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CURRICULUM VITAE

INFORMATION

 

Kristine N. Moody, PhD
Oak Ridge National Lab
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
moodykn@ornl.gov
@GobyGuru

EDUCATION

 

EDUCATION

 

 

PhD, Biological Sciences

Clemson University

August 2015

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BS, Chemistry

University of Florida

May 2006

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

 

2020-present   Postdoctoral Researcher, Oak Ridge National Lab

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2018-2020        Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of                                      Tennessee; The ByWater Institute at Tulane University. Genes to ecosystem: aquatic invasive                                              species management and their interactions with endemic Hawaiian gobies.

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2015-2018        Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University. Genes to ecosystem:                                      aquatic invasive species management and their interactions with endemic Hawaiian gobies.

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2006-2008        Lab Manager (with Dr. Marta L. Wayne) Department of Biology, University of Florida.

PUBLICATIONS​

 

2021                Moody, KN, AE Scherer, DAJS O'Connor, H Heim-Ballew, PJ Lisi, JD Hogan, PB McIntyre, and MJ                                    Blum. Effectiveness and outcomes of aquatic invasive species removal in Hawaiian streams.                                        Biological Invasions. doi:10.1007/s10530-021-02468-w.

 

2021                 Rosenthal, W, PB McIntyre, PJ Lisi, RB Prather Jr., KN Moody, MJ Blum, JD Hogan, and SB Schoville.                               Evolutionary Applications. In version and rapid adaptation in guppies (Poecilia reticulate) across the                             Hawaiian Archipelago. doi:10.1111/eva.13236.

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2020                 Heim-Ballew, H, KN Moody, MJ Blum, PB McIntyre, and JD Hogan. Migratory flexibility in native                                    Hawaiian amphidromous fishes. Journal of Fish Biology, 96:456-468. Cover Article.                                                            doi:10.1111/jfb.14224

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  • Between the JFB Covers, Featured Article: Kaiser, MJ. Amphidromy can be a flexible life history strategy in some Hawaiian gobies. Journal of Fish Biology, 96:287.

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2019                 Moody, KN, JLK Wren, DR Kobayashi, MJ Blum, MB Ptacek, RW Blob, RJ Toonen, HL Schoenfuss                                    and MJ Childress. Evidence of local adaptation in a waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby derived from                              coupled biophysical  modeling of larval dispersal and post-settlement selection. BMC Evolutionary                              Biologydoi:10.1186/s12862-019-1413-4

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2019                  Hain, EF, KN Moody, BA Lamphere, SAC Nelson, PB McIntyre, JF Gilliam and MJ Blum. Migratory                                   gauntlets on ocean islands: watershed disturbance increases the cost of amphidromy. Ecology of                                 Freshwater Fish, 38:446-458. doi:10.1111/eff.12467.

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2019                  Strobel*, HM, S Hays*, KN Moody, MJ Blum and DC Heins. Estimating effective population size for                             a cestode parasite infecting three-spined sticklebacks. Parasitology, 38:446-458.

                           doi:10.1017/S0031182018002226. *=Undergraduate student.

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2018                  Heins, DC, KN Moody, and S Miller*. Are solo infections of the diphyllobothriidean cestode                                          Schistocephalus solidus more virulent than multiple infections? Parasitology, 146:97-104.                                                  doi:10.1017/S003118201800094X. *=Undergraduate student.

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2018                  Hazen, RF, KN Moody, and MJ Blum. Stochastic and deterministic factors shape an emergent                                      plant-antagonist interaction. Evolutionary Ecology, 3:265-285. doi:10.1007/s10682-018-9935-6.

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2017                  Moody, KN, RB Gagne, H Heim-Ballew, F Alda, EF Hain, PJ Lisi, RP Walter, GR Higashi, JD Hogan, PB                              McIntyre, JF Gilliam, and MJ Blum. Invasion hotspots and ecological saturation of streams across                                the Hawaiian Islands. Cybium, 41(2):127-156.

