John Oscar Stireman III Curriculum Vitae Professor Department of Biological Sciences 3640 Colonel Glen Hwy 235A BH, Wright State University Dayton, OH 45435 [email protected] 937-775-3192 Academic Experience____________________________________________________ Professor, Biological Sciences, Wright State University; 2014 - present Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, Wright State University; 2009 - 2014 Assistant professor, Biological Sciences, Wright State University; 2005 – 2009 Research Associate, Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales, Sección Invertebrados, Ecuador, 2014 – present Doctoral Evaluation Committee, Environmental and Evolutionary Biology PhD program, Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Universitá di Roma (2017-present). Postdoctoral fellow: Host race formation and population phylogeography of insect herbivores and their parasitoids. Advisor: John Nason; Iowa State University; 8/02-7/05 Postdoctoral fellow: Parasitoid-host and plant-insect ecological interactions. Advisor: Lee Dyer; Tulane University; 5/01-8/02. PhD. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona: The ecology and evolution of tachinid-host associations. Advisor: Nancy A. Moran, 4/2001. BS, biology, University of Utah (evolution and ecology emphasis), 5/1993 Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants_______________________________________ National Science Foundation/FAPSEP (Brazil): Collaborative Research: Dimensions US- Biota Sao Paulo: Chemically mediated multi-trophic interaction diversity across tropical gradients (M. Kato, L. Dyer et al.). WSU portion: $266,000, 11/25/2014. National Science Foundation REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates): Supplement to DEB: Collaborative research: The Phylogeny and Evolution of World Tachinidae (Diptera). $7,300, 5/1/2014. National Science Foundation MRI: Acquisition of Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine to establish high-throughput sequencing capability for ecological and environmental biology (with PIs O. Paliy, S. Baird, J. Peters, D. Cipollini). $123,300, 8/1/2013. National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Phylogeny and Evolution of World Tachinidae (Diptera) (lead PI with J.E. O’Hara and J.K. Moulton - WSU portion: $492,829; 2/15/2012). National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Caterpillars and Parasitoids in the Eastern Andes of Ecuador (renewal) (with L.A. Dyer, T. Walla, J. Whitfield, S. Shaw, et al. - WSU portion: $61,046; 9/1/2010) National Science Foundation: Collaborative Research: Caterpillars and Parasitoids in the Eastern Andes of Ecuador (with L.A. Dyer, T. Walla, J. Whitfield, S. Shaw, et al.)(WSU portion: $58,747; 6/1/2007). Wright State University – Research Challenge Grant: Adaptive radiation of a gall midge-fungal mutualism in a multitrophic community context ($15,000, 1/2007). National Science Foundation: Ecological Biology. J.O. Stireman III and P. Abbot. Collaborative Research: Adaptive radiation of a gall midge-fungus mutualism in a multitrophic context (WSU portion: $300,000, 9/2006). Wright State University – Research Challenge Grant: Understanding the geographical and community context of mutualism stability: a preliminary analysis of fig-fig wasp interactions in the Sonoran Desert ($12,000, 1/2006). National Science Foundation: Biotic Surveys and Inventories. L.A. Dyer, P. DeVries, T. Walla, S. Shaw. Collaborative Research: Caterpillars and Parasitoids in the Eastern Andes of Ecuador ($184,000 7/2004). National Science Foundation: Research Training Group (RTG) for the Analysis of Biological Diversity (U. of Arizona): Fellowship ($5000, 1/00). National Science Foundation: Research Training Group (RTG) for the Analysis of Biological Diversity (U. of Arizona) Fellowship ($5000, 8/98). National Science Foundation: Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG), to study the ecological and evolutionary determinants of host range in tachinid flies ($7500, 4/97) National Science Foundation: Research Training Group (RTG) for the Analysis of Biological Diversity (U. of Arizona) research award ($500, 1/97). Plant-Insect Group Seed Grant (Center for Insect Science, U. of Arizona). ($600, 2/96). Departmental Research Award (U. of Arizona; $400, 6/95). Hughes Undergraduate Research Grant (U. of Utah). Awarded three research grants ($1500 ea.; 12/93, 3/93, 6/93). Awards______________________ _____________________________ Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence: Early Career Achievement, Wright State University (2008) Peer reviewed publications ____________________________________________ Heath, J.J., Abbot, P., Stireman, J.O. III. Diversifying selection from the top down. American Naturalist (In Review). Blaschke, J.S., Stireman, J.O. III, O’Hara, J.E., Cerretti, P., Moulton, J.K. Molecular Phylogenetics and Piercer Evolution in the Bug-Killing Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae: Phasiinae). Systematic Entomology (In Press). 