Background Nathan Egan Rank Positions Education Presentations at Scientific Meetings Invited Seminars Workshops Attended click here for a list of my publications Positions 1995-present Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Sonoma State University 1995-1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Sonoma State University l993-1995 Assistant Professor, Group of Experimental Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich, Switzerland 1990-1992 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium and at the Zoological Institute of the University of Basle, Switzerland Education 1990 University of California-Davis, Ph.D. in Zoology. l987-1983 University of California Irvine, Cand. Phil. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. l985 Organization of Tropical Studies course in Tropical Agricultural Ecology, Costa Rica 1982-1981 foreign study at the University of Bonn, West Germany 1983-1979 Kalamazoo College B.A. in Biology Presentations at scientific meetings 2001 Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Aspects of Plant Herbivore Interactions, Oxnard, CA (one poster) 1999 Physiological Ecology meeting, White Mountain Research Station, Bishop, CA (paper) 1998 Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement course at San Francisco State University (paper) 1998 Physiological Ecology meeting, White Mountain Research Station, Bishop, CA (paper) 1997 Bodega Bay Field Conference on the use of Model Systems in Ecology (co-authored poster given by Dino Garcia-Rossi) 1997 Society for the Study of Evolution, Boulder, CO (paper) 1997 Society for the Study of Evolution, Boulder, CO (co-authored paper given by C. Anttila) 1997 Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement course at San Francisco State University (paper) 1996 Endless Forms: Species and Speciation, Symposium in honor of Guy Bush, Asilomar, CA (poster) 1995 SIP meeting on Plant Insect Interactions (co-authored paper given by A. Köpf), Gwatt, Switzerland 1995 Swiss Society of Zoology (poster) Zürich, Switzerland 1995 Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Aspects of Plant Herbivore Interactions, Oxnard, CA (poster) 1995 Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Aspects of Plant Herbivore Interactions, Oxnard, CA (co-authored poster given by A. Köpf) 1994 Swiss Society of Zoology (paper, abstract published in Rev. Suisse de Zool. volume 101, page 855), Lausanne, Switzerland 1994 Swiss Society of Zoology (poster, abstract published in Rev. Suisse de Zool. volume 101, page 861), Lausanne, Switzerland 1994 Workshop sponsored by the Institute of Zoology and Animal Ecology of the University of Lausanne, entitled 'Evolution in structured populations' (paper) 1994 Workshop sponsored by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Priority Program 'Environment' entitled 'Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Molecular Data' (paper) 1994 Workshop at the Zoological Institute of the University of Basle, Switzerland, on chemical aspects of plant herbivore interactions (paper) 1992 Jacques Monod Conference on Evolutionary Biology (poster) 1992 European Science Foundation workshop on the genetics of plant-herbivore interactions (paper) 1991 Population Biology Group, Leiden, the Netherlands (paper) 1990 The Society for the Study of Evolution, College Park, MD (paper) 1989 White Mountain Research Station Symposium, Bishop, CA (paper) 1989 Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Aspects of Plant Herbivore Interactions, Oxnard, CA (poster) 1988 California Population and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Asilomar, CA (paper) 1988 The Society for the Study of Evolution, Asilomar, CA (paper) 1986 Southern California Graduate Students in Ecology, James Reserve, Idyllwild, CA (paper) 1986 Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Aspects of Plant Herbivore Interactions, Oxnard, CA (poster) Invited Seminars February 2001, San Francisco State University November 2000, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC-Berkeley July 2000,White Mountain Research Station, Bishop, CA April 2000, California Polytechnical University- San Luis Obispo February 2000, University of Marburg, Germany February 2000, University of Ulm, Germany November 1999, Sonoma State University August 1999, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany October 1998, Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA January 1998, University of Oslo, Norway January 1997, State University of New York-Buffalo, research group of Dr. Ian Baldwin November 1996, University of Bielefeld, Germany August 1996, Bodega Marine Lab of UC-Davis, Bodega Bay, CA July 1996, University of Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany June 1996, University of Aarhus, Denmark April 1996, University of Munich, Germany March 1996, California Society of Biosystematists, Berkeley, CA October 1995, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA June 1995, University of Bern, Switzerland May 1995, University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium April 1995, University of Bielefeld, Germany April 1995, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA January 1995, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA November 1994, University of Tours, France October 1994, Institute of Ecology, Heteren, The Netherlands October 1994, Center for Limnology, Institute of Ecology, Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands September 1994, University of Göttingen, Germany May 1994, Free University of Brussels, Belgium May 1994 Department of Biology, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland October 1993, Ecole Normale Superieure, CNRS, Paris, France February 1993, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich October 1992, Free University of Brussels, Belgium November 1991, Zoological Museum, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland October 1991 Department of Biology, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland May 1991 Zoological Institute of the University of Basle, Basle, Switzerland May 1990 University of California-Davis, Davis, CA April 1990 Kellogg Biological Station. Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI March 1990 University of California-San Diego, San Diego, CA Workshops Attended 1996 Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Course entitled "Molecular Genetic Analysis applied to Evolution, Ecology, and Systematic Biology: An Extended Laboratory Course." Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Biology of San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California. 1994 Workshop sponsored by the Institute of Zoology and Animal Ecology of the University of Lausanne, entitled 'Evolution in structured populations' 1994 Workshop sponsored by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Priority Program 'Environment' entitled 'Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Molecular Data' 1994 Workshop at the Zoological Institute of the University of Basle, Switzerland, on chemical aspects of plant herbivore interactions 1992 European Science Foundation Workshop on the genetics of plant-herbivore interactions. 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