Kristine N. Moody, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Oak Ridge National Lab
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
As I progress in my development as a scientist, my goal is to arrive at an intersection in which both great science is being pursued and the enrichment, encouragement, and involvement of students is being fulfilled. I feel that one of my strongest attributes is my ability to engage students and get them excited about science. I have had the pleasure to mentor 16 undergraduate and graduate students them one-on-one a wide range of molecular techniques and analyses, research design, and fieldwork skills. In addition, I helped my students develop and present research projects at scientific conferences, submit proposals for financial grants, and develop the critical thinking skills necessary to form independent study interests. Most importantly, I help them gain self-confidence and a sense of personal achievement by conducting research yielding important scientific results.
STUDENTS MENTORED
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-present Hannah Evans: Detecting and delineating rare Hawaiian aquatic species with environmental DNA.
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Undergraduate students – Tulane University
2016-2017 Meghan 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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COURSES TAUGHT​​​​
2017 Guest Lecturer, Trinity University, 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.