2019 CV Kathryn E. Perez, Ph.D. Department of Biology, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley 1201 W. University Dr., Edinburg, TX 78539 Phone: 956-665-7145 Email: [email protected] URL: http://northamericanlandsnails.org/ Education 2005 Ph.D. Biological Sciences, University of Alabama. 2001 M.S. Biology, Angelo State University. 1998 B.S. Biology, Angelo State University. Professional Experience Assistant Professor, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2014-present. Assistant Professor, University of Texas Pan-American/University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2014-2015. Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Biology, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2017-present. Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, 2012-2014. Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, 2008-2012. Member, Assessment of Competence in Experimental Design in Biology (ACED-Bio) Research Coordination Network 2014-2019. Associate, UWL Institute for Latina/o and Latin American Studies. 2008-2014. Research Associate, Section of Mollusks, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 2005-present. Postdoctoral Fellow, Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research and Education (NIH-SPIRE), 2005-2008. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Visiting Research Scholar, Duke University, Durham NC, Postdoctoral Research with Dr. Cliff Cunningham, 2005-2008. Visiting Assistant Professor, North Carolina Central University, Durham NC, 2007. Graduate Fellow, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (NSF-IGERT) program in the Freshwater Sciences, University of Alabama, 2001-2005. Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas, 1999-2001. Awards 2019-2020 Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award, UTRGV, College of Sciences. Courses Taught University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Biological Communications Biological Evolution (online) Invertebrate Zoology University of Texas Pan American North Carolina Central University Biological Writing General Biology II Biological Evolution (in person and online) Principles of Ecology University of Wisconsin – La Crosse Organismal Biology Additional Laboratories Animal Biology Genetics General Biology Vertebrate Zoology Introductory Biology Invertebrate Zoology Evolutionary Biology Human Anatomy & Physiology Capstone in Biology Man and the Environment Undergraduate/High School Student Involvement Current: Alison Shofield, Dominique Alvear, Julia Sepulveda, Salma Ruiz, Vanessa Torres, Christina Ortega, Melissa Lopez, Taylor Villanueva, Jose Rojas. Past: Niharika Kunta, Amy Huang, Eli Ruiz, Andrea Morrison, Rosie Padron, Anu Cherayil, Ruth Lopez, Manuel Zavala, Claudia DeLeon, Mary Guerra, Victoria Garcia Gamboa, Marco Martinez-Cruz, Josue Pruneda, Bianca Serda, Megan Mills, Flavio Hernandez, Edmundo Castillo, Danny Garcia, Nallely Lira, Krystal Gonzalez, Erica Durham, Emily Durham, Brynn Sundberg, Chris Lynum, Brittany Harried, Kyle Fischer, Courtney Hetzel, Alyssa Pizzoferrato, Josh Laurila, Amanda Milde, Spencer Neibur, Traci Buchmann, Rachelle Amundson, Levi Hartmann, Kirk Gallant, Yer Lor, Jennifer Nestleroad, Kaila Davis, Eugene Thibodeaux, Janet Waggoner, Steven Savarese, Rachel Schoone. Graduate Student Involvement MS Thesis advised: 1 2019 CV Briante Najev, 2017 - 2019. Survey of Texas land snails. Marco Martinez Cruz, M.S. 2018. Systematics of Succinidae. Rebecca Werren, M.S. 2012. Invasive genetics of Bithynia. MS Thesis Committee Membership: UPTA/UTRGV Raziel Flores (2015-present) UWL Benjamin Walker (2010), Casey Nolan (2012), Rachelle Amundson (2013), Matthew Foltz (2011), Joe Styga (2012), David Hayes (2007). Disciplinary Research Publications (* denotes undergraduate student author, ** denotes graduate student author) Najev, B.**, R. Flores**, A. Schofield*, B.T. Hutchins, A. McDonald, K.E. Perez. Terrestrial snail communities of the lower Rio Grande Valley are affected by human disturbance and correlate with vegetation community composition. Southwestern Naturalist, In press. Diaz, P.H., D. Alvear*, K.E. Perez. 2020. Mesohabitat associations of the Devil Tryonia, Tryonia diaboli (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea: Cochliopidae). Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation, 23:18–24. Alvear, D.A.*#, P.H. Diaz, R. Gibson, B.T. Hutchins, B. Schwartz, K.E. Perez#. (#First and last authors contributed equally). Expanding the known ranges of the endemic, phreatic snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) of Texas, USA. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation, 23:1-17. Gladstone, N.S.**, K.E. Perez, N. Shoobs**, E.B. Pieper, K.E. Dooley, E.T. Carter, A.S. Engel, M.L Niemiller. 2019. A new species of stygobitic snail in the genus Antrorbis Hershler and Thompson, 1990 (Gastropoda: Cochliopidae) from the Appalachian Valley and Ridge of eastern Tennessee, USA. Zookeys, 898:103-120. