CURRICULUM VITAE

Gene A. Sullivan Department of Biology 1901 Raguet Street North Box 13003 Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, TX 75962

Telephone (936) 468-2458

Education:

B.A. Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. 1973.

Postgraduate, Biology, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. 1974-1980.

Teaching Experience:

Instructor and Laboratory Coordinator, Stephen F. Austin State University. Instructed Biology 131L and Biology 121L. Additionally, directed graduate student teaching activity for 198 graduate teaching assistants to date. Instructed Biology 131 and 121 when requested by the chairman. l985-present.

Instructor, Louisiana State University. Instructed Introductory Botany, Biology, and Field Botany. 1982-1985.

Consultant, Harris-Stowe State College. Developed a remedial biology course for Title III program. 1980-1981.

Instructor, Harris-Stowe State College. Instructed Introductory Biology I and II. 1977-1978, 1979-1980.

Instructor, St. Louis University. Designed and instructed The Ozarks Course: The Ecology and Natural History of Missouri. l975-l979.

Instructor, St. Louis University Metropolitan College. Instructed Man and the Environment. 1979.

Administrative Experience:

Laboratory Coordinator, Stephen F. Austin State University. Organize and administer Concepts of Biology Laboratory (Bio 121L) and Introductory Botany Laboratory (Bio 131L). Approximate average enrollment is 800 students/semester. Supervise seven graduate teaching assistants. 1985-present.

Supervisor of the Biology Greenhouse, SFASU. Responsible for maintaining the department's teaching collection and supervising two student workers. 1985-present.

Biology Department Safety Officer, SFASU. Liaison with the University Safety Director. l986-present.

Laboratory Coordinator, Louisiana State University. Organized and administered Introductory Biology (Biol 1004) and Botany (Boty 1001 & 1002) laboratories. Approximate enrollment 500 students/semester. Supervised eleven graduate teaching assistants and four student workers. 1984-1985.

Co©chairperson, Missouri Botanical Garden. Organized the 1st Annual Midwest Botany Graduate Student Meeting. April, 1982.

Project Manager, Missouri Botanical Garden. Administered the budget, developed the format and compiled date for a plant propagation study. 1979-1980.

Research Experience:

Research, Stephen F. Austin State University. Interspecific hybridization in the genus îEupatoriumï. Species diversity in hardwood forests of East Texas.

Research Associate, Louisiana State University. Investigated the taxonomy of the tribe Heliantheae (Asteraceae). 1983- 1984.

Contributor, Flora de Nicaragua, Missouri Botanical Garden and Centro de Investigaciones Geograficas, Manaqua, Nicaragua. 1882-1986.

Plant Collector, Peru. Collected plant specimens for the Flora of Peru. 1981.

Project Manager, Missouri Botanical Garden. Investigated native plant propagation in the United States. 1979-1980.

Intern, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland. Investigated habitat requirements of potentially invasive weeds. Summer, 1975.

Grants:

Faculty mini-grant, SFASU Department of Grants and Research, 1986. Sigma Xi Research Grant, 1981.

Society Memberships:

American Society of Plant Taxonomists Texas Academy of Science Association for Biology Laboratory Education

Papers Presented:

Species diversity of woody vegetation in the Trinity River basin, Texas. 50th Anniversary, Association of Southeastern Biologists, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. April, 1987.

A history of quinine and malaria. SFASU, December, 1985.

The role of quinine in history. Lamar University, Beaumont, TX. February, 1985.

Taxonomy of Ladenbergia (Rubiaceae). American Society of Plant Taxonomists/Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. August, 1984. (Abstract published.)

Recognition of the genus Muzonia (Rubiaceae). American Society of Plant Taxonomists/Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND. August, 1983. (Abstract published.)î

The classification and distribution of the genus Ladenbergia (Rubiaceae). Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, April, 1983 and Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, June, 1983.

A laboratory exercise on the feeding behavior of the Northern Banded Water Snake. 57th Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA. February, 1983.

Publications:

Sullivan, G.A. 2017. Concepts of Biology Laboratory Manual, 4th ed. Pearson Custom Publishing, Boston, MA. 108 pp.

Sullivan, G.A. 2007. Concepts of Biology Laboratory Manual, 3rd ed. Pearson Custom Publishing, Boston, MA 100 pp.

Sullivan, G.A. 1991. Concepts of Biology Laboratory Manual, 2nd ed. Bellwether Press, Edina, MN. 110 pp.

Nixon, E.S., G.A. Sullivan, S.D. Jones, G.D. Jones, and J.K. Sullivan. 1990. Species diversity of woody vegetation in the Trinity River basin, Texas. Castanea 55(2): 97-105.

Sullivan, G.A. 2001. Hydrophyllaceae, in Stevens, W.D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool, O.M. Montiel, eds. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85 2:1154-1156.

Sullivan, G.A. 2001. Polemoniaceae, in Stevens, W.D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool, O.M. Montiel, eds. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85 2: 2153-2154.

Sullivan, G.A. 1988. Concepts of Biology Laboratory Manual. Bellwether Press, Edina, MN. 110 pp.

Sullivan, G.A. 1986. Remijia chelomaphylla (Rubiaceae), a new species from Peru. Syst. Bot. 11: 298-301.

Wussow, J.R., L.E. Urbatsch, and G.A. Sullivan. 1985. Calea (Asteraceae) in Mexico, Central America, and Jamaica. Syst. Bot. 10: 241-267.

Sullivan, G.A. and R.H. Daley. 1981. A Directory to Resources on Wildflower Propagation. John W. Swift Co., Inc., St. Louis, MO. 331 pp.

Posters:

Wagner, S.C., G.A. Sullivan, S.C. Canterberry and J. Taylor. 2015. Engaging Undergraduates in the Work of Minority Scientist Lydia Villa- Komaroff. Presented by primary author, American Society of Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators, Austin, TX, May 2015

Service:

Biology 131 Committee, member. 1985-2015.

Biology 121 Committee, member. 1985-2015.

Biology 131 Core Curriculum Committee, member. 2007-2014.

Biology 121 Core Curriculum Committee, member. 2007-2014.

Biology Scholarship Committee, member, 1987-2007, chairman 2007-present.

Biology Department Greenhouse Committee, member. 1985-present.

Search Committee, Biology Department Chairman, member. 2005-2007.

Biology Club Advisor, 1985-present.