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2017                  Moody, KN^, SM Kawano^, WC Bridges, HL Schoenfuss, RW Blob, and MB Ptacek. Contrasting                                      post-settlement selection results in many-to-one mapping of high performance phenotypes in the                            Hawaiian waterfall-climbing goby Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Evolutionary Ecology, 31:489-516.

                           doi:10.1007/s10682-017-9889-0.  ^Co-first authorship.

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2016                   Alda, F, RB Gagne, RP Walter, JD Hogan, KN Moody, F Zink, PB McIntyre, JF Gilliam, and MJ Blum.                                 Colonization and demographic expansion of freshwater fauna across the Hawaiian archipelago.                                 Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 10:2054-2069. doi:10.1111/jeb.12929.

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2015                   Moody, KN, SN Hunter*, RW Blob, MJ Childress, HL Schoenfuss, MJ Blum, and MB Ptacek. Local                                   adaptation despite high gene flow in the Hawaiian waterfall-climbing goby Sicyopterus stimpsoni.                                 Molecular Ecology, 24:545-563. doi:10.1111/mec.13016. *=Undergraduate student. Featured                                        article in February issue.

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  • News and Views Perspective: Wainwright, PC. Why are marine adaptive radiations rare in Hawai‘i? Molecular Ecology, 24:523-524.

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2013                   Schoenfuss, HL, T Maie, KN Moody, RW Blob, and TC Schoenfuss. Stairway to heaven: Evaluation                               levels of biological organization correlated with the successful assent of natural waterfalls in the                                 Hawaiian stream goby, Sicyopterus stimpsoni. PloS One 8(1):53274.

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2012                   Leonard, G, T Maie, KN Moody, G Schrank, RW Blob, and HL Schoenfuss. Finding paradise: Cues                                 directing the migration of the waterfall climbing Gobioid fish Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Journal of Fish                               Biology, 81:903-920.

 

2010                   Blob, RW, SM Kawano, KN Moody, WC Bridges, T Maie, MB Ptacek, ML Julius, and HL Schoenfuss.                               Morphological selection and tradeoffs between predator escape and waterfall climbing in the                                     Hawaiian stream goby Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 50:1185-1199. 

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In Review            

                            Moody, KN, BM Pracheil, D Sterling, and MS Bevelhimer. Dataset of juvenile fish traits for species                               of hydropower concern and their relative vulnerability to turbine entrainment and mortality.                                       Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.

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 In Prep            

                            Moody, KN, RW Blob, MJ Blum, and MB Ptacek. Connectivity matters: integrating genomics with                                 models of dispersal and selection yields new insights into population divergence in a Hawaiian                                   waterfall-climbing goby.

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                            Hogan, JD, DAJS O'Connor, KN Moody, P Lisi, Heim-Ballew, PB McIntyre, MJ Blum. Demographic                                   responses of a native migratory goby fish following the removal of invasive predators and                                             competitors from Hawaiian streams.

                            

AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS​

 

2020                     Department of Energy Water Power Technologies Office Seedling Grant ($150,000).

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2019                     Best Talk, Southeastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Conference. 

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2019                     Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Funding, University of Tennessee Knoxville ($2,000)

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2014-2015           Graduate Women in Science: Jean Langenheim Fellowship ($4,000). 

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2013-2015           National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, DEB: Evolutionary Genetics. Linking                               genomics, oceanography and ecology in understanding adaptive variation in space and time in                                                     amphidromous gobies of the Hawaiian Islands. ($17,873).

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2012-2015           Clemson University Wade Stackhouse Graduate Fellowship ($30,000).

