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CV of ANDREI SOURAKOV ANDREI SOURAKOV Ph.D. University of Florida, Entomology, 1997. Florida Museum of Natural History (352) 273-2013 McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity [email protected] SW 34th Street and Hull Road , PO Box 112710 Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD • 2005-present. Collections Coordinator, Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity. • 2009-present. Graduate Faculty, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida • 2002 – 2005. Postdoctoral Researcher, Florida Museum of Natural History. • 1999-2002. Postdoctoral Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS-Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, Gainesville, FL. • 1998-1999. Postdoctoral Fellow, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. • 1992-1997. Research Assistant, Dept. of Zoology, University of Florida. • 1994-1997. Teaching Assistant, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Florida. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES • 2008 – 2014. Editor (since 2014 –Associate Editor) of the Tropical Lepidoptera Research (International peer- reviewed journal of the Association for Tropical Lepidoptera). • 2014 – Present. Elegance of Science Contest organizing committee member. • 2008 – 2016. Editor of the Association for Tropical Lepidoptera Notes. • 2005 - 2017. Center for Systematic Entomology - member of the board, 2012-2017 President. • 2007 – 2014. Editor, News of the McGuire Center. • 2002 - Present. McGuire Center Exhibits, committee member. Also, participated in production of McGuire Center’s exhibits as a scientific consultant/writer/photographer/preparator. • 2003 - Graduate committees service: member (4), chair (1), Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of Florida • 2006 - Present. Editor of the McGuire Center Research and Collections web site TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses taught: • 2015-2018. Insects and Plants IDH3931 (co-taught with Keith Willmott and Thomas Emmel) • 2016. Techniques in Lepidoptera Systematics (individual studies) (ENY 4905) • 2015. Ecology of trophic interactions (individual studies) (ENY 4905) • 2014. Ecology of Trophic Interactions in Lepidoptera (Individual studies in entomology) • 2010, 2012. Biology of Lepidoptera (co-taught with Keith Willmott) (ENY 6934) • 2010. Scientific Illustration (individual studies) (IDS 4905, 2 credits) • 2004. Instructor: ENY 6932: Techniques in Lepidoptera Systematics, University of Florida (Entomology & Nematology) Guest teaching: • 2017. Principles of Entomology ENY3005/5006 • 2017. Wildlife Issues in a Changing World Laboratory WIS 2040L • 2016. Research in Insect Biodiversity • 2011-present Guest lecturer, Summer camps, Alachua Co. school system and Florida Museum of Natural History. • 2013-Guest Lecturer in Spider Biology course, UF (Biology Dept.). • 2009-2010. Guest Lecturer on Butterfly reproduction, Parasitoid biology, and History of Lepidoptera Research in Lepidoptera Biology course (IDH 3931) • 2009. Guest Lecture: “Fight and Flight.” Science Sunday Series, Florida Museum of Natural History (lecture on reproduction systems in Lepidoptera). • 2006-2007. Guest Lecturer on Parasitoid biology in Lepidoptera Biology course (IDH 3931) • 2006 - 2007. Guest Lecturer and Lab Instructor on Taxonomy in Lepidoptera Biology course (IDH 3931) • 2007. Guest Lecturer on Evolutionarily Significant Units in Insect Conservation and Ecotourism course (Entomology and Nematology Dept.) • 2006. Guest Lecture: “Lunch on the Host: the inside story of Lepidoptera Parasitoid,” Science Sunday Series, Florida Museum of Natural History. • 1995-1997. Teaching Assistant: Cells, Organisms, and Genetics, Department of Biological Sciences (BSC 2005), University of Florida. • 1995-1997. Teaching Assistant: Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biological Sciences (BSC 2006), University of Florida. • 2000. Guest lecturer in Citra, Florida public school system (middle school – science). • 2000. Guest presenter, (pre K, Gainesville) – Diversity of Insects. • 1996. Guest lecturer, Retired Faculty of Florida organization. • 1995. Guest lecturer in Huntsville, Alabama public school system (middle school – science). GRANTS AND AWARDS • 2016. Frey Foundation grant • 2016, 2017. Smallwood Foundation grants • 2016. NSF Grant, Co-PI • 2013. Prudential Productivity Award, State of Florida employees • 2010. Museum Associates Grant, FLMNH • 2009-2013. Co-PI- NSF-BRC grant, “Integrating extraordinary collection...” • 2009. Employee improvement grant, FLMNH • 1998. Schlinger Postdoctoral Fellowship, California Academy of Sciences • 1996-1999. PI- National Geographic Society grant #5717-96 RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS 1. Sourakov, A., 2018. Mass aggregations of Idia moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) inside hollow trees in Florida. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 28(1): 35-38. 2. Sourakov, A., 2018. Scientific Note: The Emperor’s new clothes: radical transformation of the wing pattern in Asterocampa clyton caused by heparin. