Guanyang Zhang Curriculum Vitae

GUANYANG ZHANG – CURRICULUM VITAE School of Life Sciences www.somanyinsects.org Arizona State University PO Box 874501, Tempe, AZ 85287 @GYZhang2 480-965-2850 (work) 812-320-2619 (mobile) [email protected]

1. BACKGROUND 1.1 Education 12/2012 Ph.D. in Entomology, University of California, Riverside. 06/2007 B.Sc. in Life Sciences (with Honors), National University of Singapore.

1.2 Professional Appointments 04/2013– Postdoctoral Research Associate, Arizona State University. 01-04/2013 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Riverside.

2. RESEARCH 2.1 Publications (Citation profile @ Google Scholar, article view @ ResearchGate) 1) Zhang, G., Basharat, U., Matzke, N., and Franz, N.M. 2017. Model selection in statistical historical biogeography of Neotropical weevils—the Exophthalmus genus complex (Insecta: Curculionidae: Entiminae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 109: 226–239. PDF 2) Franz, N.M. and Zhang, G. Three new species of entimine weevils in Early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Biodiversity Data Journal. 5, e10469. 32 pp. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e10469. 3) Zhang. G., Hart, E. R. and Weirauch, C. 2016. A taxonomic monograph of Zelus Fabricius (Hemiptera: Reduviidae): 71 species based on 10,000 specimens. Biodiversity Data Journal. 4: e8150. 356 pp. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e8150. Zhang, J., Weirauch, C., Zhang, G. and Forero, D. 2016. Molecular phylogeny of Harpactorinae and Bactrodinae uncovers complex evolution of sticky trap predation in assassin bugs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Cladistics 32: 538-554. PDF 4) Thessen, A.E., Bunker, D.E., Buttigieg, P.L., Cooper, L.D., Dahdul, W.M., Domisch, S., Franz, N.M., Jaiswal, P., Lawrence-Dill, C.J., Midford, P.E., Mungall, C.J., Ramírez, M.J., Specht, C.D., Vogt, L., Vos, R.A., Walls, R.L., White, J.W., Zhang, G., Deans, A.R., Huala, E., Lewis, S.E., and Mabee, P.M. 2015. Semantic linking of phenotypes and environments: A review. PeerJ. 1470. PDF Weirauch, C., Bérenger, J.-M., Berniker, L., Forero, D., Forthman, M., Frankenberg, S., Freedman, A., Gordon, E., Hoey-Chamberlain, R., Hwang, W. S., Marshall, S. A., Michael, A., Paiero, S. M., Udah, O., Watson, C., Yeo, M., Zhang, G. and Zhang, J. 2014. An illustrated identification key to assassin bug subfamilies and tribes (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 26: 1–115. PDF Zhang, G. and Weirauch, C. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of Harpactorini (Insecta: Reduviidae): correlation of novel predation strategy with accelerated evolution of predatory leg morphology. Cladistics 30(4): 339–351. PDF Zhang, G. and Weirauch, C. 2013. Sticky predators: a comparative study of sticky glands in harpactorine assassin bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Acta Zoologica 94(1): 1–10. PDF

1 Weirauch, C., Alvarez, C. and Zhang, G. 2012. Investigating dispersalist potential: observations on the natural enemy assassin bugs Zelus renardii and Zelus tetracanthus. Florida Entomologist 95(3) 641–649. PDF Zhang, G. and Weirauch, C. 2011. Matching dimorphic sexes and immature stages with adults: resolving the systematics of the Bekilya group of Malagasy assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Peiratinae). Systematic Entomology 36(1): 115–138. PDF Hwang, W. S., Zhang, G., Maslov, D. and Weirauch, C. 2010. Infection rates of Trypanosoma cruzi in Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in Southern California. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 83(5): 1020–1022. PDF Zhang, G. 2009. Specimens versus sequences. Science 323(5922): 1672. PDF Meier, R. and Zhang, G . 2009. DNA barcoding and DNA taxonomy: An assessment based on 4261 COI sequences for 1001 species, in Diptera Diversity: Status, Challenges and Tools edited by Pape, T., Bickel, D., Meier, R. Brill Academic Publishers. PDF Meier, R., Zhang, G. and Ali, F. 2008. The use of mean instead of smallest interspecific distances exaggerates the size of the “barcoding gap” and leads to misidentification. Systematic Biology 57(5): 809–813. PDF

2.2 Manuscripts in prep  Zhang G., et al. Diversity and evolution of bacterial symbiomes of weevils (Curculionidae).  Zhang G., et al. Genus-level reclassification of the Exophthalmus genus complex (Curculionidae: Entiminae).  Zhang G., et al. DNA-profiling of plant associations in Neotropical weevils (Curculionidae).  Franz, N. and Zhang, G. Phylogenetic revision and historical biogeography of Artipus Sahlberg 1823 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae).  Anderson, R. and Zhang, G. The genus Apodrosus Marshall 1922 in Cuba (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Entiminae; Polydrusini).

