Curriculum Vitae
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological
Sciences
3640 Colonel Glen Hwy
235A BH, Wright State
University
Dayton, OH 45435
937-775-3192
Academic Experience
Assistant professor, Biological Sciences, Wright State University; 8/05-present
Postdoctoral fellow: Host race formation and population phylogeography of insect herbivores and their parasitoids. Advisor: John Nason; Iowa State University; 8/02-7/05
Postdoctoral fellow: Parasitoid-host and plant-insect ecological interactions. Advisor: Lee Dyer; Tulane University; 5/01-8/02.
PhD.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona: The ecology and
evolution of tachinid-host associations. Advisor: Nancy A. Moran, 4/2001.
BS, biology, University of Utah (evolution and ecology emphasis), 5/1993
8/05 – Present. Assistant professor (Wright State University)
BIOL 231 Introduction to Ecology (2x)
BIOL 406/606 Evolutionary Biology (2x)
BIOL 315 Biology of Invertebrates (2x)
BIOL 699 Habitat Fragmentation (grad seminar)
BIOL 492/800 Field Ecology and Natural History (seminar)
BIO 800 Phylogenetic and Phylogeographic analysis (grad seminar)
8/96-12/00 Teaching Assistant (University of Arizona):
ECOL 182 Introductory Biology (2 semesters)
ECOL 206 Environmental Biology (2 semesters)
ECOL 335 Evolutionary Biology (2 semesters)
ECOL 487 Animal Behavior (2 semesters)
Insect Behavior (continuing education for high school teachers)
Guest Lecturer:
Invertebrate Zoology (U. of Arizona)
Tropical Biology (Tulane University)
Plant-Animal Interactions (Tulane University)
Evolutionary Biology (Iowa State U.)
Biological Control (Iowa State U., Dept. of Entomology)
Graduate student advising:
Annie Slonacker, MS (current)
Brenda Wells MS (current)
Jeremy Heath ES PhD (current)
Graduate Committees
Divan Catzim (MS, Runkle)
Irene Zelepuhin (MS, Baird)
Esley Heiser (PhD, BMS, Krane)
Undergraduate student advising:
Brenda Wells (WSU, 499 internship/ UG laboratory technician 2007)
Anne Royer (WSU, 8/2005-5/2006).
Katie Selhorst (499 internship 2007)
Jason Ison (499
internship 2006)
Sarah Hill
(499 internship, 2007)
Seth Jenkins
(2008, UG laboratory technician)
Patrick McAfee (2007-2008, UG laboratory technician)
Research Assistant:
Hilary Cerny, M.S. (WSU, 2005-present)
Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants
· National Science Foundation: Biotic Surveys and Inventories. L.A. Dyer, P. DeVries, T. Walla, S. Shaw. Collaborative Research: Caterpillars and Parasitoids in the Eastern Andes of Ecuador ($184,000 7/2004 - helped to write and collaborated but not allowed to be an official PI).
· National Science Foundation: Research Training Group (RTG) for the Analysis of Biological Diversity (U. of Arizona): Fellowship ($5000, 1/00).
· National Science Foundation: Research Training Group (RTG) for the Analysis of Biological Diversity (U. of Arizona) Fellowship ($5000, 8/98).
· National Science Foundation: Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG), to study the ecological and evolutionary determinants of host range in tachinid flies ($7500, 4/97)
· National Science Foundation: Research Training Group (RTG) for the Analysis of Biological Diversity (U. of Arizona) research award ($500, 1/97).
· Plant-Insect Group Seed Grant (Center for Insect Science, U. of Arizona). ($600, 2/96).
· Departmental Research Award (U. of Arizona; $400, 6/95).
· Hughes Undergraduate Research Grant (U. of Utah). Awarded three research grants ($1500 ea.; 12/93, 3/93, 6/93).
Peer reviewed publications – invited
27. Stireman, J.O. III, O’Hara, J.E., and Wood, D.M. 2006. Tachinidae: Evolution, Behavior, and Ecology. Annual Review of Entomology 51:525-555.
26. Stireman, J.O.
III, Dyer, L.A. and Matlock, R.B. 2005. Top-down forces in managed and
unmanaged habitats. In: Barbosa, P. and Castellanos, I. (eds.), Ecology of
Predator-Prey Interactions. Oxford University Press,
New York.
