Curriculum Vitae Michelle A

Curriculum Vitae Michelle A. Duennes

Biology Department Email: [email protected] Saint Vincent College Website: www.maduennes.wordpress.com 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650

Academic Positions 08/2018 – present Assistant Professor of Biology. Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA. 01/2016 – 08/2018 Postdoctoral Scholar. University of California, Riverside. Project: Understanding and mitigating the effects of agricultural intensification on our most economically important native pollinator. Advisor: S. Hollis Woodard

Education 05/2010 – 12/2015 PhD Entomology. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dissertation: Hiding in plain sight: Unveiling cryptic diversity and patterns in bumble bees Advisor: Sydney Cameron 08/2008 – 05/2010 MS Entomology. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Thesis: Phylogeny and color pattern evolution in a New World bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus: Pyrobombus) species complex. Advisor: Sydney Cameron 08/2004 – 05/2008 BS Biology (Honors). Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH. Thesis: The rate of DNA degradation in pinned insect specimens (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae: Cicindela spp.). Research Advisor: Gene Kritsky

University Teaching 01/2019 – 05/2019 General Biology II Lab, Saint Vincent College 01/2019 – 05/2019 Evolution and Systematics Lecture and Lab, Saint Vincent College 08/2018 – 12/2018 Ecology Lecture and Lab, Saint Vincent College 01/2015 – 05/2015 Teaching Assistant, Conservation Biology, U of Illinois Taught and led labs, designed conservation genetics lab on bumble bees using genetic data from my dissertation research, improved lab design, graded homework and exams. Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Spring 2015 08/2014 – 12/2014 Teaching Assistant, Honors Ecology and Evolution, U of Illinois Taught and led introductory statistics lab, helped students design and conduct independent field research projects, improved lab design, graded homework and lab reports. Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Fall 2014 01/2014 – 05/2014 Teaching Assistant, Insects and People, U of Illinois Taught and led lecture/lab, helped to convert labs to in-lecture laboratory activities, helped to create new laboratory activities, gave guest lectures. 08/2013 – 12/2013 Teaching Assistant, Genetics, U of Illinois Taught and led lab, improved lab design, graded homework and lab reports. 08/2012 – 12/2012 Laboratory Coordinator, Animal Biology, U of Illinois Guided and supervised other Animal Biology teaching assistants, organized labs and lab quizzes, managed lab prep staff, improved lab design.

01/2011 – 05/2011 Teaching Assistant, Insects and People, U of Illinois 01/2010 – 05/2010 Taught lab, improved lab design. Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Spring 2010, Spring 2011 08/2010 – 12/2010 Teaching Assistant, Animal Biology, U of Illinois 08/2008 – 12/2008 Taught lab, improved lab design. Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Fall 2008, Fall 2010

Invited Guest Lectures 10/2016 Lecture on insect sociality for Insect Behavior at U of California, Riverside 04/2015 Lecture on insects and music for Insects & People at U of Illinois 02/2015 Lecture on insect sociality for Insects & People at U of Illinois 10/2014 Lecture on dissertation research for Honors Ecology & Evolution at U of Illinois 04/2013 Lecture on insects and music for Insects & People at U of Illinois 04/2012 Lecture on insects and music for Insects & People at U of Illinois 04/2011 Lecture on insects and music for Insects & People at U of Illinois 11/2010 Lecture on phylogenetic methods for Evolution at Mount St. Joseph U 04/2010 Lecture on insects and music for Insects & People at U of Illinois

Mentoring 01/2019 – present Research Advisor, Biology Capstone Junior/Senior Research Program, Saint Vincent College 06/2016 – 08/2016 Undergraduate Mentor, Research Experiences in Integrated Computational Entomology, U of California Riverside Mentored Mauricio Flores and Natalie Fischer as they conducted a research project on transcriptomic signatures of nutrition in bumble bee queens. Trained them in RNAseq transcriptomic data analysis and interpretation as well as how to conduct carbohydrate, protein, and lipid quantification assays on bumble bees subjected to different diet treatments. 02/2013 – 05/2015 Undergraduate Mentor, Distinction Research Project, U of Illinois Supervised Christopher Petranek, an undergraduate student conducting an independent research project in the Cameron Lab to graduate with Distinction from the School of Integrative Biology. Mentored Mr. Petranek through a research project exploring how bumble bee wing shape (morphometrics) changes in response to elevation and environmental gradients. Brought Mr. Petranek on a collecting trip to Mexico to serve as a field and lab assistant. 08/2012 – 12/2012 Undergraduate Mentor, Introduction to Research, U of Illinois Taught three undergraduates, Jacob Kacmar, Kelly Mehan and Brett Nelson, basic genetic laboratory techniques and guided them through an independent research project on the phylogenetic placement of the recently rediscovered bumble bee, Bombus cockerelli, in the Cameron lab. 01/2012 – 05/2012 Undergraduate Mentor, Introduction to Research, U of Illinois Taught two undergraduates, Sylvia Nunez and Rebecca Trapp, basic genetic laboratory techniques and guided them through an independent research project on genetic and morphological differentiation in a newly discovered group of bumble bees in the Bombus ephippiatus complex in the Cameron lab.

