ERIC JOEL ROUTMAN
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Biology Office: Hensill Hall 505
San Francisco State University Phone: 415/338-1196
1600 Holloway Avenue FAX: 415/338-2295
San Francisco, CA 94132 Email: [email protected]
I. EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Biology) Washington University 1990
M.S. (Zoology) Indiana University of Pennsylvania 1980
B.S. (Biology) Indiana University of Pennsylvania 1977
II. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Instructor - Ecology Washington University 1993-1994
Research Associate Washington University
School of Medicine 1990-1994
Assistant Professor of Biology San Francisco State University 1994-1998
Associate Professor of Biology San Francisco State University 1998-2002
Professor of Biology San Francisco State University 2002-Present
III. HONORS AND AWARDS
Honors
San Francisco State University Presidential Award for
Professional Development of Probationary Faculty 1996
Elected Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences 1999
Outstanding Teacher – Biology Department 2009
Education Grants
National Science Foundation, UFE: Molecular Genetic Analysis
Applied to Evolution, Ecology, and Systematic Biology:
An Extended Laboratory Course. Project Co-P.I.
(Frank Bayliss, P.I.). $207,065. 1995
National Science Foundation, REU: Training Undergraduates
in Science and Technology. Co-Mentor with numerous others
(Steve Lee, P.I.). $153,000. 1996
National Science Foundation: UFE: Molecular Genetic Analysis
Applied to Evolution, Ecology, and Systematic Biology:
An Extended Laboratory Course. Project Co-P.I.
(Frank Bayliss, P.I.). $155,982. 1998
Research Grants Funded: National Science Foundation, RUI: Separating Population Structure
from Population History. Project P.I. $210,036. 1995
National Science Foundation: NSF Acquisition of DNA Analysis
Instrumentation for Molecular Studies (ARI). Frank Bayliss, P.I.
Project Co. P.I., with numerous others $560,000. 1995
San Francisco State University, Minigrant: Separating Population
History from Population Structure: A Multispecies Test of a
New Method. Project P.I. $5000 1996
National Science Foundation, REU supplement: Separating
Population Structure from Population History.
Project P.I. $5000. 1997
National Institutes of Health. MBRS SCORE Isolating Population
Genetic Forces: Test of a Method.
Project P.I. $836,852. 1999
National Park Service. Phylogeographic Study of the Hellbender,
Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
Project P.I. $48,609 2008
IV. PUBLICATIONS
Micheletti, S. E. Parra, and E.J. Routman. 2012. Adaptive color polymorphism and unusually high local genetic diversity in the side-blotched lizard, Uta stansburiana. PLoS ONE 7(10): e47694. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047694.
Wu, J., A.C. Go, M. Samson, T. Cintra, S. Mirsoian, T.F. Wu, M.M. Jow, E. J. Routman, and Diana S. Chu. 2012. PP1 phosphatases regulate multiple stages of sperm development and motility in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 190:143–157.
Halstead, B.J., G.D. Wylie, M. Amarello, J.J.Smith, M.Thompson*, E.J. Routman,and M.L. Casazza. 2011. Abundance and survival of the San Francisco gartersnake in coastal San Mateo County, California. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. 2:41-48.
Tonione, M., and E.J. Routman. 2011. Microsatellite analysis supports mitochondrial phylogeography of the hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis). Genetica. 139:209–219.
Schinske, J.N., G. Bernardi, D.K. Jacobs, and E.J. Routman. 2010. Phylogeography of the diamond turbot (Hyposopsetta guttulata) across the Baja Peninsula. Marine Biology. 157:123-134. [published online in 2009: DOI 10.1007/s00227-009-1302-2]
Sabatino, S.J. and E.J. Routman. 2009. Phylogeography and conservation genetics of the hellbender salamander (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis). Conservation Genetics 10:1235-1246. [published online in 2008: DOI:10.1007/s10592-008-9655-5.]
Di Candia, M.R. and E.J. Routman. 2007. Cytonuclear discordance across a leopard frog contact zone. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 45:564-575.
Kenney-Hunt, J.P., T.T. Vaughn, L.S. Pletscher, A. Peripato, E. Routman, K. Cothran, D. Durand, E. Norgard, C. Perel, J.M. Cheverud. 2006. Quantitative trait loci for body size components in mice. Mammalian Genome. 17:526-537.
Paquin, M. M., G.D. Wylie, and E.J. Routman. 2006. Population structure of the giant gartersnake, Thamnophis gigas. Conservation Genetics. 7:25-36.
Wolf J.B., L.J. Leamy, E.J. Routman, and J.M. Cheverud. 2005. Epistatic pleiotropy and the genetic architecture of covariation within early- and late-developing skull trait complexes in mice. Genetics: 171:683-694.
