Shannon Hedtke Section of Integrative Biology University of Texas at Austin Mail Code CO930 Austin, TX 78712 [email protected] Education 2002-2009 Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Texas at Austin Thesis: “Origin and maintenance of androgenesis: male asexual reproduction in the clam genus Corbicula” Supervisor: Dr. David Hillis 1996-2001 Cornell University 1990-1993 Grinnell College, B.A. in History with honors Publications Hedtke, S.M., M. Glaubrecht, and D. M. Hillis. 2011. Rare gene capture in a predominantly asexual species. In press Proc Natl Acad Sci USA Hedtke, S.M. and D. M. Hillis. 2011. The potential role of androgenesis in cytoplasmic- nuclear phylogenetic discordance. Systematic Biology 60(1):87-96. Brown, J.E., S.M. Hedtke, A.R. Lemmon, and E.M. Lemmon. 2010. When trees grow too long: investigating the causes of highly inaccurate Bayesian branch-length estimates. Systematic Biology 59(2):145-161. Hedtke, S.M., K. Stanger-Hall, R. J. Baker, and D.M. Hillis. 2008. All-male asexuality: origin and maintenance of androgenesis in the Asian clam Corbicula. Evolution 65(5): 1119-1136. Heath, T.A.*, S.M. Hedtke*, and D.M. Hillis*. 2008. Taxon sampling and the accuracy of phylogenetic estimates. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 46(3): 239-257. *authors contributed equally to this work. Hedtke, S.M., K.R. Zamudio, C.A. Phillips, J. Losos, and P. Brylski. 2007. Conservation genetics of the threatened Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard (Uma inornata). Herpetologica 63(4):411-420. Hedtke, S.M., T.M. Townsend, and D.M. Hillis. 2006. Resolution of phylogenetic conflict in large data sets by increased taxon sampling. Systematic Biology 55(3): 522-529. Employment 2010-present Post-doctoral researcher, University of Texas at Austin 2009-present Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin 2002-2004 Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin 2003 Research assistant, University of Texas at Austin 2001-2002 Laboratory technician, Cornell University 2000 Traineeship, Molecular Genetics Lab, National Zoological Park Shannon Hedtke CV: p. 2 Research Grants 2007 National Science Foundation IGERT Research Award 2005 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant 2004 Hamilton Memorial Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin 2004 C.P. “Pete” Oliver Memorial Endowment for Genetic Research, UT at Austin 2004 Dorothea Bennett Memorial Graduate Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin 2003 Carl Gottfried Hartman Graduate Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin Fellowships and Awards 2009 Terrell H. Hamilton Endowed Graduate Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin 2006-9 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 2006-9 David Bruton, Jr. Graduate Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin 2004-6 National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship in Computational Phylogenetics and its Application to Biology 2004 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for Advanced Systematics, UT-Austin 2002 Houston Rodeo and Livestock Show Scholarship Academic Presentations 2009 Invited speaker, European Society for Evolutionary Biology Congress: “Rare genetic capture by asexual paternal clones in the clam genus Corbicula.” 2006 Evolution 2006: "Attack of the Clam Clones!: the infectious spread of parasitic male asexuality" 2004 University of Texas Graduate Student Symposium: "Polyploidy and androgenesis in the invasive clam genus Corbicula" 2003 Guest lecturer, course in ecology and conservation: "Population dynamics in the invasive clam genus Corbicula." Service 2010 Invited speaker to First-Year Interest Group (FIG) at UT-Austin 2009 Member, Barton Springs Advisory Committee 2008 National Science Education Council volunteer for short film “Chris Comer: Expelled for Real” www.expelledexposed.com/videos/php 2008 Invited presenter for the Science Undergraduate Research Group’s Science Undergraduate Research Extravaganza, UT-Austin: “Attack of the clam clones! All- male asexuality in Corbicula” 2008 Organized IGERT workshop: "Estimating Species Phylogenies Under Coalescent Models" 2005 UT-Austin faculty search committee for computational biology and molecular evolution 2004-5 Graduate student representative to the Integrative Biology faculty 2004 Invited speaker to the Natural Sciences Council, an undergraduate group at UT- Austin: “Graduate School: Why Go and How?” 2003 Organized IGERT workshop: “Modeling of Sequence Evolution” 2003 Mentor for undergraduates through the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Reviewer for W.W. Norton & Co., PNAS, Systematic Biology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, and Biochemical Genetics.