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David A. Moeller

 

Education

Degree Institution

B.A. 1997 Washington University, Summa cum laude

Biology, with honors

Advisor: Dr. Barbara A. Schaal

 

Ph.D. 2003 Cornell University

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Advisor: Dr. Monica A. Geber

 

Postdoctoral University of Minnesota

2004-2007 Advisor: Dr. Peter Tiffin

 

Positions

University of Minnesota

2015 – present Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Plant Biology

2015 – present Associate Professor, Department of Plant Biology

2009 – 2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology

 

University of Georgia

2008 – 2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia

 

Honors and Awards

Robert H. Whittaker Award, Outstanding graduate research in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,

Cornell University

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University

Phi Beta Kappa, elected, Washington University

Sigma Xi Honor Society, elected, Washington University

Summa cum laude, Honors in Biology, Washington University

Young Botanist Award, Botanical Society of America

Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Washington University

 

 

Research Grants – External Sources

 

Co-Principal Investigator (Allison Shaw, Co-PI; Lauren Sullivan, PI)

Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources

Measuring Prairie Fragment Connectivity: Pollen and Seed Dispersal

July 2016 – June 2019

$556,000

 

Principal Investigator (sole PI)

National Science Foundation

REU Supplement: LTREB: Evolutionary Demography – The Contribution of Adaptation and Environment to Population Dynamics, Range Size, and Niche Width

March 2016 – December 2016

$7075

 

Principal Investigator (Peter Tiffin, Co-PI)

Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center)

Climate Change and Range Expansion of Invasive Plants

January 2016 – June 2018

$170,000

Principal Investigator (sole PI)

National Science Foundation

REU Supplement: LTREB: Evolutionary Demography – The Contribution of Adaptation and Environment to Population Dynamics, Range Size, and Niche Width

March 2015 – December 2015

$7300

 

Co-Principal Investigator (Monica Geber, PI; Vincent Eckhart, Co-PI)

National Science Foundation

LTREB: Evolutionary Demography – The Contribution of Adaptation and Environment to

Population Dynamics, Range Size, and Niche Width

March 2013 – February 2018

$448,390

 

Principal Investigator (sole PI)

National Science Foundation

The Role of Natural Selection in Plant Speciation: A Test of the Reinforcement Hypothesis

in Clarkia

September 2010 – August 2014

$495,431

 

Principal Investigator (sole PI)

National Science Foundation

ROA Supplement: Sexual Conflict and Mating System Evolution in Clarkia

March 2014 – August 2014

$32,016

 

Principal Investigator (sole PI)

National Science Foundation

REU Supplement: The Role of Natural Selection in Plant Speciation: A Test of the Reinforcement

Hypothesis in Clarkia

March 2014 – August 2014

$6900

 

Principal Investigator (sole PI)

National Science Foundation

REU Supplement: The Role of Natural Selection in Plant Speciation: A Test of the Reinforcement

Hypothesis in Clarkia

March 2013 – December 2013

$6250

 

Principal Investigator (sole PI)

National Science Foundation

REU Supplement: The Role of Natural Selection in Plant Speciation: A Test of the Reinforcement

Hypothesis in Clarkia

March 2012 – December 2012

$7350

Principal Investigator (sole PI)

National Science Foundation

REU Supplement: The Role of Natural Selection in Plant Speciation: A Test of the Reinforcement

Hypothesis in Clarkia

March 2011 – December 2011

$7350

 

Principal Investigator

Capitol Region Watershed District

Sarita Wetland Native Plant Restoration: Re-Establishing Native Plant Communities in A Degraded

Wetland on the University of Minnesota Campus

January 2011 – December 2013

$8,800

 

Co-Principal Investigator (Monica Geber, PI; Vincent Eckhart, Co-PI; Peter Tiffin, Co-PI)

National Science Foundation

Collaborative Research: Ecological and Evolutionary-Genetic Limits to Range Expansion

September 2005 – August 2010

$780,122

 

Co-Principal Investigator (Monica Geber, PI)

National Science Foundation

DDIG: Ecological Causes of the Evolution of Self-Pollination

March 2001 – December 2003

$13,000

 

Research Grants – Internal Sources

 

Principal Investigator (sole PI)