Leamy, L.J., M.S. Workman, E.J. Routman, and J.M. Cheverud. 2005. An epistatic genetic basis for fluctuating asymmetry of tooth size and shape in mice. Heredity. 94:316-325.
Masta, S.E., N.M.. Laurent, and E. J Routman. 2003. Population genetic structure of the toad Bufo woodhousii: an empirical assessment of the effects of haplotype extinction on nested cladistic analysis. Molecular Ecology.12:1541-1554.
Leamy, L.L., E.J. Routman, and J.M. Cheverud. 2002. An epistatic genetic basis for fluctuating asymmetry of mandible size in mice. Evolution. 56:642-653.
Workman, M.S., L.J. Leamy, E. J. Routman, and J. M. Cheverud. 2002. Analysis of QTL effects on the size and shape of mandibular molars in mice. Genetics. 160:1573-1586.
Masta, S. E., B. Sullivan, T. Lamb, and E. J. Routman. 2002. Phylogeography, species boundaries, and hybridization among toads of the Bufo americanus group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 24:302-314.
Hardy, M.E., J.M. Grady and E.J. Routman. 2002. Intraspecific phylogeography of the slender madtom: the complex evolutionary history of the Central Highlands of the U.S. Molecular Ecology. 11:2393-2403.
Klingenberg, C.P., L.J. Leamy, E.J. Routman, and J.M. Cheverud. 2001. Genetic architecture of mandible shape in mice: effects of quantitative trait loci analyzed by geometric morphometrics. Genetics. 157:785-802.
Donovan, M.F., R.D. Semlitsch, and E.J. Routman. 2000. Biogeography of the southeastern United States: a comparison of salamander phylogeographic studies. Evolution. 54:1449-1456.
Leamy, L.L., E.J. Routman, and J.M. Cheverud. 1999. Quantitative trait loci for early- and late-developing skull characters in mice: a test of the genetic independence model of morphological integration. American Naturalist. 153:201-214.
Leamy, L.J., E. J. Routman, and J.M. Cheverud. 1998. Quantitative trait loci for fluctuating asymmetry of discrete skeletal characters in mice. Heredity. 80:509-518.
Routman, E.J. and J.M. Cheverud. 1998. Quantitative trait loci - a new approach to old evolutionary problems. In "Molecular Approaches to Ecology and Evolution" R. DeSalle and B. Schierwater eds. Birkhauser Verlag. Basel, Switzerland.
Routman, E.J. and J.M. Cheverud. 1997. Genetic effects on a quantitative trait: two-locus epistatic effects measured at microsatellite markers and at estimated QTL. Evolution. 51:1654-1662.
Leamy, L.J., E. J. Routman, and J.M. Cheverud. 1997. A search for quantitative trait loci affecting asymmetry of mandibular characters in mice. Evolution. 51:957-969.
Cheverud, J.M., E.J. Routman, and D.K. Irshick. 1997. Pleiotropic effects of individual gene loci on mandibular morphology. Evolution. 51:2006-2016.
Cheverud, J.M., E.J. Routman, F. Duarte, B. von Swinderen, K. Cothran, and C. Perel. 1996. Quantitative trait loci for murine growth. Genetics. 142:1305-1319.
Cheverud, J.M. and E.J. Routman. 1996. Epistasis as a source of increased additive genetic variance at population bottlenecks. Evolution. 50:1042-1051.
Jones, T.R., E.J. Routman, D. Begun, and J.P. Collins. 1995. Ancestry of an isolated subspecies of salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum stebbinsi Lowe: the evolutionary significance of hybridization. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 4:194-202.
Routman, E.J. and J.M. Cheverud. 1995. Polymorphism for PCR-analyzed microsatellites between the inbred mouse strains LG and SM. Mammalian Genome. 6:401-404.
Templeton, A.R., E.J. Routman, and C.A. Phillips. 1995. Separating population structure from population history: A cladistic analysis of the geographical distribution of mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in Ambystoma tigrinum. Genetics. 140:767-782.
Cheverud, J.M. and E.J. Routman. 1995. Epistasis and its contribution to genetic variance components. Genetics. 139:1455-1461.
Routman, E.J., R. Wu, and A.R. Templeton. 1994. Parsimony, molecular evolution, and biogeography: the case of the North American giant salamander. Evolution. 48:1799-1809.
Routman, E.J. and J. Cheverud. 1994. A rapid method of scoring simple sequence repeat polymorphisms with agarose gel electrophoresis. Mammalian Genome. 5:187-188.
Routman, E. and J.M. Cheverud. 1994. Individual genes underlying quantitative traits: molecular and analytical methods. Invited book chapter for "Molecular Ecology and Evolution: Approaches and Applications", B. Schierwater, B. Streit, G. P. Wagner, and R. DeSalle, eds. Birkhauser Verlag. Basel, Switzerland.