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 28(1): 29-31. 3. Sourakov A. 2018. Size, spines and crochets: defences of luna moth caterpillars against predation by brown anoles. Journal of Natural History 52(7-8): 483-490. Doi: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1439540 4. Sourakov, A., R. A. St Laurent, K. Dexter, C. Doll. 2017. Experimental evidence for polyphenism in Automeris io (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) in north Florida. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 27(2): 117-119. 5. 37 chapters in 2017. The Book of Caterpillars. A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world. (James DJ, editor). Un. Chicago Pr. 656pp. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo27346046.html 6. Sourakov A. Giving eyespots a shiner: Pharmacologic manipulation of the Io moth wing pattern. F1000Research 2017, 6:1319 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.12258.2) 7. Long, I. and Sourakov, A., 2017. Remarkable Longevity of the Chemically Defended Moth, Utetheisa ornatrix (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) and the Factors that Affect it. The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 71(3), pp.173-176. 8. Sourakov, A. & P. R. Houlihan. 2017. Note on nocturnal activity of a skipper, Pseudonascus paulliniae, in French Guiana. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 27(1): 26-27. 9. Sourakov, A. 2017. Studying Lepidoptera in different lights. News of the Lepidopterists’ Society, 59(2): 96-101. 10. Sourakov, A. & H. Alborn. 2017. On the evolutionary arms-race between the moth Utetheisa ornatrix (Erebiidae: Arctiinae) and its Florida host, Crotalaria pumila (Fabaceae): chemical attraction and mechanical defense. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 27(1): 16-18. 11. Brandon, C. J & A. Sourakov. 2016. Evaluation of mechanical defense provided by pericarps of three different Crotalaria species to their seeds against a specialist herbivore, Utetheisa ornatrix: a case for a possible host-herbivore evolutionary arms race. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 26(2): 85-92. 12. Lukhtanov, V. L., A. Sourakov, E. V. Zakharov (2016): DNA barcodes as a tool in biodiversity research: testing pre-existing taxonomic hypotheses in Delphic Apollo butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae), Systematics and Biodiversity, DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2016.1203371 13. Sourakov, A. 2016. On adult caterpillar mimicry: cases from the moth world. News of the Lepidopterists’ Society. 58(2): 97-99. 14. Long I. and A. Sourakov. 2016. Costs and benefits of raising Utetheisa ornatrix on two different plant diets and the role of inbreeding depression in larval survival. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera Notes. June issue. Pp. 1-3. 15. Sourakov, A., D. Plotkin, A. Y. Kawahara, L. Xiao, W. Hallwachs, D. Janzen. 2015. On the taxonomy of the erythrina moths Agathodes and Terastia (Crambidae: Spilomelinae): Two different patterns of haplotype divergence and a new species of Terastia. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 25(2): 80-98. 16. Sourakov, A., 2015. Antipredation and “antimimicry”: wing pattern is supported by behavior in Archaeoprepona chromus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Preponini). ATL Notes, December 2015 issue: 1-7. 17. Sourakov, A. 2015.Gynandromorphism in Automeris io (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). News of Lepidopterists’ Society, 57(3): 118-129. 18. Sourakov, A. 2015. The “dusky” wing trait in Utetheisa ornatrix bella (Erebidae, Arctiinae). ATL Notes June 2015 issue: 1-4. 19. Sourakov, A. 2015. Temperature-dependent phenotypic plasticity in wing pattern of Utetheisa ornatrix bella (Erebidae, Arctiinae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 25(1): 33-45. 20. Sourakov, A. 2015. You are what you eat: Native versus exotic Crotalaria species (Fabaceae) as host plants of the Ornate Bella Moth, Utetheisa ornatrix (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae). Journal of Natural History 49:2397-2415, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1006700 21. Matos-Maraví, P., R. N. Águila, C. Peña, J. Y. Miller, A. Sourakov, & N. Wahlberg. 2014. Causes of endemic radiation in the Caribbean: evidence from the historical biogeography and diversification of the butterfly genus Calisto (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Satyrini). BMC evolutionary biology, 14(1), 199. doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0199-7 22. Sourakov, A. 2014. Methods for fast moth surveys and notes on species encountered in Vietnam. News of Lepidopterists’ Society, 56(2): 51-57. 23. Sourakov, A. 2014. On the polymorphism and polyphenism of Automeris io (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) in north Florida. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 24(1): 52-59. 24. Sourakov, A. 2013. Larvae of Io Moth, Automeris io, on the Coral Bean, Erythrina herbacea, in Florida – the limitations of polyphagy. J. Lepidopterists’ Society 67(4): 291-298. 25. Sourakov, A. 2013. The
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