YUSAN YANG CURRICULUM VITAE last updated Jan. 2019 YUSAN YANG - PhD Candidate Email:
[email protected] Department of Biological Sciences Tel: (412) 624-0446 University of Pittsburgh ORCID: 0000-0003-2765-4197 105 Clapp Hall Website: yusanyang.wordpress.com 4249 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA Links: Google Scholar Twitter EDUCATION 2015-Present Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh Advisor: Dr. Cori Richards-Zawacki 2009-2013 B.S. National Taiwan University Advisor: Dr. Yu-Teh Kirk Lin PUBLICATIONS *undergraduate and master’s student coauthors are underlined Yang, Y., S. Blomenkamp, M. B. Dugas, C. L. Richards-Zawacki and H. Pröhl. Mate choice vs mate preference: inferences about color assortative mating differ between field and lab assays of poison frog behavior. In press in American Naturalist. Yang, Y., M. B. Dugas, H. J. Sudekum, S. Murphy and C. L. Richards-Zawacki. 2018. Male- male aggression is unlikely to stabilize a poison frog polymorphism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31(3): 457–468. (link to Smithsonian documentary) Pruitt, J. N., K. A. Howell, S. J. Gladney, Y. Yang, J. L. L. Lichtenstein, M. E. Spicer, S. A. Echeverri, N. Pinter-Wollman. 2017. Behavioral hypervolumes of predator groups and predator-predator interactions shape prey survival rates and selection on prey behavior. American Naturalist 189(3): 254-266. Yang, Y., C. L. Richards-Zawacki, A. Devar and M. B. Dugas. 2016. Poison frog color morphs express assortative mate preferences in allopatry but not sympatry. Evolution 70(12): 2778–2788. (link to Evolution Digest) Li, C.-Y., Yang, Y., Lee, P.-Y. & Hsu, Y. 2014. Opponent familiarity and contest experience jointly influence contest decisions in Kryptolebias marmoratus.