Evan P. Economo
Ph.D. Candidate
Section of Integrative Biology
University of Texas at Austin
Citizenship: Canada, USA

Biological Laboratories 223D
1 University Station A6700
Austin, TX 78712
512.471.5054
epe@mail.utexas.edu


Academics:

1998-2002: University of Arizona, Tucson AZ
B.S. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

2003-Present: University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. student- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Section of Integrative Biology

2004 Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems
Summer School. Qingdao University, China.


Peer Reviewed Publications:
 
Evan P. Economo & Timothy H. Keitt.  The kinetics of interisland radiation.  submitted.

Mathew Leibold, Evan P. Economo, Pedro Peres-Neto.  Contrasting roles of habitat specialization and historical biogeography in freshwater zooplankton. submitted.

Matthew Cowperthwaite, Evan P. Economo, William Harcombe, Eric Miller, Lauren A. Meyers (2008).  The ascent of the abundant: How mutational networks constrain evolution.   PLoS Computational Biology 4(7): e1000110.

Evan P. Economo, Timothy H. Keitt. (2008)  Species diversity in neutral metacommunities: a network approach. Ecology Letters 11(1): 52-62.
 
Brian J. Enquist, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Travis E. Huxman, and Evan P. Economo. (2007).  Adaptive differences in plant physiology and ecosystem paradoxes: insights from metabolic scaling theory.  Global Change Biology 13: 591-609. 

Evan P. Economo, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Brian J. Enquist. (2005) Allometric growth, life history invariants, and population energetics.  Ecology Letters 8: 353-360.

Brian J. Enquist, Evan P. Economo, Travis E. Huxman, Andrew P. Allen, Danielle D. Ignace, Jamie Gillooly. (2003). Scaling metabolism from organisms to ecosystems. Nature 423: 639-642. 


Presentations:

Evan P. Economo. 2007.  "Biodiversity in community networks".  Ecolunch, University of Texas.

Evan P. Economo. 2005.  "Linking Biogeographic Pattern to Biological Process".  Population Biology Seminar Series.  Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas.

Evan P. Economo. 2004. "Allometric Growth, Life History Invariants, and Population Energetics". (Invited) University of New Mexico Biocomplexity Seminar Series.

Evan P. Economo, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Brian J. Enquist. 2003. "Allometric Life Histories and Population Energetics". Oral Paper Presented at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting.

Evan P. Economo, Brian J. Enquist, Travis E. Huxman, et al. 2002. "From Organism to Biosphere: Scaling the Biochemical Kinetics of Respiration." Poster presented at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting.

Evan P. Economo. 2002. "Influence of a third species on parapatric antbird distributions in western Ecuador". Poster presented at the University of Arizona Honors College Undergraduate Research Forum.


Research Experience:

8/03-Present. Graduate Student, UT Integrative Biology

5/02-8/03 Research Technician. 8/01-5-02. Student Researcher. Lab of Dr. Brian J. Enquist, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.

1/02-5/02. Independent Study with Dr. Arthur T. Winfree, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.

5/01-8/01. Field Assistant and Independent Project in Ecuador with Matthew J. Miller, University of Arizona, University of Alaska Museum.

9/00-5/01. Student Researcher (paid). Orthopaedic Surgery Research Lab. Director: Dr. John Szivek. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Arizona.

9/98-5/98. Independent Study in lab of Dr. William Bickel, Department of Physics, University of Arizona.


Grants and Awards:


 2007 EEB Research Fellowship. University of Texas.
2006 EEB Research Fellowship. University of Texas.
2005-2009  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2005 EEB Research Fellowship.  University of Texas.
 2004 Teaching Award- School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas, TA for "Ecology, Evolution & Society"
2004 NSF IGERT Graduate Fellowship
2004 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship-Honorable Mention
2003 Dean's Excellence Fellowship- University of Texas at Austin
2001 Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Arizona
2001 Research Training Grant in the Analysis of Diversification, University of Arizona
2006 EEB Research Fellowship. University of Texas.
2005 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
2005 EEB Research Fellowship.  University of Texas.




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