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Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
369 Science & Research Building 2 Houston, TX  77204-5001

Email: rcstillw@central.uh.edu

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Education

2007 Ph.D. Entomology, University of Kentucky.

1999 B.S. Summa Cum Laude (Biology), Campbellsville University.  

 

Research and Teaching Positions

2010 – pres. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biology and Biochemistry,
University of Houston.

2007 – 2010 National Institutes of Health. Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching (PERT) Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.

2001 – 2007 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Entomology, University of  Kentucky.

2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Kentucky.

 

Grants and Support Funding

2007-2010 National Institutes of Health. Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching Fellowship, Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona. $117,768 (salary) + $22,500 (research support).


2005 National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology. Interacting sources of selection and geographic variation in body size of a seed-feeding beetle. Charles W. Fox (PI) and R. Craig Stillwell (graduate student). Not funded.


2005 John L. Clarke and Fred W. Knapp Student Travel Award. R. Craig Stillwell. $150.


2005 University of Kentucky, Graduate Student Travel Support. R. Craig Stillwell. $1000.


2004 University of Kentucky, Dissertation Enhancement Award. Rapid evolution of a latitudinal size cline in the seed beetle Stator limbatus. R. Craig Stillwell. $2850.


2004 University of Kentucky, Graduate Student Travel Support. R. Craig Stillwell. $400.


2003 University of Kentucky, Commonwealth Research Award. R. Craig Stillwell. $1000.


2003 University of Kentucky, Graduate Student Research Support. R. Craig Stillwell. $400.

 

Publications

20. Stillwell, R. C., A. Daws and G. Davidowitz. The ontogeny of sexual size dimorphism of a moth: When do males and females grow apart? In review.

19. Stillwell, R. C., I. Dworkin, A. W. Shingleton and W. A. Frankino. Experimental manipulation of body size to estimate morphological scaling relationships in Drosophila. In press for Journal of Visualized Experiments.

18. Amarillo-Suárez, A. R., R. C. Stillwell and C. W. Fox. Natural selection on body size is mediated by multiple interacting factors: A comparison of beetle populations varying naturally and experimentally in body size. In press for Ecology and Evolution.

17. Fox, C. W., R. C. Stillwell, W. G. Wallin, C. L. Curtis and D. H. Reed. 2011. Inbreeding-environment interactions for fitness: Complex relationships between inbreeding depression and temperature stress in a seed-feeding beetle. Evolutionary Ecology 25:25-43.

16. Stillwell, R. C. and G. Davidowitz. 2010. Sex differences in phenotypic plasticity of a mechanism that controls body size: Implications for sexual size dimorphism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 277:3819-3826.

15. Stillwell, R. C. 2010. Are latitudinal clines in body size adaptive? Oikos 119:1387-1390.

14. Stillwell, R. C. and G. Davidowitz. 2010. A developmental perspective on the evolution of sexual size dimorphism of a moth. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 277:2069-2074.

13. Stillwell, R. C., W. U. Blanckenhorn, T. Teder, G. Davidowitz and C. W. Fox. 2010. Sex differences in phenotypic plasticity affect variation in sexual size dimorphism in insects: From physiology to evolution. Annual Review of Entomology 55:227-245.

12. Stillwell, R. C. and C. W. Fox. 2009. Geographic variation in body size, sexual size dimorphism and fitness components of a seed beetle: Local adaptation vs. phenotypic plasticity. Oikos 118:703-712. 

11. Fox, C. W. and R. C. Stillwell. 2009. Inbreeding load for adult lifespan varies among environments in the seed-feeding beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus. Heredity 103:62-72.

10. Stillwell, R. C., J. Moya-Laraño and C. W. Fox. 2008. Selection does not favor large body size at lower temperature in a seed-feeding beetle. Evolution 62:2534-2544.

9.   Stillwell, R. C., G. E. Morse and C. W. Fox. 2007. Geographic variation in body size and sexual size dimorphism of a seed-feeding beetle. The American Naturalist 170:358-369.

8.   Stillwell, R. C., W. G. Wallin, L. J. Hitchcock and C. W. Fox. 2007. Phenotypic plasticity in a complex world: Interactive effects of food and temperature on fitness components of a seed beetle. Oecologia 153:309-321.

7.   Stillwell, R. C. and C. W. Fox. 2007. Environmental effects on sexual size dimorphism of a seed-feeding beetle. Oecologia 153:273-280.

6.   Blanckenhorn, W. U., R. C. Stillwell, K. A. Young, C. W. Fox and K. G. Ashton. 2006. When Rensch meets Bergmann: Does sexual size dimorphism change systematically with latitude? Evolution 60:2004-2011.

5.   Fox, C. W., R. C. Stillwell, W. G. Wallin and L. J. Hitchcock. 2006. Temperature and host species affect nuptial gift size in a seed-feeding beetle. Functional Ecology 20:1003-1011.

4.   Fox, C. W., K. L. Scheibly, W. G. Wallin, L. J. Hitchcock, R. C. Stillwell and Benjamin P. Smith. 2006. The genetic architecture of lifespan and mortality rates: Gender and species differences in inbreeding load of two seed-feeding beetles. Genetics 174:763-773.