John Hall Memorial Research Award

Evolution of Species’ Distributions in Response to Historical and Contemporary Climate

January 2012 – present

$17,325 (all direct)

 

Principal Investigator (sole PI)

Grant-In-Aid

Evolution of Species’ Distributions in Response to Historical and Contemporary Climate

January 2012 – present

$30,062 (all direct)

 

Principal Investigator (sole PI)

University of Georgia

Ecological Genetics of Adaptation to Climate Change Across A Latitudinal Gradient

January 2009 – December 2009

$10,129 (all direct)

 

PUBLICATIONS

(authors from my lab are in bold; graduate student authors*, undergraduate authors†)

 

28. Moeller, D.A., R.D. Briscoe Runquist, A.M. Moe, M.A. Geber, C. Goodwillie, P.-O. Cheptou, C.G. Eckert, E. Elle, M.O. Johnston, S. Kalisz, R.H. Ree, R.D. Sargent, M. Vallejo-Marin, & A.A. Winn. 2017. Global biogeography of mating system variation in seed plants. Ecology Letters, in press.

 

27. Briscoe Runquist, R.D., M.A. Geber, M. Pickett-Leonard†, & D.A. Moeller. 2017. Mating system evolution under strong pollen limitation: Evidence of disruptive selection through male and female fitness in Clarkia xantiana. American Naturalist, in press.

 

26. Pettengill, J.B., R.D. Briscoe Runquist, & D.A. Moeller. 2016. Mating system divergence affects the distribution of sequence diversity within and among populations of recently diverged subspecies of Clarkia xantiana (Onagraceae). American Journal of Botany 103:99-109.

Special Issue on “Evolutionary Insights from Studies of Geographic Variation”

 

25. Briscoe Runquist, R.D., E. Chu†, J.L. Iverson†, J.C. Kopp†, & D.A. Moeller. 2014. Rapid evolution of reproductive isolation between incipient outcrossing and selfing Clarkia species.

Evolution 68:2885-2900.

 

24. Gould, B., D.A. Moeller, V.M. Eckhart, P. Tiffin, & M.A. Geber. 2014. Local adaptation and range boundary formation in response to complex environmental gradients across the geographic range of Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana. Journal of Ecology 102:95-107.
25. Briscoe Runquist, R.D. & D.A. Moeller. 2014. Floral and mating system divergence in secondary sympatry: testing an alternative hypothesis to reinforcement in Clarkia. Annals of Botany 100:1916-1921.

Special Issue on “Pollinator-Driven Speciation”

 

22. Briscoe Runquist, R.D. & D.A. Moeller. 2013. Resource reallocation does not influence estimates of pollen limitation or reproductive assurance in Clarkia xantiana ssp. parviflora (Onagraceae). American Journal of Botany 100:1916-1921.

 

21.  Pettengill, J.B., & D.A. Moeller. 2012. Phylogeography of speciation: allopatric divergence and secondary contact between outcrossing and selfing Clarkia. Molecular Ecology 21:4578-4592.

 

20.  Pettengill, J.B., & D.A. Moeller. 2012. Tempo and mode of mating system evolution between incipient Clarkia species. Evolution 66:1210-1225.

 

19.  Moeller, D.A., M.A. Geber, V.M. Eckhart, & P. Tiffin. 2012. Reduced pollinator service and elevated pollen limitation at the geographic range limit of an annual plant. Ecology 93:1036-1048.

Editor’s Choice, Science, June 1, 2012

 

18.  Winn, A.A., E. Elle, S. Kalisz, P.-O. Cheptou, C.G. Eckert, C. Goodwillie, M.O. Johnston, D.A. Moeller, R.H. Ree, R.D. Sargent, & M. Vallejo-Marin. 2011. Analysis of inbreeding depression in mixed mating plants provides evidence for selective interference and stable mixed mating. Evolution 65:3339-3359.
19.  Moeller, D.A., M.A. Geber, & P. Tiffin. 2011. Population genetics and the evolution of geographic range limits in an annual plant. American Naturalist 178:S44-S61.

 

16.  Eckhart, V.M., M.A. Geber, W.F. Morris, E.S. Fabio, P. Tiffin, & D.A. Moeller. 2011. The geography of demography: Long-term demographic studies and species distribution models reveal a species border limited by adaptation. American Naturalist 178:S26-S43.

