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Edward Claiborne Theriot E DWARD C LAIBORNE T HERIOT CURRICULUM VITAE J ANUARY 19, 2021 [email protected] Professor, Department of Integrative Biology Director, Texas Memorial Museum University of Texas at Austin I. Education University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1978-1983, School of Natural Resources, Ph.D. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1975-1978, Fisheries Biology, Botany minor, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, M.S. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1972-1975, Zoology, B.S. University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1971-1972, Biology, no degree. II. Professional Experience II A. Formal positions 2020 - . Harold C. and Mary D. Bold Professor of Cryptogamic Botany, Department of Integrative Biology, UT Austin. 1997 - . Director, Texas Natural Science Center/Texas Memorial Museum, University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). 1997 - 2020. Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of Molecular Evolution, Department of Integrative Biology, UT Austin. 1994-1996. Vice-President, Systematics and Evolutionary Biology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP) 1993-1997. Associate Curator, Diatom Herbarium, ANSP. 1989-1993. Assistant Curator, Diatom Herbarium, ANSP. 1988-1989. Research Assistant Professor, Graduate Faculty, Department of Botany, Louisiana State University (LSU). 1986-1988. Assistant Research Scientist, Great Lakes Research Division (GLRD), University of Michigan (UM). 1984-1986. Research Investigator, GLRD, UM. 1984. Jessup-McHenry Fellowship. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1983-1984. Research Associate, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University. 1978-1982. Research Assistant, GLRD, UM. 1978. Research Associate, Center for Wetland Resources, LSU. 1974-1977. Research Assistant, Louisiana Cooperative Fisheries Unit, LSU. II B. Teaching Experience BIO 301M Ecology, Evolution and Society (UT Austin) BIO 370 Evolution (UT Austin) UGS 302 Texas and Water: History, Biology and the Future (UT Austin) BIO 337 Natural History of the Protists (UT Austin). BIO 456 Limnology and Oceanography (UT Austin). Natural History Museum Class, Annual lectures on component dealing with Museum Strategic Planning, University of Texas at Austin. Theriot, Vitae pg. 2 Phylogenetic Inference, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Drexel University (sole lecturer). Morphological Evolution and Systematics (co-lecturer), Biology Department, University of Pennsylvania Logic of Phylogenetic Inference, Botany Department, LSU Phycology, guest lectures, Botany Department, LSU Evolutionary Ecology, guest lectures, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Drexel University Great Lakes Limnology, teaching assistant, Biological Station, UM. II C. Invited Seminars / Symposium Talks 2013. Signal, noise, congruence, conflict and taxon sampling in diatom molecular phylogenetics: Cautionary tales in the age of phylogenomics. Invited plenary talk at the Molecular Life of Diatoms Meeting, Paris, France, June 2013. 2011. Pattern and process in diatom evolution: rates of morphological and molecular evolution and cladogenesis. Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia. October 2011. 2010. Pattern and process in lacustrine diatom evolution: a marriage of phylogeny and ecology. Plenary Address. Fifth Vereschagin Baikal Conference. Limnological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. October 2010. 2009. The Diatom Phylogeny: Status and Prospects. Invited Keynote Presentation - Diatom Taxonomy in the 21st Century: Symposium in Honour of Henri Van Heurck. National Botanic Garden of Belgium. 2007. The status of the diatom phylogeny as inferred by the SSU rDNA gene. Invited talk - 21st North American Diatom Symposium. University of Michigan Biological Station. 2001. Problems in molecular phylogenetic studies of diatoms. Plenary address at 16th North American Diatom Symposium. 1994. Co-lecturer in phylogenetic systematics. Short-course at University of Stockholm. 1993. Invited speaker in symposium on species concepts and evolution at 1993 AIBS meeting. 1991. Society for the Study of Evolution, invited symposium talk: Pattern and process in diatom evolution. 1991. International Phycological Society Meeting, invited symposium talk: Cladistic analysis of morphological and biochemical data. 1991. International Phycological Society Meeting, invited symposium talk: The status of algal collections and algal systematics. 1991. International Chrysophyte Symposium, invited symposium talk: Cladistic and morphometric analysis of algae. 1990. International Diatom Symposium, invited talk: Morphometrics and diatom taxonomy. 1989. North Dakota State University, invited seminar: Problems with molecular phylogenies: Taxon sampling. 