MAIRIN FRANCESCA ARAGONES BALISI La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, 5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036 [email protected] | mairinbalisi.com

EDUCATION 2018 Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: “Carnivory in the Oligo-Miocene: Resource specialization, competition, and coexistence among North American fossil canids” Advisor: Blaire Van Valkenburgh 2011 M.S., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Thesis: “Dietary behavior and resource partitioning among the carnivorans of Late Pleistocene Rancho La Brea” 2008 B.A., Integrative Biology and Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2019–present Research Affiliate University of Southern California / Natural History Museum of LA County 2018–present National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology La Brea Tar Pits and Museum; University of California, Merced 2014–2018 Graduate Student in Residence, Vertebrate Paleontology Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

PUBLICATIONS ^equal contribution *undergraduate co-author 2020 Balisi MA and B Van Valkenburgh. Iterative evolution of large-bodied hypercarnivory in canids benefits species but not clades. Communications Biology 3:461. (doi:10.1038/s42003-020-01193-9) 2020 Tong, HW, X Chen, B Zhang, B Rothschild, SC White, MA Balisi, and X Wang. Hypercarnivorous teeth and healed injuries in Canis chihliensis from the early Pleistocene Nihewan beds, China, support social hunting for ancestral wolves. PeerJ 8:e9858. (doi:10.7717/peerj.9858) 2020 Dávalos, LM^, RM Austin^, MA Balisi^, RL Begay^, CA Hofman^, ME Kemp^, JR Lund^, C Monroe^, AM Mychajliw^, EA Nelson^, MA Nieves- Colón^, SA Redondo^, S Sabin^, KS Tsosie^, and JM Yracheta^. Pandemics’ historical role in creating inequality. Science 368(6497):1322-1323. (doi:10.1126/science.abc8953) 2018 Balisi MA, C Casey*, and B Van Valkenburgh. Dietary specialization is linked to reduced species durations in North American fossil canids. Royal Society Open Science 5:1-15. (doi:10.1098/rsos.171861) 2018 Balisi MA, X Wang, J Sankey, J Biewer, and D Garber. Fossil canids from the

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Mehrten Formation, late Cenozoic of northern California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6). (doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1405009) 2018 Wang, X, SC White, MA Balisi, J Biewer, J Sankey, D Garber, and ZJ Tseng. First bone-cracking dog coprolites provide new insight into bone consumption in Borophagus and their unique ecological niche. eLife 7:e34773. (doi:10.7554/eLife.34773) 2017 Brown C, MA Balisi, CA Shaw, and B Van Valkenburgh. Skeletal trauma reflects hunting behaviour in extinct sabre-tooth cats and dire wolves. Nature Ecology and Evolution 1(0131):1-7. (doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0131) In revision Balisi MA, AK Sharma, CM Howard, CA Shaw, R Klapper, EL Lindsey. Computed tomography reveals hip dysplasia in Smilodon: Implications for social behavior in an extinct Pleistocene predator. PLOS One. In prep Balisi MA, J Flake*, and B Van Valkenburgh. Ecomorphological shifts across a rodent community since the Ice Age extinctions. In prep Balisi MA and B Van Valkenburgh. Functional divergence in body size and dietary morphology within North American fossil canid communities. In prep Feingold, JH* and MA Balisi. Ecomorphological shifts in long-tailed weasels, Mustela frenata, across the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary.

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS Major research funding 2018–present National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology ($207,000) 2015–2016 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant ($20,020) Smaller grants and honors 2017 Josephine Reich Research Grant, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA ($1,200) 2016 Special Faculty Award, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA ($100) 2013 Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant, American Museum of Natural History ($2,000) 2010 Research Grant, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan ($825) Graduate and undergraduate fellowships 2017 Josephine Reich Summer Fellowship, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA ($3,000) 2016–2017 Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA ($20,000) 2014 Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship, US Department of Education ($22,138 + $2,000 research / travel allowance) 2012–2014 University Fellowship, UCLA ($5,000 per year) 2011, 2015 Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA ($21,000 per year) 2011 National Science Foundation Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Competitive Edge Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA ($6,000)

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2009–2011 Frontiers Master’s Summer Fellowship, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan 2004–2008 Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship, UC Berkeley Travel grants 2019 eLife Travel Grant ($1,000) 2014 Jackson School of Geosciences Travel Grant, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology ($600) 2012–2016 Research and Conference Travel Award, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA ($500, $500, $1500, $1000, $1500)

INVITED TALKS 2021 Department of Integrative Biology, University of Colorado—Denver.