Curriculum Vitae

MARK J. FITZPATRICK B.Sc., M.Sc.

·  Ph.D., Zoology, University of Toronto (2001 - present)

 “Molecular evolution of polymorphic foraging strategies in fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster”

Marla B. Sokolowski (supervisor)

Trudy F. C. Mackay (collaborator, North Carolina State University)

·  M.Sc., Biological Sciences, Brock University (2000)

“Attractive silences in field cricket courtship song: mate choice using a short range signal”

            William H. Cade (supervisor, currently at University of Lethbridge)

          David A. Gray (supervisor, currently at California State University at Northridge)

·  B.Sc. (Honours), Biological Sciences, Brock University (1999)

“Female choice and sexual selection on the courtship song of the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus”

William H. Cade & David A. Gray (supervisors)

·   Fitzpatrick MJ, Ben-Shahar Y, Smid HM, Vet LEM, Robinson GE & MB Sokolowski (2005) Candidate genes for behavioural ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20(2): 96-104.

   PDF | Supporting Material

·   Fitzpatrick MJ & E Szewczyk*  (2005) Locomotion is not influenced by denticle number in larvae of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83(2): 368-371.

   PDF | Supporting Material

·   Fitzpatrick MJ, Ben-Shahar Y, Smid HM, Vet LEM, Robinson GE & MB Sokolowski (2005) Candidate genes for behavioural ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20(2): 96-104.

   PDF | Supporting Material

·   Fitzpatrick MJ (2004) Pleiotropy and the genomic location of sexually selected genes. American Naturalist 163(6): 800-808.

  PDF | Supporting Material

Media Attention:

News @ University of Toronto (Press Release): http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/040604-100.asp

St. Catharines Standard: front cover article with colour photo PDF

The Varsity - University of Toronto Newspaper: http://www.thevarsity.ca/news/2004/10/04/Science/Sex-Genes.multiTask-740934.shtml

Websites that carried the release: United Press International, Medical News Today, Medi Lexicon, SeparationsNow.com, Knowledge.com, Softcom, News Vantage, SciScoop.com

·   Fitzpatrick MJ & MB Sokolowski (2004) In search of food: exploring the evolutionary link between cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) and behaviour. Integrative and Comparative Biology 44(1): 28-36.

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Media Attention:

News Focus  in Science: Pennisi E (2005) A genomic view of animal behaviour. Science 307: 30-32. PDF

Fig 1 to be used in the textbook: Biological Science, by Scott Freeman (Prentice Hall)

·   Fitzpatrick MJ & DA Gray (2001) Divergence between the courtship songs of the field crickets Gryllus texensis and Gryllus rubens (Orthoptera, Gryllidae). Ethology 107(12): 1075-1086.

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 (* = student supervised publication. The publication stemmed from an independent project conducted for BIO 318. E. Szewczyk was a student in the class and I was the teaching assistant)

·   Fitzpatrick MJ & MA Lemay. 2000. Innovations for irrigation and water recycling in nursery operations. Landscape Trades 22(1): 56-60.

·   Fitzpatrick MJ & MA Lemay. 2000. The efficiency of artificial diets for rearing Lepidoptera: exploring the possibilities for tropical species. Agricultural Technical Information Service (AgTIS) Report commissioned by the Niagara Butterfly Conservatory

·   Fitzpatrick MJ & MA Lemay. 2000. Managing cedar-apple rust in ornamental crops. AgTIS Report

·   2004                 Ramsay Wright Award, University of Toronto - most outstanding graduate student in Zoology

                            (two awarded per year of approximately 150 graduate students)

·   2004                 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)

·   2003                 University of Toronto Tuition Reduction Scholarship

·   2003                 University of Toronto Fellowship

·   2003                 Scholarship to attend: Course - Modeling evolutionary genetics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville       

·   2003                 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)

·   2003                 Frederick P. Ide Graduate Award in Zoology, University of Toronto

·   2003                 Yoshio Masui Prize in Developmental, Molecular, or Cellular Biology, University of Toronto

