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Name

Dwyer, Greg.  Ph. D.

 

 

Department of Primary Appointment:

Ecology and Evolution

 

Secondary appointments:

Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Committee on Genetics

 

Proposed rank:

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

 

Proposed track:

RESEARCH SCHOLAR (TENURE)

LAY SUMMARY:

Dr. Dwyer is an ecologist who studies disease dynamics and general theoretical ecology.  His focal research has been on interactions between viral diseases and economically important pest insects such as Gypsy Moth, but his work also investigates other systems including the interactions between plants and their pathogens, and between smallpox and their human hosts.   His work is characterized by a careful dissection of biological mechanism underlying population dynamics and a strong interplay between sophisticated mathematical theory and field experiments. He has enhanced our understanding of disease dynamics and spatial dynamics in ecological systems in several ways, but most notably by (i) discovering and disentangling how disease transmission depends upon heterogeneity among hosts and by (ii) unraveling how complex dynamics can result from the interactions among species. In addition, his work provides an outstanding model for how mathematical models can be used to enhance our understanding of complex systems. Dr. Dwyer has also made substantial contributions to the university’s mission through several venues.  He has taught the ecology portion of a sequence for undergraduates majoring in biology, has been an active participant in graduate training and in writing successful graduate training grants, and was a key player in bringing to the university the USEPA funded Center for Integrating Statistics and the Environmental Sciences.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

 

7/98.    George Mercer Award of the Ecological Society of America.  Awarded to an outstanding paper in the field of ecology in 1996 by a senior author younger than 40.  Awarded for the paper, “Host heterogeneity in susceptibility and the dynamics of infectious disease: tests of a mathematical model”

 

PRESENTATIONS

INVITED SEMINARS. All of the below were by invitation. Those at international meetings or other prestigious invitations are designated with an asterisk.

 

9/06.    Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series, University of California at Davis.

 

8/05.   *Society for Invertebrate Pathology, Annual Meeting.  Anchorage, Alaska.  1 of 5 plenary speakers who addressed the entire meeting. 

 

1/05.    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Departmental Seminar.

 

8/03.    *Society for Invertebrate Pathology, Annual Meeting.  Invited speaker, Symposium on “Epizootiological Modeling.”  Burlington, Vermont.

 

4/03.    Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, Michigan.  Departmental Seminar. 

 

2/02.    Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.  Departmental Seminar.

 

3/02.    *Department of Biological Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.  Invited speaker, symposium on host-pathogen interactions.   Part of an NSF-funded course, with speakers flown in from several continents.

 

10/01.  Department of Biological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.   Departmental Seminar. 

 

9/01.     *International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, Annual Meeting, Aberdeen, Scotland.  Invited speaker, symposium on “Forest-Insect Population Dynamics”. 

 

8/01.     *Society for the Study of Invertebrate Pathology Annual Meeting, Guanajuato, Mexico.  Invited speaker, symposium on “The Ecology of Baculoviruses”. 

 

4/00.    *British Ecological Society, Symposium on “The Ecology of Dispersal”, Reading England.  Invited speaker.  At this national meeting of the BES, speakers are flown in from around the world, and the talks are gathered into a symposium volume.

 

8/99.    * Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Vancouver, Canada, short course on theoretical ecology organized by Marc Mangel.  Lecturer.

 

6/99.     *Society for the Study of Evolution, National Meeting, Madison, Wiscosin.  Symposium on “Host-Pathogen Coevolution”, invited speaker.

 

4/99.    Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.  Departmental seminar.   

 

2/98.    Department of Biology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Idiana.  Departmental seminar.

 

2/98.    Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.  Departmental Seminar.

 

1/98.    *Symposium on “Coevolution and Coadaptation in Plant-Herbivore and Host-Pathogen Interactions”, Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.  Invited Speaker.  This symposium was jointly funded by the NSF and its French equivalent.  Speakers were flown in from several continents.

 

12/97.  *Symposium on “Virulence Management”, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.  Invited Speaker.  Part of a series of symposia that eventually led to two published volumes.

 

3/97.    Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Irvine, California.  Departmental Seminar.

 

2/96.     Department of Organismal and Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California.  Departmental Seminar.

 

12/96.    Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.  Departmental Seminar.

 

1/95.    Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, California.  Departmental Seminar. 

 

12/94.  Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, Rochester, New York.  Departmental Seminar. 

 

3/93.    Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stanford University, Stanford, California.  Departmental Seminar.

 

2/93.    Department of Integrative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Departmental Seminar.

 

1/93.    Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.  Departmental Seminar.

 

12/92.  Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina.  Departmental Seminar.

 

1/92.    Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota.  Departmental Seminar.

 

2/91.    Department of Natural Resources, University of California, Davis, California.  Departmental Seminar. 

 

1/90.    Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Santa Barbara, California.  Departmental Seminar.