Curriculum Vitae

John W. Pepper




Education

Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of Michigan. 1996. Thesis title: "The behavioral ecology of the glossy black-cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus" Major advisor: Dr. Richard D. Alexander.

B.A. in Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz. 1985. Highest Honors in Biology, College Honors, Honors on Senior Comprehensive Requirement.

A.A. in Computer Science, Montgomery College, Maryland. 1983. Chancellor's Honor Award.
 

 Academic Employment
Starting Sept. 2002: Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.

Co-director, Complex Systems Summer School (Santa Fe Institute and Central European University), Budapest, Hungary, 2002.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute. 1999 - 2002.

Lecturer, University of Michigan. 1997 - 1999.
Courses taught include:


Graduate Student Instructor, Biology Department, University of Michigan. 1990 - 1997.
Courses taught include:

  • Introductory Biology for Non-Science Majors
  • Introduction to Biology Term A (twice)
  • Introduction to Biology Term B
  • Biology of Insects
  • Evolution and Human Behavior (twice)

    •       Research Assistant, Biology Department, Stanford University. 1986 - 1987. DNA synthesis and purification, subcloning into E. coli plasmids, restriction mapping and DNA sequencing.


    Assistant Field Biologist, Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service. 1985.

    Conducted old-growth forest surveys, banded spotted owls, mapped vegetation types from aerial photographs, surveyed rare plants in field, prepared reports.


    Research Aid, National Institutes of Health. 1983 - 1984.

    Performed tissue extractions, radioimmunoassays, protein assays, gel electrophoresis, spectrophotometry, analyzed data, supervised student.     Publications

    Awards and Distinctions

    Research Partnership Fellowship, University of Michigan 1993

    Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1993 (declined)

    Walker Scholarship Award, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 1992

    Hinsdale Scholarship Award, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 1991

    T. C. Schneirla Award for Research in Comparative Psychology, 1991

    Naturalist-Ecologist Training Program Fellowship, University of Michigan Biological Station, 1988

    Regents Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1987
     

     Research Grants (principal investigator) Australian National Conservation Agency: Recovery Plan for the South Australian Glossy Black Cockatoo, 1995.

    Dolphins of Shark Bay Research Foundation, 1994
    Explorers Club Exploration Fund, 1993
    Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, 1991, 1993

    Chicago Zoological Society, 1992

    Rackham Discretionary Fund, University of Michigan, 1992

    Reunion of Zoology Graduate Students of the University of Michigan, 1992

    Wildlife Conservation Fund, South Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1992

    Department of Biology Research Block Grant, University of Michigan, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992

    Dissertation/Thesis Grant, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 1990
     

     Invited Symposia and Seminars Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Nov. 2001."Agent-based models as guides for genomic research".

    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Nov. 2001. "Multilevel selection and the evolution of evolvability: Two case studies".

    Department of Biology, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Aug. 2001. "Multilevel selection and the evolution of evolvability: Two case studies".

    Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study Berlin), May 2001. Workshop on “Principles of Social Evolution”.

    Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, May 2001. Workshop on “Complexity - Unifying Themes for the Sciences and New Frontiers for Mathematics”.

    Theoretical and Physics Divisions, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Nov. 2000. “The evolution of cooperation: an old question and a new answer”.

    Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Nov. 2000. “Environmental feedback: a novel mechanism for the evolution of cooperation among non-kin.”

    Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Oct. 2000. “Positive assortment among cooperators through environmental feedback.”

    University of California at Berkeley, Oct. 2000. Symposium: A Tribute to W. D. Hamilton. “Inclusive fitness without kin selection: was Hamilton right?”

    Department of Biology, Binghamton University. Oct. 2000. “The evolution of highly evolvable genomes”, and “Evolution of cooperation through environmental feedback”.

    Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, University of California at Los Angeles, Dec. 1999.

    Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM. June 1999.

    Program for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, Dec. 1998.

    Santa Fe Institute and the University of Michigan Program for the Study of Complex Systems. Symposium on Coevolution. Ann Arbor, MI, Nov. 1998.

    The University of Michigan Program for the Study of Complex Systems, Third Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems.  Ann Arbor, MI, March 1997.
     

     Professional Societies American Society of Naturalists
    International Society for Behavioral Ecology
    Society for the Study of Evolution     Service Editorial Board, Theory in Biosciences
    Associate, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
    Reviewer for: Animal Behaviour
    Artificial Life
    Austral Ecology
    Behavioral Ecology
    Complexity
    Emu (Austral Ornithology)
    Ethology
    Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds
    Journal of Theoretical Biology
    Molecular Ecology
     

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