Peer reviewed publications
25. Stireman, J.O. III,
Abbot,
P.,
Janson E.M., Carr, T.G., Devlin, H. 2008. Evolutionary
radiation of Asteromyia carbonifera (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) gall morphotypes on the goldenrod Solidago altissima (Asteraceae). Biological Journal of
the Linnean Society (in press)
24. Janson, E.M., Stireman, J.O., III, Singer, M.S., and Abbot, P. 2008. Perspective:
Phytophagous insect-microbe mutualisms and adaptive evolutionary
diversification. Evolution (in press).
23. Stireman,
J. O. III. 2008. α and β diversity of a tachinid community over
space and time. Annals of the
Entomological Society of America. 101:362-370.
22. Halverson, K., Heard, S.B., Nason, J.D.,and
J.O. Stireman, III. 2008.
Origins, distribution, and local co-occurrence of
polyploid cytotypes in Solidago altissima (Asteraceae). American Journal of
Botany 95:50-58
21. Halverson, K., Heard, S.B., Nason, J.D.,and
J.O. Stireman, III. 2008.
Differential attack on diploid,
tetraploid, and hexaploid Solidago altissima L. by five insect
gallmakers. Oecologia 154:755-761
20. Dyer, L.A., Singer, M.S., Lill, J.T., Stireman, J.O., Gentry G.L., Marquis, R.J., Ricklefs, R.E., Greeney, H.F., Wagner, D.L., Morais, H.C., Diniz, I.R., Kursar, T.A., & Coley, P.D. 2007. Host specificity of Lepidoptera in tropical and temperate forests. Nature 448:606-700.
19. Heard,
S.B., Stireman, J.O. III, Nason,
J.D., Cox, G.H., Kolacz, C.R. and J.M. Brown. 2006. On the elusiveness of
enemy-free space: Spatial, temporal, and host-plant-related variation in
parasitoid attack rates. Oecologia 150:421-424.
18. Stireman, J.O. III, Nason, J. D. Heard, S., and Seehawer, J. 2006. Cascading host
race formation in parasitoids of phytophagous insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences.
273:523-530.
17. Stireman, J.O. III, L.A. Dyer, D.H.
Janzen, M.S. Singer, J.T. Lill, R.J. Marquis, R.E. Ricklefs, G.L. Gentry, W.
Hallwachs, P.D. Coley, J.A. Barone, H.F. Greeney, H. Connahs, P. Barbosa, H.C.
Morais, and I.R. Diniz. 2005. Climatic unpredictability and caterpillar
parasitism: implications of global warming. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences 102:17384-17387.
16. Stireman, J.O. III, Nason, J. D. and Heard, S. 2005. Host-associated
genetic differentiation in phytophagous insects: general phenomenon or isolated
exceptions? Evidence from a goldenrod insect community. Evolution 59:2573-2587.
15. Singer,
M.S. and Stireman, J.O. III. 2005. The
tri-trophic niche concept and adaptive radiation of phytophagous insects. Ecology Letters 8:1247-1255.
14. Stireman,
J.O. III. 2005. The evolution of generalization? Parasitoid flies and the
perils of inferring host range evolution from phylogenies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18: 325-336.
13.
Singer, M.S., Rodrigues, D., Stireman,
J.O. III, Carriere, Y. 2004. Comparing bi-trophic and tri-trophic causes of
host use in a phytophagous insect. Ecology
85: 2747-2753.
12. Dyer, L.A, Letourneau, D.K., Tobler, M. Dodson, C.D., Stireman, J.O. III, and Hsu, A. 2004. Ecological causes and consequences of variation in defensive chemistry of a neotropical shrub. Ecology 85: 2795-2803.
11. Dyer, L.A., Dodson, C.D., Stireman, J.O. III, Tobler, M.A., Smilanich, A.M. and Fincher, R.M. 2003. Synergistic effects of three Piper amides on generalist and specialist herbivores. Journal of Chemical Ecology 29:2499-2514.
10. Stireman, J.O. III and Singer, M.S.
2003. What determines host range in parasitoids? An analysis of a tachinid
parasitoid community. Oecologia
135:629-638.
9. Dyer, L.A.
and Stireman, J.O. III. 2003. Community-wide trophic cascades and
other indirect interactions in an agricultural community. Basic and Applied Ecology 4:423-432.
8. Singer,
M.S. and Stireman, J.O. III. 2003.
Does anti-parasitoid defense influence host-plant selection by a generalist
caterpillar? Oikos 100:554-562.
7. Stireman, J.O. III and Singer, M.S. 2003. Determinants of parasitoid-host associations: Insights from a natural tachinid-lepidopteran community. Ecology 84:296-310.