2015                     Clemson University Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship ($5,000).

2015                     College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award ($1,000).

2013-2014           Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholar ($15,000).                                               

2010-2014           Clemson University Professional Enrichment Grants ($5,294).                                                       

2014                     Biological Sciences Graduate Student Association (BSGSA) Travel Award ($587).              

2014                     Hap Wheeler Distinguished Biological Sciences Graduate Student Member Award.

2014                     Biological Sciences Graduate Student Association Commitment to Graduate Student Life Award.         

2013                     R.C. Edwards Outstanding Graduate Student Fellowship, Clemson University ($7,800).         

2013                     Clemson University Outstanding Teaching Assistant ($750).                                                       

2013                     Biological Sciences Graduate Student Association Travel Award ($200).                                    

2013                     North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Teaching Award.                                    

2013                     College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences Teaching Award.

2012                     International Women’s Fishing Association Scholarship ($500).

TEACHING

 

2017       Guest Lecturer, Trinity University, BIOL 4201 Biology Senior Seminar, Aquatic conservation and mitigation strategies.

2016       Guest Lecturer, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, BIOL176 Introductory Biology II, Conservation in a changing climate.

2015       Guest Lecturer, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, BIOL446 Genetics, Genomic Evolution.

2015       Understanding Genetics and Evolution Teaching Assistant, Clemson University.

2014       Evolutionary Biology Co-Instructor, Clemson University. Macroevolution Unit (8 lectures and final exam).

2014       Guest Lecturer, Clemson University, BIOL3350 Evolutionary Biology, Phylogenetics.

2014       Guest Lecturer, Clemson University, BIOL 7300 Basics of Molecular Genetics, Bioinformatics.

2013       Guest Lecturer, Clemson University, BIOL3350 Evolutionary Biology, Phylogenetics.

2013       Evolutionary Biology Teaching Assistant, Clemson University.

2013       SC Life Inquiry in Science Laboratory Teaching Assistant, Clemson University.

2013       Behavioral Ecology Laboratory Teaching Assistant, Clemson University.

2012       Vertebrate Biology Laboratory Teaching Assistant, Clemson University.

2012       Understanding Genetics and Evolution Teaching Assistant, ClemsonUniversity.

2011       Guest Lecturer, Clemson University, BIOL3350 Evolutionary Biology Phylogenetics,  Hominin Evolution.

2011       Evolutionary Biology Teaching Assistant, Clemson University.

2011       Genetic Sleuthing Teaching Assistant, Clemson University.

2010       Behavioral Ecology Laboratory Teaching Assistant, Clemson University.

2010       Vertebrate Biology Laboratory Teaching Assistant, Clemson University.

2009       Evolutionary Biology Teaching Assistant, Clemson University.

2008       Vertebrate Biology Laboratory Teaching Assistant, Clemson University.

MENTORING ACTIVITIES

Graduate students

2017-present  Mentor, Vols for Women in STEM Mentoring Program. University of Tennessee Knoxville.

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2017-present  Bruno Ghersi (Ph.D. student): Post-disaster demography of urban rats in New Orleans. University of                                           Tennessee Knoxville.

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2015-2016       Jennifer Summers (Ph.D. student): Ecosystem management and invasive species removal in Hawaiian

                          perennial streams. Tulane University.

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Undergraduate students – University of Tennessee

2018-2019  Hannah Evans: Detecting and delineating rare Hawaiian aquatic species with environmental DNA. 

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Undergraduate students – Tulane University

2016-2017       Megan Sekiya: Species delineation and population genetics of parasitic worms in sculpins.

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2016                 Emily Brady: Invasive species induced genetic changes in a Hawaiian endemic amphidromous fish, Awaous                               stamineus.

 

2015-2016       Sean Deery: Invasive species induced genetic changes in a Hawaiian endemic amphidromous fish, Awaous                                 stamineus.

 

2015-2016       Sara Hays: Landscape genetics of Schistocephalus solidus parasites in threespine sticklebacks from Alaska.

 

Undergraduate students – Clemson University

2014-2015       Rebecca Helstern: Allelic and copy number variation of melanocortin receptor 4 in  poeciliid fishes. Creative I                           Inquiry.

 

2013-2014       Emily O’Conner: Modeling population demographic responses to climate change: Sicyopterus stimpsoni.                                     Creative Inquiry.

 

2013-2014       Taylor Burgess: Modeling population demographic responses to climate change: Sicyopterus stimpsoni.                                       Creative Inquiry.

