OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2013-P Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Specialty Section: Phylogenetics, Phylogenomics, and Systematics)

Journals (~5 papers reviewed annually):

Aquaculture

Biology Letters

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Conservation Biology

Copeia

Current Microbiology

Ecological Entomology

Environmental Microbiology

Evolution

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Frontiers Microbiology

Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics

Heredity

J. of Biogeography

J. of Economic Entomology

Microbial Ecology

Molecular Ecology

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

PLoS ONE

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Western North American Naturalist

Reviewed one book chapter: “Evolution of unisexual reproduction” for book titled “Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes”, due for publication by Chicago University Press in 2010
Grant Proposal Reviewing Activity:

Panelist:

NSF:

-“Evolutionary Processes” (2013)

NSF:

- “Population and Evolutionary Processes”

- “Molecular and Cellular Biology”

- “Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in Biological Sciences”

Other US National/State:

-John Templeton Foundation

-Kentucky Science & Engineering Foundation

Local:

International:

-Czech Science Foundation

-CONACyT (Mexican Science and Technology Foundation)

-The Wellcome Trust/Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships
Other Activities

**Related to Participation of Minorities
2016 **Super Techno Science Night at Southwood Valley Elementary. Hands-on activities to demonstrate the biology of Drosophila and their parasitic wasps (English and Spanish).

2014 **Super Techno Science Night at Southwood Valley Elementary. Hands-on activities to demonstrate the biology of Drosophila and their parasitic wasps (English and Spanish).

2013 **Science presentations and hands-on activity for two classrooms of Third Grade Dual Language (English-Spanish) Program at College Hills Elementary School. Presentation in Spanish on life cycle, predation, and symbiosis using the Drosophila-Spiroplasma-parasitoid wasp system. Students performed experiment, and analyzed and interpreted results.

**Super Techno Science Night at Southwood Valley Elementary. Hands-on activities to demonstrate the biology of Drosophila and their parasitic wasps (English and Spanish). Assisted by undergraduate student Valeria Galván.

2012 Co-organizer with Jen A. White, Raul F. Medina of Section Symposium “Bacterial Symbionts Mediating Arthropod Evolutionary Ecology: From Local Interactions to Global Diversity”, Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting.

2006 **Judge for Student Poster presentations at Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Conference.

**Judge for Student Poster presentations at Univ. of Texas, El Paso, Research Expo.

**The Aggie Latino Alliance Seminar, speaker “Studies of endosymbiotic relationships in evolutionary biology”.

2001-02 **Teaching Assistant, Marine Science, Arizona State University (four two-week intensive courses taught in Guaymas, Mexico).

INVITED SEMINARS

2015 “Endosimbiontes de Drosophila defensivos contra avispas parasitoides”, Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Tolima (Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia)

“Endosimbiontes de Drosophila defensivos contra avispas parasitoides”, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)-Unidad Tapachula (Chiapas, Mexico)

“Understanding the mechanism of protection of Spiroplasma against parasitic wasps of Drosophila”, Bacillus thuringiensis Research Group, Biotechnology Institute, UNAM-Cuernavaca (Morelos, Mexico)

2014 “Symbiont-mediated defense against parasitoids in Drosophila”, Ecological Genomics Research Group, Center for Genomic Sciences, UNAM-Cuernavaca (Morelos, Mexico)

2013 “Symbiont-mediated defense against parasitoids in Drosophila”, Department of Entomology, University of Georgia (Athens, GA)

2012 “Distribution of Spiroplasma-mediated protection against parasitoids in Drosophila”, Section Symposium titled “Bacterial Symbionts Mediating Arthropod Evolutionary Ecology: From Local Interactions to Global Diversity”, Entomological Society of America 60th Annual Meeting, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 11–14 2012

“Comparative Genomics of Endosymbiotic Bacteria (genus Spiroplasma) Associated with Drosophila Flies”, Annual Whole Systems Genomics Initiative Forum, Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)

2011 “An unexpected research career journey”, Keynote Address, Fourteenth Annual Graduate Student Forum, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)

2010 “Insights into the association between Drosophila and heritable Spiroplasma bacteria”, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)

2009 Phylogeography of Poeciliids in western Mexico, Livebearing Fishes Symposium, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (Portland, OR)

2006 "Identifying mechanisms responsible for biological diversification: vicariance and selection in Poeciliopsis fishes and bacterial endosymbiosis in Drosophila flies", Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)

"Identifying mechanisms responsible for biological diversification: vicariance and selection in Poeciliopsis fishes and bacterial endosymbiosis in Drosophila flies", Department of Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)

2005 "Mechanisms for biological diversification: vicariance and selection in Poeciliopsis fishes and bacterial endosymbiosis in Drosophila flies", Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas (El Paso, TX)

"Mechanisms for biological diversification: vicariance and selection in Poeciliopsis fishes and bacterial endosymbiosis in Drosophila flies", Department of Biology, Mississippi State University (Starkville, MS)

"Genomics for studies of host-symbiont associations", Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York (Buffalo, NY)

"Phylogeography and placental evolution of livebearing Poeciliid fishes", Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York (Buffalo, NY)

2004 “Phylogeography and placental evolution of livebearing Poeciliid fishes”, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)

“Mechanisms of Diversification in fish and flies”, Biology Department, Lehigh University, (Bethlehem, PN)

2002 “Evolution of Poeciliopsis fishes” Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona, (Tucson, AZ)

“Filogeografía de peces del género Poeciliopsis” Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, (CIAD), México: one seminar at each of three units (Hermosillo, Guaymas, and Mazatlán)

“Evolution of livebearing fishes”, Institute for Strengthening the Understanding of Mathematics and Science- Minority Access to Research Careers Program, Arizona State University, (Tempe, AZ)