6. Stireman, J.O. III. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships of tachinid flies in subfamily Exoristinae (Tachinidae: Diptera) based on 28S rDNA and Elongation Factor 1-a. Systematic Entomology 27:409-435.
5. Stireman, J.O. III and Singer, M.S. 2002. Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in the parasitoid assemblage of an exophytic polyphagous caterpillar. Ecological Entomology 27: 588-600.
4. Stireman, J.O. III. 2002. Learning in the generalist tachinid parasitoid Exorista mella (Diptera: Tachinidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 15: 715-732.
3. Stireman, J.O. III. 2002. Host location and acceptance in a polyphagous tachinid parasitoid. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 103: 23-34.
2. Greeney,
H.F., and Stireman, J.O. III 2002.
Emergence of parasitic flies from adult Actinote
diceus (Nymphalidae: Acraeinae) in Ecuador. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 55: 79-80.
1.
Singer, M.S., and Stireman, J.O. III.
2001. How foraging tactics determine host-plant use by a polyphagous
caterpillar. Oecologia
129: 98-105.
Other
Publications
Stireman, J.O. III and Cipollini, D. 2008.Stealth tactics of galling parasites and their potential indirect effects. The New Phytologist (in press).
Stireman, J.O. III. 2008. Tachinid
collecting in southwest New Mexico and Arizona during the 2007 NADS field meeting. Tachinid Times 21: 14-16
Stireman, J.O.
III. 2007. Preliminary notes on Tachinidae reared from
Lepidoptera in the Ecuadorian Andes Tachinid Times 20: 4-8.
Stireman, J.O.
III. 2005. Phylogenetic reconstruction of
Exoristinae using molecular data: a Bayesian re-analysis. Tachinid Times 18: 4-6.
Papers Contributed to Scientific Meetings
Stireman, J.O. III. Adaptive radiation of phytophagous insects in a multitrophic
context. Entomological Society of America Symposium in honor of Dr. E A.
Bernays. November 2007. Invited.
Stireman, J.O. III. Ecological determinants of tachinid-Lepidoptera host associations. In "The ecology of parasitoids of butterflies" Symposium for the 5th Conference on Butterfly Biology, Italy, 2007. Invited.
Stireman, J.O.
III. J.D. Nason, and
S.B. Heard. Cascading host-associated differentiation in insect communities and
the evolutionary diversification of parasitic insects. Organized Oral Session
on “Host Associated Differentiation” co-organized with R. Medina and M.S.
Singer. Ecological
Society of America, August 2007.
Day,
K. R., J. O. Stireman III, and J. D.
Nason. Diversification and ecological strategies of non-pollinating wasps
on Ficus petiolaris. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation,
Morelia, Mexico, July 2007.
Gates,
D. J., J. D. Nason, and J. O. Stireman
III. Does within-crown pollinator dispersal and self-fertilization
promote mutualism stability in the Sonoran Desert Rock fig and its fig
wasp? Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Morelia, Mexico,
July 2007.
Nason,
J. D., J. O. Stireman III, K. R. Day,
and D. J. Gates. Between a rock and a hard place: figs, pollinators, and
parasites in the Sonoran Desert. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Morelia,
Mexico, July 2007.
Gates,
D. J., J. D. Nason, and J. O. Stireman
III. Does Self- fertilization promote coexistence in fig-fig wasp
mutualisms in extreme environments? 9th International Pollination
Symposium, Ames, Iowa, June 2007 (poster)
Stireman, J.O.
III., J.D. Nason. Between a rock and a
hard place: parasites, population size, and fruiting asynchrony in the Sonoran
Desert rock fig, Ficus petiolaris.
Ecological Society of America, August 2006.
Stireman, J.O.
III., J.D. Nason, and
S.B. Heard. Cascading host-associated differentiation in insect
communities and the evolutionary diversification of parasitic insects. Sponsored Symposium: Patterns of
codiversification in specialized communities. Society for the Study of Evolution, June
2006.
Nason,
J.D., and J.O.
Stireman III. Evolutionary box canyons in the Sonoran
Desert: Figs, pollinators, parasites, and geographic variation in mutualism
fitness. Society for the
Study of Evolution, June 2006.
Stireman, J.O.
III., J.D. Nason, and
S.B. Heard. Cascading host race formation across trophic levels: Parasitoids of
goldenrod insect herbivores. Entomological Society of America, December
2005.
Heard,
S. B., G.H. Cox, J.D. Nason, J.O.
Stireman III. Host-race formation in the goldenrod insect community: isolated exceptions or
a general phenomenon. Canadian Entomological Society,
2004, Oct. 2004
Stireman, J.O.
