Gryllus(crickets).
Membership in professional societies: Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, Orthopterists’ Society.
Reviewer for articles in Evolution, Biochemical Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Hereditas, J. Insect Physiology, Genetics, Genetica, Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Animal Behavior and Annals of the Entomological Society of America; routine reviewer of NSF and USDA competitive grants;
NSF Panel Member, May 1994 and May 1995.
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant in Population Biology, 1980-1983.
Sigma Xi Award for Excellence In Research (1983) Awarded by the Stony Brook Chapter of Sigma Xi; University-wide competition.
Dobzhansky Prize(1983) Highest award given by the Society for the Study of Evolution to a young researcher.
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (March 1984-1987) Hormonal Basis of Wing Polymorphism; conducted in the laboratory of M. A. Rankin, Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship (1987-1988) Hormonal Basis of Wing Polymorphism in Gryllus rubens; conducted in the laboratory of Professor S. S. Tobe, University of Toronto.
Fling Summer Faculty Fellowship (University of Nebraska, 1989).
CURRENT AND RECENT EXTRAMURAL FUNDING (LAST TEN YEARS)
NSF-REGULATORY BIOLOGY Regulatory determinants of a JH esterase activity polymorphism (10/91 - 3/95; $121,000).
Supplementary awards: Four Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) awards
NSF-POPULATION BIOLOGY Physiological Basis of a Genetically-determined life-history trade-off; I was PI; Dr. Simon Mole was Co-PI (10/91 - 10/95; $148,000).
Supplementary awards: Four REU awards
NSF-ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY. Endocrine basis of genetic variation and covariation of life-history traits. (10/95-3/99; 186,000).
Supplementary awards: (1) Three REU awards, (2) $11,898 for Molecular Phylogeny of North American Gryllus
NSF-INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (PACIFIC AND EAST ASIA). Cloning and characterization of juvenile hormone esterase in crickets (in the laboratory of Dr. John Oakeshott, Biotechnology Program Director, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, Australia; 1/1/99-11/30/99; $14,583).
NSF-ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY. The Metabolic/Biochemical Basis of Life History Variation and Trade-offs (10/98-12/01; extended through 9/03; $190,000)
Supplementary awards: Three REU
NSF-INFRASTRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT. Multi-User and Mult-disciplinary Ion and Element Analyzers (7/1/01-6/30/03; $63,618; I am one of five Co-PIs).
NSF-ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY. Morph-dependent cyclic JH titer in a wing-polymorphic cricket: Adaptive significance and underlying causes ($297,000; 6/1/02-4/31/05).
NSF-ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY. Physiological and molecular causes of genetic variation/covariation in endocrine regulation. ($360,000 1/1/03-12/31/05; I am PI, coPIs: Dr. John Oakeshott, CSIRO, Australia; Dr. Larry Harshman, Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska
PUBLICATIONS (no abstracts; all publications except # 5, 8, and 9 are peer-reviewed)
(1) Koehn, R.K., J.G. Hall and A.J. Zera. 1980. Parallel variations of genotype-dependent aminopeptidase activity between Mytilus edulis and Mercenaria merceneria. Mar. Biol. Lett. 1:245-252.
(2) Zera, A.J. 1981. Extensive variation at the a-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase locus in species of waterstriders (Gerridae: Hemiptera). Biochem. Genet. 19:797-812.
(3) Zera, A.J. 1981. Genetic structure of two species of waterstriders with differing degrees of winglessness. Evolution 35:218-225.
(4) Zera, A.J., D.I. Innes and M.E. Saks. 1983. Genetic and environmental determinates of wing polymorphism in the waterstrider, Limnoporus canaliculatus. Evolution 37:513-522.
(5) Koehn, R.K., A.J. Zera and J.G. Hall. 1983. Enzyme polymorphism and natural selection, pp. 115-136. In: Evolution of Genes and Proteins. Edited by M. Nei and R.K. Koehn. Sinauer Associates. Sunderland, Mass.
(6) Koehn, R.K., J.G. Hall, D. I. Innes and A.J. Zera. 1984. Genetic structure of Mytilus edulis along the east coast of North America. Marine Biology 79:117-126.
(7) Zera, A.J. 1984. Differences in overwintering survivorship, developmental rate and fertility between the longwinged and wingless morphs of the waterstrider, Limnoporus canaliculatus. Evolution 38:1023-1032.
