L. Lacey Knowles
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Museum of Zoology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
E-mail: knowlesl@umich.edu
Phone: (W) (734) 763-5603 (H) (5734) 904-3525
FAX: (734) 763-4080
POSITIONS
2008-current Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Curator of Insects, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan
2003-2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Curator of Insects, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan
EDUCATION
2001-2002 NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (PERT: Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching) awarded through the Center for Insect Science at the University of Arizona
1999-2001 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation Research Training Group in the Analysis of Biological Diversification at the University of Arizona
1999 Ph.D., Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Dissertation title: Genealogical portraits of Pleistocene speciation and diversity patterns
in montane grasshoppers
1993 M.S., Zoology, University of South Florida. Thesis title: Effects of habitat structure on community assemblages of epifaunal macroinvertebrates in seagrass systems.
1989 B.S., cum laude with honors in Marine Biology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Speciation and processes that promote divergence
Macroevolutionary patterns of species diversity
Evolution of reproductive isolation
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Visiting Miller Research Professorship Award, University of California, Berkeley, 2009.
Visiting Scholar to the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NEScent) at Duke Univeristy, 2009 (declined)
National Science Foundation, DEB 09-18218, (co-PI, Laura Kubatko) Estimating species trees with population genetic approaches: working towards a new paradigm for 21st century phylogenetics, $544,458 ($356,083 to Knowles)
National Science Foundation, DEB-09-01930, Workshop on Estimating Species Trees: Practical and Theoretical Aspects of a New Paradigm in Molecular Systematics, 2009; $11,400.
Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, 2008, support for workshop on Estimating Species Trees, $4,600.
National Science Foundation, DEB-07-15487, Population genetics of species delimitation: methodology and application of a unified approach to inferring species boundaries, 2007-2010; $314,000.
National Science Foundation, DEB-04-47224, Testing speciation hypotheses with genomic analyses in montane grasshoppers, 2005-2008; $514,950.
National Science Foundation, DEB-07-09908, DIG: A unique approach for understanding the maintenance of genetic variation for fitness, 2007-2009; $12,000
National Science Foundation, DEB-06-608147, DIG: An integrative approach to the conservation of Panamanian golden frogs, Panamanian golden frogs, 2006-2008; $12,000
National Science Foundation, REU- Supplement for DEB-09-23762, Population genetics of species delimitation: methodology and application of a unified approach to inferring species boundaries, 2009-2010; $12,000
National Science Foundation, REU- Supplement for DEB-08-22612, Population genetics of species delimitation: methodology and application of a unified approach to inferring species boundaries, 2008-2009; $6,000
National Science Foundation, REU- Supplement for DEB-08-22608, Testing speciation hypotheses with genomic analyses in montane grasshoppers, 2008-2009; $6,000
National Science Foundation, REU- Supplement for DEB-07-23799, Testing speciation hypotheses with genomic analyses in montane grasshoppers, 2007-2008; $6,000
National Science Foundation, REU- Supplement for DEB-06-20058, Testing speciation hypotheses with genomic analyses in montane grasshoppers, 2006-2007; $6,000
National Science Foundation, REU- Supplement for DEB-05-33746, Testing speciation hypotheses with genomic analyses in montane grasshoppers, 2005-2006; $6,000
Elizabeth Caroline Crosby Fund, NSF ADVANCE Project, University of Michigan, 2004, support for project entitled „ Tests of the role of sexual selection in the rapid diversification of montane grasshoppers‟, $16,815.
Funds for course improvements, University of Michigan, 2004, support for digital camera system with real-time imaging for in class demonstrations, Insect Biology, EEB 442, $12,099.
Office of the Vice President for Research Faculty Grant, University of Michigan, 2003, support for project entitled “Linking patterns of genetic variation to mechanisms of speciation”, $10,000.
Rackham Graduate School Spring/Summer Fellowships, University of Michigan, 2003, support for graduate student for project entitled “Insect genitalia: generators of diversity?”; $4000.
Dean‟s Discretionary Fund, University of Michigan, 2003, support for graduate student to work on insect teaching collection for the Insect Biology course, EEB 442; $4000.
Ginzberg Community Learning and Service Center Grant, University of Michigan, 2003, develop service-learning component of new Insect Biology course, EEB 442; entitled „Community Partnerships in Biodiversity: Strengthening the Connection between People and the Natural World‟ $7000
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (PERT: Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching) awarded through the Center for Insect Science at the University of Arizona, 2001.