·   2003                 Travel Grant, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto

·   2001-02            NSERC PGS-B: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Post-Graduate Scholarship

·   2002                 University of Toronto Tuition Reduction Scholarship

·   2002                 Frederick P. Ide Graduate Award in Zoology, University of Toronto

·   2001 (declined)   Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)

·   2001                 University of Toronto Fellowship

·   2001                 Scholarship to attend: Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics at North Carolina State University          

·   2000                 Graduate Bursary, Brock University

·   1999                 Graduate Bursary, Brock University

·   2005 “Foraging Behaviour: Optimality and the Marginal Value Theorem" Invited lecture for BIO 318/328, University of Toronto at Mississauga

·   2005 “Darwin's Finches: Foraging, Adaptation, and the Struggle for Existence" Invited lecture for BIO 318/328, University of Toronto at Mississauga

·   2002 “Exploring the evolution of polymorphic foraging strategies in Drosophila melanogaster” Evolution & Ecology Group, McMaster University, Hamilton ON

·   2002 “Evolution of naturally occurring foraging differences in Drosophila” Evolution & Ecology Group, California State University, Northridge, Northridge CA

·   2000 “Courtship song in field crickets: female preferences for attractive males” Department of Systematics, Ecology, and Evolution, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA

·   1999 “Understanding behavioural genetics using the cricket as a model” Invited lecture in BIO 4P56 - Genes and Behaviour, Brock University, St. Catharines ON

(oral presentations unless marked otherwise)

·  2005 “Frequency-dependent selection and the evolution of foraging strategies” Ontario Ecology and Ethology Colloquium (OEEC), Carleton University, Ottawa ON

·  2004 “Pleiotropy and the genomic location of sexually selected genes” Ontario Ecology & Ethology Colloquium (OEEC), University of Toronto, Mississauga ON

·   2004 “The evolutionary genetics of foraging behaviour” Gordon Research Conference on Genes & Behaviour, Ventura CA (poster)

·   2003 “The evolutionary genetics of foraging behaviour: inferring the phylogenetic link between molecule and behaviour” Society for the Study of Evolution, Chico CA (poster)

·   2003 “A common genetic basis for food-related behaviours?” Ontario Ecology & Ethology Colloquium (OEEC), Mc Master University, Hamilton ON

·   2003 “In search of food: Progress on the evolution of polymorphic foraging strategies in fruit flies.” Zoology Research Colloquium, University of Toronto, Toronto ON

·   2002 “Evolution of a behavioural gene in Drosophila” Ontario Ecology & Ethology Colloquium (OEEC), Queen’s University, Kingston ON

·   2001 “Evolution of polymorphic foraging strategies in larval Drosophila melanogaster” Fly Group Meeting, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto ON

·   2001 “Cricket courtship song: selection, heritability, and condition dependence” Animal Behaviour Society Annual Meeting, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR, D.A. Gray*, M. J. Fitzpatrick, K. Singh, G. Eckhardt & W. H. Cade (* presenter)

·   2001 “Divergence between the courtship songs of the field crickets Gryllus texensis and Gryllus rubens” Ontario Ecology and Ethology Colloquium (OEEC), University of Guelph, Guelph ON

·   2000 “What is sexy about field cricket courtship song?” Animal Behaviour Society Annual Meeting, Morehouse College & Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta GA

·   2000 “Attractive silences in cricket courtship song” Toronto Entomologists Association, University of Toronto, Toronto ON

·   1999 “The revealing courtship song of field crickets” 136th Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario, Metro Toronto Zoo, Toronto ON (poster)

·   1999 “Female choice and sexual selection on the courtship song of the field crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus and G. integer” Ontario Ecology and Ethology Colloquium (OEEC), University of Guelph, Guelph ON

·   Co-organizer, Ontario Ecology and Ethology Colloquium (OEEC), University of Toronto at Mississauga, May 10-12, 2004 (http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3oeec)

·    Invited Participant, 1^st Annual BeeSpace Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 5-7 2005