 

2011-2012       Parag Raychoudhury: Using mitochondrial genes for phylogenetic studies in a Hawaiian stream goby:                                         Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Creative Inquiry & Calhoun Honor’s College.

 

2010-2012       Hannah Warren: Population genetics of a Hawaiian non-climbing Hawaiian goby, Stenogobius hawaiiensis.                                   Creative Inquiry.

 

2010-2011       Samuel Powell: Population genetics of the waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby, Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Creative                               Inquiry.

 

2009-2011       Jonatha Giddens: Morphological plasticity in the waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby, Sicyopterus stimpsoni.                                     Student at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo.

 

2008-2011       Sabrina Hunter: Population genetics of the waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby, Sicyopterus stimpsoni.                                             Creative Inquiry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Science Foundation Research Experience for                                   Undergraduates.

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2011                    Abbey Garrison: Population genetics of the waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby, Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Creative                             Inquiry.

 

2010-2011       Sylvia Lee: Estimates of population connectivity using otolith microchemistry in goby Hawaiian goby species.                             Creative Inquiry.

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SEMINARS

Invited Seminars

2020                University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. There and back again: Adaptation, connectivity, and conservation                            of Hawaiian waterfall-climbing fishes. (*cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)

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2019                Oak Ridge National Lab. There and back again: Adaptation, connectivity, and conservation of Hawaiian                                 waterfall-climbing fishes.

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2019                University of Tampa. There and back again: Adaptation, connectivity, and conservation of Hawaiian                                       waterfall-climbing fishes.

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2017                Trinity University. There and back again: A tale of waterfall-climbing Hawaiian Fishes.

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2017                University of New Orleans. There and back again: A Tale of Hawaiian Fishes.

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2017                University of West Florida. The path to success: adaptation, connectivity and conservation of Hawaiian                                  stream gobies.

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2016                University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. The path to success: adaptation, connectivity and conservation of                                                Hawaiian stream gobies. 

 

2015                University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. Going with the flow: divergence, adaptation and connectivity in a                                                Hawaiian stream goby. 

 

Departmental Seminars

2015                Tulane University, Ecolunch. The road to success: Integrating genetics, morphology and modeling to                                      understand local adaptation in the waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby, Sicyopterus stimpsoni

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2015                Clemson University. The road to success: Integrating genetics, morphology and modeling to                                                    understand local adaptation in the waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby, Sicyopterus stimpsoni 

PRESENTATIONS​

 

*Presenter; ^Undergraduate student

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2021                Moody, KN* and BM Pracheil. Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) for aquatic community                                    monitoring and environmental impact studies in hydropower-impacted systems. Tennessee Chapter                            of American Fisheries Society Symposium. Virtual. (Oral)

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2021                Hogan, JD*, DAJS O'Connor, KN Moody, P Lisi H Heim-Ballew, PB McIntyre, and MJ Blum. Demographic                          responses of a native migratory fish following the removal of invasive predators and competitors                                    from Hawaiian streams. Society for Freshwater Science. Virtual. (Oral)

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2021                Kane, E*, H Cohen^, S Perez^, K Smith^, and KN Moody. On the heritability of integrated                                                  biomechanics phenotypes in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulate). Behavior, Ecology and                                            Evolution of Poecillid Fishes Virtual Forum. Virtual. (Oral)

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2019                Moody, KN*, MJ Blum, RW Blob, and MB Ptacek. Connectivity matters: integrating genomics with                                    models of dispersal and selection yields new insights into population divergence in a Hawaiian                                       waterfall-climbing goby. Southeastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Conference.                                   Clemson, SC. (Oral)

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2019                Moody, KN*, PJ Lisi, JD Hogan, PB McIntyre, MJ Blum. To stay home or go? Genomic and                                                   environmental correlates of life history variation in an amphidromous Hawaiian goby fish. Society for                           the Study of Evolution. Providence, RI. (Oral)

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2019                Heim-Ballew, H+, KN Moody+, JD Hogan*, PB McIntyre, MJ Blum. Reproductive isolation and genetic                               differentiation between migrant and resident forms of the Hawaiian river goby Awaous stamineus                                   (Gobioidei: Oxudercidae). Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Snowbird, UT. (Oral)                                   +Co-first authorship.