2.3 Grants & Fellowships (total > $75,000) 2016 Mini-ARTS (Advancing Revisionary Systematics) grant, Society of Systematic Biologists. $1,000. 2016 Entomological Society of America, Student Transition and Early Professionals (STEP) Travel Award (to attend ICE2016). $1,600. 2016 ContentMine Fellowship. UK. £1,000. 2013 Collaborative Postdoctoral Research Grant. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University. $7,500. 2012 Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Overseas Students. Chinese Scholarship Council. $6,000. 2012–10 Robert van den Bosch Scholarship in Biological Control (for the category Systematics of Natural Enemies). University of California, Berkeley. $36,500 (three separate applications and awards). 2011 Dissertation Research Grant. University of California, Riverside. $500. 2011 Dissertation Year Fellowship. University of California, Riverside. $12,700 (one quarter stipend + tuition). 2010 Smithsonian Graduate Student Fellowship. National Museum of Natural History. Washington DC. $6,000.

2 2008 California Desert Research Fund for the project “Survey of kissing bugs within the inland empire”. The Community Foundation, San Bernadino, California. Co-awarded to Wei Song Hwang. $2,883.

2.4 Federal Grant Applications 2016 USDA Farm Bill. “Enhancing identification capacities and developing diagnostic tools of quarantine avocado weevils (Curculionidae)” (proposal text). Budget: $128,588. Not awarded. 2015 NSF preliminary proposal to DEB. Not invited for full proposal. 2014 NSF preliminary proposal to DEB. Invited for full proposal (25% invitation rate, full proposal text). Role: lead PI. Budget: $644,934. Not awarded.

2.5 Awards & Honors 2013 Featured Young Professional Presentation. Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity (SysEB) Section, Entomological Society of America. Austin, Texas. 2012 The Don Rosen Award for the Best Poster Presentation at the XXXI Willi Hennig Society meeting. Willi Hennig Society. Riverside, California. 2011 Marie Stopes Student Travel Award at the XXX Willi Hennig Society meeting. São José do Rio Preto Brazil. 2010 Second place in poster presentation. Student Seminar Day. Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside. 2008 Best PhD Oral Presentation. Student Seminar Day. Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside.

2.6 Conferences & Presentations 2016 International Weevil Workshop. Systematics and Evolution of Neotropical Entiminae (talk). Orlando, USA. 2016 Entomological Collections Network Annual Meeting. Building an accessible weevil tissue collection for genomic research (poster). Orlando, USA. 2016 International Congress of Entomology. Mobilizing historical literature and specimen data to study host plant associations in weevil (invited talk). Orlando, USA. 2016 Evolution2016. Beyond OTUs - Phylogenetic identification of bacterial symbiont sequences (poster, non-presenting lead author). Austin, USA. 2015 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Diversity and evolution of bacterial symbionts in weevils (Curculionoidea) (talk). Minneapolis, USA. 2015 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Systematics of Eustylini and Geonemini (Curculionidae: Entiminae) (poster). Minneapolis, USA. 2015 Society for Systematic Biologists standalone meeting. Biogeography of Caribbean weevils highlights the importance of founder-event speciation (talk). University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 2015–08 Entomological Collections Network Annual Meeting (attendance only, absent in 2012). USA. 2014 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Weevil-plant associations revealed by multi-locus plant DNA barcoding (poster). Portland, Oregon, USA.

