COURSES TAUGHT

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

AWARDS & FUNDING

1997    Author, Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Grant to Ursinus College, 1997-1999.

1995    Nominated to membership, PKAL Faculty for the 21^st Century (F21), Class of 1995

1994    Project Director.  NSF ILI Grant USE-9055833, Fostering creativity, teamwork, and scientific thinking in the introductory biology laboratory: a computer-based approach, 1994-1995.

1993    Co-author, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Grant to Ursinus College ("HHMI #2," which funded new introductory biology laboratories and a minority program), 1993-1997.

1993    Co-Project Director. NSF Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement (ILI) Grant DUE-9350974, Experiments in Genetics and Evolution, 1993-1994.  (PD: K. Goddard)

1991    Co-author Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Grant to Ursinus College ("HHMI #1," which funded undergraduate summer research and a faculty position in cell biology/biochemistry), 1991-1996.

1991    Co-Project Director.  NSF ILI Grant USE-9051288, Scanning Electron Microscopy at Ursinus College, 1991-1992.  (PD: A. C. Allen)

1990    Project Director.  NSF ILI USE-9050888, Flow Cytometry at Ursinus College, 1990-1991.

1990    Co-Project Director.  NSF ILI Grant USE-9051558, Instrumentation for Microscopy at Ursinus College, 1990-1991.  (PD: E. Dawley)

1984    Award for Excellence in Laboratory Instruction, University of Connecticut Alumni Association

1983    Best Student Paper (Genetics), American Society Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

SELECTED PUBLICATION & PRESENTATIONS

2000            Dawley, R.M., A. M. Yeakel*, K. Beaulieu*, and K. L. Phiel*.  Histocompatibility analysis of clonal diversity in unisexual hybrids of the killifishes Fundulus heteroclitus and Fundulus diaphanus.  Canadian J. Zool. 78:923-930. (PR)

1999            Dawley, R.M., D. Chrzanowski*, K. L. Phiel (neé Cornell)*, K. Beaulieu*, and Goddard K. A. 1999. Allozyme analysis of clonal diversity among unisexual hybrids of the killifishes Fundulus diaphanus and F.  heteroclitus. J. Hered. 90:607-612. (PR)

1997            Dawley, R. M., J. Rupprecht*, and R. J. Schultz, 1997.  Genome size of bisexual and unisexual Poeciliopsis.  J. Heredity 88:249-252. (PR)

1992            Dawley, R. M. Clonal hybrids of the common laboratory fish Fundulus heteroclitus.   Proc. Nat'l Acad. of Sci. USA. 89:2485-2488. (PR)

1991            Dawley, R. M.  Review of the book Functional Biology of Clonal Animals, by R. N. Hughes.  BioScience 41:51-52. (invited; no PR)

1990            Goddard,  K. A. and R. M. Dawley. Transmission of a diploid clonal genome by diploid and diploid-triploid mosaic members of the Phoxinus eos-neogaeus complex. Evolution 44:1052-1065. (PR)

1989    Dawley, R. M. and J. P. Bogart (eds.). Evolution and Ecology of Unisexual Vertebrates.  Bulletin 466, New York State Museum, Albany.  301 pp.  (23 scientific papers from a symposium I organized at  the Amer. Soc. of Ichthy. and Herpet, Albany, NY, June, 1987.)

Dawley R. M.  An introduction to unisexual vertebrates.  In: Evolution and ecology of unisexual vertebrates  (Dawley R. M. and Bogart JP, eds).  Albany: New York State Museum; Bull. 466, 1-28. (PR)

Goddard K. A., Dawley R. M., and Dowling T.  Origin and genetic relationships of diploid, triploid, and diploid-triploid mosaic biotypes in the Phoxinus eos-neogaeus unisexual complex.  In: Evolution and ecology of unisexual vertebrates  (Dawley R. M. and Bogart JP, eds).  Albany: New York State Museum; Bull. 466, 268-280. (PR)

Dawley, E. M. and R. M. Dawley. A review of three current texts in comparative vertebrate anatomy.  Copeia 1989:532-534.  (invited; no PR)

1988            Dawley, R. M. and K. A. Goddard.  Diploid-triploid mosaics in unisexual hybrids of Phoxinus eos and Phoxinus neogaeus.  Evolution 62:649-659. (PR)

