Jeremy S.

Davis
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Biology
Thomas Hunt Morgan 200E
675 Rose St,
Lexington, KY 40508
(312) 972 1167
J.Davis@uky.edu

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EDUCATION
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
PhD – Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, July 2020
Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri
BSc Biology – Ecology & Evolution, May 2014

PUBLICATIONS
Davis JS, Pearcy MA, Yew JY, Moyle LC. 2021. A shift to shorter cuticular
hydrocarbons causes sexual isolation in the Drosophila americana species
group. bioRxiv.
Davis JS, Moyle LC. 2020. Constitutive and plastic gene expression variation
associated with desiccation resistance differences in the Drosophila americana
species group. Genes. 11(2), 146.
Davis JS, Moyle LC. 2019. Desiccation resistance and pigmentation variation
reflects bioclimatic differences in the Drosophila americana species complex.
BMC Evolutionary Biology. 19, 204.
Davis JS, Moyle LC. 2018. Male success against con- and heterospecific
competitors indicates a positive but modest role for sexual selection as driver of
speciation. bioRxiv.
Leung W, Shaffer CD, (et al. including Davis, JS). 2017. Retrotransposons Are the
Major Contributors to the Expansion of the Drosophila ananassae Muller F
Element. G3 7, 8.
Davis JS, Castillo DM, Moyle LC. 2016. Remating responses are shaped by male
post-copulatory manipulation but not reinforcement in D. pseudoobscura.
Ecology and Evolution 7, 2.
Pope WH, Bowman CA, Russell DA, Jacobs-Sera D, Asai DJ, Cresawn SG, Jacobs
WR, Hendrix RW, Lawrence JG, Hatfull GF; Science Education Alliance Phage
Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science. 2015. Whole
genome comparison of a large collection of mycobacteriophages reveals a
continuum of phage genetic diversity. eLife 4, e06416.
PRESENTATIONS
Jeremy S Davis, 2020, Departmental seminar, University of Kentucky, “Going back
in time: reconstructing the history of a host shift in an invasive insect”.
Jeremy S Davis, 2020, PhD Defense, Indiana University, “Ecological and genetic
contributions to divergence and the evolution of prezygotic isolation between
Drosophila species”.
Jeremy S Davis, Joanne Y. Yew, Leonie Moyle. 2019, invited talk, “Cuticular
Hydrocarbons in Insect Communication and Physiology” symposium at Annual
Entomology Society of America meeting 2019, St. Louis, MO, “Sexual isolation
accompanies divergent cuticular chemistry among species in the Drosophila
americana group”.
Jeremy S Davis, Joanne Y. Yew, Leonie Moyle. 2019, IU EEB Brown Bag seminar,
Bloomington, Indiana, “Sexual isolation cuticular hydrocarbons in the Drosophila
americana group”.
Jeremy S Davis, Joanne Y. Yew, Leonie Moyle. 2019, SSE Annual meeting
(‘Evolution 2019’), Providence, RI, “Sexual isolation accompanies divergent
cuticular chemistry among species in the Drosophila americana group”.
Dan Tracey, Stephanie Mauthner, Jeremy S Davis. 2019, CSHL meeting, Cold
Spring Harbor, NY, “The #Seabattical Expedition of 2019”.
Leonie Moyle, Joanne Yew, Jeremy S Davis. 2019, Gordon Conference on
Speciation, “Sexual isolation accompanies divergent cuticular chemistry among
species in the Drosophila americana group”.
Jeremy S Davis, Leonie Moyle. 2018, 59th Annual Drosophila Research
Conference, Philadelphia, PA, “Variation in stress tolerance is associated with
environmental differences in Drosophila americana group”.
Jeremy S Davis, Leonie Moyle. 2017, SSE Annual meeting (‘Evolution 2017’),
Portland, Oregon, “Wax on wax off: tradeoffs between desiccation resistance and
pheromone production in the Drosophila virilis clade”.
Jeremy S Davis, Leonie Moyle. 2016, Joint Drosophila Group Meeting, Biology
Department, Indiana University, “Local Adaptation and Evolutionary tradeoffs in
Drosophila americana and D. novamexicana”.
Jeremy S Davis, Leonie Moyle. 2015, Evolution Discussion Group, Biology
Department, Indiana University, “Cuticular Hydrocarbons, Evolutionary Tradeoffs,
and Speciation”.
Jeremy S Davis, Cindy Viguera, Kenneth Olsen. 2012, Washington University in St.
Louis Undergraduate Research Symposium, “Red Rice: Evolution of Weedy
Traits in Domesticated Crops”. Poster.
Jeremy S Davis, Christopher Shaffer, Sarah Elgin. 2010, Washington University in
St. Louis Undergraduate Research Symposium, “Characterization of Ruby Phage
and Analysis of Functional Annotation”. Poster.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow University of Kentucky, August 2020-current
Mentor: Dr. Catherine Linnen.
Projects:
 Using museum collections to reconstruct the history of a host shift in the invasive
white pine sawfly Diprion similis.
Population genomics of Diprion similis across ancestral and introduced range.
Graduate Researcher Indiana University, August 2014-current
Mentor: Dr. Leonie Moyle.
Projects:
Remating rates in D. pseudoobscura allopatric and sympatric with D. persimilis.
Exploring the genetic and phenotypic relationship between intraspecific sexual
selection and interspecific reproductive isolation in D. melanogaster.
Responses to desiccation and UV stress in D. novamexicana and D. americana.
Evolutionary tradeoffs between environmentally adapted traits and mate
recognition traits in D. americana and D. novamexicana.
Natural ecology of D. americana and D. novamexicana.
Pigmentation, natural variation, and parasitism in Drosophila dunni group in the
Caribbean.
Undergraduate Researcher Washington University in St. Louis, June 2013-May
2014
Mentors: Dr. Joan Strassmann and Dr. David Queller.
Impact of varied relatedness on cooperation in social amoebae.
Undergraduate Researcher Washington University in St. Louis, May-August 2012
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Award
Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Olsen
Evolution of Weedy Traits in Domestic Rice

