ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2013-2017 Postdoctoral Researcher, Tufts University Speciation Genomics: Genetics of mate preference and seasonal timing in European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis) strains Postdoctoral supervisor: Erik Dopman 2010-2013 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Evolutionary Genomics: Adaptation to salinity and reproductive isolation in freshwater and saltwater Lucania killifish Postdoctoral supervisor: 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 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Co-Instructor, Seminar in Molecular Evolution: Genomic Analysis Biology 196, Tufts University (1 semester, 2014, syllabus available on website) 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 (2014-2017) Wrote and presented lecture on evolutionary conflict, sexual selection and hybridization Guest Lecturer, Evolution Integrative Biology 302, University of Illinois (2013) Wrote and presented lecture on phenotypic plasticity Teaching Assistant, Introductory Biology Zoology 151, University of Wisconsin, (2 semesters, 2007,2009) Taught 3 laboratory sections per week (2007); taught 4 discussions per week and helped develop instructional materials (2009) Teaching Assistant, Evolution of Behavior Zoology 425, University of Wisconsin (1 semester, 2006) Taught 5 discussions per week
PUBLICATIONS indicates co-first authors; * undergraduate co-authors 2017 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 26:2331-2347. 2015 Gilman RT, Kozak GM. Learning to speciate: the biased learning of mate preferences promotes adaptive radiation. Evolution 69:3004-3012. 2015 Kozak GM, Roland G*, Rankhorn C*, Falater A*, Berdan EL, Fuller RC. Behavioral isolation due to cascade reinforcement in Lucania killifish. American Naturalist 185:491-506. 2015 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 28:40-53. 2015 Kozak GM, Boughman JW. Predator experience overrides learned aversion to heterospecifics in stickleback species pairs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282:20143066. 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 68:63-80. Special Section: Adaptation to environmental stress and change. 2014 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 4:1363-1372. 2013 Kozak GM, Head ML, Lackey ACR, Boughman JW. Sequential mate choice and sexual isolation in threespine stickleback species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26:130-140. 2013 Head ML, Kozak GM, Boughman JW. Female mate preferences for male body size and shape promote sexual isolation in threespine sticklebacks. Ecology and Evolution 3:2183-2196. 2012 Kozak GM, Boughman JW. Plastic responses to parents and predators lead to divergent shoaling behavior in sticklebacks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25:759-769. 2012 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. 2012 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 27:511-519. Highly cited paper (top 1%), Web of Science, 93 citations.
PUBLICATIONS indicates co-first authors; * undergraduate co-authors 2012 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 66:1429-1436. 2011 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: 2604-2610. Featured on Science Now, Faculty of 1000, and Science News. 2009 Kozak GM, Reisland MA, Boughman JW. Sex differences in mate recognition and conspecific preference in species with mutual mate choice. Evolution 63:353-365. 2009 Kozak GM, Boughman JW. Learned conspecific mate preference in a species pair of sticklebacks. Behavioral Ecology 20:1282-1288. 2008 Kozak GM, Boughman JW. Experience influences preference for shoal members in a species pair of sticklebacks. Behavioral Ecology 19:667-676. in review Levy RC*, Kozak GM*, Dopman EB. Circadian gene expression correlated with variation in daily mating time in the European corn borer. Genes. Special Issue: Evolutionary Genetics of Reproductive Isolation FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS Grants 2012 National Institute of Mathematical and Biological Synthesis Short Term Visitor $2,500 2008 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant $12,000 Learned Social and Mate Recognition in Species Pairs of Sticklebacks (IOS-0807469) 2004 University Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison $4,000 Fellowships 2009 American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship $20,000 2005 National Science Foundation Predoctoral Graduate Research Fellowship $90,000 2004 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) 2006-2009 Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Travel Award (Funded: $1,500)
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 (2005-2010) 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 (2007,2009-2010) 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 (2006-2010) Organized and presented interactive exhibit on sexual selection for annual Darwin Day Expanding Your Horizons, NY WI (2003-2004, 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 Journal of Heredity PLoS One Oecologia Axios Reviews Current Zoology Conference Abstract Reviewer: Behaviour 2013 International Society for Behavioral Ecology 2014
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 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 5 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 Genomics of Non-Model Organisms, Cornell University (2013) Workshop on computational analysis techniques for next-generation sequencing data Effective Teaching of Evolution, University of Wisconsin (2006) Teaching development course on education theory and effective teaching of evolution Developed evolution course materials for high school students