(8) Zera, A.J. 1984. Biochemical population genetics of phosphoglucose isomerase and a-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase in waterstriders (Gerridae: Hemiptera). Ph.D. dissertation; State University of New York at Stony Brook.
(9) Zera, A.J., K. Koehn and J.G. Hall. 1985. Allozymes and biochemical adaptation. In: Comprehensive Insect Physiology Biochemistry and Pharmacology. Edited by G.A. Kerkut and L. I. Gilbert Pergamon Press, New York. Vol. 10. pp. 633-674.
(10) Zera, A.J. 1986. Wing polymorphism in waterstriders: Mechanism of morph determination and adaptive significance. pp. 674-686 In: Migration: Mechanisms and Adaptive Significance. Edited by M.A. Rankin.
(11) Zera, A.J. 1987. Temperature-dependent kinetic variation among phosphoglucose isomerase allozymes from the wing polymorphic waterstrider, Limnoporus canaliculatus. Molecular Biology and Evolution 4:266-285.
(12) Zera, A.J. 1987. Differential inhibition of phosphoglucose isomerase allozymes from the wing-polymorphic waterstrider Limnoporus canaliculatus by pentose shunt metabolites. Biochemical Genetics 4:205-223.
(13) Zera, A.J. and K.C. Tiebel. 1988. Brachypterizing effect of group rearing, juvenile hormone-III and methoprene in the wing dimorphic cricket, Gryllus rubens. J. Insect Physiol. 34:489-498.
(14) Zera, A.J. and K.C. Tiebel. 1989. Differences in juvenile hormone esterase activity between presumptive macropterous and brachypterous Gryllus rubens: Implications for the hormonal control of winglength polymorphism. J. Insect Physiol. 35:7-17.
(15) Zera, A.J., C. Strambi, K.C. Tiebel, A. Strambi and M.A. Rankin. 1989. Juvenile hormone and ecdysteroid titers during critical periods of wing morph determination in Gryllus rubens J. Insect Physiol. 35:501-511.
(16) Zera, A.J. and M.A. Rankin.1989. Wing polymorphism in Gryllus rubens: Genetic basis of morph determination and fertility differences between morphs. Oecologia. 80:249-255.
(17) Zera, A.J. and S.S. Tobe. 1990. Juvenile hormone-III biosynthesis in presumptive long-winged and short-winged Gryllus rubens: Implications for the endocrine regulation of wing dimorphism. J. Insect Physiol. 36:271-280.
(18) Zera, A.J. and K.C. Tiebel. 1991. Wing dimorphism in the waterstrider, Limnoporous canaliculatus: Effect of photoperiod on wing morph induction. Annals of the Entomol. Soc. 84:509-516.
(19) Zera, A.J. 1991. Segregation and linkage analyses of five allozyme loci in Limnoporus canaliculatus. J. of Heredity. 82:356-358.
(20) Zera, A.J. and C. Holtmeier. 1992. In vivo and in vitro degradation of juvenile hormone-III in presumptive long-winged and short-winged Gryllus rubens. J. Insect Physiology. 38:61-74.
(21) Zera, A.J., Gu X. and Zeisset, M. 1992. Characterization of juvenile hormone esterases from genetically-determined wing morphs of the cricket, G. rubens. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 22:829-839.
(22) Mole, S. and A.J. Zera. 1993. Differential allocation of resources underlies the dispersal-reproduction trade-off in the wing-dimorphic cricket, Gryllus rubens. Oecologia. 93:121-127.
(23) Holtmeier, C.L. and A. J. Zera. 1993. Differential mating success of male wing morphs of the wing-dimorphic cricket, Gryllus rubens. Amer. Midl. Nat. 129:223-223.
(24) Zera, A.J., C. A. Borcher, and S. B. Gaines. 1993. Juvenile hormone degradation in adult wing morphs of the cricket, Gryllus rubens. J. Insect Physiol. 39:845-856.
(25) Gu, X. and A. J. Zera. 1994. Developmental profiles of juvenile hormone esterase, general esterase and juvenile hormone binding activity in last stadium Gryllus assimilis. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 107B:553-560.
(26) Mole, S. and A.J. Zera. 1994. Differential resource consumption obviates a potential flight-fecundity trade-off in the sand cricket (Gryllus firmus). Functional Ecology 8:573-580.
(27) Seigfried, B.D. and A.J. Zera. 1994. Partial purification and characterization of a greenbug (Homoptera: Aphididae) esterase associated with resistance to parathion. Pesticide Biochem. Physiol. 49:132-137.