 

15.  Eckhart, V.M., I. Singh, A.M. Louthan, A.J. Keledjian, A. Chu, D.A. Moeller, & M.A. Geber.
16.                Plant-soil water relations and the species border of Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana

               (Onagraceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 171: 749-760.

 

14.  Goodwillie, C., R. Sargent, C.G Eckert, E. Elle, M.A. Geber, M.O. Johnston, S. Kalisz,

D.A. Moeller, R.H. Ree, M. Vallejo-Marin, & A. Winn. 2010.  Correlated evolution of mating

system and floral display traits in flowering plants and its implications for the distribution of mating system variation. New Phytologist 185: 311-321.

 

13.  Eckert, C.G., S. Kalisz, M.A. Geber , R. Sargent, E. Elle, P.-O. Cheptou, C. Goodwillie, M.O.

               Johnston, J.K. Kelly, D.A. Moeller, E. Porcher, R.H. Ree, M. Vallejo-Marin, & A. Winn. 2010.  

Plant mating systems in a changing world. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25: 35-43.

 

12.  Johnston, M.O., E. Porcher, P.-O. Cheptou, C.G. Eckert, E. Elle, M.A. Geber, S. Kalisz, J.K. Kelly, D.A. Moeller, M. Vallejo-Marin, & A. Winn. 2009. Correlations among fertility components can maintain mixed mating in plants. American Naturalist 173: 1-11.

 

11.  Moeller, D.A. & P. Tiffin. 2008. Geographic variation in adaptation at the molecular level: A case study of plant immunity genes. Evolution 62: 3069-3081.

Faculty of 1000 Biology, Recommended

 

10.  Moeller, D.A., M.I. Tenaillon, & P. Tiffin. 2007. Population structure and its effects on patterns of nucleotide polymorphism in teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis). Genetics 176: 1799-1809.

 

9.  Tiffin, P. & D.A. Moeller. 2006. Molecular evolution of plant immune system genes.  

Trends in Genetics 22: 662-670.

 

8.  Moeller, D.A.  2006. Geographic structure of pollinator communities, reproductive

assurance, and the evolution of self-pollination. Ecology 87: 1510-1522.

 

7.  Wheelwright, N.T., E. Dukeshire, J. Fontaine, S. Gutow, D.A. Moeller, J.G. Schuetz, T.M. Smith, S. Rodgers, & A.G. Zink. 2006. Pollinator limitation, autogamy, and minimal inbreeding depression in insect-pollinated plants on a boreal island. American Midland Naturalist 155:19-38.

 

6.  Moeller, D.A. & P. Tiffin. 2005. Genetic diversity and the evolutionary history of plant immunity genes in two species of Zea. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22: 2480-2490.

 

5.  Moeller, D.A. & M.A. Geber. 2005. Ecological context of the evolution of self-pollination in Clarkia xantiana: population size, plant communities, and reproductive assurance. Evolution 59: 786-799.  

Article Featured On Journal Cover

 

4.  Moeller, D.A. 2005. Pollinator community structure and sources of spatial variation in plant-pollinator interactions in Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana. Oecologia 142: 28-37.

 

3.  Moeller, D.A. 2004. Facilitative interactions among plants via shared pollinators.

Ecology 85: 3289-3301.

 

2.  Moeller, D.A. & B.A. Schaal. 1999. Genetic relationships among Native American maize

accessions of the Great Plains assessed by RAPDs. Theoretical and Applied Genetics  

99: 1061-1067.

 

1.  Schaal, B.A., L.J.C.B. Carvalho, T. Prinzie, K. Olsen, M. Hernandez, G. Cabral, & D.A. Moeller. 1997. Phylogenetic relationships and genetic diversity in Manihot species. African Journal of Root and Tuber Crops 2: 147-149.

 

Book Chapters

 

2.  Bellemare, J. & D.A. Moeller. 2014. Climate change and the herbaceous layer of temperate deciduous forests. in. F.S. Gilliam, ed., The Herbaceous Layer in Forests of Eastern North America (2nd ed.), pp. 460-480. Oxford University Press.

 

1.  Geber, M.A. & D.A. Moeller. 2006. Pollinator responses to plant communities and implications for reproductive character evolution; in L.D. Harder and S.C.H. Barrett, eds.

