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Dr. Kate Goddard
Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Associate Dean

Research Interests

EDUCATION 

    University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Ph.D 1987
Concentration: Evolution and Genetics
 Dissertation: Reproductive Modes of the freshwater minnow Phoxinus eos x Phoxinus neogaeus.

Boston U. Marine Program, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole., MA. Graduate Student 1981-83
Concentration: Biochemical Toxicology.
Graduate Research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Publication: Uptake, toxicity, and distribution of benzo(a)pyrene and monooxygenase induction in the topminnows Poeciliopsis monacha and Poeciliopsis lucida. 

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. M.S. 1981.
Concentration: Aquatic Ecology.
Thesis: The Abundance and Distribution of Rotifers in Montandon Marsh, Northumberland County, PA

Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA.  B.A. 1978.
Major: Biology.
Senior Thesis Research: Zooplankton and phytoplankton population cycles in a quarry pond

 

COURSES TAUGHT

                                               BIO213                Genetics
                                                 BIO213L               Genetics Lab
                                              BIO310               Biological Oceanography
                                                BIO310L               Biological Oceanography Lab
                                             BIO394              Watershed Investigations and Actions
                                                 BIO349W               Virology
                                           LS100               CIE I
                                                 BIO424W               Evolution

 

OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES

                      New Course Development                       

                                                      BIO350 Aquatic Biology
                                                      BIO394 Watershed Research and Action
                                                      BIO310 Biological Oceanography

 

AWARDS & FUNDING

                                        2006                                    NSF-REU
"An REU Site in Environmental Biology at Ursinus College"
                                       2004-2005  

Project Pericles grant for course development

 
                                       2002

    Poster selected for Council on Undergraduate Research     Poster Session on Capitol Hill: Morgans*, A.M. Janelsins*, L. Lewis*, R. Dawley and K. Goddard. 
Analysis of the number of clones of Fundulus heteroclitus.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

                                        1999

 Letting, D.L.*, D.A. Fecteau*, T.F. Haws*, S.L. Reed*. R.O. Hopkins*, and K.A. Goddard.
Unexpected ratio of allozyme expression in diploid and triploid individuals of the clonal hybrid fish Phoxinus eos-neogaeus.
Journal of Experimental Zoology 284:663-674

 
                                        1999

Dawley, R.M., D. Chrzanowski*, K. Cornell*, and K.A. Goddard.
Allozyme analysis of clonal diversity among unisexual hybrids of the killifishes Fundulus heteroclitus and F.diaphanus.
Journal of Heredity 90:607-612

 
                                        1999

Johnson, S. G., R. Hopkins*, and K. A. Goddard.
Constraints on elevated ploidy levels in hybrid and non-hybrid parthenogenetic snails.
 Journal of Heredity 90:659-622.