3 2014 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Ancient reverse colonization of Central America from the Caribbean in weevils of the Exophthalmus genus complex (Curculionidae: Entiminae) (talk). Portland, Oregon, USA. 2014 The Fifth Quadrennial Meeting of the International Heteropterist's Society. Integrating taxonomic concept changes in Heteroptera (talk). Washington DC, USA. 2013 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity Section Featured Young Professional Presentation. Cruising on the phyloship of sticky assassins (featured presentation). Austin, Texas, USA. 2013 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. New phylogenetic insights into the evolution of West Indian entimine weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) with an emphasis on Cuban lineages (talk). Austin, Texas, USA. 2012 The 31st Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society. Rapid leg evolution correlates with novel predation strategy in assassin bugs (poster). Riverside, California, USA. 2011 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Heteroptera Symposium. Surviving ants and parasitoids: an assassin’s tough life: Observations of Zelus araneiformis Haviland (Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) in French Guiana (invited talk). Reno, Nevada, USA. 2011 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. A sticky tree without resin: Phylogenetic insights into the evolution of sticky trap predation in assassin bugs (talk). Reno, Nevada, USA. 2011 The 30th Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society. Molecular phylogeny of Harpactorini (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae) and the evolution of sticky trap predation (talk). Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil. 2010 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Sticky bugs on the tree: Evolution of sticky trap predation in the assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) (poster). San Diego, California, USA. 2010 The Fourth Meeting of the International Heteropterist's Society. Towards a molecular phylogeny of the Harpactorini (Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) (talk). Tianjin, China. 2009 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Heteroptera Symposium. Monographing Zelus Fabricius (Heteroptera: Reduviidae): a 21st century approach (invited talk). Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 2009 Heteroptera Synthesis Meeting (sponsored by the Biodiversity Synthesis Center, Field Museum, Chicago & ‘Encyclopedia of Life’). Phylogenetic analytical methods: an overview (invited talk). Riverside, California, USA. 2008 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Malagasy assassin bugs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae): Association of dimorphic sexes and immature specimens with adults, synonymy of two genera & descriptions of four new species (talk). Reno, Nevada, USA.

2.7 International Field Trips (for insect collecting) 2014 Guatemala (2 weeks, trip leader). 2013 Cuba (3 weeks). 2013 Mexico (1 week). 2010 Colombia (3 weeks, trip leader). 2010 French Guiana (3 weeks). 2010 Costa Rica (2 weeks).

4 2010 China (1 week). 2009 Mexico (3 weeks).

2.8 Museum Research Visits 2015 University of Minnesota Insect Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. 2015 Insect Division, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. 2014, 10 Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA. 2013 Texas A&M University Insect Collection, College Station, USA. 2011 Museu de Zoologia, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2010 American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. 2010 Museo Entomológico, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia. 2010 Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, San Jose, Costa Rica 2009 Coleccion Nacional de Insectos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.

2.9 Professional Memberships 2014– The International Biogeography Society. 2013– Coleopterists Society. 2013– Society for Systematic Biologists. 2012– Society for the Study of Evolution. 2010– International Heteropterists’ Society. 2007– Entomological Society of America. 2006– The Willi Hennig Society.

2.10 Professional/Research Training 2016 Genomic Analyses, Arizona State University. 2015 Software Carpentry Workshop, Arizona State University. 2015 Bioinformatics Crash Course—Next Generation Sequencing Analyses, University of Maryland, College Park. 2015 Software Carpentry Workshop, University of Arizona. 2015–14 Preparing Future Faculty (workshop series), Arizona State University. 2010 Biodiversity of the True Bugs (Heteroptera) (field course), Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica.

3. TEACHING & MENTORING 3.1 Teaching & Instruction 2014,13 Guest Lecturer for Techniques in Conservation Biology and Ecology (BIO 410), Arizona State University. 2011 Teaching Assistant for Insect Biodiversity. University of California, Riverside. 2009 Teaching Assistant for Systematics. University of California, Riverside. 2008 Teaching Assistant for Natural History of Insects (for non-science majors). University of California, Riverside.

