PI: Professor Daniel I. Bolnick

Daniel Bolnick at HHMI's Janelia Farms campus on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 in Ashburn, Va. (Kevin Wolf/AP Images for HHMI)
Daniel Bolnick at HHMI’s Janelia Farms campus on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 in Ashburn, Va. (Kevin Wolf/AP Images for HHMI)

Daniel Bolnick

Professor, Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut

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Contact:

Daniel Bolnick

Email: daniel.bolnick <at> uconn.edu

Office: Pharmacy-Biology Building, Room 305C.

Labs: Pharm-Bio 317 & 319. Atwater 232, 234, 236

Mailing Address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 75 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, University of Connecticut,  Storrs, CT 06269-3043, USA

Twitter: @DanielBolnick

Research Interests

My research interests lie at the intersection of ecology, evolution, behavior, and immunology. I wish to understand how interactions among individuals and among species affect the evolution of biodiversity within and among populations, with a particular emphasis on host-parasite and predator-prey interactions. At the moment, I am particularly interested in using natural variation within and among wild populations to as a tool to understand the evolution of host-parasite interactions and immune function.

Publications

Dan Bolnick’s Google Scholar Page

Education

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Davis, CA.
Doctor of Philosophy in Population Biology, September 12, 2003.
Thesis: “Intraspecific competition and niche evolution”.
Advisor: Dr. Peter C. Wainwright.

WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Williamstown MA.
Bachelor of Arts, June 1996, Magna Cum Laude.
Thesis: “Drought suppression of hybrids in an intrograding natural population of willows, Salix sericea, S. eriocephala, and their hybrid”.
Advisor: Dr. Colin M. Orians.

Appointments

  • Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist ( 2009 – 2015)
  • Professor, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin (2013-2018)
  • Associate Professor, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin (2009- 2013)
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston (2009-2016)
  • Assistant Professor, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin (2004-2009)
  • Teacher, Same Secondary School, Kilimanjaro District, Tanzania; US Peace Corps 1996-1998
  • Secretary, American Society of Naturalists 2010-2012; The ASN is the oldest scientific research society in the United States

Awards

  • College of Biological Sciences Young Alumni Award, University of California at Davis, 2011.
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist, 2009-2015
  • David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellow, 2007-2012
  • Teaching Excellence Award, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin. 2007.
  • George Mercer Award 2005. Awarded by the Ecological Society of America for an outstanding ecological research paper published within the past two years by a younger researcher (less than 40 years old).
  • Dobzhansky Prize 2005. Awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution “in recognition of the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding young evolutionary biologist.”
  • American Society of Naturalists’ Young Investigators Prize 2005. “recognize outstanding and promising work by investigators who have received their doctorates in the three years preceding the application deadline or who are in their final year of graduate school. ”
  • Merton Love Award for best dissertation in Evolution and Ecology; Univ. of California at Davis 2004.
  • Henry A. Dwight, 1829, Botanical Prize; Williams College 1996.
  • Thomas G. Hardie III, 1978, Prize in Environmental Studies; Williams College 1996.
  • Fulbright Grant (Malawi), 1996 (award declined in order to teach through U.S. Peace Corps).
  • Phi Beta Kappa (elected 1996).
  • Sigma Xi (elected 1996).

Classes Taught

UConn

  • At UConn I expect to teach: Evolutionary Medicine, and Evolutionary Ecology

UT Austin

  • UTeach Research Methods
  • Speciation (Graduate course)
  • Ecology of Speciation (Graduate course)
  • Bayesian Linear Modeling (Graduate course)
  • Muddyboots Statistics (Applied data analysis) (Graduate course)
  • Macroevolution (Graduate course)
  • Fundamentals of Evolution (Graduate course)
  • Helsinki Summer School in Mathematical Biology (August 2012)

University of California at Davis

  • Ecology (University of California at Davis)

Same Secondary School, Tanzania

  • Applied mathematics
  • A-level Biology

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