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Corina E. Tarnita Curriculum Vitae Corina E. Tarnita Curriculum Vitae Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 Tel: (617) 368-0041, Email: [email protected] Website: http://scholar.princeton.edu/ctarnita/ Education PhD Harvard University, Mathematics, June 2009. Thesis: Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations. Advisor: Martin A. Nowak. M.A. Harvard University, June 2008. M.A. in Mathematics. Thesis: The Minimal Model Program. Advisors: Izzet Coskun and Joe Harris. B.A. Harvard University, June 2006. Magna cum Laudae with Highest Honors in Mathematics. Senior Thesis: The Debarre { de Jong conjecture for Fano varieties of lines on hypersurfaces. Advisor: Joe Harris. Appointments 08/2015 { Visiting Faculty, Eco-Evolutionary Math Group, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France 2013- { Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Univ. 2014- { Faculty Associate, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton Univ. 2013- { Faculty Associate, Quantitative and Computational Biology, Princeton University. 2013- { Faculty Associate, Princeton Environmental Institute. 2010-2013 { Junior Fellow in Mathematical Biology, Harvard Society of Fellows. 2009-2010 { Postdoctoral Fellow at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University. Funding 2016 { 2018 Grand Challenges Grant, Princeton University ($ 150,000). Title: \Experimental Tests of Drought and Deluge in African Rangelands." PI: Corina E. Tarnita; Co-PI: Robert M. Pringle. 2016 { 2019 Life Sciences Research Foundation ($ 180,000). Title: \Using Dictyostelium Discoideum to understand the role of ecology and multiple fitness tradeoffs in the evolution of multicellular- ity." 2016 { 2018 Member of the "Collective Cognition & Cooperation Network" (CoCCoN) funded jointly by Princeton University, USA and Humboldt University, Germany ($ 160,000). 2015 { 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology ($ 50,000). 2014 { 2017 NSF Collaborative Research DEB ($ 550,000). Title: \Causes and consequences of regular spatial patterning in foundation species: theoretical development and experimental tests in an African savanna." PI: Corina E. Tarnita; Co-PIs: Robert M. Pringle and Daniel F. Doak. 2013 { 2015 Grand Challenges Grant, Princeton University ($ 200,000). Title: "Ecosystem spatial pattern and development opportunities in African rangelands." PI: Robert M. Pringle; Co-PI: Corina E. Tarnita. 2012 { 2014 Foundational Questions in Evolutionary Biology Grant, Templeton Foundation ($179,970). Title: "Evolutionary construction and complexity." PI: Corina E. Tarnita; Co-PI: Simon A. Levin. 2011 { 2012 Milton Fund Grant, Harvard University ($40,000). Title: "Mutualism in the context of multispecies interaction networks: ant-plant mutualisms in the African savanna." PI: Corina E. Tarnita. Awards 2017{2021 Ecological Society of America Early Career Fellow 2016 Kristine Bonnevie lecturer, University of Oslo, Norway 2016 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences 2015{2017 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology 2010{2012 Harvard Junior Fellowship 2010 { Student of the Year in North America awarded by Liga Studentilor Romani din Strainatate 2009 { Highbridge prize awarded by the Harvard Department of Mathematics for the best PhD thesis 2008 { Jean E. de Valpine Fellowship in Mathematics 2008 { Eric Cooper and Naomi Siegel Graduate Student Fellowship Fund I 2006 { Highest Honors in Mathematics awarded by the Harvard Department of Mathematics 2006 { Magna cum Laudae awarded by Harvard University 2006 { Prize of the Harvard Friends of Mathematics awarded for the senior thesis 2005 { Harvard Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement 2005 { Best Student Paper Award for the paper \On Dynamic Bit Probe Complexity" at ICALP'05 2004 { Robert Fletcher Rogers 1st Prize awarded by the Harvard Mathematics Department 2000 { 1st place individual, 1st place teams, International Math Contest \Gh. T¸it¸eica" 2001, 2000, 1999 { 1st prize, Romanian National Mathematical Olympiad 2001, 2000, 1999 { Award for Excellence of the Romanian Mathematical Society (SSMR) Teaching 2013 { present Instructor for Princeton EEB 325 Mathematical Modeling in Biology and Medicine. 2015 Instructor for EEB Tutorial: Behavior subsection. 2013, 2014 co-Instructor for Princeton EEB 507 Recent Research in Population Biology. 2014, 2015 co-Instructor for Princeton EEB 504 Fundamental Concepts in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior. 2007 Instructor for Harvard Math 21a Multivariable Calculus. Publications 34. Tarnita C.E., Bonachela, J.A., Sheffer, E., Guyton, J.A., Coverdale T.C., Long R.A., Pringle, R.M. (2017) A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns. Nature 541:398-401. 33. Thutupalli S., Uppaluri S., Constable G.W.A, Levin S.A., Stone, H.A., Tarnita C.E., Brang- wynne, C.P. (2017) Farming and public goods production in Caenorhabditis elegans populations. PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.1608961114. 