1987            Dawley, R. M., R. J. Schultz, and K. A. Goddard.  Clonal reproduction and polyploidy in hybrids of Phoxinus eos  and P. neogaeus.  Copeia 1987(2): 275-283. (PR)

1986            Dawley, R. M.  Hybridization and polyploidy in a community of three sunfish species.  Copeia 1987: 326-335. (PR)

1985            Dawley, E. M. and R. M. Dawley. Species discrimination by chemical cues in a unisexual-bisexual complex of salamanders.  J. Herpetology  20:114-116. (PR)

1985            Dawley, R. M., J. H. Graham, and R. J. Schultz. The triploid progeny of pumpkinseed x green sunfish hybrids.  J. Heredity 76:251-257. (PR)

1979            Dawley, R. M., J. M. Zawiskie, and J. W. Cosgriff. A rauisuchid thecodont from the Upper Triassic Popo Agie Formation of Wyoming.  J. Paleont. 53:1428-31. (PR)  

2000            Dawley, R. M. Clonal diversity in unisexual gynogentic hybirds of Fundulus diaphanus and F. heteroclitus. Invited speaker in the Symposium on Unisexual Fishes, Biannual meeting of the EEEF (Ecology and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes), University of Georgia, Athens GA, May 20-24.

1999            Hopkins, R.O*^†, B. R. Nath*, D. L. Letting*, T. A. Savidge*, B. Jahanbin*, R.M. Dawley, and K. A. Goddard.  Fundulus diaphanus is the maternal parent of the clonal species F. diaphanus x heteroclitus.  Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Sate College, PA, June 25-26.

1998    Fields, Mary B., Jennifer M. McGee*^†, Jennifer Lattanze*^†, Laura Brouse*, and Robert M. Dawley.  Genome size in Mimulus (Schrophulariaceae): reduction following polyploidy. Nat'l Meeting of the Botanical Soc. of Amer. and the Amer. Inst. of Biol. Sci., Baltimore, August 3. (poster)

            Jennifer Lattanze*, Jennifer M. McGee*, Lori Lasco*^†, Jennifer Hansen*^†, Mary Fields, and Robert Dawley.  Genome size in Mimulus (Schrophulariaceae): reduction following polyploidy.  Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society.  Laurel MD,  July 21-22. (poster)

            Jennifer Hansen*^†, Lori Lasco*^†, Jessica A. Chinault*, John J. Kerrigan*, Mary Fields and Robert Dawley.  The genomes of rapid-cycling Brassicas are no smaller than those of their wild-type progenitors.  Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society.  Laurel MD,  July 21-22. (poster)

1997            Dawley, R. M.^†, G. Shapiro*, and J. Chinault*. Mosaicism in genome size in Drosophila.  Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago Sheraton, Chicago, IL, April 16-19. (poster)

            Dawley, R. M.^†, M. Baganski*, J. Kerrigan*, and V. Voss*. Evolution of genome size in Drosophila: Comparisons among populations, species, and species groups. Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago Sheraton, Chicago, IL, April 16-19. (poster)

            Panel discussant on Innovative Methods in Introductory Science Courses, PKAL Regional Conference, Lehigh University, March 15.  (invited)

1996            Dawley, R. M.^†   Genetics of feminist fish.  BBB Honors Society Induction Speaker, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, October. (invited)

1994            Cornell, K.*^†, Chrzanowski, D. *^†, Rupprecht, J. *^†, K. A. Goddard, and R. M. Dawley^†.  Clonal diversity of all-female hybrids of the killifishes Fundulus heteroclitus and F. diaphanus as assessed by allozymes, scale grafting, and RAPDs. Society for the Study of Evolution, Athens, Georgia, June. (poster)

            Dawley, R. M.^† and Cornell, K.*^†  Genetics of feminist fish.  BBB Honors Society Induction Speaker, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, April. (invited)

1993            Dawley, R. M.^†, M. Baganski*, and V. Voss*.  Evolution of genome size in the Drosophila obscura Group.  Society for the Study of Evolution, Snowbird, Utah, June.

(* designates student co-authors, ^† designates presenter, oral presentations unless noted as poster)