3.   Stillwell, R. C. and C. W. Fox. 2005. Complex patterns of phenotypic plasticity: Interactive effects of temperature during rearing and oviposition. Ecology 86:924-934.

2.   Fox, C. W., R. C. Stillwell, A. R. Amarillo-Suarez, M. E. Czesak and F. J. Messina. 2004. Genetic architecture of population differences in oviposition behavior of the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17:1141-1151.

 

Book Chapters

1.   Fox, C. W., R. C. Stillwell and J. Moya-Laraño. 2007. Variation in selection and the evolution of sexual size dimorphism in two seed-feeding beetles. In D. F. Fairbairn, W. U. Blanckenhorn and T. Szekely (eds.) Sex, size and gender roles: Evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism.

 

Invited Seminars

2008 Zoological Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
2008 Department of Integrated Natural Sciences, Arizona State University (West campus).
2007 Department of Biology Seminar, Southern Utah University.
2006 Department of Biology Seminar, Campbellsville University.

 

Presentations

2010 Population Biology Seminar, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston.
2010 Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution. Portland, OR.
2009 Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution. Moscow, IA.
2009 Department of Entomology, University of Arizona.
2008 Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution. Minneapolis, MN.
2007 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.
2007 Spring Research Symposium. Center for Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Kentucky.
2006 2nd Place Ph.D. Student Paper Competition, 19th Annual Forum of the Ohio Valley Entomological Association. Newport, KY.
2006 Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Memphis, TN.
2006 Spring Research Symposium. Center for Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Kentucky.
2006 Ecolunch, Department of Biology, University of Kentucky.
2005 Ecolunch, Department of Biology, University of Kentucky.
2005 International workshop on the evolution of sexual size dimorphism. Monte Veritá, Locarno, Switzerland.
2005 Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Montréal, Canada.
2005 The Organization for Tropical Studies. Palo Verde Biological Station, Costa Rica.
2005 Spring Research Symposium. Center for Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Kentucky.
2004 1st Place Ph.D. Student Paper Competition, 17th Annual Forum of the Ohio Valley Entomological Association. Hanover, IN.
2004 Ecolunch, Department of Biology, University of Kentucky.
2004 Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Portland, OR.
2003 Annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Cincinnati, OH.
2003 Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Savannah, GA.
2003 Spring Research Symposium. Center for Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Kentucky.
2002 Ecolunch, Department of Biology, University of Kentucky.
2002 Department of Entomology Proposal Seminar, University of Kentucky.
2001 Sigma Zeta National Convention. Campbellsville, KY.
1999 Department of Biology Seminar, Campbellsville University.

 

Professional Services

Manuscript Reviews for:

Behavioral Ecology, Bulletin of Entomological Research, Ecography, Ecology, Ecological Entomology, Environmental Entomology, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Entomological Science, European Journal of Entomology, Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology Research, Functional Ecology, Genetica, Journal of Insect Science, Journal of Molluscan Studies, Oecologia, Zoology, Australian Journal of Zoology, The American Naturalist, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Ecological Research

Proposal Reviews for:

National Science Foundation (Population and Evolutionary Processes), Czech Science
Foundation

 

Student Mentoring

Undergraduates

Andrew Daws
Lisa Hitchcock
Denise Johnson
Oriaku Njoku
Scott Serdoz
Kim Carrico
Jennifer Smith
Nathan Correll
Courtney Elkins

 

Academic Advisors and Collaborators

Graduate Dissertation Committee:

Charles W. Fox, Chair of Committee, Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky.
John J. Obrycki, Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky.
Daniel A. Potter, Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky.
Philip H. Crowley, Department of Biology, University of Kentucky.
David F. Westneat, Department of Biology, University of Kentucky.
David H. Wise, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Post-doctoral Advisor:

Goggy Davidowitz, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.

Current and Past Colloborators:

Wolf U. Blanckenhorn, Zoological Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Tiit Teder, University of Tartu, Estonia.
Jordi Moya-Laraño.Departamento de Ecología Fucional y Evolutiva, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain.
Geoffrey E. Morse, Department of Biology, University of San Diego.
Kyle A. Young, EAWAG Limnological Research Center.
Kyle G. Ashton. Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego.
Angela R. Amarillo-Suarez, Department of Environment and Territory, Pontifica Universidad Javeriana, Colombia.

 

Teaching Experience

2008    Biology 105: Environmental Biology (Instructor). Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ.
2006    Biology 452: Laboratory in Ecology (Guest Lecturer). University of Kentucky, Lexington,
KY.
2005    Biology 304: Principles of Genetics (Teaching Assistant). University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
2004    Biology 452: Laboratory in Ecology (Guest Lecturer). University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
2003    Biology 452: Laboratory in Ecology (Guest Lecturer). University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

 

University Services

University of Arizona

University of Kentucky 

Campbellsville University

 

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Scholarships

 

Honors and Awards

University of Kentucky

Campbellsville University