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Raphaël Royauté November 2018 Dr. Raphaël Royauté November 2018 Raphaël Royauté Department of Biological Sciences; North Dakota State University Website: www.raphaelroyaute.com; Email: [email protected] Phone: (+1) 701-799-9224 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND EDUCATION • Postdoctoral Researcher. (2014-present), North Dakota State University, Fargo. (Adviser: N.A. Dochtermann) • Ph.D. (2014), McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada. (Advisers: CM. Buddle and C. Vincent) • Diplôme d’Agronomie Approfondi (2008), École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France. (M.Sc. level degree with specialisation in Environmental Sciences) • Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles (2005), Lycée Thiers, Marseille, France. (B.Sc. level degree with specialisation in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences) GRANTS AND FUNDING • Grants Written o Bee Challenge Grant. Crowdfunding for summer undergraduate assistant (Experiment.com). Does insecticide exposure affect solitary bee nesting behavior? Summer 2017. Total funded: $3,440. (co-PI) o National Science Foundation (IOS preproposal). Development, feedback, and maternal effects on behavioral variation. 2015. Not funded (PI) • Fellowships o Margaret Duporte Fellowship, McGill University. 2010-2012. Total awarded: $15,330. • Prizes and awards o Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence for the “ContaminAnts” proposal, given to proposal with a > 85% score o York Environment Fellowship Development Award. Travel grant to work on a Marie Curie Fellowship Application at the University of York. 2016. Total awarded: £800. o Entomological Society of Canada. Graduate Student Showcase. 2013. Total awarded: $100. o Entomological Society of Canada President’s Prize. Poster presentation runner up. 2013. o Quebec Center for Biodiversity Sciences Symposium. Best Oral Presentation. 2012. Total awarded: $350. 1 Dr. Raphaël Royauté November 2018 o International Society for Behavioural Ecology. Travel grant for presentation of a poster. 2012. Total awarded: $2,000 o Entomological Society of Canada President’s Prize. Oral presentation runner up. 2011. o Melville DuPorte Award. Societé d’Entomologie du Québec. Best Oral Presentation. 2009. Total awarded: $200. PUBLICATIONS underlining indicates undergraduate coauthors, asterix indicate publication as corresponding author • Peer-Reviewed Publications 11. Royauté, R.,* C.R. Garrison, J. Dalos, M.A. Berdal and N.A. Dochtermann (In Press) Current energy state interacts with the developmental environment to influence behavioral plasticity. Animal Behaviour. Accepted November 5th, 2018. 10. Royauté, R., Berdal, M.A., Garrison, C.R., and N.A. Dochtermann. (2018) Paceless life? A meta-analysis of the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Topical collection on pace-of-life syndromes. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-018-2472-z 9. Royauté, R.,* E.S. Wilson, B.R. Helm, R.E. Malinger, J. Prasifka, K.J. Greenlee and J.H. Bowsher. 2018. Phenotypic integration in an extended phenotype: individual variation among nest-building traits in the alfalfa leafcutter bee (Megachile rotundata). Journal of Evolutionary Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13259 Cover article for July 2018 Issue. 8. Hamilton, J. A., Royauté, R., Wright, J.W., Hodgskiss, P., and F.T. Ledig. 2017. Genetic conservation and management of the California endemic, Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana Parry): implications of genetic rescue in a genetically depauperate species. Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3306 7. Royauté, R.* and N.A. Dochtermann. 2017. When the mean no longer matters: Developmental diet affects behavioral variation but not population averages in the house cricket (Acheta domesticus). Behavioral Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw164 6. Royauté, R., K. Greenlee, M. Baldwin and N.A. Dochtermann. 2015. Behavior, metabolism, and size: phenotypic modularity or integration in Acheta domesticus? Animal Behavior. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.09.027 5. Royauté, R.* and J.N. Pruitt. 2015. Varying predator personalities generates contrasting prey communities in an agroecosystem. Ecology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-2424.1 Cover article for November 2015 Issue. 4. Royauté, R.,* C.M. Buddle and C. Vincent. 2015. Under the influence: sublethal exposure to an insecticide affects personality expression in a jumping spider. Functional Ecology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12413 3. Montiglio, P.-O., and R. Royauté. 2014. Contaminants as a neglected source of behavioural variation. Animal Behaviour. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.11.018 2 Dr. Raphaël Royauté November 2018 2. Royauté, R.,* C.M. Buddle and C. Vincent. 