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1 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2018-present Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Postdoctoral Researcher, Tufts University Speciation genomics; Mentor: Erik Dopman Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Evolutionary biology; Mentor: Rebecca Fuller EDUCATION Ph.D. B.S. 2010, Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Speciation: The role of learning in social behavior, mate recognition, and sexual isolation in species pairs of threespine sticklebacks Dissertation Supervisor: Janette Boughman 2004, Biological Sciences, Cornell University Summa cum laude with Distinction in Research Honors research supervisor: H. Kern Reeve PUBLICATIONS indicates co-first authors; * undergraduate co-authors 2018 Levy RC, Kozak GM, Dopman EB. Non-pleiotropic coupling of daily and seasonal temporal isolation in the European corn borer. Genes 9:180. Special Issue: Evolutionary Genetics of Reproductive Isolation. doi: /genes Kozak GM, Wadsworth CB, Kahne SC*, Bogdanowicz SM, Harrison RG, Coates BS, Dopman EB. A combination of sexual and ecological divergence contributes to rearrangement spread during initial stages of speciation. Molecular Ecology 26: Gilman RT, Kozak GM. Learning to speciate: the biased learning of mate preferences promotes adaptive radiation. Evolution 69: Kozak GM, Roland G*, Rankhorn C*, Falater A*, Berdan EL, Fuller RC. Behavioral isolation due to cascade reinforcement in Lucania killifish. American Naturalist 185: Levy RC, Kozak GM, Wadsworth CB, Coates BS, Dopman EB. Explaining the sawtooth: latitudinal periodicity in a circadian gene correlates with shifts in generation number. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: Kozak GM, Boughman JW. Predator experience overrides learned aversion to heterospecifics in stickleback species pairs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282:

2 PUBLICATIONS cont. indicates co-first authors; * undergraduate co-authors 2014 Kozak GM, Brennan RS, Berdan EL, Fuller RC, Whitehead AD. Functional and population genomic divergence within and between two species of killifish adapted to different osmotic niches. Evolution 68: Special Section: Adaptation to environmental stress and change Berdan EL, Kozak GM, Ming R, Rayburn AL, Kiehart R*, Fuller RC. Insight into genomic changes accompanying divergence: genetic linkage maps and synteny of Lucania goodei and L. parva reveal a Robertsonian fusion. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 4: Kozak GM, Head ML, Lackey ACR, Boughman JW. Sequential mate choice and sexual isolation in threespine stickleback species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26: Head ML, Kozak GM, Boughman JW. Female mate preferences for male body size and shape promote sexual isolation in threespine sticklebacks. Ecology and Evolution 3: Kozak GM, Boughman JW. Plastic responses to parents and predators lead to divergent shoaling behavior in sticklebacks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: Kozak GM, Rudolph AB*, Colon BL*, Fuller RC. Postzygotic isolation evolves before prezygotic isolation between fresh and saltwater populations of the rainwater killifish, Lucania parva. International Journal of Evolutionary Biology Mechanisms of Speciation Verzijden MN, Servedio MR, ten Cate C, Kozak GM, Boughman JW, Svensson E. The impact of learning on sexual selection and speciation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27: Highly cited paper (top 1%), Web of Science, 93 citations Gregorio O*, Berdan EL, Kozak GM, Fuller RC. Reinforcement of male mate preferences in sympatric killifish species Lucania goodei and L. parva. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 66: Kozak GM, Head ML, Boughman JW. Sexual imprinting on ecologically divergent traits leads to sexual isolation in sticklebacks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278: Featured on Science Now, Faculty of 1000, and Science News Kozak GM, Reisland MA, Boughman JW. Sex differences in mate recognition and conspecific preference in species with mutual mate choice. Evolution 63: Kozak GM, Boughman JW. Learned conspecific mate preference in a species pair of sticklebacks. Behavioral Ecology 20: Kozak GM, Boughman JW. Experience influences preference for shoal members in a species pair of sticklebacks. Behavioral Ecology 19:

3 FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS Grants 2012 National Institute of Mathematical and Biological Synthesis Short Term Visitor $2, National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant $12,000 Learned Social and Mate Recognition in Species Pairs of Sticklebacks (IOS ) 2004 University Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison $4,000 Fellowships 2009 American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship $20, National Science Foundation Predoctoral Graduate Research Fellowship $90, University Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison $18,000 Travel Awards 2016 Tufts Postdoc Travel Award (Funded: $500) 2015 Marsico Visiting Faculty, University of Denver (Funded: $500 and travel) 2011 Society for the Study of Evolution, International Travel Award (Funded: $1,000) 2009 NSF GRFP, International Travel Supplement (Funded: $1,500) Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Travel Award (Funded: $1,500) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor, Introductory Biology Lab Biology 131, UMass-Dartmouth Co-Instructor, Seminar in Molecular Evolution: Genomic Analysis Biology 196, Tufts University (1 semester, 2014, Syllabus available) Co-instructor for graduate student seminar on analysis of RNA-seq and genomic data Developed syllabus and all class materials with co-instructor (Erik Dopman) Marsico Visiting Lecturer, Animal Behavior Biology 3410, University of Denver (2015) Wrote and presented lectures on learning and speciation Guest Lecturer, Evolution Biology 143, Tufts University ( ) Wrote and presented lecture on evolutionary conflict and sexual selection Guest Lecturer, Evolution Integrative Biology 302, University of Illinois (2013) Wrote and presented lecture on phenotypic plasticity Teaching Assistant, Introductory Biology Evolution of Behavior Zoology 151, University of Wisconsin, (2 semesters, 2007,2009) Zoology 425, University of Wisconsin (1 semester, 2006)

