CURRICULUM VITAE

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Unit 0948, APO AA 34002-0948
Tel 507-227-6022 ext. 2360 (office); Fax 507-232-5960
email: windsord@tivoli.si.edu

Education:

• 1966 B.S. with Distinction, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. (major: Wildlife Conservation).
  
• 1970 Fundamentals in Tropical Biology: a field course offered by the Organization for Tropical Studies, Inc., San Jose, Costa Rica.
  
• 1972 Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. (major prof. W.T. Keeton)

1966-1967 Peace Corps, Republic of Botswana.
1968-1971 Grad. teaching assistantships, Cornell University.
1972-1973 Postdoctoral Fellowship. D.H. Janzen, Costa Rica.
1974 Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship, Panama.
1975-1980 Smithsonian Computer Programmer and Data Analyst.
1978-1994 O.T.S., field courses (8) visiting faculty.
1986 Coord. field Ent. course, STRI-U. Panama (3 mos).
1975-1996+ Research Biologist, Smithsonian TRI, Panama.

Research Interests:

1) Ecology and systematics of chrysomelid beetles; 2) Repro. behavior and ecology of stick insects (Phasmidae); 3) Tropical arthropod biodiversity.

Names of Collaborators:

Henry Stockwell (Curculionidae), STRI.
Barry OConnor (Acaridae), U. of Michigan.
Hector Barrios (Curculionidae), U. of Panama.
Edward Riley (Cassidinae and Hispinae), Texas A&M;U.
John Pickering (Hymenopteran parasitoids), U of Georgia.
James Ashe (Staphylinidae), Dir. Snow Mus., U. Kansas
Ting Hsiao (DNA sequencing), Utah State University
Jack Werren (Beetles &;Wolbachia bacteria), U. Rochester
[A .Srini Kambhampati (Mite DNA sequencing), Kansas St. Univ.

Recent Publications (1990 onward):

• Leigh, E.G., D.M. Windsor, A.S. Rand and R.F. Foster 1990. The impact of the "El Nino" drought of 1982-1983 on a Panamanian semideciduous forest. in Global Ecological Consequences of the 1982-83 El Nino-Southern Oscillation, Peter Glynn (Editor), Elsevier Oceanography Series, Elsevier Pr.
  
• Windsor, D.M., E.G. Riley and H.P. Stockwell 1992. Biology and systematics of panamanian tortoise beetles (Coleoptera: Cassidinae). pages 372-391 in Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: Selected Studies; D. Quintero and A. Aiello (Eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  
• Nedved, O. and D.M. Windsor 1994 Allometry in sexual dimorphism of Stenotarsus rotundus Arrow (Coleoptera: Endomychidae). The Coleopterists Bull. 48:51-59.
  
• Nedved, O. and D.M. Windsor 1994. Supercooling ability, fat and water content in a diapausing tropical beetle, Stenotarsus rotundus (Coleoptera: Endomychidae). Eur. J. Entomol. 91:307-312.
  
• Windsor, D.M. and J.C. Choe 1994. Origins of parental care in the Chrysomelidae. In: Novel Aspects of Biology of Chrysomelidae (P. Jolivet, M. Cox and E. Petitpierre (eds). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Boston-London.
  
• Amat, G. and D. Windsor 1994. Patrones de Competencia intraespecifica en hormigas Ectatomma ruidum (formicidae: Ponerinae). Universitas Scientiarium 2:57-63.
  
• Windsor, D.M., Trapnell, D.W. and G. Amat 1995. Flower-feeding Habits and Natural History of the Tortoise Beetle, Echoma sp. (nr. bonfilsi) in Panama. Coleopterists Bulletin 49(2):101-108.
  
• Werren, J.H., D. Windsor and L. Guo 1995. Distribution of Wolbachia among neotropical arthropods. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 262: 197-204.
  
• Windsor, D.M., D.W. Trapnell and G. Amat 1996. The Egg capitulum of a Neotropical walkingstick, Calynda bicuspis, induces above ground Egg dispersal by the ponerine ant, Ectatomma ruidum. J. Insect Behavior 9(3): 353-367.
  
• Windsor, D.M. and P. Jolivet 1996. Aspects of the morphology and ecology of two Panamanian ant-plants, Hoffmannia vesciculifera (Rubiaceae) and Besleria formicaria (Gesneriaceae). J. Tropical Ecology 12(6): 000-000.
  
• Herre, E., Machado, C.A., Bermingham, E., Nason, J.D., Windsor, D.M., MacCafferty, S.S., Van Houten, W. and Bachmann, K. 1996. Molecular phylogenies of figs and their pollinating wasps. J. Biogeography 23:000 000.
  
• West, S.A., E.A. Herre, D.M. Windsor and P.R.S. Green 1996. The ecology and evolution of the New World non-pollinating fig wasp communities. J. Biogeography 23:000-000.
  
• Windsor, D. and H. Barrios 1996. Hostplants and the diversification of neotropical tortoise beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Hispinae)", abstract and oral presentation, XX Int. Entomol. Congr., Florence, Italy, Aug. 1996.