Ricardo Mallarino Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Department of Organismic & and Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Phone (617)-308-5895; email: [email protected]

EDUCATION

2011-present Postdoctoral Fellow, Hopi Hoekstra Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2005-2011 Ph.D., Biology, Arhat Abzhanov Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1998-2003 B.S., Biology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

RESEARCH INTERESTS Molecular basis of morphological change; ; ecology and evolutionary biology; and genomics.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2011-present Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Hopi Hoekstra laboratory -Studied the molecular basis of local in Peromyscus mice using functional in vivo and in vitro approaches -Developed a new mammalian model species for studying the developmental basis of periodic pattern formation

2005-2011 Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Arhat Abzhanov laboratory -Identified a network of developmental genes responsible for generating beak diversity in Darwin’s finches -Studied beak patterning mechanisms in the relatives of Darwin’s finches

2005 Whitehead Institute, Susan Lindquist laboratory -Studied the role of molecular chaperones in controlling adaptive polyphenisms in insects

2003-2005 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, supervisors: Chris Jiggins and Biff Bermingham -Studied molecular systematics and phylogenetics of tropical butterflies

2001-2003 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, supervisor: Penelope Barnes -Studied coevolution of marine bivalves of the Family Lucinidae and their sulfur-oxidizing bacterial endosymbionts

RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS

2012 Putnam Expeditionary Grant; Harvard University 2009 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation 2008 Summer Research Grant, Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University 2005 Student Research Award, Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University 2005 Short Term Fellowship, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 2008 – 2011 Travel Fellowships: Riken Center for Developmental Biology (Japan), Gordon Conference (USA), Keystone Symposia (USA)

TEACHING AND MENTORING EXPERIENCE 2011-present Mentored four undergraduate students in the Hoekstra lab 2007-2011 Mentored three undergraduate students in the Abzhanov lab 2009 Teaching Fellow, Foundations of Biological Diversity, Harvard University 2006 Teaching Fellow, Animal Behavior, Harvard University

CONTRIBUTED TALKS AND POSTERS

2016 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting (UC Santa Cruz, USA), Invited Speaker 2016 Society for Developmental Biology Meeting (Boston, USA), Poster 2015 Panam Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meeting (Berkeley, USA), Invited Speaker 2015 Gordon Research Conference on Epithelial Differentiation and Keratinization (Maine, USA), Poster 2013 University of Kentucky, Department of Biology, Departmental seminar, Invited speaker 2011 Keystone Symposia on Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Lake Tahoe, USA), Invited speaker 2010 European & Development Meeting (Paris, France), Contributed talk 2010 Museum of Comparative (Cambridge, USA), Invited speaker 2010 Frontiers in Organogenesis, Riken Institute, (Kobe, Japan), Poster 2009 Gordon Conferences (Tilton, USA), Poster 2004 New England Molecular Biology Meeting (Boston, USA), Poster 2004 Tupper Seminar Series, Smithsonian Institute (Panama), Invited speaker 2004 National Congress of Science and Technology (Panama), Invited speaker

REVIEWER

Molecular Ecology (Wiley), Communications (Nature Publishing Group), BMC Genomics (BioMed Central), Journal of Experimental Biology (The Company of Biologists), Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B (Royal Society Publishing), Reviews in Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine (Wiley).

PUBLICATIONS Mallarino R, Henegar C, Mirasierra M, Manceau M, Shradin C et al. Developmental mechanisms of stripe patterns in rodents. Nature, in press.

Mallarino R, Hoekstra HE, Manceau M. Non-model rodents for evolutionary developmental genetics. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, 39:182-186

Mallarino R, Linden TA, Linnen CR, Hoesktra HE. The role of Agouti isoforms in the evolution of cryptic light coloration in Peromyscus mice. Molecular Ecology, 26:10.1111/mec.13663

Mallarino R and Abzhanov A (2012). Paths less traveled: Evo-Devo approaches to investigating animal morphological evolution. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev Biol. 28:743-63

Mallarino R, Campas O, Fritz J, Burns K, Weeks O, Brenner M, Abzhanov A (2012). Closely related bird species demonstrate flexibility between beak morphology and underlying developmental programs. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109:16222-7

Mallarino R, Herrel A, Kuo W, Grant BR, Grant PR, Abzhanov A (2011). Two developmental modules establish 3D beak-shape variation in Darwin’s finches. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:4057-62

Manceau M, Domingues V, Mallarino R, Hoekstra HE (2011). The developmental role of Agouti in color pattern evolution. Science 331:1062-5

Campas O, Mallarino R, Herrel A, Abzhanov A, Brenner MP (2010). Scaling and shear transformations capture beak shape variation in Darwin’s Finches. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:3356-60

Jiggins CD, Mallarino R, Willmott KW, Bermingham E (2006). The phylogenetic pattern of speciation and wing pattern change in neotropical Ithomia butterflies (Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). Evolution 60:1454-66

Mallarino R, Bermingham E, Willmott KR, Whinnett A, Jiggins CD (2005). Molecular systematics of the butterfly genus Ithomia (Lepidoptera: Ithomiinae): a composite phylogenetic hypothesis based on seven genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34:625-44

Whinnett A, Zimmermann A, Willmott KR, Herrera N, Mallarino R, Simpson F, Joron, M, Lamas G, Mallet J (2005). Strikingly variable divergence times inferred across an Amazonian butterfly “suture zone”. Proc.

Roy Soc. Lond. B. 272:2525-33

References:

Dr. Hopi Hoekstra (Postdoctoral advisor) Professor of Biology Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 496-9040 [email protected]

Dr. Gregory S. Barsh Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics, Emeritus Stanford University and Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology 601 Genome Way Huntsville, AL 35806 (256) 327-5266 [email protected]

Dr. Arhat Abzhanov (Graduate Advisor) Reader in Evolution and Developmental Genetics Department of Life Sciences Imperial College London London, UK [email protected]

Dr. Cliff Tabin Professor of Genetics Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02215 (617) 432-7799 [email protected]