Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center (BiK-F) Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt (Main), Germany Email: shan.huang@senckenberg.de Website: https://sites.google.com/site/drshanhuang Education Ph.D., Ecology. University of Georgia, 2012. Thesis advisors: Dr. John Gittleman & Dr. Sonia Altizer. Thesis title: Evolutionary history explains distribution and diversity of mammals and their parasites M.Sc., Scientific Translation. Imperial College London, 2007. Course coordinator: Mr. Mark Shuttleworth Thesis title: Translating ecological texts (from English to Chinese). M.Sc., Ecology, Evolution and Conservation. Imperial College London, 2006. Thesis advisors: Dr. Shai Meiri & Dr. Ian Owens. Thesis title: Macroecology of lizards in North America. B.Sc., Biological Science. Sun Yat-sen University, 2005. Thesis advisor: Dr. Runlin Xu. Thesis title: Exploring the Protozoan diversity in Tibet soil. Research Interests Broad-scale biodiversity dynamics in space and time, macroecological and macroevolutionary processes, climate change, morphological diversity, geographic range dynamics, host-parasite interaction and coevolution, and conservation biology. Professional Employment 2015 2017 Alexander von Humboldt research fellow, Biodiversity and Climate Centre (Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum; BiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany. 2012 2015 Postdoctoral scholar. Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago. PI: Dr. David Jablonski 2009 2012 Graduate teaching assistant. Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia. 2011 Summer Graduate student intern. Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE). 2007 2009 Graduate research assistant. University of Georgia. 1
Publications Huang, S. Roy, K. Valentine J. W. and Jablonski, D. (2015) Convergence, divergence, and parallelism in biodiversity trends: Integrating extant and fossil data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 112 (16): 4903-4908. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412219112 Huang, S., Roy, K. and Jablonski, D. (2015) Origins, bottlenecks, and present-day diversity: Patterns of morphospace occupation in marine bivalves. Evolution, 69 (3): 735-746. DOI: 10.1111/evo.12608 Huang, S., Drake, J. M., Gittleman, J. L. and Altizer, S. (2015) Parasite diversity declines with host evolutionary distinctiveness: a global scale analysis of carnivores. Evolution, 69 (3): 621-630. DOI: 10.1111/evo.12611 Huang, S., Roy, K. and Jablonski, D. (2014) Do past climate states influence diversity dynamics and the present-day diversity gradient? Global Ecology & Biogeography. 23 (5): 530-540. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12153 Huang, S., Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P., Stephens, P. R., Gittleman, J. L. and Altizer, S. (2014) Phylogenetically related and ecologically similar carnivores harbor similar parasite assemblages. Journal of Animal Ecology. 83 (3): 671-680. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12160 Winternitz, J. C., Minchey, S.G., Garamszegi, L.Z., Huang, S., Stephens, P.R. and Altizer, S. (2013) Sexual selection explains more functional variation in the mammalian MHC than parasitism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 280 (1769): 20131605. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1605 Jablonski, D., Belanger, C. L., Berke, S. K., Huang, S., Krug, A. Z., Roy, K., Tomasovych, A. and Valentine, J. W. (2013) Out of the Tropics, but how? Fossils, bridge species, and thermal ranges in the dynamics of the marine latitudinal diversity gradient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 110 (26): 10487-10494 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308997110 Huang, S., Stephens, P. R. and Gittleman, J. L. (2012) Traits, trees and taxa: global dimensions of biodiversity in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 279 (1749): 4997-5003. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1981 Huang, S., Davies, T. J. and Gittleman, J. L. (2012) How global extinctions impact local biodiversity in mammals. Biology Letters. 8 (2): 222-225. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0752 Pending Publications Huang, S., Strasser, C., Hampton, S. and Altizer, S. (In revision) Host ecology and parasite diversity. Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology. Research Support and Awards (PhD and after) 2015 2017 Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers, funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany 2