2014. Interpopulation variations in behavioral syndromes of a jumping spider from insecticide-treated and insecticide-free orchards. Ethology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eth.12185 1. Royauté, R.* and C.M. Buddle. 2012. Colonization dynamics of agroecosystem spider assemblages after snow-melt in Quebec (Canada). Journal of Arachnology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/P11-16.1 • Publications In Review N.A. Dochtermann, T. Schwab, M.A. Berdal, J. Dalos and R. Royauté (In Revisions) The heritability of behaviour: a meta-analysis. Submitted to the Journal of Heredity, August 2018. • Popular Science and Non-Peer Reviewed Publications Royauté, R., C.M. Buddle and C. Vincent. 2014. Effets des insecticides sur les syndromes comportementaux d’une araignée sauteuse. Antennae 21, 3-5. Royauté, R. 2013. Les araignées sauteuses du Québec. Antennae 20, 10-11. Buddle, C.M., C. Ernst, M. Hervieux, S. Loboda, A. MacLeod, T. Maloney, C. Levya Mancilla, R. Royauté, and A.M. Solecki. 2011. Status of entomology in Canada: crisis or opportunity? 2011. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada 43, 141-147. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses • Department of Biological Sciences; North Dakota State University Instructor: Animal Behavior Fall 2014/15 • Department of Natural Resource Sciences; McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada o As a teaching assistant: Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer: Ethology Fall 2011/12 Teaching Assistant: St Lawrence Ecosystems Fall 2010 UNDERGRADUATE MENTORING • North Dakota State University (2014-Present) I coordinate and mentor a team of 2-4 undergraduate and graduate students working in Dr Dochtermann’s laboratory. Primary tasks include supervision of behavioural experiments on crickets and providing training in analysis of behavioural data using EthoVision and the R Statistical Software. • McGill University – Agriculture and AgriFood Canada (2009-2013) Supervision of over 10 undergraduate students participating in an exchange program and hosted by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Students were co-mentored with Dr Charles Vincent to work on projects related to my PhD research. Primary tasks included the collection of wild spiders, supervision of behavioural experiments and providing 3 Dr. Raphaël Royauté November 2018 training in analysis of behavioural data using the Observer and the R Statistical Software. The majority of students wrote a thesis as a requirement for their degrees. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • Reviewer for many journals including: Animal Behavior, Behavioural Ecology, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Oecologia and The Journal of Arachnology. • Animal Behavior Society: Graduate Student Research Grant Reviewer (2015 & 2016) PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS • Invited Talks Royauté, R., and N.A. Dochtermann 2016. Sampling requirements for testing differences in repeatability between datasets. International Behavioral Ecology Congress. Post-conference Symposium: Statistical quantification of individual differences: educational and statistical approaches informing study design, analysis and inferences of multi-level behavioural data. Exeter, UK. Royauté, R. 2015. Effect of energy balance and pesticides on personality differences in jumping spiders and house crickets. UC Davis, Davis CA. Invited Talk. Royauté, R. 2014. Behavioural syndromes of jumping spiders in apple orchards. Department of Biological Sciences Seminar Series. NDSU, Fargo, ND. Royauté, R., Buddle, C.M. and C. Vincent. 2013. Behavioural variation in a jumping spider from apple orchards. Selected talk for the Graduate Student Showcase. Entomological Society of Canada. Guelph ON. Royauté, R., and C.M. Buddle. 2013. Spider diversity in agroecosystems: from communities to individuals. Roles and Conservation of Beneficial Arthropods in Agroecosystems Symposium. Entomological Society of Canada. Guelph ON. Royauté, R., Buddle, C.M. and C. Vincent. 2012. How does chemical disturbance affect behavioural expression in a jumping spider inhabiting agroecosystems? Biodiversity and Behaviour Symposium. Entomological Society of Canada. Edmonton, AB. Royauté, R., Buddle, C.M. and C. Vincent. 2010. Spider personality: implications and perspectives for agroecology. Arachnology Symposium. Entomological Society of Canada. Vancouver, BC. • Conference Presentations O: Oral presentation, P: Poster presentation O Royauté, R., N.A. Dochtermann and A.V. Hedrick. 2018. Genetic architecture of behavioral syndromes in field crickets: adaptation or constraint? Genetics Society Autumn Meeting. “Genotype to Phenotype to Fitness”. Exeter, UK. O Royauté, R., N.A. Dochtermann and A.V. Hedrick. 2018. Genetic architecture of behavioral syndromes in field crickets: adaptation or constraint? International Behavioral Ecology Congress. Minneapolis, MN. 4 Dr. Raphaël Royauté November 2018 O Royauté, R. and N.A. Dochtermann. 2017.
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