Meghan A. Duffy

School of Biology
310 Ferst Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0230

Employment:
2008-present:
Assistant Professor, School of Biology
Georgia Institute of Technology

2006-2007:
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biological Informatics
Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mentor: Tony Ives

Education:
2000-2006:
Michigan State University and W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
Ph.D. in Zoology and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior
Advisors: Alan Tessier and Jeff Conner
Dissertation title: Evolutionary and community ecology of parasitism in Daphnia

1996-2000:
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
B.S. in Biological Sciences, cum laude
Program of Study: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Advisor: Nelson Hairston, Jr.

Research Grants:
2008-2009: National Science Foundation. “Research Starter Grant: The role of competition among parasites in driving patterns of disease” ($50,000)

2006-2008: National Science Foundation. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics. “Spatiotemporal scaling of the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of host-parasite interactions” ($120,000)

2005-2007: National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant “Selective predators and the dynamics of host-parasite interactions” ($10,699)

Fellowships:
2002: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2002: EPA STAR Graduate Fellowship (Awarded but not accepted)

2000: Michigan State University Distinguished Fellowship

1999: Howard Hughes Research Fellowship, Cornell University

Honors and Awards:
2006: Ecological Society of America Aquatic Ecology Section Best Talk Award

2006: Honorable Mention, Buell Award for the outstanding student oral presentation, Ecological Society of America

2005: P.E.O. Scholar Award ($10,000)

2005: Carolyn E. Conway Endowed Scholar Award, P.E.O. Sisterhood

Publications: (e-mail duffy at gatech.edu for pre-prints)
Hall, S.R., C.R. Becker, J.L. Simonis, M.A. Duffy, A.J. Tessier, and C.E. Cáceres. In press. Friendly competition: evidence for a dilution effect in a planktonic host-parasite system. Ecology.

Duffy, M.A., C.E. Brassil, S.R. Hall, A.J. Tessier, C.E. Cáceres, and J.K. Conner. 2008. Parasite-mediated disruptive selection in a natural Daphnia population. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8:80. pdf data and code

Cáceres, C.E., A.J. Tessier, A. Andreou, M.A. Duffy. 2008. Stoichiometric relationships in vernal pond plankton communities. Freshwater Biology, in press. pdf

Duffy, M.A., and S.R. Hall. 2008. Selective predation and rapid evolution can jointly dampen effects of virulent parasites on Daphnia populations. American Naturalist, 171(4):499-510 . pdf appendices

Rodrigues, J.L.M., M.A. Duffy, A.J. Tessier, D. Ebert, L. Mouton and T.M. Schmidt. 2008. Phylogenetic characterization and prevalence of Spirobacillus cienkowskii: a red-pigmented, spiral-shaped bacterial pathogen of freshwater Daphnia species . Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74(5):1575-1582. pdf

Duffy, M.A. 2007. Selective predation, parasitism, and trophic cascades in a bluegill-Daphnia-parasite system. Oecologia, 153(2):453-460. pdf

Hall, S.R., L. Sivars-Becker, C. Becker, M.A. Duffy, A.J. Tessier and C.E. Cáceres. 2007. Eating yourself sick: transmission of disease as a function of foraging ecology. Ecology Letters, 10(3):207-218. pdf

Duffy, M.A. and L. Sivars-Becker. 2007. Rapid evolution and ecological host-parasite dynamics. Ecology Letters 10(1):44-53. pdf

Hall, S.R., A.J. Tessier, M.A. Duffy, M. Huebner and C.E. Cáceres. 2006. Warmer does not have to mean sicker: Temperature and predators can jointly drive timing of epidemics. Ecology 87(7):1684-1695. pdf

Cáceres, C.E., S.R. Hall, M.A. Duffy, A.J. Tessier, C. Helmle and S. MacIntyre. 2006. Physical structure of lakes constrains epidemics in Daphnia populations. Ecology 87(6):1438-1444. pdf

Hall, S.R., M.A. Duffy, A.J. Tessier and C.E. Cáceres. 2005. Spatial heterogeneity of daphniid parasitism in lakes. Oecologia 143(4):635-644. pdf

Duffy, M.A., S.R. Hall, A.J. Tessier and M. Huebner. 2005. Selective predators and their parasitized prey: Are epidemics in zooplankton under top-down control? Limnology and Oceanography 50(2):412-420. pdf (appendix)

Hall, S.R., M.A. Duffy and C.E. Cáceres. 2005. Selective predation and productivity jointly drive complex behavior in host-parasite systems. American Naturalist 165(1):70-81. pdf (appendices)

Duffy, M.A., A.J. Tessier and M.A. Kosnik. 2004. Testing the ecological relevance of Daphnia species designations. Freshwater Biology 49(1):55-64. pdf

Duffy, M.A., L.J. Perry, C.M. Kearns, L.J. Weider, and N.G. Hairston, Jr. 2000. Paleogenetic evidence for a past invasion of Onondaga Lake, New York, by exotic Daphnia curvirostris using mtDNA from dormant eggs. Limnology and Oceanography 45(6):1409-1414. pdf

Presentations: (first-authored only)
Invited:
2008: Georgia Tech, Mathematical Biology and Ecology Seminar
2008: University of Georgia, Ecology of Infectious Disease Seminar
2008: University of Nebraska - Lincoln, School of Biological Sciences
2007: Young Scientists’ Symposium, University of Michigan
2007: Ohio State University, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology
2006: Purdue University, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
2006: Georgia Tech, School of Biology
2006: Rice University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
2005: Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Program
2004: Jacques Monod Conference "Evolutionary ecology of host-parasite relationships", Roscoff, France

Contributed:
2008: Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI
2007: Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA
2007: Fields Workshop “The Mathematics of Evolution: Adaptive Dynamics in Theory and Practice”, Ottawa
2006: Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN
2006: American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Summer Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia
2005: Joint Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution and American Society of Naturalists, Fairbanks, AK.
2005: Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference, Fort Collins, CO. (poster)
2004: Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
2003: Aquatic Sciences Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Salt Lake City, UT.
2002: Society for the Study of Evolution, Champaign-Urbana, IL.
2001: American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
1999: Fifth International Symposium on Cladocera, Plön, Germany.

Professional Service:
Panelist: National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) Ecology Panel

Reviewer for American Naturalist, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Fundamental and Applied Limnology/Archiv fuer Hydrobiologie, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, International Review of Hydrobiology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Limnology and Oceanography, the National Science Foundation (Biological Oceanography, Ecosystem Studies, Population and Evolutionary Processes), Oecologia, Oikos, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, and Trends in Ecology & Evolution .

Teaching Experience:
Fall 2008: Biol 2335: General Ecology

Undergraduate Research Students (at GT):
Derek DeRaps (Spring 2008-present)
Laura Geronimo (Summer 2008)
Jessica Housley (beginning fall 2008)
Natalie Huch (Spring 2008-present)
Sierra Schmidt (Summer 2008-present)

Professional Societies:
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, American Society of Naturalists, Ecological Society of America, Society for the Study of Evolution