Community Teaching 06/2019 Trip Planner/Leader, Atlas Obscura: Science in the Field: Tracking Wild Bumble Bees in the Sierra Nevada Planned and co-lead an ecotourism trip for the travel website, Atlas Obscura, in Sequoia National Park. Taught participants how to sample for bumble bees and identify bees to species in the field.

11/2017 Instructor, Conservation Genetics of Bees, XI Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas in Chiapas, MEX 05/2015 – 12/2015 Docent/Instructor, The Pollinatarium, U of Illinois 05/2014 – 09/2014 Taught 2nd grade classes in the Champaign Unit 4 Schools about honey bee biology and conservation during their field trips to the Pollinatarium. Served as a docent and program assistant for the Pollinatarium, a museum dedicated to pollination at U of I. Guided weekend visitors through the museum, traveled to give presentations on pollinators for conservation conferences and workshops, served as an instructor for an Illinois Pollinators workshop for science and conservation educators that was sponsored by the U of I Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Division of Education. 09/2013 Instructor, The Pollinatarium, U of Illinois Taught 2nd grade classes in the Champaign Unit 4 Schools about honey bee biology and conservation during their field trips to the Pollinatarium.

Research 10/2016 – 08/2018 USDA NIFA AFRI ELI Postdoctoral Fellow, U of California, Riverside Project: Understanding and mitigating the effects of agricultural intensification on our most economically important native pollinator. Project Director: Michelle Duennes Advisor: S. Hollis Woodard 01/2016 – 10/2016 Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Entomology, U of California, Riverside Project 1: Transcriptomic and metabolic signatures of pollen and nectar nutritional quality in queen bumble bees. Project 2: Genetic mechanisms controlling caste determination in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens. Project 3: Assessing conservation threats to Arctic bumble bees by surveying parasite prevalence across species and regions. Principle Investigator: S. Hollis Woodard 12/2012 – 08/2013 Research Assistant, Department of Entomology, U of Illinois Project: Causal factors in bumble bee decline: testing the role of bacterial symbionts in bumble bee pathogen resistance. Principle Investigator: Sydney Cameron 08/2011 – 08/2012 Research Assistant, Department of Entomology, U of Illinois Project: The infection of Nosema bombi in bumble bees in the United States. Principle Investigator: Sydney Cameron 05/2011 – 08/2011 Research Assistant, Department of Entomology, U of Illinois Project: The evolution of bumble bee color patterns. Principle Investigator: Sydney Cameron 05/2010 – 08/2010 Research Assistant, Department of Entomology, U of Illinois Project: Geographical patterns of genetic divergence in the widespread Mesoamerican bumble bee Bombus ephippiatus. Principle Investigator: Sydney Cameron 01/2009 – 01/2010 Research Assistant, Department of Entomology, U of Illinois Project: The evolution of bumble bee color patterns. Principle Investigator: Sydney Cameron 05/2007 – 08/2007 Research Assistant, Mount St. Joseph University Insect Survey Project: The status of Cicindela marginipennis (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Southeastern Indiana. Principle Investigator: Gene Kritsky.

01/2006 – 08/2006 Research Assistant, Wood Hudson Cancer Research Laboratory Project: Int7G24A variant of transforming growth factor-beta receptor type I and its association with invasive breast cancer. Director: Julia Carter.

Honors and Awards 10/2016 – present USDA NIFA AFRI ELI Postdoctoral Fellow ($151,333) 09/2016 – 10/2018 Entomological Society of America Science Policy Fellow Spring 2016 Arctic Institute of North America Grant-in-Aid Scholarship ($1,000) 2012 – 2015 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Scholar ($30,000) Spring 2014 DuPont/ Ellis MacLeod Award for Outstanding Teaching in Entomology Fall 2012 U of I Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant ($5,000) Summer 2015 U of I Department of Entomology Summer Stipend Award ($2,200) Spring 2014 U of I SIB Herbert Holdsworth Ross Memorial Fund ($1,500) Spring 2012 U of I SIB Enhancement Fund ($1,000) Spring 2011 U of I SIB Lebus Fund Award ($1,000) Spring 2010 Society of Systematic Biologists Award for Grad Student Research ($1,800) Spring 2010 U of I SIB Francis M. and Harlie M. Clark Research Support Grant ($500) Fall 2009 U of I SIB Enhancement Fund ($1,500) Spring 2009 U of I SIB Herbert Holdsworth Ross Memorial Fund ($1,500) Spring 2009 U of I SIB Francis M. and Harlie M. Clark Research Support Grant ($1,000)