4 ACADEMIC SERVICE AND PUBLIC OUTREACH Academic Service: Learning and Speciation Symposium, Behaviour, International Ethological Society (2013) Co-organizer of symposium on learning and speciation research Evolution Coordinating Committee ( ) Elected as representative of Zoology graduate students Helped established the Institute for the Study of Evolution and design genetics graduate evolution track Zoology Graduate Informal Seminar Committee (2007, ) Organized monthly professional development seminars for Zoology graduate students Public Outreach: Learn about Agriculture, Eagle Eye Institute, MA (2014) Developed and presented all-day activities on beneficial and harmful insects at Powisset Farm for Boston urban youth Native Animals and Plants Booth, Urbana Farmer s Market, IL (2013) Educated about native Illinois animals and plants with University of Illinois biologists Darwin Day, UW-Madison, WI ( ) Organized and presented interactive exhibit on sexual selection for annual Darwin Day Expanding Your Horizons, NY WI ( , 2008) Presenter Studying animal traits at University of Wisconsin-Madison for young women (grades 6-8) and general volunteer at Cornell University Project Assistant for Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence, WI (2007) Read teacher applications for Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence in a collaborative project between Amgen and University of Wisconsin Department of Teacher Education. Supervisor: James Stewart Manuscript Reviewer: Proceedings of the Royal Society B Evolution Journal of Evolutionary Biology Behavioral Ecology Nature Ecology and Evolution Animal Behaviour BMC Evolution Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology American Naturalist PLoS One Oecologia Axios Reviews Evolution Letters Conference Abstract Reviewer: Behaviour 2013 International Society for Behavioral Ecology 2014

5 MENTORED STUDENT INDEPENDENT RESEARCH Shoshanna Kahne, Tufts University, Honors Research Thesis (2014), co-author, manuscript submitted Melissa White, Tufts University, Independent Research Project (2014), co-author, manuscript in preparation Gabriel Spieler, Tufts University, Independent Research Project (2014) Amy Falater, University of Illinois, Honors Research Thesis (2013), co-author, manuscript published Clare Rankhorn, University of Illinois, McNair Minority Scholar (2012), co-author, manuscript published Genevieve Roland, University of Illinois, NSF REU (2012), co-author, manuscript published Olivia Gregario, University of Illinois, Honors Research Thesis (2012), first author, manuscript published Kevin Knapik, University of Illinois, NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (2011) Mallory Barnes, University of Wisconsin, Honors Research Thesis (2009) Stephanie Kim, University of Wisconsin, Independent Research Project (2008) INVITED SEMINARS 2018 Department of Biology, UMass-Dartmouth, MA 2017 Boston Evolutionary Genomics Supergroup, Harvard University, MA 2017 Department of Biology, University of Denver, CO 2016 BioSciences, Rice University, TX 2016 School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, WA 2016 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA 2016 Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, NC 2015 Department of Biology, Tufts University, MA 2015 Marsico Short Term Visiting Faculty Department of Biology, University of Denver, CO 2013 Department of Biology, Roehampton University, London, UK 2012 Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Seminar Series, University of Illinois, IL 2010 Behavior Interdisciplinary Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 2010 Evolution Seminar Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 2008 Behavior Interdisciplinary Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (last 6 years only) 2017 Society for the Study of Evolution, Portland, OR (talk) 2016 Society for the Study of Evolution, Austin, TX (talk) 2015 American Genetic Symposium on Chromosomal Evolution, Seattle, WA (poster) 2014 Society for the Study of Evolution, Raleigh, NC (talk) 2014 International Society for Behavioral Ecology, New York, NY (poster) 2013 International Ethological Society, Newcastle, United Kingdom (symposium talk) 2013 Society for the Study of Evolution, Snowbird, UT (talk) 2013 American Genetic Symposium on Speciation, Ithaca, NY (poster) 2012 Society for the Study of Evolution, Ottawa, Canada (talk) 2011 European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Tubingen, Germany (talk) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES ATTENDED Genomics of Non-Model Organisms, Cornell University (2013) Effective Teaching of Evolution, University of Wisconsin (2006) Teaching development course on education theory and effective teaching of evolution