Jeffrey L. Feder

Jeffrey L. Feder

A. Vitae

Present Address:Department of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574)-631-4159 email: fax: (574)-631-7413

Marital Status: Married, Emma C. Wang, 3 children - Jasmine 12, Hannah 8, Amanda 5

Undergraduate: B.A. Zoology PomonaCollege, Claremont, CA 1976-1980. Cum Laude

Doctorate:MichiganStateUniversity, East Lansing, Michigan. Department of Zoology, 1981-1988. Major Professor: Dr. Guy L. Bush

Post-Doctoral:Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Univ., 1989-1991.

Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago. 1992-1993.

B. Appointments

Professor: University of Notre Dame. May 2006-present.

Assoc. Professor:University of Notre Dame. May 1999-2006.

Assist. Professor:University of Notre Dame. Jan. 1993-May 1999.

C. Honors and Awards:

Undergraduate Research Fellow, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Univ.Georgia, 1979.

Sloan Foundation Evolutionary Biology Postdoctoral Fellow, 1989-1991.

NSF Career Grant Award: 1995-1998

Society member: Evolution Society of America, Entomological Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Genetics Society of America.

Associate Editor for the journals Evolution and Entomologia

Member, USDA-NRI General Entomology and Nematology Panel, NSF Population Biology Panel, NSF Gen-En Biocomplexity panel, NSF Post-Doctoral Fellowship Panel, NSF IGERT panel, NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in Environ. Biology, NSF POWRE Fellowships in Environmental Biology, NSF CAREER symposium on undergrad.education.

Dept. Biological Sciences Committee member Graduate Admissions & Study, Graduate Recruitment, Affirmative Action, Environmental Genomics.

Selected Recent Publications:

Forbes, A.A., T.H.Q. Powell, N. F. Lobo, and J.L. Feder. 2007. Resolving a DNA sequencing artifact associatedwith topoisomerase I generated clones in theplasmid pCR®2.1.

BioTechniques42: 458-462.

Xie, X., J. Rull, A.P. Michel, S. Velez, A.A. Forbes, N.F. Lobo, M. Aluja, and J.L. Feder. 2007. Hawthorn-Infesting Populations of Rhagoletis pomonella in Mexico and Speciation Mode Plurality. Evolution61: 1091-1105.

Michel, A.P., J. Rull, M. Aluja and J.L. Feder. 2007.The Genetic Structure of Hawthorn-infesting Rhagoletis pomonella Populations in Mexico: Implications for Sympatric Host Race Formation. Molecular Ecology16: 2867-2878.

Noor, M.A.F. and Feder, J.L.2006. Genetics of Speciation. Nature Genetics 7: 851-861.

Velez, S. and Feder, J.L. 2006. Integrating Biogeographic and Genetic Approaches to Investigate the History of Bioluminescent Color Alleles in the Jamaican click beetle Pyrophorus plagiophthalamusMolecular Ecology15: 1339-1404.

Forbes, A., Fisher, J. and Feder, J.L.2005. Habitat Avoidance: Overlooking an Important Aspect of Host Specific Mating and Sympatric Speciation? Evolution 59: 1552-1559.

Feder, J.L., Xie, X. Rull, J., Velez, S., Forbes, A., Dambroski, H., Filchak, K. and Aluja, M. 2005. Mayr, Dobzhansky, Bush and the complexities of sympatric speciation in Rhagoletis. Proc. Natl Acad. of Sci. U.S.A.102: 6573-6580.

Dambroski, H.R., Linn C. Jr., S.H. Berlocher, S.B. Olsson, A. Forbes,W.R. Roelofs and J.L. Feder. 2005 Host Fruit Odor Discrimination in F2 and Backcross Hybrids of Rhagoletis pomonella Flies and its Implications for Sympatric Race Formation and Speciation. Evolution 59: 1953-1964.

Linn, C. Jr, Dambroski, H.R., Feder, J.L, Berlocher, S.H., Nojima, S. and Roelofs, W.L. 2004Postzygotic isolating factor in sympatric speciation in Rhagoletis Flies: Reduced response of hybrids to parental host-fruit odors. Proc. Natl Acad. of Sci. U.S.A. 101: 17753-17758.

Feder, J.L., S.H. Berlocher, J.B. Roethele, J.J. Smith, W.L. Perry, V. Gavrilovic, K.E. Filchak, and M. Aluja. 2003 Allopatric Genetic Origins for Sympatric Host Race Formation in Rhagoletis.Proc. Natl Acad. of Sci. U.S.A.. 100: 10314-10319.

Linn, C., J.L. Feder, S. Nojima, H. Dambroski, S.H. Berlocher, and W. Roelofs. 2003Fruit Odor Discrimination and Sympatric Host Race Formation in Rhagoletis. Proc. Natl Acad. of Sci. U.S.A. 100: 11490-11493.

Berlocher, S.H. and J. L. Feder. 2002 Sympatric speciation in phytophagous insects: moving beyond controversy? Annual Review of Entomology 47:773-815.

K.E. Filchak, J.B. Roethele and J.L. Feder. 2000 Natural Selection and sympatric divergence in the apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella. Nature 407: 739-742.

E. Synergistic Activities

Project Director – NSF IGERT grant, new interdisciplinary GLOBES program at Univ. of Notre Dame in Global Linkages of Biology, the Environment, and Society; Howard Hughes Program for High School Biology Teachers - hosted 3 local high school teachers to perform research in my laboratory; CANDIX / MacNair Program - hosted 3 minority undergraduate students from Xavier Univ. to perform summer research projects in my laboratory; Have hosted 50 students doing undergraduate research in my laboratory, 26 of whom were women and 6 minority; Have trained a total of 12 graduate students and 4 Post-Doctorate Associates; Assisted author Jonathan Weiner in production of the book“The Beak of the Finch”.

F. Current External Grant Support

1) Developing an Applying a Portable Real Time Genetic Probe for Detecting Aquatic Invasive Species. co-PI with D. Lodge C. Chang, Univ. Notre Dame. Great Lakes Protection Fund. $799,898. 2007-2010.

2) Diapause Energetics in the Apple Maggot Rhagoletis pomonella. co-PI with D. Hahn, Univ. of Florida. NSF$436,000. 2007-2010.

3) Genomics of Diapause and Chemoreception in the Apple Maggot Fly co-PI with S. Berlocher and H. Robertson, Univ.Illinois at Urbana USDA-NRI. $350,000. 2007-2010.

4) DNA and Morphometric Diagnostics for Apple and SnowberryMaggot Flies. co-PI with T. Unruh and W. Yee, USDA-Yakima, WA. Washington Fruit Growers $20,000. 2007-2008.

5) Cascading Speciation in a Parasitoid Wasp. PI with graduate student Andrew Forbes. NSF DDIG. $9,740. 2007-2009.

6) Host Race Formation among Southern Hawthorn-Infesting Rhagoletis pomonella. Lead PI with co-PIs Charles Linn, CornellUniv., and S. Berlocher, Univ. Illinois., Urbana. NSF $947,090. 2006-2009.

7) Global Linkages Biology, Environment,and Society. Lead PI with co-PIs D. Lodge, G. Lamberti , A. Fuentes, and N. Besansky. NSF IGERT. $3,144,381. 2005-2010.

8) The Biogeography of Sympatric Speciation in Rhagoletis. sole PI NSF$458,300. 2005-2008.

9) IndianaCenter for Insect Genomics. co-PI with Jeanne Romero-Severson (PI), Univ. Notre Dame, and 10 others. 21st Century Grant, State of Indiana. $2,000,000. 2004-2007.