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2019                O'Connor, DAJS*, AE Scherer, KN Moody, PB McIntyre, MJ Blum and JD Hogan. Effects of aquatic                                     invasive species removal on populations of a native Hawaiian freshwater goby Awaous stamineus                                     (Gobioidei: Oxudercidae). Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Snowbird, UT. (Oral) 

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2019                Hogan, JD*, MJ Blum, PB McIntyre, H Heim-Ballew, G Holt, KN Moody, D O'Connor, and PJ Lisi. Genes-                           to-ecosystems responses of a native species to the removal of aquatic invasive species in                                                 Hawai'i. Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program and Environmental Security                                 Technology Certification Program Symposium. (Poster)

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2019                Evans, HFU*^ , KN Moody, and MJ Blum. Saving the unseen: Conservation of rare aquatic species                                   through environmental DNA. Southeastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics                                                 Conference. Clemson, SC. (Poster)

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2019                Evans, HF*^ , KN Moody, and MJ Blum. Saving the unseen: Conservation of rare aquatic species                                     through environmental DNA. Undergraduate Research Internship Symposium. Knoxville, TN. (Poster)

 

2018                Moody, KN*,MJ Blum, RW Blob, and MB Ptacek. Connectivity matters: integrating genomics with                                    models of dispersal and selection yields new insights into population divergence in a Hawaiian                                       waterfall-climbing goby. Society for the Study of Evolution. Montpellier, France. (Oral)

 

2018                McIntyre, PB*, JD Hogan, MJ Blum, H Heim-Ballew, G Holt, PJ Lisi, and KN Moody. Variable migration                              strategies in stream fish across a hydrological gradient in Hawaii: Individual, genetic, and population                             perspectives. Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program and Environmental                                       Security Technology Certification Program Symposium. (Poster)

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2017                Moody, KN*, MJ Blum, RW Blob, and MB Ptacek. Connectivity matters: integrating genomics with                                    models of dispersal and selection yields new insights into population divergence in a Hawaiian                                        waterfall-climbing goby. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. New Orleans, LA. (Oral)

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2016                Moody, KN*, SM Kawano, WC Bridges, RW Blob, HL Schoenfuss, and MB Ptacek. Opportunity for                                    selection: the shape of the fitness landscape in an amphidromous waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby,                              Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Portland, OR. (Oral)

 

2015                Moody, KN*, MJ Childress, JLK Wren, DR Kobayashi, MJ Blum, RW Blob, and MB Ptacek. Going with the                          flow: patterns of divergence, adaptation and connectivity in a Hawaiian stream goby. Society for                                     Integrative and Comparative Biology. West Palm, FL. (Oral)

 

2014                Moody, KN*, MJ Childress, JLK Wren, DR Kobayashi, MJ Blum, RW Blob, and MB Ptacek. Going with the                          flow: patterns of demographic divergence and connectivity in a Hawaiian stream goby. Society for the                            Study of Evolution. Raleigh, NC. (Oral)

 

2014                O’Connor, E*^, T Burgess*^, KN Moody, and MJ Childress. Modeling population structure and                                          adaptation in a Hawaiian stream goby: Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Benthic Ecology Meeting. Jacksonville, FL.                          (Poster)

    

2014                O’Connor, E*^, T Burgess*^, KN Moody, and MJ Childress. Modeling population structure and                                          adaptation in a Hawaiian stream goby: Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Clemson Biological Sciences Annual                                    Student Symposium. Clemson, SC. (Poster)

 

2014                O’Connor, E*^, T Burgess*^, KN Moody, and MJ Childress. Modeling population structure and                                          adaptation in a Hawaiian stream goby: Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Creative Inquiry for Undergraduate                                    Research Symposium. Clemson, SC. (Poster).