1987. University of Chicago. Department of Biology, invited seminar: Evolutionary phenomena in freshwater centric diatoms. 1986. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology, Beijing, invited seminar: Present and future directions of fossil diatom research - paleoecology, evolutionary studies, stratigraphy and taxonomy. 1985. Invited address, Eighth North American Diatom Symposium. Comments on pattern in diatom evolution with some examples from the freshwater Thalassiosiraceae. 1985. Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology, invited seminar: Pattern in diatom evolution: Preliminary results from the centric family Thalassiosiraceae. Theriot, Vitae pg. 3 1985. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Invited seminar: Ontogenetic, environmental and geographic factors underlying variation in Stephanodiscus niagarae and related diatoms: a multivariate approach. III. Professional Service Associate Editor, Phycologia (Journal of the International Phycological Society) (2015 -) Nominations Committee Chair, Association of Systematics Collections (1999-2000) President of National Board of Directors, Association of Systematics Collections (1997 - 1999) National Board of Directors, Association of Systematics Collections (1995 - 1997) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Editorial Board 1992 - 2000) National Science Foundation Systematics Advisory Panel (1991 - 1993) Phycological Society of America (Editorial Board 1988 - 1990, Associate Editor 1991 - 1993) Willi Hennig Society (Editor of Cladistics 1993 - 1994) Species Concepts Committee, member, Systematics Agenda 2000 Phylogenetic Inference Committee, member, Systematics Agenda 2000 Guest speaker at AIBS Public Responsibilities Session, Richmond, VA, August 7, 1990. Phycology Discipline Coordinator, Association of Systematics Collections Workshop on Collections Resources for the 1990's, October 1988. Chair of ad hoc committee on algal collections, Phycological Society of America, 1989. IV. Awards and Grants IV.A. Government Agencies 2018-2020. NSF. DEB: Population and Community Ecology. Collaborative Proposal: Intraspecific trait variation in phytoplankton at different scales. $448,293. 2012-2015. NSF. Assembling, Visualizing and Analyzing the Tree of Life. Collaborative Research: Next generation phenomics for the Tree of Life. $103,238. 2011-2014. NSF. Dimensions of Biodiversity. Collaborative Research: Lake Baikal responses to global change: the role of genetic, functional and taxonomic diversity in the plankton. $414,878. 2010-2012. US Geological Survey. Historical trends and modern invasions: distinguishing Didymosphenia populations in the Rocky Mountains of the western US. $63,980. 2006-2011. NSF Emerging Frontiers. AToL: A phylogenetic and genomic investigation of the algal heterokont tree. $989,917 (PI, with Robert K. Jansen, co-PI). 2001-2006. NSF Systematic Biology Program. PEET: Training new diatom systematists for new priorities. $737,543. (PI; with Robert K. Jansen, co-PI.) 1999. IMLS Conservation Program. Texas Cretaceous Rehousing Project. $48,788. (sole PI) 1994-1997. NSF Ecology Program. Resource competition theory: the link between climate change and diatom sedimentary assemblages in the Yellowstone ecosystem. November 1994-October 1997. $270,000. (Susan Kilham, PI; E. Theriot, co-PI) 1994. NSF Research Collections in Systematics and Ecology Program. Improvement of Diatom Herbarium Access. September 1994-August 1994. $35,000. (sole PI) 1994-1996. NSF Academic Research Infrastructure Program. Replacement of Biological Research Laboratories and Herpetology Collection Storage Facility. May 1994-May 1996. $592,000. 1991-1994. NSF Systematic Biology Program. A Multidisciplinary Study of Evolution of the Diatom Stephanodiscus yellowstonensis: Paleontology, Molecular Biology, Experimental Morphology. November 1991-October 1994. $378,000. (sole PI) 1991-1993. NSF Biotic Research Resources. Continued Curation of the Diatom Herbarium Types. November 1991- November 1993. $105,000. (sole PI) Theriot, Vitae pg. 4 1989-1991. NSF Systematic Biology Program. Renewed Study of Phylogenetic Relationships of Freshwater Genera of the Centric Diatom Family Thalassiosiraceae. January 1989- January 1991. $79,522. (sole PI) 1989. NSF Systematic Biology Program. REU Supplemental Award to Ribosomal Genes and Chlorophyte Phylogeny. June 1989-December 1989. $8,000. (co-PI; Russell Chapman, PI). 1986-1989. NSF Systematic Biology Program. Phylogenetic Relationships of the Freshwater Genera of the Centric Diatom Family Thalassiosiraceae. January 1986-January 1989. $107,000. (sole PI) 1983. NSF U.S.-Latin American Cooperative Programs Travel Grant. (co-PI; Greta Fryxell,PI). IV.B. Selected Major Private and Family Foundation Gifts 2016. Still Water Foundation. Increasing collaboration between visitors and peers at the
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