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lead instructor – Bio199 STEMcats (Spring 2021)
Assistant Instructor – L318 Evolution (Spring 2020)
Assistant Instructor – L318 Evolution (Fall 2019)
Assistant Instructor – L111 Introductory Biology (Fall 2018)
Assistant Instructor – L318 Evolution (Spring 2018)
Assistant Instructor – L318 Evolution (Fall 2017)
Gave a guest lecture on speciation.
Assistant Instructor – L318 Evolution (Spring 2017)
Gave a guest lecture on speciation.
Assistant Instructor – L318 Evolution (Fall 2016)
Assistant Instructor – S318 Honors Evolution (Spring 2016)
Gave two lectures on speciation.
Assistant Instructor – L111 Introduction to Biology (Fall 2015)
Head Assistant Instructor – L113 Biology Laboratory (Fall 2014)
Teaching Assistant – Genomics educational partnership (GEP) seminar for genome
annotation for faculty and researchers. (2012)

SERVICE AND OUTREACH

Science Policy Advocate – KASPR member (March 2021-present)
 Peer Reviewer – PloS Genetics, Molecular ecology, Evolution, Ecology and
Evolution, Ethology, Ecology and Evolution.
Research Mentor – Jim Holland Summer Science Research Program: created and
guided high school student research project. (summer 2019)
Undergraduate Research Mentor – for undergraduate honors thesis project (2018-
present)
Science Policy advocate/Trainee – AIBS Congressional Visit Day: attended a
training course and met with members of congress to discuss importance of
basic research (April 2018).
Science Policy Trainee – SSE science policy training course: learned about effective
science policy strategies and will present a brief on a topic to a policy-maker
(2017-2018)
Leader/Organizer – Evolution Discussion Group, Indiana University Biology
Department (2015-2018)
Website designer/manager – Tomatoes are Wild! Educational website for Moyle lab
Research Mentor – Jim Holland Summer Science Research Program: created and
guided high school student research project. (summer 2017)
Research Mentor – PREP program: mentored high school student for full semester
research project. (2016-2017)
Research Mentor – Jim Holland Summer Science Research Program: created and
guided high school student research project. (summer 2016)
Leader/Counselor – Jim Holland Summer Science Research Program assisting high
school students to succeed in research and presentation (summer 2015)
Wikipedia contributor – editor/writer for Wikipedia for articles on behavioral ecology
of variety of organisms. (2013-present)

AWARDS & HONORS

Evolutionary, Ecological, and Conservation Genomics research award, American
Genetics Association (2021) – $6000
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology - Collections, National Science
Foundation (2020) – $138,000
George Hudock Fellowship, Indiana University Biology Department (2019) – $2000
Louise Constable Hoover Fellowship, Indiana University Biology Department (2018)
– $2000
AIBS Congressional Visit Day Travel Grant, Society for the Study of Evolution (2018)
GPSG Travel award, Indiana University Graduate and Professional Student
Government (2016) – $500
Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (2016)
Graduate Research Award, Indiana University Graduate and Professional Student
Government (2016) – $1000
Department Research Recruitment Fellowship, Indiana University Biology
Department (2014) – $12,500
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Award, Washington
University in St. Louis (2012) - $4,000
Washington University Dean’s List – Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Spring 2012.