Ryan Calsbeek's Biographical Sketch

Current Address:

Department of Biological Sciences

401 Gilman Hall

Hanover NH 03755

Education:

1997-2001: Ph.D. Biology, University of California-Santa-Cruz

1992-1996 B.S. Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Academic Awards:

• 2008-2011 National Science Foundation $600000
• 2006 National Geographic Society $23028
  2005 Academic Senate Grant w/T.B. Smith $3000
• 2004 National Geographic Society $11970
• 2004 Academic Senate Grant w/ T.B. Smith $4500
• 2002 Latin American Research Award, UCLA
• 2001-2002 National Science Foundation dissertation improvement grant
• 2000 Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Gaige fund award
• 2000 American Museum of Natural History
• 1998 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
• 1998 University of California, Santa Cruz-Research award
• 1997 University of California, Santa Cruz- Biology independent study funds
• 1996 Indiana University, Bloomington. Undergraduate independent research award
• 1996 Indiana University, Bloomington. Undergraduate independent research award

Professional Experience:

2006 Visiting Professor, Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris France

2006-present: Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College

2002-2005 Postdoctoral research with Thomas Smith, University of California, Los Angeles.Selection and gene flow in Greater Antilles lizard populations.

2001-2002 Research with John Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz. The phylogeographic structure of California and the Pacific Northwest

1997-2001: Teaching Assistant; University of California, Santa Cruz: I have taught laboratory and discussion sections in Ethology and Behavioral Ecology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Physiology.

1994-1996: Undergraduate Research with Barry Sinervo, Indiana University: I conducted experiments examining the effects of a stress hormone (corticosterone) on stamina and metabolic rate in the side-blotched lizard, Uta stansburiana.