 

2013                Moody, KN*, SN Hunter^, MJ Childress, RW Blob, HL Schoenfuss, MJ Blum, and MB Ptacek. Local                                    adaptation despite high gene flow in the waterfall climbing Hawaiian goby fish, Sicyopterus stimpsoni.                            Society for the Study of Evolution. Snowbird, UT. (Oral)

 

2013                Moody, KN*, SN Hunter^, MJ Childress, RW Blob, HL Schoenfuss, MJ Blum, and MB Ptacek. Local                                    adaptation despite high gene flow in the waterfall climbing Hawaiian goby fish, Sicyopterus stimpsoni.                            SouthEastern Regional Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Atlanta, GA. (Oral)

 

2012                Moody, KN*, SM Kawano, T Maie, RW Blob, HL Schoenfuss, ML Julius, MJ Childress, MJ Blum, and MB                              Ptacek. Local adaptation despite gene flow in the Hawaiian goby fish, Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Society for                          Integrative and Comparative Biology. Charleston, SC. (Oral)

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2012                Moody, KN*, SN Hunter^, MJ Childress, RW Blob, HL Schoenfuss, MJ Blum, and MB Ptacek. Local                                    adaptation despite high gene flow in the waterfall climbing Hawaiian goby fish, Sicyopterus stimpsoni.                            Southeastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Conference. Clemson, SC. (Oral)

 

2012                Moody, KN*, SM Kawano, T Maie, RW Blob, HL Schoenfuss, ML Julius, MJ Childress, MJ Blum, and MB                              Ptacek. Local adaptation despite gene flow in the Hawaiian goby fish, Sicyopterus stimpsoni.                                              SouthEastern Ecology and Evolution Conference. Clemson, SC. (Oral)

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2012                Moody, KN*, SM Kawano, T Maie, RW Blob, HL Schoenfuss, ML Julius, MJ Childress, MJ Blum, and MB                              Ptacek. Local adaptation despite gene flow in the Hawaiian goby fish, Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Clemson                              Biological Sciences Annual Student Symposium. Clemson, SC. (Oral)

 

2012                Raychoudhury, P*^, HE Warren^, KN Moody, and MB Ptacek. Characterizing cytochrome oxidase 1                                mitochondrial gene for use in phylogeographic studies in the Hawaiian waterfall-climbing goby,                                      Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Creative Inquiry for Undergraduate Research Symposium. Clemson, SC. (Poster)

 

2011                Moody, KN, SM Kawano, T Maie, RW Blob, HL Schoenfuss, MJ Blum, and MB Ptacek. Is local adaptation                          in adult subpopulations of the endemic waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby, Sicyopterus stimpsoni,                                      constrained by gene flow? Society for the Study of Evolution. Norman, OK. (Poster)

 

2011                Hunter, SN*^, KN Moody, and MB Ptacek. New microsatellite loci for the endemic Hawaiian goby,                                  Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Creative Inquiry for Undergraduate Research Symposium. Clemson, SC. (Poster)

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2011                Warren, HE*^, SN Hunter^, and KN Moody. New microsatellite loci for the endemic amphidromous                                fish Stenogobius hawaiiensis in the Hawaiian Islands. Creative Inquiry for Undergraduate Research                                  Symposium. Clemson, SC. (Poster)

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2010                Hunter, SN*^, KN Moody, and MB Ptacek. New microsatellite loci for the endemic Hawaiian goby,                                  Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Council for Undergraduate Research. Library of Congress, Washington DC.                                    (Poster)

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2010                Blob, RW*, SM Kawano, T Maie, KN Moody, MB Ptacek, WC Bridges, ML Julius, and HL Schoenfuss.                                  Morphological selection and tradeoffs between predator escape and climbing in Hawaiian gobies.                                  Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Seattle, WA. (Oral)

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2009                Hunter, SN*^, KN Moody, and MB Ptacek. Population genetic divergence in Hawaiian stream gobies:                            a role for local adaptation by natural selection? Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate                                    Research Symposium. Clemson, SC. (Poster)