60. Cerretti, P. Stireman, J.O. III, Pape, T., Marinho, M.A.T., Rognes, K., and Grimaldi, D. 2017. First definitive fossil of an oestroid fly (Diptera: Calyptratae: Oestroidea) and the dating of oestroid divergences. PLOS One 12(8): e0182101. 59. Stireman, J.O. III, Dyer, L.A.,and Greeney, H.F. Specialized generalists? Food web structure of a tropical tachinid-caterpillar community. 2017. Insect Conservation and Diversity (In Press). 58. Oberhauser, K., Elmquist, D., Perilla-Lopez, J.M., Gebhard, I., Stireman, J.O. III. 2017. Tachinid fly (Diptera: Tachinidae) parasitoids of Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America (In Press). 57. Inclán, D.J., O’Hara, J.E., Stireman, J.O. III, Shima, H., Pohjoismäki, J., Lo Giudice, G. and Cerretti, P. 2017. The monophyly of the Glaurocarini (Diptera: Tachinidae: Tachininae) with the description of a new species of Semisuturia from Australia. Insect Systematics & Evolution (In Press). 56. Ulyshen, M.D., Zachos, L.G., Stireman, J.O. III, Sheehan, T., Garrick, R.C. 2017. Insights into the ecology, genetics and distribution of Lucanus elaphus Fabricius (Coleoptera: Lucanidae), North America’s giant stag beetle. Insect Conservation and Diversity 10:331-340. 55. Inclán, D.J., Stireman, J.O. III, Cerretti, P. 2016. Redefining the generic limits of Winthemia (Diptera: Tachinidae). Invertebrate Systematics 30:274-289. 54. Stireman, J.O. III. 2016. Community ecology of the “Other” Parasitoids. Current Opinion in Insect Science 14: 87-93. 53. Von Ellenrieder, N., Hauser, M., Kinnee, S., O’Hara, J.E., Stireman, J.O. III, Cerretti, P., Wood, D.M. 2015. First record of a tachinid fly parasitoid (Diptera: Tachinidae) on a dragonfly (Odonata: Calopterygidae). Studia Dipterologica 21(2014):335-341. 52. Letourneau, D.K., Kula, R.R., Sharkey, M.J., Stireman, J.O. III. 2015. Habitat eradication and cropland intensification may reduce parasitoid diversity and natural pest control services in annual crop fields. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 3:000069. DOI: 10.12952/journal.elementa.000069 51. I.S. Winkler, J.D. Blaschke, D.J. Davis, M.S, J.O. Stireman III*, J.E. O'Hara, P.Cerretti, J.K. Moulton. 2015. Explosive radiation or uninformative genes? Origin and early diversification of tachinid flies (Diptera: Tachinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 88:38-54 *corresponding author 50. Cerretti, P., O'Hara, J.E., Winkler, I.S., Giudice, G., Stireman III, J.O. 2015. Two tribes hidden in one genus: the case of Agaedioxenis Villeneuve (Diptera: Tachinidae: Exoristinae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution. DOI 10.1007/s13127-015-0211-0. 49. M.L. Forister, P.D. Coley, I.R. Diniz, M. Fox, A. Glassmire, R. Hazen, J. Hrcek, J. Jahner, T.J. Kozubowski, T. Kursar, J. Lill, R.J. Marquis, H.C. Morais, M. Murakami, V. Novotny, A.K. Panorska, N. Pardikes, R.E. Ricklefs, M.S. Singer, A. Smilanich, J.O. Stireman, D. L. Wagner, T. Walla, G.D. Weiblen, L.A. Dyer. 2015. The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:442-447. 48. Inclán, D.J. & Stireman, J.O. III. 2014. A new species and synonymy of the Neotropical Eucelatoria Townsend and re-description of Myiodoriops Townsend. Zookeys. 464:63-97. 47. Stireman, J. O. III, Devlin, H., & Doyle, A.L. 2014. Habitat Fragmentation, tree diversity and plant invasion interact to structure forest caterpillar communities. Oecologia, 176: 207-224. 46. Cerretti, P., O'Hara, J.E., Wood, D.M., Shima, H., Inclán, D.J., & Stireman, J.O. III. 2014. Signal through the noise? Phylogeny of the Tachinidae (Diptera) as inferred from morphological evidence. Systematic Entomology 39:335-353. 45. Heath, J.J., Kessler, A., Woebbe, E., Cipollini, D.F., & Stireman, J. O. III. 2014. Exploring plant defense theory in tall goldenrod, Solidago altissima. New Phytologist. 202:1357-1370. 44. Cobbs, C.C., Heath, J.J., Stireman, J.O. III & Abbot, P. 2013. Carotenoids in unexpected places: gall midges, lateral gene transfer, and carotenoid biosynthesis in animals. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 68:221-228 43. Heath, J.J., Cipollini, D.F., & Stireman, J. O. III. 2013. The role of carotenoids in mediating interactions between insects and their environment. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 7:1-20. 42. Inclán, D.J. & Stireman, J. O. III. 2013. Revision of the genus Erythromelana Townsend, 1918 (Diptera: Tachinidae) with description of 11 new species and analysis of their phylogeny and diversification. Zootaxa. 3621:1-82. 41. Heath, J.J., Wells, B.L., Cipollini, D.F., & Stireman, J. O. III. 2013. Carnivores and carotenoids are associated with adaptive behavioural divergence in a radiation