III., J.D. Nason, and
S.B. Heard. Cascading host race formation across trophic levels: Parasitoids of
goldenrod insect herbivores. Society for the Study of Evolution, June
2004.
Halverson, K., J.D. Nason, and J.O. Stireman III. Plant polyploidy effects on goldenrod insect
herbivores. Society for the Study of Evolution, June 2004.
Heard, S.
B., J.D. Nason, J.O. Stireman III. Enemy-free space is an elusive thing: parasitoid attack
rates on two gallmakers of two goldenrods. Society for the Study of
Evolution, June 2004.
Nason,
J.D., J.O. Stireman III, and S.B.
Heard. Is sympatric host race formation common in
phytophagous insects? A community-level perspective. Society for the
Study of Evolution, June 2004.
Singer,
M., Rodrigues, D., Stireman, J.O. III,
Carriere, Y. Roles of food quality and enemy-free space in herbivory by a
generalist caterpillar. Ecological Society of America, August 2004
Heard, S.,
Nason, J., Stireman, J.O. III.
Parallel host-race formation among goldenrod herbivores and their parasitoids.
Ecological Society of America, August 2003.
Singer,
M., Stireman, J.O. III, Carriere, Y.
, Bernays, E.A. Defensive benefits of preferred host-plants for a generalist
insect herbivore. Ecological Society of America, August 2003
Brauner,
R.I., Tobler, M.I., Stireman, J.O. III,
Letourneau, D., Dodson, C., Dyer, L. Causes and consequences of variation in Piper chemistry. Ecological Society of
America, August 2002
Stireman, J.O. III, Singer, M., Dyer, L., Gentry, G.
Ecological, morphological, and behavioral determinants of Lepidoptera parasitism
across a latitudinal gradient, Ecological Society of America, August 2002
Stireman, J.O. III. Phylogeny of Exoristinae (Tachinidae): The
evolution of generalization. Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society
of America, March 2002.
Stireman,
J.O. III. Learning in a
generalist tachinid parasitoid, Entomological Society of America, December
2001.
Stireman, J.O. III. The community ecology of tachinid-host
relationships. Ecological Society of America, August 2000
Stireman, J.O. III. Ecological and evolutionary determinants of
host use in Tachinidae. XII
International Entomophagous Insect Workshop, Sept. 1999.
Stireman,
J.O. III. Spatial and
temporal variation in the parasitoid complex of Grammia geneura (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). XI International
Entomophagous Insect Workshop, July 1997.
Invited Presentations
Dept. of Entomology, U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana 11/07
Dept. of Zoology, Miami University 9/06
Dept. of Biology, University of Dayton 10/06
Dept. Biol. Sci., Rutgers, Newark 4/05
Dept. Biol. Sci., Mississippi State University 2/05
Dept. Biol. Sci., Wright State University 1/05
Dept. of EEOB, Iowa State University 2/04
International Caterpillar Workshop, ACG, Costa Rica, 6/03
Dept.
of EEB, University of Tennessee 2/03
Dept.
of Entomology, Iowa State University 10/02
Professional Service:
Reviewer
for:
Belgian journal of Zoology, Biological Control, Biological journal of the Linnean Society, Biotropica, Bulletin of
Entomological Research, Canadian Entomologist, Ecology, Ecological Entomology, Ecological Monographs, Entomological
News , Environmental Entomology, European Journal of Entomology, Evolution, Journal of Animal Behavior,
Journal of Applied Entomology, Journal of Biogeography,
Journal of Insect Science, Journal of Insect Physiology, Molecular Ecology, Oecologia, The New Phytologist, Pan Pacific Entomologist, Tropical Zoology,
Elsevier Press, Kluwer Academic Press, Earthwatch, National Science Foundation.
Reviewer on a National Science Foundation Evolutionary and Ecological Processes (EEP) review panel – March 2007.
Advisory Board,
Yanayacu Biological Station, Cosanga Ecuador
Insect and other arthropod identification for academic, research, and local Miami Valley communities (e.g. Centerville School district)
Committees & University Service
Seminar organizer, Ecoseminar series, Dept. Of Biological Sciences (2005-2006)
Graduate Committee, Dept. of Biological Sciences (2007 - current)
Graduate Admissions Committee, Interdepartmental Environmental Sciences PhD program (2006 - current)
Nominating Committee, Interdepartmental Biomedical Sciences PhD program (2006 - current).
College of Sciences and Math Academic Computing Committee (2006 - current)
Search Committee: Molecular Ecology, Dept. of Biological Sciences (2008)