Ecology and Evolution of Flowers, pp. 102-119. Oxford University Press.

 

Invited Talks

2016	University of Wisconsin, Madison; Department of Botany
2015	Pollen Research Coordination Network Annual Meeting
2013	Iowa State University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
2012	Indiana University, Department of Biology
2010	Invited Symposium Speaker Society for the Study of Evolution/American Soc. of Naturalists, Portland, OR.
2010	University of Minnesota, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
2009	Invited Symposium Speaker Botanical Society of America, Snowbird, UT
2009	University of Minnesota, Plant Biology
2008	University of Georgia, Plant Center, annual meeting
2008	Michigan State University, Kellogg Biological Station
2007	Invited Symposium Speaker European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala, Sweden
2007	University of California, Santa Cruz, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
2007	Colorado State University, Biology
2007	University of Georgia, Genetics
2007	University of Missouri, St. Louis, Biology
2007	Santa Clara University, Biology
2006	Colgate University, Biology
2005	Grinnell College, Biology
2004	University of Minnesota, Plant Biology
2003	Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

 

Contributed Talks

2015	R.D. Briscoe Runquist and D.A. Moeller Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD
2014	Moeller, D.A., R.D. Briscoe Runquist, and A. Moe Society for the Study of Evolution, Raleigh, NC
2014	Briscoe Runquist, R.D, and D.A. Moeller Society for the Study of Evolution, Raleigh, NC
2014	Erlandson, S. and D.A. Moeller Ecological Society of America, Sacramento, CA
2013	Briscoe Runquist, R.D. and D.A. Moeller Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN
2011	Pettengill, J.B. and D.A. Moeller Society for the Study of Evolution, Norman, OK.
2008	Moeller, D.A. and P. Tiffin Society for the Study of Evolution, Minneapolis, MN.
2007	Geber, M.A., V.M. Eckhart, D.A. Moeller, P. Tiffin, E.C. Looney, I. Singh, and A. Louthan Ecological Society of America, San Jose, CA.
2005	Moeller, D.A. and P. Tiffin Society for the Study of Evolution, Fairbanks, AK.
2003	Moeller, D.A. Ecological Society of America, Savannah, GA.
2002	Moeller, D.A. Society for the Study of Evolution, Champaign, IL.
2001	Moeller, D.A. Society for the Study of Evolution, Knoxville, TN.
1999	Moeller, D.A. Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, UT.

 

Teaching & Advising

 

Courses

 

University of Minnesota

Plant, Algal, and Fungal Diversity and Adaptation (BIOL 3007W)

2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

Integrative Plant Biology – Connecting Molecules to Ecosystems (PBS 8081)

2011

Minnesota Flora (PBIO 4321)

2010

Directed Research (PBIO or EEB 4994)

2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

 

University of Georgia

Evolutionary Biology (GENE 3000)

2008, 2009

Senior Seminar in Genetics (GENE 4950)

2008

Freshman Seminar in Biology (FRES 1010)

2008

 

Advising & Mentoring

 

Undergraduate Researchers

Joo Yoon Kim

Zachary Radford

Thomas Lake

Lana Bolin

Soham Shah (Honors Thesis)

Rebecca Hanson

Michael Pickett-Leonard (Honors Thesis)

Eric Chu (Honors Thesis)

Victoria Ukatu

Katie Tuininga

Kelia Axler

Bailey Kimbel

Jason Kopp

Marta Lyons

Erica Beckman

Justin Iverson

Alexandre Wang (U. of Georgia)

Chelsea Jones (U. of Georgia)

Rebecca Carter (U. of Georgia)

 

Graduate Students

 

Ph.D. Students Advised

John Benning

Stephanie Erlandson

Amanda Gorton (co-advised with Peter Tiffin)

Ph.D. Committees

German Gutierrez

Alexander Harkness

Beth Fallon

Nicholas Goldsmith

Marta Lyons

Derek Nedveck

Christina Smith

Erin Treiber

Anthony Schmitt

Amber Eula-Nashoba – completed

Ana Gonzales – completed

Michael Nelson – completed

Mohamed Yakub  – completed

Zhou Fang – completed

Brendan Epstein – completed

John Stanton-Geddes – completed

Louisa Staton (U. of Georgia) – completed

Tina Bell (U. of Georgia) – completed

Scott Small (U. of Georgia) – completed

Post-doctoral Fellows Supervised

Lauren Sullivan (2016 – present)