Cheverud, J.M., E. Routman, C. Jaquish, S. Tardif, G. Peterson, N. Belfiore, and L. Forman. 1994. Quantitative and molecular variation in captive cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Conservation Biology. 8:95-105.
Sexton, O.J., C.A. Phillips, and E.J. Routman. 1994. The response of naive breeding adults of the spotted salamander to fish. Behaviour. 130:113-121.
Routman, E.J. 1993. Mitochondrial DNA variation in Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, a salamander with extremely low allozyme diversity. Copeia. 1993:375-384.
Routman, E.J. 1993. Population structure and genetic diversity of metamorphic and paedomorphic populations of the tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 6:329-357.
Cheverud, J.M. and E. Routman. 1993. Quantitative trait loci: individual gene effects on quantitative characters. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 6:463-480.
Kresovich, S., J.G.K. Williams, J.R. McFerson, E.J. Routman, and B.A. Schaal. 1992. Characterization of genetic identities and relationships of Brassica oleracea L. via random amplified polymorphic DNA assay. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 85:190-196.
Templeton, A.R., K. Shaw, E. Routman, and S. Davis. 1990. The genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 77:13-27.
Routman, E.J., R.D. Miller, J. Phillips-Conroy, and D.L. Hartl. 1985. Antibiotic resistance and population structure in Escherichia coli from free-ranging African yellow baboons. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 50(4):749-754.
Routman, E.J. and A.C. Hulse. 1984. Ecology and reproduction of a parthenogenetic lizard, Cnemidophorus sonorae. Journal of Herpetology. 18(4):381-386.
Routman, E.J. 1984. A modified seining technique for single person sampling of deep or cold water. Herpetological Review. 15(3):72-73.
Hulse, A.C. and E.J. Routman. 1982. Leech (Placobdella parasitica) infestations on the wood turtle, Clemmys insculpta. Herpetological Review. 13(4):116-117.
V. PRESENTATIONS
Invited presentations since appointment at SFSU (nonjuried):
"The Molecular Clock and Mitochondrial Eve" Biology Forum. California Academy of Sciences. 28 October 1995.
"Using Genetic Data to Separate Population Structure and Population History" University of California - Berkeley. 4 November 1996.
"The Interface of Systematics and Population Genetics" Bay Area Systematics Society. 10 December 1996.
"Using Molecular Biology to Study History and Population Structure of Salamanders" California State University, Hayward. 9 October 1997.
"Using Genetic Data to Separate Population Structure and Population History" Brigham Young University 26 March 1998.
"QTL Analysis and the Measurement of Epistasis" Brigham Young University 27 March 1998.
"Using Genetic Data to Separate Population Structure and Population History" CSU Northridge 24 April 1998.
"Using Molecular Genetics to Study Biogeography" CSU Northridge 24 April 1998.
"Using Genetic Data to Estimate Evolutionary Parameters: Separating the Effects of History and Population Genetics. San Diego State University, 19 November 2001.
"Using Genetic Data to Estimate Evolutionary Parameters: A Plea for Caution. University of California, Berkeley 6 November 2006.
Contributed presentations since appointment at SFSU (non-juried):
"Phylogeny of Inbred Mice: Are Microsatellites Phylogenetically Useful Characters?" Joint Meetings of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of Systematic Biologists. Montreal Canada. 8-12 July, 1995. Authors P. Kennedy and E.J. Routman. Poster presented by my graduate student, Patricia Kennedy.
"Quantitative Trait Loci for Mouse Growth." Joint Meetings of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of Systematic Biologists. Montreal, Canada. 8-12 July, 1995. Authors J Cheverud and E.J. Routman. Talk presented by James Cheverud
"Separating Population Structure from Population History." Joint Meetings of Association for the Study of Ichthyology and Herpetology and Herpetologists' League. University of New Orleans. 13 - 18 June, 1996. Authors E.J Routman, A.R. Templeton, C.A. Phillips. Talk presented by E.J. Routman.
"Within River Genetic Variation in the Hellbender, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis" Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). Los Angeles, CA. 10-12 October, 1996. Authors A. Westerberg and E.J. Routman. Poster presented by SFSU undergraduate Audrey Westerberg.
"Within River Genetic Variation in the Hellbender, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis" National Minority Research Symposium (NMRS). Miami, FL 7-9 November, 1996. Authors A. Westerberg and E.J. Routman. Poster presented by SFSU undergraduate Audrey Westerberg.
"Separating Population Structure from Population History in Woodhouses' Toad, Bufo woodhousei." National Minority Research Symposium, New Orleans, LA 17 October 1997. Authors E. Valdivia and E.J. Routman. Poster presented by SFSU undergraduate Elene Valdivia
"Molecular Phylogeography of the Mole Salamander, Ambystoma talpoideum." Joint Meetings of Association for the Study of Ichthyology and Herpetology and Herpetologists' League. University of Washington. Seattle, Washington. 26 June - 2 July 1997. Authors M.F. Donovan and E. Routman. Talk presented by my graduate student Michele Donovan (winner of Henri Sebert Award for best student paper in genetics presented at this meeting).