32. Tarnita C.E. (2017) The ecology and evolution of social behavior in microbes. Journal of Experimental Biology. Special Issue: Evolution of Social Behavior 220(1):18-24. 31. Pringle R.M., C.E. Tarnita (2017) Spatial Self-Organization of Ecosystems: Integrating Mul- tiple Mechanisms of Regular-Pattern Formation. Annual Review of Entomology, 62:359-377. 30. Constable G.W.A., Rogers T., McKane A.J., C.E. Tarnita (2016) Demographic noise can reverse the direction of deterministic selection. PNAS, 113(32):E4745-4754. 29. Widder S., Allen R.J., Pfeiffer T., Curtis T.P., Wiuf C., Sloan W.T., Cordero O.X., Brown S.P., Momeni B., Shou W., Kettle W., Flint H.J., Haas A.F., Laroche B., Kreft J.-U., Rainey P.B., Freilich S., Schuster S., Milferstedt K., van der Meer J.R., Grosskopf T., Huisman J., Free A., Picioreanu C., Quince C., Klapper I, Labarthe S., Smets B.F., Wang H., Isaac Newton In- stitute Fellows (including C.E. Tarnita) and Soyer O.S. (2016) Challenges in microbial ecol- ogy: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics. ISME J, doi: 10.1038/ismej.2016.45 28. Tarnita C.E. (2015) Fairness and Trust in Structured Populations. Games (Special Issue: Cooperation, Trust, and Reciprocity) 6:214-230. 27. Bonachela J.A., R.M. Pringle, E. Shefer, T.C. Coverdale, J.A. Guyton, K.K. Caylor, S.A. Levin, C.E. Tarnita (2015). Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change. Science, 347(6222):651-655. 26. Tarnita C.E., A.D. Washburne, R. Martinez-Garcia, A.E. Sgro, S.A. Levin (2015). Fitness tradeoffs between spores and non-aggregating cells can explain coexistence of multiple genotypes in cellular slime molds. PNAS, 112 (2015): 2776-2781. 25. Tarnita C.E., T.M. Palmer, R.M. Pringle (2014). Colonization and competition dynamics can explain incomplete sterilization parasitism in ant-plant symbioses. Ecology Letters, 17(10):1290- 1298. 24. Tarnita C.E., and P.D. Taylor (2014). Measures of relative fitness of social behaviors in finite structured population models. American Naturalist, 184(4):477-488. 23. Pringle R.M., J.R. Goheen, T.M. Palmer, G.K. Charles, E. DeFranco, R. Hohbein, A.T. Ford, and C.E. Tarnita (2014). Low functional redundancy among mammalian browsers in regulating an encroaching shrub (Solanum campylacanthum) in African savannah. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 281:1785. 22. Allen B., C.E. Tarnita (2014). Measures of success in a class of evolutionary models with fixed population size and structure. J Math Biol, 68:109-143. 21. Rand D.G.∗, C.E. Tarnita∗, H. Ohtsuki, M.A. Nowak (2013). The evolution of fairness in the one-shot anonymous Ultimatum Game. Proc Natl Acad Sci, 110:2581-2586. 20. Tarnita C.E., C.H. Taubes, M.A. Nowak (2013). Evolutionary construction by staying together and coming together. J theor Biol, 320, 10-22. 19. van Gestel J., M.A. Nowak, C.E. Tarnita (2012). Evolution of cell-to-cell communication in a sporulating bacterium. PLoS Comput Biol, 8(12): e1002818. 18. Fu F.∗, C.E. Tarnita∗, N.A. Christakis, L. Wang, D.G. Rand, M.A. Nowak (2012). Evolution of in-group favoritism. Nature Scientific Reports, 2:460 (∗joint first authors). 17. Cavaliere M, S. Sedwards, C.E. Tarnita, M.A. Nowak, A. Csikasz-Nagy (2011). Prosperity is associated with instability in dynamical networks. J theor Biol, 299:126-138. 16. Allen B, A. Traulsen, C.E. Tarnita, M.A. Nowak (2011). How mutation affects evolutionary games on graphs. J theor Biol, 299:97-105. 15. Nowak M.A., C.E. Tarnita and E.O. Wilson (2011). Nowak et al. reply. Nature 471 (7339): E9-E10. 14. Tarnita C.E.∗, N. Wage∗ and M.A. Nowak, (2011). Multiple strategies in structured popula- tions. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 108 (6): 2334-2337 (∗joint first authors). 13. Nowak M.A., C.E. Tarnita and E.O. Wilson, (2010). The evolution of eusociality. Nature, 466, 1057-1062. 12. Nathanson C.G.∗, C.E. Tarnita∗ and M.A. Nowak, (2010). Calculating evolutionary dynamics in structured populations. PLoS Comput Biol, 5(12): e1000615. (∗joint first authors). 11. Nowak M.A., C.E. Tarnita and T. Antal, (2010). Evolutionary dynamics in structured popu- lations. Phil Trans Royal Society B, 365, 19-30. 10. Tarnita C.E., T. Antal and M.A. Nowak, (2009). Mutation-selection equilibrium in games with mixed strategies. J theor Biol, 261, 50-57. 9. Tarnita C.E., T. Antal, H. Ohtsuki, F. Fu and M.A. Nowak, (2009). Strategy selection in structured populations. J theor Biol, 259, 570-581. 8. Tarnita C.E., T. Antal, H. Ohtsuki and M. A. Nowak, (2009). Evolutionary dynamics in set structured populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 106, 8601-8604. 7. Antal T., A. Traulsen, H. Ohtsuki, C.E. Tarnita and M.A. Nowak, (2009). Mutation-selection equilibrium in games with multiple strategies. J theor Biol, 258, 614-622. 6. Grigorov G., A. Jorza, S. Patrikis, W. Stein and C.E. Tarnita, (2009). Verification of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture for Specific Elliptic Curves. Math Comp, 78, 2397-2425. 5. Tarnita C.E., M. Patrascu, (2005). On Dynamic Bit-Probe Complexity. Proceedings of the 32nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP '05), 969- 981.
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