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CURRICULUM VITAE

DONALD M. WINDSOR

Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales
Unit 0948, APO AA 34002-0948
Apartado 2072, Balboa-Ancon, Panama

Tel 011-507-212-8130, ext.8130
Fax 212-8148

Dirección electrónica: windsord@si.edu

Don Windsor

EDUCATION

  • 1966 -- Licenciatura con Distinción, Universidad de Purdue, West Lafayette, IN.
  • 1970 -- Fundamentales en Biologia Tropical: Organization de Estudios Tropicales, San Jose, Costa Rica.
  • 1972 -- Ph.D., Neurobiologia y Comportamiento, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. (major prof. W.T. Keeton).
  • 1973 -- Beca Postdoctoral; Dr. D.H. Janzen, Costa Rica.
  • 1974 -- Beca Postdoctoral; Instituto Smithsonian, Panama.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • 1966-1967 -- Cuerpo de Paz, República de Botswana.
  • 1968-1971 -- Beca predoctoral, Universidad de Cornell, NY
  • 1975-1988 -- Analisis de datos meteorológicos, Smithsonian, Panamá.
  • 1978-1994 -- Facultad, Organización de Estudios Tropicales, cursos de campo (8).
  • 1986 -- Coordinador de curso de campo en Entomología, Universidad de Panamá.
  • 1989-2004 -- Biologo Investigador, Smithsonian, Panama.
  • 1997-2004 -- Profesor Temporal, Universidad de Princeton, EEB 226.
AREAS OF INVESTIGATION
  • Phylogenia Molecular de Escarabajos de Hojas (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) y el papel de factores ecológicos e históricos en su diversificación.
  • Biogeografia y Consequencias Reproductivas de microbios transmitido por la cytoplasma (Wolbachia, etc.) en Artropodos.
COLLABORATORS
  • Henry Stockwell (taxonomia de Chrysomelidae y sus plantas huespedes), STRI.
  • John Pickering (monitoreo de Coleoptera e Hymenoptera), Universidad de Georgia.
  • Jack Werren (Microbiología, Wolbachia), Universidad de Rochester, NY.
  • Jacques Pasteels (Químicos defensivos de Chrysomelinae), Universitat Livre, Brussels.
  • Thierry Hance (Parasitos de Cassidinae), Universidat de Louvain, Belgium.
  • Fred Vencl (Químicos defensivos de Cassidinae), S.U.N.Y. en Stoney Brook.
  • Argentina Turner (Microbiología, Wolbachia), Universidad de Panama.
FUENTES DE APOYO EN LOS ULTIMOS CINCO YRS
  • Grupo Internacional de Biodiversidad, NIH-NSF, "Inventorios de Biodiversidad de Escarabajos de Panama", 1999-2003.
  • Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Program: "Consecuencias de infección de Wolbachia en poblaciones de escarabajos de hojas" (D. Windsor; J. Werren), 1999-2000.
  • NSF-Integrative Evolution and Biology (INB), F.V. Vencl (PI), D.J. Futuyma and C.F. Johnson (SUNY Stonybrook). "Patrones en la Macroevolution de uso de plantas por Escarabajos tortugas y sus escudos de defensa", 1 Set 2002 - 31 Ag 2005.
  • NSF FIBR Grant #0328363 to J. Werren-PI(U. Rochester), "Integrative Studies of Wolbachia-Eukaryotic Interactions: Genomes to Communities and Back", Set. 1 2003-Ag. 31, 2008.
PUBLICACIONS DESDE 2001

2001. Kaspari, M., J. Pickering, J.T. Longino, D. Windsor. The phenology of a Neotropical ant assemblage: evidence for continuous and overlapping reproduction Behav. Ecol. And Sociobiol. 50(4) 382-390.

2001. Pasteels, J. M., Termonia, A., Windsor, D. M., Ludger Witte, C. T. & Hartmann, T. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids and pentacyclic triterpene saponins in the defensive secretions of platyphora leaf beetles. Chemoecology 11, 113-121 (2001).

2001. Windsor, D. Por Que Hay mas de 10,000 Especies de Escarabajos en Panama. Pp 126-130 in Panama: Puente Biologico; S. Heckadon (ed).

2001. Termonia, A., J.M. Pasteels, D.M. Windsor and M.C. Milinkovitch. Dual chemical sequestration, a key mechanism in transitions among ecological specializations. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond., Series B 269: 1-6.

2002. Shoemaker, D.D., C.A. Machado, D. Molbo, J.H. Werren, D.M. Windsor and E.A. Herre. The distribution of Wolbachia in fig wasps: correlations with host phylogeny, ecology and population structure. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269: 2257-2267.

2003. Pasteels, J.M., C. Theuring, D.M. Windsor and T. Hartmann. Uptake and metabolism of [14C]rinderine and [14C]retronecine in leaf-beetles of the genus Platyphora and alkaloid accumulation in the exocrine defensive secretions. Chemoecology 13:55-62.

2003. Pasteels, J.M., A. Termonia, D. Daloze and D.M. Windsor. Distribution of toxins in chrysomeline leaf beetles: possible taxonomic inferences. Pp 261-275 Special Topics in Leaf Beetle Biology, D.G. Furth (ed.), Proc. 5th Int. Sym. On the Chrysomelidae.

2004. Pasteels, J.M., D. Daloze, J. de Biseau and D. M. Windsor. Patterns in host-plant association and defensive toxins produced by neotropical chrysomeline beetles. Pp. 669-676 in New Developments on the Biology of Chrysomelidae, P. Jolivet, J.A. Santiago-Blay and M. Schmitt, SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague, The Netherlands.

2004. Rodriguez, V., D.M. Windsor and W.G. Eberhard. Tortoise beetle genitalia and demonstrations of a sexually selected advantage for flagellum length in Chelymorpha alternans (Chrysomelidae, Cassidini, Stolaini). Pp. 739-748 in New Developments on the Biology of Chrysomelidae, P. Jolivet, J.A. Santiago-Blay and M. Schmitt, SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague, The Netherlands.

2004. Vencl, F.V., A. Levy, R. Geeta, G. Keller and D.M. Windsor. Observations on the natural history, systematics, and phylogeny of the Criocerinae of Costa Rica and Panama. Pp. 423-454 in New Developments on the Biology of Chrysomelidae, P. Jolivet, J.A. Santiago-Blay and M. Schmitt, SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague, The Netherlands.

2004. Keller, G.P., D.M. Windsor, J.M. Saucedo and J.H. Werren. Two Wolbachia strains infect the Neotropical Beetle, Chelymorpha alternans: Effects on host reproduction and mitochondrial genetic diversity. Molecular Ecology 13(8):2405-2420.

2005. Vencl, F.V., F. Nogueira-de-Sa, B. Allen, D. Windsor and D. Futuyma. Dietary specialization influences the efficacy of larval tortoise beetle shield defenses. Oecologia 145(3): 404-414.

2007. Cuignet, M., T. Hance, D.M. Windsor. Phylogenetic relationships of egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera; Eulophidae) and correlated life history characteristics of their Neotropical Cassidinae hosts (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Mol. Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 573-584.

2007. Richards, L. and D. Windsor. Seasonal variation of arthropod abundance in gaps and the understory of a lowland mosit forest in Panama. J. Tropical Ecology 23: 369-376.

Updated: 11 March, 2011

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