"Biogeography of the Southeastern U.S.: Comparison of Ambystoma mtDNA Phylogenies." Joint Meetings of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of Systematic Biologists. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada. 20 - 24 June, 1998. Authors: E.J. Routman, M.F. Donovan, and R.D. Semlitsch. Poster presented by E.J. Routman.
"Separating Population Structure from Population History in the Tiger Salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum." Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). Portland, Oregon. 7 - 10 October, 1999. Authors E. Valdivia, R.P. Hill, and E.J. Routman. Poster presented by SFSU undergraduate Elene Valdivia.
"Phylogeography of the Central Highlands: Testing Biogeographic Hypotheses Using an Intraspecific Phylogeny of Noturus exilis." Joint Meetings of Association for the Study of Ichthyology and Herpetology, Herpetologists' League, and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. 14-20 June, 2000. Authors M.E. Hardy, J.M. Grady, and E.J. Routman. Poster presented by SFSU graduate student Melissa Hardy.
"Biogeography and Distribution of mtDNA Variants of the Mole Salamander, Ambystoma talpoideum." Joint Meetings of Association for the Study of Ichthyology and Herpetology, Herpetologists' League, and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. 14-20 June, 2000. Authors C. Reading, R.D. Semlitsch, and E.J. Routman. Poster presented by SFSU graduate student Craig Reading.
"Population Structure of the Giant Gartersnake, Thamnophis gigas." Joint Meetings of Association for the Study of Ichthyology and Herpetology, Herpetologists' League, and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. 14-20 June, 2000. Authors M. Paquin, G.D. Wylie, and E.J. Routman. Poster presented by SFSU graduate student Melanie Paquin.
"Phylogeography, Species Boundaries, and Hybridization Among Toads of the Bufo americanus Group." International Meetings of the Society for the Study of Evolution. Knoxville, Tennessee. 21-25 June, 2001. Authors S. Masta, B. Sullivan, E. Gergus, T. Lamb, and E. Routman. Talk presented by SFSU postdoctoral researcher Susan Masta.
"Population Structure of the Plains Leopard Frog, Rana blairi, and its Relevance to Conservation." International Meetings of the Society for Conservation Biology. Hilo, Hawaii. 29 July - 1 August, 2001. Authors Y. Alva, S.E. Masta, and E.J. Routman. Poster presented by SFSU graduate student Yvette Alva.
"Biogeography and Evolutionary History of the Hellbender Salamander (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis).” 2nd International Symposium of Conservation Genetics. Monterrey, California. 25 September - 28 September 2005. Authors S. Sabatino, and E.J. Routman. Poster presented by SFSU graduate student Stephen Sabatino.
"Phylogeography of the San Francisco Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia)." Wildlife Society - Western Section Conference. Monterrey, California. 22 February 2007. Authors Lim, T, K. Swaim and E.J. Routman. Poster presented by SFSU graduate student Tammy Lim.
“Population Structure and Gene Flow in the Hellbender in the Eastern Appalachians”. 4th Hellbender Symposium, Corbin, Kentucky. 21-24 June 2009. Authors Freake, M. and E.J. Routman. Talk presented by my collaborator Michael Freake from Lee University.
"Finding Rare Amphibians: a Molecular Survey Technique for the California Red-legged Frog" 12th Annual Bay Area Conservation Biology Symposium. San Francisco, CA. 20 February 2010. Thomas Newcomb and Eric Routman
VI. PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Professional Service
Referee - Journals:
Evolution Molecular Biology and Evolution
Journal of Evolutionary Biology Herpetologica
Great Basin Naturalist Copeia
Genetics Molecular Ecology
Conservation Genetics Systematic Biology
Referee/Panel Member - Federal Funding Agencies:
National Science Foundation - Research Grants 1995 - present
National Institutes of Health - Research Grant 1999
National Science Foundation - Dissertation
Improvement Grants Panel Feb. 6-7, 1997.
National Science Foundation - Population
Biology Panel Oct. 7-9, 1998
National Science Foundation - Population
Biology Panel Oct. 18-20, 2000
National Science Foundation - Population
and Evolutionary Processes Panel Apr. 28-30, 2004
National Science Foundation - Population
and Evolutionary Processes Panel Apr. 5-7, 2006
Community Service
Judge - San Carlos School District Science Fair 1999
Member - Scientific Advisory Board for the San Francisco
Recreation and Parks Department Significant Natural
Areas Management Plan Project 1999-present
Member Scientific Advisory Panel for The Nature
Conservancy’s Mount Hamilton Climate Adaptive
Strategies Workshop April 7 - 8, 2010.