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2009                Moody, KN*, MB Ptacek, MJ Childress, SM Kawano, T Maie, and RW Blob. Local adaptation in                                            waterfall-climbing gobies: Does natural selection cause morphological divergence between islands?                              SouthEastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics. Gainesville, GA. (Poster)

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2009                Moody, KN*, MB Ptacek, MJ Childress, SM Kawano, T Maie, and RW Blob. Local adaptation in                                            waterfall-climbing gobies: Does natural selection cause morphological divergence between islands?                              Clemson Biological Sciences Annual Student Symposium. Clemson, SC. (Poster)

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2009                Moody, KN, SM Kawano*, MB Ptacek, T Maie, ML Julius, HL Schoenfuss, and RW Blob.                                                        Morphological divergence between subpopulations in a Hawaiian climbing goby. SouthEastern                                        Regional Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Raleigh, NC. (Oral)

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

National and International

2019                Reviewer, Ecology of Freshwater Fishes.

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2019                Reviewer, Oryx.

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2019                Reviewer, Genome Biology and Evolution.

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2019                Reviewer, Cybium.

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2018                Reviewer, Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research.

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2017                Reviewer, Ecology of Freshwater Fishes.

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2017                Judge, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Division of Vertebrate Morphology Best                                        student talk and poster.

2016                Reviewer, American Naturalist.

2016                Reviewer, Molecular Ecology.

2016                Reviewer, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

2016                Reviewer, Marine Biology.

2016                Reviewer, Journal of Visualized Experiments.

2015                Reviewer, Evolutionary Ecology.

2014                Reviewer, Molecular Ecology.

2013-2014      Reviewer, Professional Enrichment Grant, Clemson University.                                       2013                Reviewer, Genetica.                                                                                                               

2013                Judge, Creative Inquiry Student Symposium, Clemson University.    

                           

2012-2013      Chair, College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences (CAFLS) Dean’s Advisory Board, Clemson                                    University.

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2011-2012      Committee Member, SouthEastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics, Clemson                    

                         University.

            

2011-2012      Committee Member, SouthEastern Ecology and Evolution, Clemson University

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Departmental

2016-2017      Postdoctoral Chair, Women in Science and Engineering, Tulane University.

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2012-2014      Organizer, Proposal and Implementation of Acquisition of Additional Graduate Student Space,                                        Clemson University.      

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2012-2014      Co-Organizer, Biological Sciences Graduate Student Association Graduate School Application                                            Workshop, Clemson University.                         

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2013-2014      Biological Sciences Graduate Student Liaison for CAFLS Dean’s Advisory Board, Clemson University.

2014                 Judge, Clemson Biological Sciences Annual Student Symposium, Clemson University.                                

2013                Co-Designer, Natural History Museum Hominid Evolution Exhibit, Clemson University.   

               

2013                Organizer, Biological Sciences Graduate Student Association Food Drive Benefitting Clemson                                            Community Care, Clemson University.     

                   

2012-2013      Organizer, Bioinformatics Reading Group, Clemson University.

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Public Outreach

2017                Co-leader, Girls in STEM at Tulane Food Webs Workshop, Tulane University.

2009-2014      Volunteer, Clemson University Darwin Day Ask-A-Scientist Table, Clemson University.

2013                Co-Designer, Natural History Museum Hominid Evolution Exhibit, Clemson University.

MEMBERSHIPS​

 

2017-present    American Genetics Association

2013-present    Graduate Women in Science

2010-present    Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

2010-present    Society for the Study of Evolution

2010-present    Sigma Xi

PROFESSIONAL

TRAINING

2018                   The Search for Selection, The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Sciences, University                             of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; June 18-22, 2018.

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2018                   Facilitating Undergraduate Evidence-based Learning in STEM, University of Tennessee Center for                                   the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning Network, Knoxville, TN; May 9-30, 2018.

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2015                   iPlant Collaborative Workshop; Clemson University, Clemson, SC; January 29–30, 2015.​

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2013                   Conservation Genetics Data Analysis Workshop; University of Montana, Flathead Biostation, MT;                                   September 3–8, 2013.

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