2013 2018 Core participant in a National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network funded project: Macroecology of Infectious Disease. (PIs: Patrick Stephens, Alonso Aguirre, Sonia Altizer, Robert Poulin, Katherine Smith.) 2012 Odum School of Ecology Small Grant for Graduate Research Odum School of Ecology Best Student Paper Award University of Georgia James L. Carmon Award and Honorarium for innovative use of computer science 2011 University of Georgia Graduate Student Travel Award University of Georgia Meyer-Helfman Graduate Student Grant 2010 University of Georgia Graduate Student Travel Award Odum School of Ecology Small Grant for Graduate Research 2008 Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases conference and workshop Travel Award Journal Reviewer Diversity & Distributions Ecosphere Global Ecology & Biogeography Journal of Animal Ecology Journal of Ecology PLoS One Invited Talks 2014 Undergraduate Union (GeoUnion) Seminar Series: The dynamics of biodiversity and biogeography through climate change. Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. 2014 A. Watson Armour III Research Seminar Series: Biodiversity dynamics in space and time: Deciphering the role of history. The Field Museum, Chicago, USA. 2013 Evolutionary Morphology (EvMorph) Seminar Series: Can host phylogeny explain parasite diversity in carnivores? Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. 2011 Department of Biology and Environmental Science Colloquium speaker: Understanding biodiversity using phylogenetic information. Carl von Ossietzky the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany Conference Presentations (national and international) 2015 100th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. Oral presentation: Parasite diversity and host evolution: a global analysis of carnivores. 3
2014 Annual joint meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Society of Naturalists, Raleigh, NC. Oral presentation: Clade dynamics in size/shape space: diversity, duration, and extinction risk. 2013 Annual joint meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Society of Naturalists, Snowbird, UT. Oral presentation: How clades expand in size/shape space: integrating fossil and Recent data to evaluate the role of clade age, species richness and position in morphospace. 2012 6th Annual Meeting of the Specialist Group on Macroecology of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Frankfurt, Germany. Oral presentation: Traits, trees and taxa: global dimensions of biodiversity in mammals. 2011 Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) All Hands Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. Poster presentation: A teaching module for analyzing ecological data: host ecology and parasite diversity. 2011 96th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. Oral presentation: Estimating parasite diversity using non-parametric methods. 2010 95th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. Poster presentation: How global extinctions impact local biodiversity. Additional Abstracts Jablonski, D., Berke, S., Edie, S. M., Huang, S., Krug, A. Z., Tomasovych, A. & Valentine, J. W. (2013) Temperature tolerances, geographic range dynamics, and extinction: Complex, multilevel responses to climate change. 125 th Anniversary Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America. Denver, CO. Stephens, P. R., Huang, S. & Gittleman, J. L. (2010) Dimensions of biodiversity: Traits, trees and taxa. Annual joint meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Society of Naturalists, Portland, OR. Guest Lectures Parasites and Biodiversity Conservation, for the course titled Population Biology of Infectious Disease (Advance undergraduate and graduate level; 2011 & 2012 Spring) Causes and Consequences of Diversity, for the course titled Population Ecology (Advance undergraduate and graduate level; 2011 Fall) Laboratory instructor Population Biology of Infectious Disease Advance undergraduate and graduate level (2010, 2011 & 2012 Spring) Population Ecology PhD level (2011 Fall) 4
Ecological Basis of Environmental Issues Introductory level for non-biology majors (2010 Fall) Principles of Biology Introductory level for biology majors (2009 Fall) Professional Society Society for the Study of Evolution; Ecological Society of America. Technical Skills Proficient in R programming, including data management and manipulation, general statistical analyses, spatial analyses, phylogenetic data manipulation, phylogenetically-informed statistical analyses, graphical illustration, etc. Proficient in GIS using ArcGIS, including digitizing map images, geographic data management, spatial analyses, species distribution modeling, cartography, etc. Experienced in advanced database management (including using SQL). Experienced in manuscript preparation and professional presentation, including using MS Word, MS PowerPoint, typesetting (LaTeX), referencing (BibTeX, Endnote). References Postdoc advisor: Dr. David Jablonski, Professor. Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago. Address: 5743 S. Ellis Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A. Email: djablons@uchicago.edu Phone: +1-773-702-8163 Fax: +1-773-702-9505 PhD co-advisors: Dr. John Gittleman, Professor. Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia. Email: jlg@uga.edu Phone: +1-706-542-2968 Fax: +1-706-542-4819 Dr. Sonia Altizer, Professor. Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia. Email: saltizer@uga.edu Phone: +1-706-542-9251 Fax: +1-706-542-4819 Additional referees: Dr. John Drake, Associate Professor. Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia. Email: jdrake@uga.edu Phone: +1-706-583-5539 Fax: +1-706-542-4819 Dr. Jonathan Davies, Assistant Professor. Department of Biology, McGill University. Address: 1205 ave Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Quebec Canada H3A 1B1 Email: j.davies@mcgill.ca Phone: +1-514-398-8885 Fax: +1-514-398-5069 5 ***Last updated on August 15, 2015***