PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

• Wesleyan University, BA, Biology, 1994
• Cornell University, PhD, Entomology, 2004
• American Museum of Natural History, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, 2003-2005

• 1994-1996 Junior Hymenoptera Specialist, Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California Berkeley
• 2005- Bee Database Senior Project Manager, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History

Ascher, J. S., M. S. Engel, and T. L. Griswold. A new species and subgenus of Oxaea from Ecuador (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne. 75(4): 539-552

Gardner, K.E., and J. S. Ascher. 2006. Notes on the native bee pollinators in New York apple orchards. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 114(1-2): 86-91.

Giles, V., and Ascher, J. S. 2006. Bees of the Black Rock Forest Preserve, New York (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 15(2): 208-231.

Ascher, J. S., P. Gambino, and S. Droege. 2006. Adventive Hylaeus (Spatulariella Popov) in the New World (Hymenoptera: Spoidea: Colletidae). Proceedings of the Entomolological Society of Washington 108(1): 237-239.

Ascher, J. S., and M. S. Engel. 2006. On the availability of family-group names based on Scrapter (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Entomological News 117(1): 117-119.

Ascher, J. S., and S. L. Buchmann. 2005. The plight of pollinating bees. Bee World 86: 71-74.

Ascher, J. S., and M. S. Engel. pp. 13-17 in Engel. 2005. Family-group names for Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) [descriptions of new subfamily Scraptrinae, new tribe Neffapini, and new subtribe Hesperapina]. American Museum Novitates No. 3476, 33 pp.

Gusenleitner, F., M. Schwarz, J. S. Ascher, and E. Scheuchl. 2005. Korrekturen und Nachträge zu Gusenleitner & Schwarz (2002): Weltweite Checkliste der Bienengattung Andrena mit Bemerkungen und Ergänzungen zu paläarktischen Arten (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Andreninae, Andrena)" Entomofauna 26(26): 437-472.

Ascher, J. S. Species profile: Epeoloides pilosula. In Sheperd, M. D., D. M. Vaughn, and S. H. Black (Eds.). Red List of Pollinator Insects of North America. CD-Rom Version 1 (May 2005). Portland, OR: The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.

Kawakita, A., T. Sota, M. Ito, J. S. Ascher, H. Tanaka, M. Kato, D. W. Roubik. 2004. Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and character evolution in bumble bees (Bombus: Apidae) based on simultaneous analysis of three nuclear gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 799-804.

Ascher, J. S. 2003. Evidence for the phylogenetic position of Nolanomelissa from nuclear EF-1? sequence data. In Rozen, J. G., Jr. A new tribe, genus, and species of South American panurgine bee (Andrenidae: Panurginae), oligolectic on Nolana (Nolanaceae). pp. 107-108, in Apoidea Neotropica: Homenagem aos 90 Anos de Jesus Santiago Moure. G. A. R. Melo, and I. Alves dos Santos, Eds. Criciúma: UNESC.

Kawakita, A., T. Sota, J. S. Ascher, M. Ito, H. Tanaka, M. Kato. 2003. Evolution and phylogenetic utility of alignment gaps within intron sequences of three nuclear genes in bumble bees (Bombus). Molecular Biology and Evolution 20: 87-92.

Ascher, J. S., and S. Patiny. 2002. A new name for the bee subgenus Stenostylus (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Entomological News 113: 140.

Schultz, T. R., M. S. Engel, and J. S. Ascher. 2001. Evidence for the origin of eusociality in corbitulate bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 74(1): 10-16.

Ascher, J. S., B. N. Danforth, and S. Ji. 2001. Phylogenetic utility of the major opsin in bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): a reassessment. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 19(1): 79-93.

Ascher, J. S. 2001. Hylaeus hyalinatus Smith, a European bee new to North America, with notes on other adventive bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 103(1): 184-190.

Danforth, B. N., and J. Ascher. 1999. Flowers and insect evolution. Science 283: 137. [Technical comment; full text: www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/ 283/5399/143a]