Shanna E. Carney

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EDUCATION

1991 - 1996    Ph.D., Population Genetics, The University of Georgia
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Michael L. Arnold

1987 - 1991    B.S., Biological Sciences, Clemson University
Cum Laude
 
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1999 - present Assistant Professor, Colorado State University
Hybridization and evolution of sunflowers and locoweeds
Effects of Argentine ant on seed dispersal of myrmecochores
Origins and hybridization of invasive knapweeds

1996 - 1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University
Hybridization and evolution in Helianthus (sunflowers)

1998  Volunteer, The Nature Conservancy of Indiana
Site check for invasive plant species; invasive plant removal

1991 - 1996  Graduate Research, University of Georgia
Studies of reproductive biology and hybridization in Iris

1991  Summer Intern, American Red Cross, Holland Research Laboratory
Molecular and biochemical research involving the sequencing and expression of the blood plasma protein fibronectin

1990 - 1991  Undergraduate Research Assistant, Clemson University
Characterization of cDNA clones of the Acyl Carrier Protein genes in peanuts

1989  Summer Intern, Crop Genetics International
Participated in project to produce Bt corn

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AWARDS AND HONORS

CSU Agricultural Experiment Station Grant 2001-2006 (with Dr. Ruth Hufbauer; $145,000) - knapweeds

USDA Cooperative Agreement 2001-2002 (with Dr. Ruth Hufbauer; $66,000) - knapweeds

Colorado State University Career Enhancement Grant 2001-2002 ($3,300) - greenhouse lights

Colorado State University Faculty Research Grant 2000-2001 ($4500) - perennial sunflowers

NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biosciences Related to the Environment 1997-1999 ($80,000)

American Iris Society Scholarship  1994-1995  ($2,000)

Travel Award, University of Georgia Research Foundation  1995  ($275)

NIH Genetics Training Grant  1993-1996  ($10,000 per year)

University Wide Fellowship, University of Georgia  1992-1993  ($7,072)

Alternate, Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellowship  1992
 
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE / TRAINING

2001 (Fall Semester) Population and Evolutionary Genetics (BZ346) co-taught with Dr. Joan Herbers - Colorado State University

2000 (Fall Semester) Reproductive Biology of Higher Plants (BZ555) - Colorado State University

2000, 2001 (Spring Semester) Basic Concepts of Plant Life (BZ 104) – Colorado State University

2000 Workshop on Teaching Evolution - Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Bloomington, IN

1999 Workshop on Technology, Learning and the Classroom – Colorado State University

1999 Workshop on Teaching Evolution – Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Madison, WI

1996 Enrolled in Techniques and Issues in Teaching (GSC 777) – The University of Georgia

1991-1992 Teaching Assistant for Introductory Genetics (GN 320), General Biology (BIO 103) – The University of Georgia

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PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

(All presentations were oral unless otherwise noted)

2001 - Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), Knoxville, TN – Argeninte ant invasions and seed dispersal in California.

2000 - Phylogeography, Hybridization, and Speciation Conference, Aussois, France - (poster)  Evolutionary changes over the fifty year history of a hybrid population of sunflowers (Helianthus).

1999 - Annual meeting or the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), Madison, WI- Genetic assimilation: hybridization as a threat to the California sunflowers.

1998 - Annual meeting of the SSE, Vancouver, BC - Evolutionary trends and recombinational speciation in a sunflower hybrid zone.

1997 - Annual meeting of the SSE, Boulder, CO - A putative case of very rapid hybrid speciation in sunflowers (Helianthus).

1996 - Annual meeting of the SSE, St. Louis, MO - Reproductive isolating mechanisms in the  Louisiana irises.

1995 - Annual meeting of the SSE, Montreal, Canada - Effects of differential pollen-tube growth on hybridization in the Louisiana irises.

1994 - Annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America, Knoxville, TN - Reproductive interactions between hybridizing irises: Analyses of pollen-tube growth and fertilization success.

1994 - Annual meeting of the SSE, Athens, GA - Reproductive interactions in a Louisiana iris hybrid zone.

1993 - Annual meeting of the SSE, Snowbird, UT - Interspecific pollen competition: Differences in pollen-tube growth rates in Louisiana iris.

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PUBLICATIONS

Carney, S. E., K. A. Gardner, and L. H. Rieseberg.  2000.  Evolutionary changes over the fifty year history of a hybrid population of sunflowers (Helianthus).  Evolution 54: 462-474.

Carney, S. E., D. E. Wolf, and L. H. Rieseberg.  2000.  Hybridization and forest conservation.  In: T. J. B. Boyle, A. Young, and D. Boshier, eds., Forest Conservation Genetics: Principles and Practice.  CIFOR and CSIRO publishers, Australia.

Rieseberg, L. H. and S. E. Carney.  1998. Tansley Review No. 102: Plant Hybridization.  The New Phytologist 140: 599-624.

Burke, J. M., S. E. Carney, and M. L. Arnold.  1998.  Hybrid fitness in the Louisiana irises: An analysis of parental and F1 performance.  Evolution 52: 37-43.

Carney, S. E. and M. L. Arnold.  1997.  Differences in pollen-tube growth rate and reproductive isolation between the Louisiana irises.  Journal of Heredity 88: 545-549.

Carney, S. E., S. A. Hodges, and M. L. Arnold.  1996.  Effects of differential pollen-tube growth on hybridization in the Louisiana Irises.  Evolution 50: 1871-1878.

Carney, S. E., M. B. Cruzan, and M. L. Arnold.  1994.  Reproductive interactions between hybridizing irises: Analyses of pollen-tube growth and fertilization success.  American Journal of Botany 81: 1169-1175.

Cruzan, M. B., M. L. Arnold, S. E. Carney, and K. R. Wollenberg. 1993.  cpDNA inheritance in interspecific crosses and evolutionary inference in Louisiana irises.  American Journal of Botany 80: 344-350.
 
 

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