(28) Zera, A.J., K. Rokke, and S. Mole. 1994. Lipid, carbohydrate and nitrogen contents of long-winged and short-winged Gryllus firmus: Implications for the cost of flight capability. J. of Insect Physiol. 40:1037-1044.
(29) Zera, A.J. and S. Mole. 1994. The physiological cost of flight capability in crickets. Res. Popul. Ecol. 36:151-156.
(30) Zera, A.J. and C. Zhang. 1995. Evolutionary endocrinology of juvenile hormone esterase in Gryllus assimilis: Direct and correlated responses to selection. Genetics: 141:1125-1134.
(31) Gu, X and A. J. Zera. 1996. Quantitative genetics of juvenile hormone esterase, juvenile hormone binding and general esterase activity in the cricket, Gryllus assimilis Heredity 76:136-142
(32) Zera, A. J., J. Sall, and R. Schwartz. 1996. Artificial selection on JHE activity in Gryllus assimilis: Nature of activity differences between lines and effect on JH binding and metabolism. Arch. Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 32:421-428.
(33) Zera, A. J. and S. Tanaka. 1996. The role of juvenile hormone and juvenile hormone esterase in wing morph determination in Modicogryllus confirmatus. J. Insect Physiology 42:909-915.
(34) Zera, A. J. and M. Zeisset. 1996. Biochemical characterization of juvenile hormone esterases from lines selected for high or low enzyme activity in Gryllus assimilis. Biochem. Genetics 34:421-434.
(35) Zera, A. J. and R. F. Denno. 1997 Physiology and ecology of dispersal polymorphism in insects. Annual Review of Entomology 42:207-230
(36) Zera, A. J., J. Sall, and K. Grudzinski. 1997. Flight-muscle polymorphism in the wing-polymorphic cricket, Gryllus firmus: Muscle characteristics and their influence on the evolution of flightlessness. Physiol. Zool. 70:519-529.
(37) Zera, A. J., T. Sanger, and G. L. Cisper. 1998. Direct and correlated responses to selection on JHE activity in adult and juvenile G. assimilis: Implications for the stage-specific evolution of insect endocrine traits. Heredity 80:300-309
(38) Zera, A. J., J. Potts, J and K. Kobus. 1998. The physiology of life history trade-offs: Experimental analysis of a hormonally-induced life-history trade-off in Gryllus assimilisAmerican Naturalist 152:7-23.
(39) Zera, A. J., J. Sall, and K. Otto. 1999. Biochemical aspects of flight and flightlessness in Gryllus: Flight fuels, enzyme activities and electrophoretic profiles of flight muscles from flight capable and flightless morphs. J. Insect Physiology, 45:275-285.
(40) Zera, A. J. 1999. The endocrine genetics of wing polymorphism in Gryllus: Critique of recent studies and state of the art. Evolution 53:972-976.
(41) Zera, A.J. and Y. Huang. 1999. Evolutionary endocrinology of juvenile hormone esterase: Functional relationship with wing dimorphism in the cricket Gryllus firmus. Evolution 53:837-847.
(42) Cisper, G. L., A. J. Zera and D. W. Borst. 2000. Juvenile hormone titer and morph-specific reproduction in the wing-polymorphic cricket, Gryllus firmus . J. Insect Physiology 46:585-596.
(43) Zera, A. J. and T. Brink. 2000 Nutrient assimilation and utilization by wing and flight muscle morphs of the cricket Gryllus firmus: Implications for the trade-off between flight capability and reproduction. J. Insect Physiology 46:1207-1218.
(44) Huang, Y., G. Orti, M. Southerlin, A. Duhachek,, and A. J. Zera. 2000 Phylogenetic relationships of North American field crickets inferred from mitochondrial DNA data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17:48-57.
(45) Zera, A. J. and J. Bottsford. 2001 The endocrine-genetic basis of life history variation: Relationship between the ecdysteroid titer and morph-specific reproduction in the wing polymorphic cricket, Gryllus firmus. Evolution 55:538-549.
(46) Zera, A. J. and G. L. Cisper. 2001 Genetic and diurnal variation in the juvenile hormone titer in a wing-polymorphic cricket: Implications for the evolution of life histories and dispersal. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 74:293-306.
(47) Zera, A. J. and L. G. Harshman. 2001. Physiology of life history trade-offs in animals Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 32:95-106.
(48) Zera, A. J, and A. Larsen. 2001. The metabolic basis of life history variation: Genetic and phenotypic differences in lipid reserves among life history morphs of the wing-polymorphic cricket, Gryllus firmus Journal of Insect Physiology 47:1147-1160.
