Cirruculum Vitae

Jared Benjamin Lee

             Email: jaredblee@gmail.com

             Phone: (801) 422-3120

             Address:                                   

Department of Biology                                                     

401 Widtsoe Building

Brigham Young University (BYU)

Provo, UT 84602-5181

Dr. Jerry Johnson's Laboratory

I couldn't resist posing with this crocodile at the Tianjin Zoo.

Birth:  20 March 1979; Castro Valley, California, USA

Education:

            M.S., Integrative Biology, BYU (current position; Jerald B. Johnson, advisor)

            B.S., Integrative Biology, BYU, 2005 (Duke S. Rogers, advisor)

Research Interests: 

My thesis research is focused on testing biogeographic boundaries developed from community composition data.  My thesis examines whether or not boundaries between fish ecoregions in lower Central America can be predicted using single-species phylogeography.  I am currently examining phylogeography of the livebearing fish Poecilia gillii to test these ideas. 

My research interests in biology include molecular systematics, genomics, conservation, and science education.  While I do not restrict myself taxonomically, my current leanings and experience favor work on fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.    

Memberships:

           American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

           Society for the Study of Evolution

Positions:

Publications:

In preparation

Billman E, Lee JB. Phylogenetic divergence of speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus) in the Bonneville and Lahontan Basins. 

Lee, JB and JB Johnson. Biogeography of the livebearing fish Poecilia gillii in Costa Rica: are phylogeographic breaks congruent with fish community boundaries?

Lee, JB. Book Review: Wild China

Lee, JB, DK Hardy, FX Gonzalez-Cozatl, and DS Rogers. Phylogenetic relationships of Peromyscus furvus.

Submitted

Lee, JB and JB Johnson. Book Review: Stalking the Big Bird. Western North American Naturalist.

Oral Presentations:

2005.  LEE, JARED B. AND DUKE S. ROGERS.  Variation among populations of Peromyscus furvus:  Integration of data from cytochrome b, beta-fibrinogen and cranial morphology.  65th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists.  Springfield, Missouri. (June 16)

2007.   LEE, JARED B. AND JERALD B. JOHNSON.  Do fish community provinces predict phylogeographic boundaries in a Central American livebearing fish?  Joint Meetings of Ichthyology and Herpetology.  St. Louis, MO. (July 14)

2008.  LEE, JARED B. AND JERALD B. JOHNSON.  Biogeography of the livebearing fish Poecilia gillii in Costa Rica: are phylogeographic breaks congruent with fish community boundaries?  Evolution. Minneapolis, MN. (June 23)

Invited Lectures/Seminars:

"Evolution of Reproductive Strategies: Why Sex?" BYU (Biology 420), Provo, UT, USA. (October 16, 2007)

"Chromosomal Inheritance & Genetic Disorders." BYU Salt Lake Center (Biology 100), Salt Lake City, UT, USA.  (October 19, 2006)

"American and Chinese Education: A comparison and contrast."  Jiangxi College of Aeronautics, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. (April 2002)

Awards/Honors/Scholarships:

            2008: BYU Research Presentation Award ($400)

            2007-2008: Julia Greenwell Award ($1000/semester)

            2006-2007: D. Elden Beck Scholarship Award ($500/semester).

            2005: Office of Research and Creative Activities Grant ($1500).

            2001: Brigham Young Bicentennial Scholarship (full-tuition)

            1997: Theresa Walther Scholarship ($500).   

            1993:  Eagle Scout Award