Ryan Briscoe Runquist (2012—present)

Annika Moe (2012—2015)

James Pettengill (2010—2011)

 

Research Technicians Supervised

Zachary Radford (2016 – present)

Katharine Wilson (2016)

Erica Beckman (2010 –2010)

Justin Iverson (2010 – 2013)

Raven Bier (2009-2010)

 

Service

Service To The Discipline

 

Editorships

Associate Editor for Evolution (2014-2016)

 

Panels

NSF DEB Evolutionary Processes Panel – Full Proposals – November 2015

 

Journal and Grant Reviewer

In total, I have served as an external reviewer on 151 occasions for 34 journals and 6 granting agencies

 

Journals

American Journal of Botany, American Midland Naturalist, American Naturalist, Annals of Botany, Biological Invasions, Botany, Ecological Monographs, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Ecology, Functional Ecology, Heredity, International Journal of Plant Sciences, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Nature Plants, New Phytologist, Oecologia, Oikos, Plant Biology, Plant Species Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS One, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Rhodora, Trends in Plant Science, Wetlands

 

Granting Agencies

National Science Foundation (NSF), Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), Swiss National Science Foundation, National Commission for Scientific & Technological Research (Chile), Ausrian Science Fund, Israeli Science Foundation, Ohio State University SEEDS Competitive Grants Program

 

Service To The University

 

University of Minnesota

University Service

2011 Sustainability Committee: Education/Outreach Subcommittee

2010 – 2013 Sarita Wetland Restoration Planning Committee

 

Collegiate Service and Intercollegiate Service

2016 – present CBS Conservatory Advisory Committee

2015 – present CBS Educational Policy Committee

2015 – present CBS Director of Undergraduate Studies Committee

2015 – present Advocacy of College Proposals for the Minnesota Legislature (Presentations to Senators, Representatives, and Governor’s Staff)

2014 – 2015 Search Committee Member: Pollinator Ecology (Entomology, CFANS)

2014 – 2015 Search Committee Chair: Director of the CBS Conservatory

2013 – 2015 Mentored two transfer students in research; HHMI UMN program

2013 – 2014 College of Biological Sciences, Conservatory Review Committee

2012 – 2013 College of Biological Sciences, Cluster Hiring Committee – Fungal Evolution

2012 HHMI Research-Based Science Education Steering Committee

2010 College of Biological Sciences, Transfer Student Lab Tours

 

Department Service

2015 – present Director of Undergraduate Studies: Plant Biology Major

2015 – present PBIO Curriculum Committee, Chair

2013 – 2015 Social Committee

2011 Strategic Planning for New Hires Committee

2010 – 2012 Awards Committee

 

Graduate Program Service

2016 – present PBS Admissions Committee

2011 – 2013 Plant Biological Sciences Graduate Program: Steering Committee

2010 – present EEB Graduate Student Lab Tours (annual)

2010 EEB Reviewer: Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Graduate Fellowship

 

Service To The Community

 

2014 – present    Market Science – My laboratory has been extensively involved in Market Science, a program where graduate students and postdocs present scientific topics at the Midtown Farmer’s Market. A different topic and set of activities is planned for each week – e.g. pollinators, urban water quality, market botany, fungi. In 2016, alone, Market Science attracted 4100 visitors over the course of 36 community events.

 

2013, 2015, 2016   K-6 Teacher Training in the Plant Biological Sciences – My lab developed presentations and a short lab module for K-6 teachers attending a UMN workshop on integrating plant biology and active learning into the classroom.

 

2010 – 2016 Sarita Wetland Native Plant Restoration – I lead an effort at the University to engage the public in native plant restoration at the Sarita Wetland Conservation Area and to provide education about water quality and stormwater management. I was also successful at acquiring funding for this project. I continue to consult on projects that occur in the conservation area.

 

2008 Communicating Science to the Public – I wrote an article for a local newspaper in the area where I conduct field research in rural California. This article communicated local natural history about plants and their pollinators.

 

Moeller, D.A. 2008. Extraordinary bee diversity in the Southern Sierras. Kern River Courier.