(49) Zhao, Z., A. J. Zera. 2001 Enzymological and radiotracer studies of lipid metabolism in the flight-capable and flightless morphs of the wing polymorphic cricket, Gryllus firmus. Journal of Insect Physiology 47:1337-1347.
(50) Zera, A. J., T. Sanger, J. Hanes and L. G. Harshman. 2002. Purification and characterization of juvenile hormone esterase from Gryllus assimilis Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 49:41-55.
(51) Zhao, Z. and Zera, A. J. 2002. Differential lipid biosynthesis underlies a trade-off between reproduction and flight-capability in a wing-polymorphic cricket. PNAS 99:16829-16834.
(52) Zera, A.J., Z.Zhao. 2003. Life history evolution and the microevolution of intermediary metabolism: Activities of lipid-metabolizing enzymes in life-history morphs of a wing-dimorphic cricket. Evolution 57:586-596.
(53) Zera, A.J. and Z. Zhao. 2003. Morph-dependent fatty-acid oxidation in a wing-polymorphic cricket: Implications for morph specialization for dispersal vs. reproduction. J. Insect Physiology 49:933-943.
(54) Zera, A.J. and Z. Zhao. 2003/2004. Effect of a juvenile hormone analogue on lipid metabolism in a wing-polymorphic cricket: Implications for the biochemical basis of the trade-off between reproduction and dispersal (Biochemical and Physiological Zoology; conditionally accepted).
Zera, A.J. The hormonal basis of wing polymorphism: State of the art and new insights (for Integrative and Comparative Biology); based on an invited talk given in a symposium on 'Physiology of Phenotypic Plasticity', Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, Toronto, Jan. 6, 2003).
Zhao, Z. and A. J. Zera. Effect of a juvenile hormone analogue on lipid metabolism in the cricket Gryllus assimilis: Implications for the biochemical basis of life-history trade-offs.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM TALKS (PAST TEN YEARS)
Symposium on the Evolution of Physiological Systems, Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Meeting, Snowbird, Utah, June 19, 1993; Hormonal regulation of wing polymorphism in insets.
Symposium on Behavior, Genetics and Physiology, Sixth International Orthopterists' Conference, Hilo, Hawaii, August 4, 1993; Hormonal regulation of wing polymorphism in insects.
Symposium on Dispersal Polymorphism of Insects: Its adaptation and evolution, Faculty of Agriculture, Okayama University, Japan, June 30-July 1, 1994. Physiological basis of the flight-oogenesis syndrome.
Symposium on the Hormonal Control of Invertebrate Social Behavior; Animal Behavior Society Annual Meeting, July 18, 1998; Southern Illinois University. Physiological basis of life history trade-offs: Energetics and endocrinology
Gordon Conference on Biological Regulatory Mechanisms. (Session chair, session organizer, and invited speaker; Evolution of hormonal regulation of development and life histories. Holderness School, Plymouth N. H. July 30-August 4, 2000.
Evolutionary and Ecological Functional Genomics. Functional role of juvenile hormone esterase in the evolution of development and life histories: Integrating molecular, biochemical and endocrine studies. Annual Meeting of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Aarhus, Denmark, August, 2001. Trip funded by an NSF symposium grant.
Symposium on the Evolution of Genetic Networks (Symposium co-sponsored by the Univ. of Oregon and Univ. of Indiana). “Physiological networks and their endocrine control in insects” Univ. Oregon October 14-16, 2001
Organizer and speaker in “New physiological approaches to the study of the cost of reproduction” a symposium held at the Evolution Society annual meeting, Champaign-Urbana, IL, June, 2002.
Symposium on “The Physiological Regulation of Polyphenisim and Phenotypic Plasticity”. “Regulation of wing polymorphism by juvenile hormone: State of the art and new perspectives”. Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Toronto, January 2003.
Symposium on “Artificial Selection as a Tool in Comparative Physiology” Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 2004.
INVITED DEPARTMENTAL TALKS (PAST TEN YEARS)
1991-1992
Department of Entomology, The University of Kansas, April, 8, The endocrine regulation of wing polymorphism.
Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, April, 23, The endocrine regulation of wing polymorphism.
Department of Plant Pathology, UNL, September, 14, The endocrine regulation of wing polymorphism.
National Institute of Sericultural and Entomological Science, Tsukuba, Japan; December 10,
Physiological basis of the flight-fecundity trade-off in wing polymorphic insects.