Peer-reviewed Publications Woodard SH, MA Duennes, KM Watrous, S Jha. 2019. Diet and nutritional status during early adult life have immediate and persistent effects on queen bumble bees. Conservation Physiology, in press. Watrous KM, MA Duennes, SH Woodard. 2019. Pollen diet composition impacts early nesting success in queen bumble bees Bombus impatiens Cresson (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Environmental Entomology DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvz043 Duennes MA, C Petranek, EP Diez de Bonilla, J Mérida-Rivas, O Martinez-López, P Sagot, R Vandame, SA Cameron. 2017. Population genetics and geometric morphometrics of the Bombus ephippiatus species complex with implications for its use as a commercial pollinator. Conservation Genetics 18(3): 553-572. Cameron SA, HC Lim, JD Lozier, MA Duennes, R Thorp. 2016. A test of the invasive pathogen hypothesis of bumble bee decline in North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113: 4386-4391. Lozier JD, SA Cameron, MA Duennes, JP Strange, PH Williams, D Goulson, MJF Brown, C Morales, S Jepsen. 2015. Relocation risky for bumblebee colonies. Science 350: 286-287. Duennes MA, R Vandame. 2015. Bombus ephippiatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T21215149A21215217. Dean C, MA Duennes, C Chu, SA Cameron. 2015. Colony characteristics and Nosema infection of Bombus auricomus (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Entomological News 125(3): 220-223. Rapti Z, MA Duennes, SA Cameron. 2014. Defining the color pattern phenotype in bumble bees (Bombus): a framework for comparative understanding of development. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113(2): 384-404. Heath KD, E Bagley, AJM Berkey, DM Birlenbach, MK Carr-Markell, JW Crawford, MA Duennes, JO Han, MJ Haus, SM Hellert, CJ Holmes, BC Mommer, J Ossler, R Peery, L Powers, DR Scholes, CA Silliman, LR Stein, CJ Wesseln. 2014. Amplify the signal: Graduate training in broader impacts of scientific research. BioScience DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu051

Duennes MA, JD Lozier, HM Hines, SA Cameron. 2012. Geographical patterns of genetic divergence in the widespread bumble bee Bombus ephippiatus (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64: 219-231. Kritsky G, B Cortright, MA Duennes, J Smith, S Pierce. 2009. The status of Cicindela marginipennis (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Southeastern Indiana. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 118(2): 139-142. Kritsky G, MA Duennes. 2009. The rate of DNA degradation in pinned tiger beetles. Cicindela 41(3): 69-73.

Invited Presentations Bumble bees in evolution: Species and phylogeny (Co-led session with Paul H. Williams) 08/2017 BOMBUSS: Building Our Methods By Using Sound Science in Logan, UT Using genomic tools for bumble bee conservation. 10/2016 U of California, Riverside Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology Seminar Series The mother of entomology: 17th century artist and revolutionary, Maria Sibylla Merian. 09/2016 XXV International Congress of Entomology in Orlando, FL Hiding in plain sight: unveiling cryptic diversity in bumble bees. 05/2016 U of California, Riverside Entomology Seminar Series Unveiling cryptic bumble bee diversity in Mesoamerica. 04/2016 Pacific Branch Meeting, Entomological Society of America in Honolulu, HI Hiding in plain sight: cryptic bumble bee diversity in Mesoamerica. 09/2015 Mount St. Joseph University Biology Speaker Series Complex divergence patterns in a Mesoamerican bumble bee complex. 02/2012 IUCN Risk and Conservation Status of Native Bumble Bees (Bombus) in Mexico in San Cristobal de las Casas, MEX 05/2011 VII Seminario Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas in Cuetzalan, Puebla, MEX

Other Presentations Incorporating social justice and intersectionality into biology classrooms. MA Duennes 11/2018 Entomology 2018 in Vancouver, BC, Canada Transcriptional and nutritional signatures of diet quality in the fat body of bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) queens. MA Duennes, J Der, S Jha, SH Woodard 11/2017 Entomology 2017 in Denver, CO Genética de poblaciones del abejorro, Bombus ephippiatus: un complejo de especies. MA Duennes, O Martinez, J Merida, C Petranek, E Pineda, P Sagot, R Vandame, SA Cameron 04/2015 IX Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas in Chiapas, MEX Phylogeography and population genetics of the Mesoamerican bumble bee species complex, Bombus ephippiatus. MA Duennes, J Merida, E Pineda, P Sagot, R Vandame, SA Cameron 11/2014 Entomology 2014 in Portland, OR Phylogeography of Mesoamerican bumble bees (Bombus). MA Duennes, SA Cameron 06/2014 Evolution 2014 in Raleigh, NC 11/2013 Entomology 2013 in Austin, TX The evolutionary history of bumble bees in Mexico and Central America. MA Duennes, JD Lozier, HM Hines, SA Cameron 08/2013 Intl. Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy at Penn State A coat of many colors: Quantification and analysis of bumble bee color patterns. MA Duennes, Z Rapti, SA Cameron 11/2012 Entomology 2012 in Knoxville, Tennessee 07/2012 Evolution 2012 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Phylogeny and comparative analysis of color pattern evolution in a Mexican-Central American Bombus (Pyrobombus) species complex. MA Duennes, HM Hines, SA Cameron 12/2009 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America