3.2 Undergraduate & Graduate Students Mentoring

5 2013– Mentoring and collaborating with undergraduate research students (17 students to date, listed below), Arizona State University. 1) Don Tram, Project: Molecular phylogenetics of entimine weevils. 2) Boris Dimov, Project: Mining literature to extract host plant data of weevils. 3) Mary Alice Walsh (’18, Molecular and Cell Biology) Project: Comparative morphology of weevil male genitalia. 4) Joseph Hunter (’18, Microbiology/Biotechnology). Project: The diversity of entimine weevils from Guatemala. 5) Pavithra Paravastu (’18, Business). Project: PCR amplification of the rcbcL, 28s and COII genes. 6) Richard Thomas (’17, Molecular and Cell Biology, premed). Project: Comparative morphology of weevil mouthparts. 7) Natalia Rahman (’17, Conservation Biology and Ecology, premed). Project: Field collecting to investigate weevil-plant associations in Arizona. 8) Sara Tanveer (’17, Biological Sciences). Project: DNA extraction of entimine weevils and PCR amplification of six genes. 9) Julian Jones (’18, Conservation Biology and Ecology). Project: Imaging of Weevils in the Exophthalmus genus complex. 10) Zhen Geng (’16, Microbiology/Biotechnology). Project: Surveying endosymbiotic bacteria in weevils based on 16s and using next generation sequencing technologies. SOLUR Researcher (School of Life Sciences Undergraduate Research program student position with pay). Presented a poster at the 2015 American Society of Microbiology annual meeting. 11) Lin Pan (’16, Genetics, Cell, and Developmental Biology). Project: Description of a new species of Exophthalmus 12) Usmaan Basharat (’15, Genetics, Cell, and Developmental Biology, pre-med). Project: Using molecular phylogenies to investigate the historical biogeography of Caribbean and Neotropical weevils. Presented a poster at the 2014 Evolution meeting. Winner of “Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution” travel award for presenting research at the Evolution 2014 meeting in North Carolina. Awardee of an undergraduate research grant, School of Life Sciences, ASU, 2013. SOLUR Researcher. 13) Bukola Obayomi (’15, Animal Physiology and Behavior). Project: Taxonomic diversity of weevils from Panama. 14) Kevin Wang (’15, Animal Physiology and Behavior, pre-med). Project: High-resolution imaging of weevils from Panama and Guatemala. 15) Juyan Pourturk (’15, Biological Sciences, pre-med). Project: Molecular profiling of host plant associations in weevils. 16) Daniel Vargas (’14, Genetics, Cell, and Developmental Biology). Project: DNA sequencing of entimine weevils from Cuba. 17) Will Sides (’13, Conservation Biology and Ecology). Project: Digitizing and imaging Caribbean weevil specimens. 2013– Co-mentoring three graduate students. Arizona State University.

6 2012–11 Supervised four undergraduate research assistants. University of California, Riverside. 2010 Undergraduate research mentoring, University of California, Riverside. Da Tien, ’11 (Entomology) Project: Egg parasitism by wasp parasitoids in an assassin bug.

4. SERVICES & OUTREACH 4.1 Journal Editing & Manuscript Reviewing 2015– Subject Editor, Zookeys. 2013– Subject Editor, Biodiversity Data Journal. 2009– Reviewer for Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, Checklist, Entomologica Americana, Insects, Insect Systematics and Evolution, PLOS ONE, Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, Semantic Web Journal, Systematic Entomology, Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society and Zootaxa.

4.2 Professional Services & Leadership Activities 2016 Organizer of symposium “Collections and Collecting in Megadiverse Countries”, Entomological Collections Network Annual Meeting. 2016 Session moderator, International Congress of Entomology. 2015–13 Annual meetings of the Entomological Society of America. Student Oral or Poster Presentation Competition Judge; 10-minute talk session moderator. 2014– Co-manager, Twitter account of the Entomological Collections Network. 2013 Search Committee member (for a Lab Assistant). Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside. 2012 Organizing Committee member, XXXI Willi Hennig Society Annual Meeting, Riverside, USA. 2012 International Student Affairs Officer, Graduate Student Association, University of California, Riverside. 2012-11 Head Steward, UAW2865 (Student Workers’ Union), University of California, Riverside. 2011 Assistance with organizing the Second International Workshop of Reduviidae, Riverside, USA. 2010 Assistance with organizing the Heteroptera Synthesis Meeting (sponsored by the Biodiversity Synthesis Center, Field Museum, Chicago & ‘Encyclopedia of Life’), Riverside, USA.

4.3 Outreach 2016 Social media (twitter), ASU Natural History Collection Open House. 2015 Arizona Butterfly Access, crowdsourcing campaign. 2014 Lecturer for a scientific method class for General Educational Development (GED) students. 2007– Outreach educator for university or community events. The Night of the Open Door, Arizona State University, 2014-15. “Bad Bugs” Mesa Youth Museum UC Riverside Annual Plant Sale, 2010-11; Discover Day, College of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, UC Riverside, 2011; Caryn Elementary School, Rancho Cucamonga, 2011; McKinley

7 Elementary School, Corona, 2010; College of Desert student visit to UC Riverside, 2010; Pomona Insect Fair, 2008).