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.898.46917. Species authorship is Perez, K.E. et al. Nekola, J.C., B.T. Hutchins, A. Schofield*, B. Najev**, K.E. Perez. 2019. Caveat comsumptor notitia museo: Let the museum data user beware. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28:1722-1734. Botka*, R., K.E. Perez, T. King-Heiden. 2018. Embryonic exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of triclosan impairs foraging efficiency in zebrafish larvae. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 37(12):3124-3133. Minton, R.L., R. R. Beasley **, S. L. Lance, & K.E. Perez. 2018. Development, characterization, and utility of 13 polymorphic microsatellite loci in Praticolella species from South Texas, USA. American Malacological Bulletin 35(2):158-162. Perez, K.E. & T. C. King-Heiden. 2018. Geometric morphometrics as a tool to evaluate teratogenic effects in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Methods Molecular Biology, Vol. 1797, Luís Félix (Ed): Teratogenicity Testing. Walker, J.M. (ed). Springer Nature 1797: 373-391. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7883-0_20. Keith, K., R.A. Stamler, J.J. Randall, K. E. Perez, J. A. McDonald. 2017. Ipomoea gilana: A New and Endemic Morning Glory (Ipomoeeae, Convolvulaceae) in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico. Systematic Botany 42(4):974-978. Perez, K.E., V. Garcia Gamboa*, C.M. Schneider*, R.L. Burks. 2017. Resaca supports invasive apple snails (Pomacea maculata, Perry, 1810; Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae) within the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Checklist 13(3):1-9. Perez, K.E., E. Ruiz*, M. A. Martinez Cruz*, R.L. Minton. 2017. A new species of south Texas scrubsnail, Praticolella (Von Martens, 1892) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Polygyridae). The Nautilus 131:67-75. Minton, R.L., M. A. Martinez Cruz*, M.L. Farman, K.E. Perez. 2016. Two complete mitochondrial genomes from Praticolella mexicana Perez, 2011 (Polygyridae) and gene order evolution in Helicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys 626: 137-154. Perez, K.E, Werren, R.L.**, Lynum, C.A.*, Hartman, L.A.*, Majoros, G., Cole, R. 2016. Colonization of North America by Bithynia tentaculata. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation 19(2):56-68. Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society, National Strategy Ad Hoc Committee: M. Bradley, R.S. Butler, H.L. Dunn, C. Gatenby, P.A. Morrison, T.J. Newton, M. Patterson, K.E. Perez, C.C. Vaughn, D. A. Woolnough, and S. J. Zigler. 2016. A national strategy for the conservation of native freshwater mollusks. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation 19:1-21. (authors alphabetical) Harried, B.*, K. Fischer*, K.E. Perez, G. Sandland. 2015. Assessing infection patterns in Chinese mystery snails from Wisconsin, USA using field and laboratory approaches. Aquatic Invasions 10(2):169-175. Perez, K.E., N. Defreitas*, J. Slapcinsky, R.L. Minton, F.E. Anderson, T.A. Pearce. 2014. Molecular phylogeny, evolution of shell shape, and DNA barcoding in Polygyridae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), an endemic North American clade of land snails. American Malacological Bulletin 32(1):1-31. Chollett, D.* Perez, K.E., King-Heiden, T.C. 2014. Embryonic exposure to sublethal concentrations of 2,3,7,8-TCDD impairs prey capture by zebrafish larvae. Journal of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry. 33(4): 784-790. Nominated for the ET&C Best Paper award, 2014. Lynum, C.*, Amundson, R.*, Kuchta, M., Little, A., Hyde, T., Perez, K.E. 2013. Hendersonia occulta (Say 1831), the Cherrystone drop snail (Gastropoda, Helicinidae), extended geographic distribution. Checklist 9(2):472-474. Foltz, M.**, K.E. Perez, T. Volk. 2013. Molecular phylogeny and morphology reveals three new species of Cantharellus within 20 meters of one another in western Wisconsin, USA. Mycologia 105(2): 447-461. Perez, K. E., Minton, R. L., Hayes, D. M., Reese, S. A. 2011. Spatial distribution of the Balcones Elimia, Elimia comalensis (Pilsbry, 1890) (Gastropoda: Pleuroceridae) in Comal Springs, Texas. Texas Journal of Science 63(1):183-198. 2 2019 CV Perez, K.E. 2011. A new species of Praticolella (Gastropoda: Polygyridae) from northeastern Mexico and revision of several species of this genus. The Nautilus 125(3):113-126. Henningsen, J.P.**, Lance, S.L., Jones, K. L., Hagen, C., Laurila, J.*, Cole, R. A., Perez, K. E. 2010. Development and characterization of 17 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the faucet snail, Bithynia tentaculata (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Bithynidae). Conservation Genetics Resources 2:247-250. Perez, K. E. 2010. Current research on land snails and land snail conservation: Leslie Hubricht Memorial Symposium on Terrestrial Gastropods. American Malacological Bulletin, 28:13-14. Minton, R.L. & K. E. Perez. 2010. Analysis of museum records highlights unprotected land snail diversity in Alabama. American Malacological Bulletin, 28:91-95. Maggs, C. A., R.