Training 03/25 – 03/29/2017 Conservation Genomics Workshop at UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science 06/20 – 06/24/2016 Mobile Summer Institute on Undergraduate STEM Education at UC Riverside 06/20/2014 Experiencing Evolution: A Professional Development Workshop for Undergraduate Educators, Evolution 2014 in Raleigh, NC 08/14/2013 Xerces Society Pollinator Conservation Short Course, Penn. State University 05/21 – 06/05/2011 Organization for Tropical Studies Conservation and Restoration Genetics Workshop, Las Cruces Biological Station, Costa Rica 01/11 – 01/29/2010 Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Český Krumlov, Czech Republic

Service 2016 – 2017 Mentor, Gray Master Builders: FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO® League Team for Gray Middle School Serving as mentor to a middle school engineering team as they design the City Solitary Bee House, an artificial nesting habitat for ground-nesting solitary bees in urban environments. In February 2017, the team won first place for Gracious Professionalism® at the FLL Kentucky State Championship Tournament. In May 2017, they placed first in the Project Research Category at the FLL North American Open Championship in Carlsbad, CA. 2015 – 2016 Expert Bee Identifier, BeeSpotter at U of Illinois Expert taxonomic identifier for BeeSpotter, the citizen science project that aims to monitor bee biodiversity, specifically bumble bees, in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. 2012 – 2015 Science Advisor/Member and Species Assessor, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Bumble Bee Specialist Group, Mesoamerica Developed conservation plan and extensive study strategy with multiple stakeholder groups during a workshop at the IUCN Risk and Conservation Status of Native Bumble Bees (Bombus) in Mexico meeting in 2012. Conducted genetic research to assess conservation status of bumble bees in Mexico. Communicated the results of my dissertation research both verbally via presentations and in writing via an IUCN assessment to non-specialists and specialist audiences including other researchers working on bumble bees as well as beekeepers and those selling bumble bees for crop pollination. 2010 – 2015 Event Coordinator, National Pollinator Week in CU Planned farmer’s market booths, taxonomic bee identification workshops for non-specialists, kids’ activities, nature walks, concerts, as well as organized the display of “Pollinator Food Guides” in local grocery stores yearly in Champaign-Urbana. 2013 – 2014 Faculty Liaison, Entomology Graduate Student Association 12/2013 – 2/2014 Graduate student representative, Five-year review committee for May Berenbaum as Chair of the Department of Entomology 2012 – 2013 President, Entomology Graduate Student Association 2008 – 2012 Treasurer, Entomology Graduate Student Association 2007 – 2008 Vice President, Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society, Xi Gamma Chapter 2006 – 2007 Historian, Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society, Xi Gamma Chapter

Selected News Articles MA Duennes. Book Review of Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium by Maria Sibylla Merian and Maria Merian’s Butterflies by Kate Heard. American Entomologist, March 9, 2017 Vol. 63 Issue 1 p. 59 DOI: 10.1093/ae/tmx018 MA Duennes. Book review of A Buzz in the Meadow by Dave Goulson. Science, June 19, 2015 Vol. 348 No. 6241 p. 1311 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab1819 MA Duennes. Famous Female Entomologists Part 4: Maria Sybilla Merian, the Mother of Entomology. Entomology Today, February 26, 2015. MA Duennes, T Johnson, R Kanter. Pesticides save the day! or not. 2014 Insect Fear Film Festival has it both ways. News Gazette: Environmental Almanac. February 20, 2014. MA Duennes, R Kanter. What bugs entomologists? Illinois grad students sound off. News Gazette: Environmental Almanac. February 21, 2013. MA Duennes. Globalization of the Bumble Bee. Smile Politely, November 13, 2012. MA Duennes. Guest post calls attention to pollinators and National Pollinator Week in C-U. News Gazette: Environmental Almanac, June 14, 2012. MA Duennes, R Kanter. Celebrate Pollinator Appreciation Week. News Gazette: Environmental Almanac, June 23, 2011.

News Coverage of Research C Wilke, R Benton. What’s the buzz? Research could help bumblebees as well as California farms. The Sacramento Bee, August 20, 2017. J Gorman, K Orlinsky. 6 Scientists, 1,000 Miles, 1 Prize: The Arctic Bumblebee. The New York Times, October 7, 2016.