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation Research Training Group in the Analysis of Biological Diversification at the University of Arizona, 1999.
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation (DEB 9801284), 1998.
Sokal Travel Grant, for travel expenses to meeting to present graduate research, State University of New York at Stony Brook ,1996.
Orthopterist Society Research Award, research grant for graduate students, for pilot study on phylogenetic relationships of Melanoplus grasshoppers, 1996.
Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research, research grant for graduate students, for pilot study on association of speciation with Pleistocene glacial cycles in Melanoplus grasshoppers, 1995.
PUBLICATIONS (graduate and undergraduate co-authors are in italics; postdocs are underlined)
Knowles LL (2009) Statistical phylogeography. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst, in press.
McCormack JE, AJ Zellmer, LL Knowles (2009) Using niche models and null models to detect ecological divergence after, but not during speciation in Aphelocoma jays. Evolution, in review.
Zellmer AJ, LL Knowles (2009) Disentangling the effects of historic versus contemporary landscape structure on population genetic divergence. Mol. Ecol., in press.
Huang H, LL Knowles (2009) What‟s the biological reality of the anomaly zone? Syst. Biol., in press.
McCormack JE, H Huang, LL Knowles (2009) Maximum-likelihood Estimates of Species Trees: how accuracy of phylogenetic inference depends upon the divergence history and sampling design. Syst. Biol., in press.
Knowles LL, TM Chappell, EJ Marquez (2009) Concordance of hybrid clines reveals sexual selection‟s role in genitalic divergence and speciation. J. Evol. Biol., in review.
Oneal E, D Otte, LL Knowles (2009) Testing for biogeographic mechanisms promoting divergence in Caribbean crickets (genus Amphiacusta). J. Biogeogr, in press.
Kubatko L, BC Carstens, LL Knowles (2009) STEM: Species tree estimation using Maximum likelihood for gene trees under coalescence, Bioinformatics 25:971-973.
McCormack JE, H Huang, LL Knowles (2009) Sky islands. in R. Gillespie and D. Clague, eds. Encyclopedia of Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
Knowles LL (2008) Why does a method that fails continued to be used? Evolution 62:2713-17.
Gray DA, H Huang, LL Knowles (2008) Molecular evidence of a peripatric origin for two sympatric species of field crickets (Gryllus rubens and G. texensis) revealed from coalescent simulations and population genetic tests. Mol. Ecol. 17:3826-3855.
Knowles LL, Y-H Chan (2008) Resolving species phylogenies of recent evolutionary radiations. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 95:224-231.
Connallon T, LL Knowles (2007) Recombination rate and protein evolution in yeast. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7:235.doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-235.
Richards CL, BC Carstens, LL Knowles (2007) Distribution modeling and statistical phylogeography: an integrative framework for testing biogeographic hypotheses. J. Biogeogr. 34:1833-1845.
Marque EJ, LL Knowles (2007) Correlated Evolution in multivariate traits: detecting codivergence across multiple dimensions. J. Evol. Biol. 20:2334-2348. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01415x
Knowles LL, BC Carstens, ML Keat (2007) Coupled Genetic and Ecological-Niche Models to Examine How Past Population Distributions Contribute to Divergence. Current Biol. 17:1-7.
Knowles LL, BC Carstens (2007) Delimiting species without monophyletic gene trees. Syst. Biol. 56:887-895.
Knowles, L.L. BC Carstens (2007) Estimating a geographically explicit model of population divergence. Evolution 61:477-493.
Richards CL, LL Knowles (2007) Tests of phenotypic and genetic concordance and their application to the conservation of Panamanian golden frogs (Anura, Bufonidae). Mol. Ecol. 16:3119-3133.
Klimov PB, BM OConnor, LL Knowles (2007) Museum specimens and phylogenies elucidate ecology‟s role in determining coevoutionary associations between chaetodactylid mites and their bee hosts. Evolution 61:1368-1379.
Carstens BC, LL Knowles (2007) Estimating species phylogeny from gene-tree probabilities despite incomplete lineage sorting: an example from Melanoplus grasshoppers. Syst. Biol. 56:1-12.
Carstens BC, LL Knowles (2007) Shifting distributions and speciation: species divergence during rapid climate change. Mol. Ecol. 16:619-627.
Oneal E, T Connallon, LL Knowles (2007) Conflict between direct and indirect benefits of female choice in desert Drosophila. Biology Letters, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 3:29-32.
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