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Education |
PhD — Organismic and Evolutionary Biology | 2016--
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Advisors: Dr. Jonathan Losos, Dr. David Haig, Dr. Scott Edwards MSc — Evolutionary Biology | 2013–2015 Dual degree Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology (MEME) Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Master of Science: Biology Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany Master of Science: Evolution, Ecology and Systematics BSc — Biological Sciences | 2009–2013 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Summa cum laude and graduate of Barrett Honors College | Minor in Spanish |
Outreach and Service |
Academic journal peer review — Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; Herpetological Monographs; Biological Invasions; Ecology & Evolution.
Grant Review — National Geographic Society, Society of Systematic Biologists National Collegiate Research Conference Poster session judge | January 2021 Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Qualifying Exam Mentoring Program Program founder, organizer, and mentor, providing support and advising students preparing for the qualifying exams | August 2020--present Project SHORT Consultant and mentor for graduate school application process for URM students. Pre-grad engagement and workshop development. | June 2020--present Skype a Scientist Corresponding Scientist | September 2019--present E3 REU Program, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA Steering Committee member, Selection Committee member, and Peer Mentor | March 2019--present Science Education Partners, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA Visitor engagement volunteer and Outreach event science presenter | May 2017--May 2019 |
Grants and Awards |
2020
National Geographic Society Exploration Grant (with J. Losos) Society of Systematic Biologists Graduate Student Research Award 2019 Ken Miyata Field Research in Herpetology Grant Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Professional Development Award 2018 Robert A. Chapman Fellowship 2017 National Geographic Early Career Research Grant 2013 Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) Category A Two Year Scholarship ASU Outstanding Graduating Senior in Biology and Society 2012 Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society (ASU Chapter) Research Grant The ASU School of Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Scholarship 2011 Virginia M. Ullman Foundation Summer Research Grant 2009 National Merit Scholarship Competition Finalist, full four-year scholarship recipient |
Publications |
Maayan, I., R. G. Reynolds, R. Goodman, P. Hime, R. Bickel, E.A. Luck & J. Losos. "Fixation and preservation contribute to distortion in vertebrate museum specimens: a ten-year study with the lizard Anolis sagrei." Accepted, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Neel, L., M. Logan, D. Nicholson, C. Miller, A. Chung, I. Maayan, Z. Degon, M. DuBois, J. Curlis, Q. Taylor, K. Keegan, O. McMillan, J. Losos, & C. Cox. (2021). “Habitat structure mediates vulnerability to climate change through its effects on thermoregulatory behavior.” Biotropica 53: 1121-1133. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12951 Logan, M., L. Neel, D. Nicholson, A. Stokes, C. Miller, A. Chung, J. Curlis, K. Keegan, A. Rosso, I. Maayan, E. Folfas, C. Williams, B. Casement, M. Koyner, D. Perez, C. Falvey, S. Alexander, K. Charles, Z. Graham, W. McMillan, J. Losos, & C. Cox. (2021). "Sex-specific microhabitat use is associated with sex-biased thermal physiology in Anolis lizards". Journal of Experimental Biology 224: jeb235697. doi: 10.1242/jeb.235697 Campbell-Staton, S., K. Winchell, N. Rochette, J. Fredette, I. Maayan, R. Schweizer, & J. Catchen (2020). Parallel selection on thermal physiology facilitates repeated adaptation of city lizards to urban heat islands. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 652–658. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1131-8 Winchell, K., I. Maayan, J. Fredette, and L. Revell (2018). Linking locomotor performance to morphological shifts in urban lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20180229. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0229. Tollis, M., E.D. Hutchins, J. Stapley, S.M. Rupp, W.L. Eckalbar, I. Maayan, E. Lasku, C.R. Infante, S. Dennis, J.A. Robertson, C.M. May, M.R. Crusoe, E. Bermingham, D.F. DeNardo, S.T. Hsieh, R. Kulathinal, W.O. McMillan, D.B. Menke, S.C. Pratt, J.A. Rawls, O. Sanjur, J. Wilson-Rawls, M.A. Wilson Sayres, R.E. Fisher, and K. Kusumi (2018). Comparative genomics reveals accelerated evolution in conserved pathways during the diversification of Anole lizards. Genome Biology and Evolution 10: 489–506. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evy013 Shafer, A., C. Peart, S. Tusso, I. Maayan, A. Brelsford, C. Wheat and J. Wolf (2016). Bioinformatic processing of RAD-seq data dramatically impacts downstream population genetic inference. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8: 907–917. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12700 Pavón-Vázquez, C.J., I. Maayan, B.A. White, and A.S. Harrison (2016) Three noteworthy herpetofaunal records from Belize. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3: 780–781. González-Tortuero, E., J. Rusek, I. Maayan, A. Petrusek, L. Piálek, S. Laurent and J. Wolinska (2016). Genetic diversity of two Daphnia-infecting microsporidian parasites, based on sequence variation in the internal transcribed spacer region. Parasites & Vectors 9: 293. doi:10.1186/s13071-016-1584-4 González-Tortuero E., J. Rusek, P. Turko, A. Petrusek, I. Maayan, L. Piálek, C. Tellenbach, S. Gießler, P. Spaak, and J. Wolinska (2016) Daphnia parasite dynamics across multiple Caullerya epidemics indicate selection against common parasite genotypes. Zoology 119: 314–321. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2016.04.003 |
Teaching |
Teaching fellow, Harvard University —
Writing tutor, ASU Success Centers, Arizona State University, Fall 2010–Spring 2012 |
Training & Workshops |
Evolution Community Resources for Early Career Researchers (ECR^2) | July 2020
> Primer on Peer Review and the Publication Process > Leveraging your PhD: Careers Beyond Academia > Strategies for Responding to Harassment and Bullying: Improving Workplace Climate > Command-Line Bioinformatics for Beginners Workshop > African Americans in Evolutionary Science: Where We Have Been and What's Next OEB Professional Development Workshop Series | Spring 2019 > Interviewing Strategies & Academic Hiring Practices > Exploring the Nonacademic Job Market > Academic Job Applications: Teaching & Diversity Statements & CVs > Job Talks & Teaching Demos > Curating You Web Presence & Communicating Science > Negotiating Work-Life Balance Harvard Bioinformatics Nanocourse | August 2018 > Basic R & tidy data manipulation > Introduction to Linux > Variant calling, read mapping, and alignment QC > Machine learning methods for population genetic inference > Population genetics and phylogenetics in R Friday Harbor Laboratories for the Workshop on Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics | June 2018 > Molecular quantitative genomics > Multivariate inheritance, heritability, and response to selection > Selection surfaces and adaptive landscapes > Simulating evolution, Brownian motion, and OU models > Phylogenetics and related topics |
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