National Institute of Sericultural and Entomological Science, Tsukuba, Japan; December 17, Hormonal regulation of wing polymorphism in insects.
1993-1994
Department of Entomology, Hirosaki University, Japan, January 7, Hormonal regulation of wing polymorphism in insects: Role of juvenile hormone esterase.
Department of Biology, Saga University, Japan, January 20, 1993 Hormonal regulation of wing polymorphism in insects: Role of juvenile hormone esterase.
Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, April 5, 1993 Hormonal regulation of wing polymorphism in insects.
Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, February 28, 1994 Hormonal basis of wing polymorphism.
Department of Biology, University of Iowa, January 25, 1994, Evolutionary Endocrinology: Insect Endocrinology Meets Population Genetics.
1995-1996
Department of Biology, Illinois State University, March 21. 1995 Evolutionary Endocrinology: Insect Endocrinology Meets Population Genetics.
Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, April 8, 1996 Evolutionary endocrinology: Insect Endocrinology Meets Population Genetics.
Department of Biology, University of California, Irvine, May 10, 1996 Evolutionary Endocrinology: Insect Endocrinology Meets Population Genetics
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Canada, Nov 6, 1996 Evolutionary Endocrinology: Integrating Insect Endocrinology with Population Genetics
Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Los Cruces, December 6, 1996 Evolutionary Endocrinology: Integrating Insect Endocrinology with Population Genetics
1997-1998
Department of Biology, Duke University, February 10, 1997 Evolutionary Endocrinology:
Integrating Insect Endocrinology with Population Genetics
Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, October 10, 1997 Using Endocrine Engineering to
Study the Physiology of Life History Trade-Offs.
Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, October 13, 1997 Artificial Selection on Juvenile
Hormone Esterase: Integrating Insect Endocrinology with Population Genetics
1999-2000
Department of Biology, Indiana University, January 29, 1999 Quantitative genetics of endocrine variation and functional relationship with life history variation [Invited (by graduate students) lecture in a graduate-student seminar on “Phenotypic Integration”].
Department of Biology, Indiana University, January 30, 1999 Physiological basis of a life history trade-off: Genetics, energetics and endocrinology.
CSIRO, Canberra Australia. June 13, 1999. Evolutionary Endocrinology of Juvenile Hormone Esterase.
Department of Ecology and Evolution, SUNY/Stony Brook, December 8. 1999 Evolutionary endocrinology of development: Juvenile hormone esterase and wing polymorphism
Department of Biology, Colorado State University, February 11, 2000 Evolutionary endocrinology: The endocrine regulation of wing polymorphism in crickets. (Invited by graduate students).
Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska, February 22,2000 Evolutionary endocrinology: The endocrine regulation of wing polymorphism in crickets. (Invited by graduate students).
Department of Biology, University of Oregon, April 16, 2000 The evolutionary endocrinology of development and life histories: Juvenile hormone esterase and wing polymorphism.
2001-2002
Department of Biology, University of California at Riverside, September 27. 2001. The functional basis of a life-history trade-off: plowing through a polymorphism
Department of Biology, Monash Univeristy, Melbourne, Australia, Dec 7, 2001. The biochemical-genetic basis of life history evolution.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska. The biochemical basis of a life history trade-off. February 14, 2002
Department of Biology, Simon Fraser University, April 4, 2002, The metabolic and endocrine bases of a life history polymorphism
Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla, Sept 17,2002. The biochemical basis of a life-history trade-off
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate: Evolution (Spring 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994; Fall, 1995; Spring, 1998)
Introductory Biology (101) (Spring 1995, 1996, 1997)
Ecology and Evolution (Fall, 1998)
Human Physiology (Spring, 2001,2002, 2003)
Graduate: Biochemical Adaptation (Fall, 1989, 1993, 1996; Spring 2000)
Evolutionary Genetics (Fall, 1990, 1992)
Trade-Offs in Ecology and Evolution (Seminar; Spring 1992)
Quantitative Genetics in Ecology and Evolution (Seminar; Spring 1993)
Insect Endocrinology (Readings Course, Fall, 1995; Spring, 1996)
Topics in Evolutionary Physiology (Readings Course, Spring, 1997)
Minicourse in micoevolution (Fall 2000, 2001)
Minicourse on evolutionary physiology (Fall 2001)
Postdoctoral Fellows: S. Gaines (1991), H. Yuan (1997-1998), Zhangzu Zhao (2000-2004), E. Crone (2003-2005).