BIO

Dr. Anna Himler’s research appointments are as follows:

• University of Arizona Research Associate, National Science Foundation Co-Investigator, (DEB-1020460). Investigating the mechanisms by which endosymbionts manipulate their whitefly host. 2010 – 2013.

• Research Associate, National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching (PERT) fellow with Dr. Martha Hunter. Research investigates whitefly-endosymbiont interactions using molecular genetic, behavioral and experimental approaches. 2007 – 2010.

• University of Texas at Austin Graduate Research Assistant 2001-2003 Guest Scientist El Ceibo Biological Station, February 2003 University of Arizona Research Technician with Dr. Ed Glenn, Environmental Research Laboratory, Tucson, AZ 1998.

• Columbia University Entomology Intern with Dr. Jim Wetterer, Biosphere 2, Tucson, AZ 1997 Program Assistant Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC), NY 1996-1997.

• New York Botanical Garden Project Assistant Institute of Economic Botany, Bronx, NY 1995-1996.

Her teaching appointments are as follows:

• Instructor University of Arizona, Introductory Biology, Spring 2014.

• Instructor Pima Community College, Desert Vista Campus Biology for the Allied Health Sciences, spring 2008.

• Sole instructor for Introductory Cell and Molecular biology class for Health Science majors with an integrated lab-lecture format.

• Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, Section of Integrative Biology Evolution; Behavioral Ecology; Lab Experience in Genetics (with writing component); Honors Genetics; Biology for Business Law and Liberal Arts; Molecules to Organisms; Heredity, Evolution, and Society.

EDUCATION

2007 Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, Section of Integrative Biology Dissertation: Evolutionary Ecology and Natural History

1995 B.A. Oberlin College, Double major: Biology and Environmental Studies

SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH

Mehdiabadi, N.J., U.G. Mueller, S.G. Brady, A.G. Himler, and T. R. Schultz. 2012. Symbiont fidelity and the origin of species in fungus-growing ants. Nature Communications 3:840; DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1844.

Heer K., C.A. Machado, A.G. Himler, E.A. Herre, E.K. Kalko, and C.W Dick. 2012. Anonymous and EST-based microsatellite DNA markers that transfer broadly across the fig tree genus (Ficus, Moraceae). Am. J. Bot. 99 (8):e330-333.

Himler, A. G., T. Adachi-Hagimori, J. Bergen*, A. Kozuch*, S. Kelly, E. Chiel, V. Duckworth*, T. Dennehy, E. Zchori-Fein, and M.S. Hunter. 2011. Rapid spread of a bacterial symbiont in an invasive whitefly is driven by fitness benefits and female bias. Science 332 (6026): 254-256.

Commentary by Jiggins, F.M. and G.D.D. Hurst. Rapid insect evolution by symbiont transfer. 2011. Science 332 (6026): 185-186.

Himler, A.G., and C. Machado. 2009. Host specificity, phenotype matching and the evolution of reproductive isolation in a coevolved plant-pollinator mutualism. Molecular Ecology 18 (24): 4988-4990.

Himler, A.G., E. Caldera*, B. Baer, H. Fernández-Marín, and U.G. Mueller. 2009. No sex in fungus-farming ants or their crops. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276 (1667): 2611- 2616.

Curriculum vitae for Anna Himler, p. 3 Wetterer, J.K., A.G. Himler, and M.M. Yospin*. 2002. Forager size, load size, and resource use in an omnivorous ant, Aphaenogaster albesitosa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 39 (2): 335-343.

Wetterer, J.K., A.G. Himler, and M.M. Yospin*. 2000. Foraging ecology of the desert leaf-cutting ant, Acromyrmex versicolor, in Arizona (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 37 (3B): 633-649.

J.K. Wetterer, S.E. Miller, D.E. Wheeler, C.A. Olsen, D.A. Polhemus, M.Pitts, I.W. Ashton, A.G. Himler, M.M. Yospin, K.R. Helms, E.L. Harkin, J. Gallaher, C.E. Dunning, M. Nelson, J. Litsinger, A. Southern, and T. Burgess. 1999. Ecological dominance by Paratrechina longicornis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), an invasive tramp ant, in Biosphere 2. Florida Entomologist 82 (3): 381-388.

E.P. Glenn, D. Moore, M. Akutagawa, A.G. Himler, T. Walsh, and S. Nelson. 1999. Correlation between Gracilaria parvispora (Rhodophyta) biomass production and water quality factors on a tropical reef in Hawaii. Aquaculture 178: 323-331.