CV – Dr. Jessica Arbour

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Teaching

2019: Biometry (BIOL 4350/4351), Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University

2017: Guest Lecturer, Functional Morphology (BIOL 439), Department of Biology, University of Washington

2016: Guest Lecturer, Biology of Fishes (FHL 305), Friday Harbour Laboratories, University of Washington

2011-2014: Teaching Assistant, Diversity of Fishes (EEB 382), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto

2011: Course and Lab Material Development, Diversity of Fishes (EEB 382), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto

2009-2010: Teaching Assistant, Adaptation and Biodiversity (BIOL 120/150), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto

Software

Arbour J.H. and C.M. Brown. 2013. LOST: missing morphometric data simulation and estimation. V1.3. R statistical software package (link)

Professional Activities and Service

Peer Review:
Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, The Anatomical Record, Copeia, Journal of Fish Biology, Neotropical Ichthyology, Zookeys, Environmental Biology of Fishes
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2018 UAW 4121 Working Groups on International Postdoctoral Scholars and Healthcare Access

2011 Bodega Applied Phylogenetics Workshop, March 5-11th , UC Davis/Bodega Bay Marine Lab

2019-present Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University

2017-2019 NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Santana Lab, Department of Biology, University of Washington

2016-2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Santana Lab, Department of Biology, University of Washington

2009-2015 Ph.D., Lopez-Fernandez Lab, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto

2008 NSERC Undergraduate Research Assistant, Hutchings Lab, Department of Marine Biology, Dalhousie University

2007 Laing Undergraduate Research Assistant, Metaxas Lab, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University

2006 NSERC Undergraduate Research Assistant, Hall Lab, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University

2005-2009 B.Sc., Departments of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Dalhousie University

Conference Presentations

Arbour, J.H., A. Curtis and S. Santana. 2019. Macroevolutionary dynamics of cranial and mandible shape in bats. Symposium: Multifunctional structures and multistructural functions: Functional coupling and integration in the evolution of biomechanical systems. The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting. January 2019, Tampa, Florida, USA. (Oral Presentation) [Invited Talk]

Arbour, J.H., A. Curtis, S. Santana. 2018. Adaptive shifts in the evolution of skull shape in bats (Chiroptera): signatures of dietary ecology and echolocation. Symposium: The macroevolutionary dynamics of form-function relationships. Evolution 2018: II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. August 19^th, Montpellier, France. (Oral Presentation).

Santana and J.H. Arbour. 2017. The role of morphology, performance, and behavior in the ecological diversification of bats. Canadian Society of Zoologists. IEE/CMD Joint Symposium. May 17^th, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (Oral Presentation) [Invited Talk]

Arbour, J.H. and S. Santana. 2017. Does evolutionary rate heterogeneity explain the uneven distribution of species diversity within Primates? Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Jan 5^th, New Orleans, USA (Oral Presentation)

Arbour, J.H. and H. López-Fernández. 2013. Patterns of morphological evolution support an ancient adaptive radiation in cichlids. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, July 15, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (Oral Presentation)

Arbour, J.H. and H. López-Fernández. 2012. Evolutionary trends in the functional morphology of Neotropical geophagine cichlids. First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, July 9, Ottawa, Ontario (Oral Presentation)

Arbour, J.H. and H. Lopez-Fernandez. 2010. Comparative functional morphology of Geophagine Cichlids. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. July 10, 2010. (Oral Presentation)

Arbour, J.H. and H. Lopez-Fernandez 2010. Comparative functional morphology of Neotropical Geophagine cichlids. Atwood Colloquium in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto. April 10, 2010, (Oral Presentation)

Arbour, J.H. and J. Hutchings. 2009. A Morphometric Analysis of Two Sympatric Morphs of Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus) from Lake Hazen, Ellesmere Island. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 15, 2009 (Poster Presentation)

Scholarships and Awards

SICB 2019 Meeting Broadening Participation Travel Award (2018)

NSERC postdoctoral fellowship (2017-2019)

E.M. Walker Graduate Award in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2014-2015)

University of Toronto Doctoral Completion Grant (2014-2015)

University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant (2013)

Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, Ph.D. Level (2011-2014)

E.M. Walker Graduate Award in Biodiversity, University of Toronto(2010)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2010-2011)

Helen Sawyer Hogg Graduate Admission Award, University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Sciences (2009)

Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, Masters Level (2009-2010)