·   Consultant, BeeSpace, Honeybee Genome Database (http://www.beespace.uiuc.edu)

·   Graduate Student Representative, Executive Committee, Biology Dept, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 2004-05

·   Guest Lecture - "The Amazing World of Insects", Chris Hadfield Public School, Milton ON, 2004 

·   Reviewer - Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology

·   Reviewer - Journal of Orthoptera Research (2)

·   Moderator, 26^th Annual Undergraduate Biology Symposium, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 2004

·   Co-organizer, Biology Dept Seminar Series, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 2003

·   Vice-President Communications, Graduate Students Association, Brock University, 1999-00

·   Graduate Student Representative, Biology Dept, Brock University, 1999-00

·   Graduate Student Representative, Job Search Committees (Biochemist, Neurobiologist), Biology Dept, Brock University, 2000

·   Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Biology Dept, Brock University, 1999-00

·   Instructor - Forensic Entomology, Scientifically Yours, Brock University, 1999-00

(Scientifically Yours: program that encourages teens to consider careers in science)

·  American Society of Naturalists

·   “Advanced Biostatistics” University of Toronto, 2004, MJ Fortin

·   "Modeling the evolutionary genetics of complex phenotypes: a hierarchical approach from sequence to population“ University of Tennessee, Knoxville,  2003, JB Wolf, W Atchley & CJ Goodnight (short course)

·   "Evolutionary Ecology" University of Toronto, 2003, L Rowe, AA  Agrawal, DC Darling & AJ Baker

·   "Molecular Evolution" University of Toronto, 2002, AJ Baker & DM  Irwin

·   "Behaviour Genetics" University of Toronto, 2001, MB Sokolowski

·   "Principles of Quantitative Genetics" Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics, North Carolina State University, 2001, TFC Mackay,  PD Keightley &  JD Fry (short course)

·   "Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping I" Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics, North Carolina State University, 2001, Z-B Zeng, CJ Basten, RW Doerge &  K Dodds (short course)

·   "Molecular Evolution" Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics, North Carolina State University, 2001, JL Thorne,  SV Muse & JJ Hein (short course)

·   "Advanced Biostatistical Data Analysis & Experimental Design" Brock University, 2000, DA Gray

·   "Contemporary Topics in Biology" Brock University, 2000, MH Richards & AW Bown

·   "Advanced Topics in Population & Behavioural Ecology" Brock University, 1999, RD Morris

·   "Advanced Topics in Human & Animal Parasitology" Brock University, 1999, E Riga

·  Animal Behaviour, University of Toronto, 2002/2003, 2004/2005 (BIO 318) 

·  Evolution, University of Toronto, 2003 (BIO 152)

·  Introductory Genetics, University of Toronto, 2002 (BIO 207)

·  Genetics: Transmission, Development, Population, Brock University, 2001 (BIO 351)

·  Biology: A Human Perspective, Brock University, 2001 (BIO 125)

·  Entomology, Brock University, 2000 (BIO 364)

·  Principles of Population & Behavioural Ecology, Brock University, 2000 (BIO 205)

·  Concepts in Biology, Brock University, 2000 (BIO 190)

·  Habitat rehabilitation for the Common Tern at Port Colborne Harbour, with Dr. R.D. Morris, Brock University, 1999

·  Massassauga Rattlesnake Conservation Programme, Metro Toronto Zoo & Niagara Conservation Authority, 1999

·  Dr. Marla B. Sokolowski, F.R.S.C., Canada Research Chair in Genetics, Professor of Zoology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, (905) 569-4326, msokolow@utm.utoronto.ca

·  Dr. Trudy F. C. Mackay, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Genetics, North Carolina State University, (919) 515-5810, trudy_mackay@ncsu.edu

·  Dr. William H. Cade, President, Chancellor & Professor of Biology, University of Lethbridge, (403) 329-2201, bill.cade@uleth.ca  

·  Dr. David A. Gray, Assistant Professor of Biology, California State University at Northridge, (818) 677-7653, dave.gray@csun.edu