Curriculum vitae


Education:
Ph.D. Biological Sciences, University of Missouri; Columbia, MO.  “Ecological Conditions of Secondary Sexual Dimorphism in Salix glauca:  Fundamental and Realized Niche”. May 2006
B. A. in Biology, Truman State University; Kirksville, MO.  “The Effects of an endophytic fungus on the tertiary trophic level” Research supported by Ronald E. Mc Nair program. May 1999.

Teaching Experience:
  • Adjunct professor for Concepts in Botany (Bot 100), a botany lab course for non-biology majors at the Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara 22Aug11-20Dec12
  • Mentor for a team (10+) of undergraduate research assistants at the University of California, Santa Barbara Oct08-Jul13
  • Mentor for University of California Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) 22Jun09-28Aug09
  • Mentor for Internships in Nanosystems Science, Engineering and Technology (INSET) at the University of California, Santa Barbara 22Jun09-16Aug09
  • Mentor for Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (LEADS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara 22Jun09-16Aug09
  • Participated in seminar series: The Biology of Reproduction in Plants, presented “Sexual dimorphism and monoecy in plants”. Universidad de Chile, Santiago Chile, Dec 2008
  • Assisted (Graduate teaching assistant, GTA) in General Biology 2 (non-majors), University of Missouri, Columbia, Fall 2002, Winter 2003, Fall 2004
  • Assisted (GTA) in General Biology 42 (majors), University of Missouri, Columbia, Fall 2003
  • Assisted (GTA) in Botany, University of Missouri, Columbia, Winter 2004
  • Assisted (GTA) in Plant Population Biology. University of Missouri, Columbia, Winter 2005

Research Experience:
  • Post-doctoral research, University of California, Santa Barbara. Research award from NSF investigating the evolution of life history, physiological, and floral traits in Clarkia, exploring the joint evolution of mating system with plant water use strategies. October 2008-present.
  • Post-doctoral research, Andes, Region V, Chile. Under the auspices of Dr. Mary Kalin Arroyo; Using two systems, this project investigates the impact of plant sex ratio on community dynamics in a field study using the dioecious alpine cushion plant Laretia acaulis and compares male and female physiology of Kageneckia angustifolia over an altitudinal gradient. October 2006-October 2008.
  • Research supervisor, Dr. Susan Mazer, PI; breeding system evolution of Clarkia xantiana ssp xantiana and Clarkia xantiana ssp parviflora; This research addresses ontogenetic and sexual allocation differences between selfing and outcrossing subspecies. March 2005-September 2006.
  • Dissertation research, Pennsylvania Mountain, Colorado, USA. This project was a multi-faceted study of the sex dimorphism in the fundamental and realized niche of a dioecious shrub, Salix glauca. 2000-2006.
  • Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Candace Galen, PI; physiological studies of the resource cost of flowering in Polemonium and Ranunculus species of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. June-August 1999, 2000, 2001.
  • Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Stephen Pallardy, PI. Collected A-Ci curves and light and temperature response surfaces of several forest tree species in the Missouri Ozarks to better understand ecosystem processes related to global change June-August 2004.
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant for Dr. Thomas Bultman, PI. Investigated the tri-trophic interaction among Festuca arundinacea, Rhopalosiphum padi, Neotyphodium coenophialum 1998-1999.

Fellowships/Awards:
NSF grant to PI SJ Mazer and coPI LS Dudley.  The evolution of life history, physiological, and floral traits in Clarkia: do genetic correlations affect mating system evolution? 2007-2012

Other Skills:
Instantaneous measures of physiological rates using Li-Cor 6200 and Li-Cor 6400 IRGA; Measures of leaf water status using pressure chambers; Analysis of phenolic/flavonoid chemistry using UV/Vis spectrophotometery; Analysis of antioxidant enzymes using spectrophotometric techniques, Enumeration of pollen samples using a particle counter; Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses (SAS, JMP)

Peer review:
Acta Oecologia, American Midland Naturalist, Annals of Applied Biology, Annals of Botany, International Journal of Plant Science, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Plant Research, NSF proposal--Evolutionary Processes, Plant Ecology and Diversity, Physiologia Plantarum, Plant Science, PloS One, New Zealand Journal of Botany, Tree Physiology

Oral Presentations:

  • "Instantaneous and long-term water use efficiencies in two pairs of Clarkia taxa with contrasting mating systems" BSA; New Orleans, LA: 30 Jul 2013 – Participant talk
             Dudley bsa2013 from Leah Dudley
  • “From elegant to slender, does phenotypic selection on leaf physiological traits predict the divergence between Clarkia sister species, C. unguiculata and C. exilis?” Evolution 2011; Norman, OK: 20 Jun 2001 – Participant    
  • “Towards an integrative approach to dioecy” UCSB Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology Seminar Series; Santa Barbara, CA: 14 Feb 2011 – Invited talk
  • “Plant sex differences in the visiting insect community of Laretia acaulis” UCSB Graduate Symposium; Santa Barbara, CA: 07 Feb 2008 – Invited talk
  • “En camino a una aproximación holísitica a la dioicía” Instituto de Ecología y biodiversidad; Santiago, Chile: 05 Oct 2008 – Exit talk
  • “Diferenciación fisiológica entro los sexos de Kageneckia angustifolia: hembras tienen curvas más grandes que machos” Quinto Taller de Jóvenes Investigadores, Iniciativa Científica Milenio; Huallilemus Sur, Chile: 28 Aug 2008—Invited poster 
  • “Insect community patch dynamics over a dioecious cushion plant, Laretia acaulis” I Taller de Avances de Investigacíon de Alumnos e Investigadores Postdoctorales, Instituto de Ecología y biodiversidad; Santiago, Chile: 30 Jul 2008—Invited talk
  • “Ecofisiología en plantas: Desde la teoría a la práctica en una hora” IV Escuela Latinoamericana de Ecología; Arequipa, Perú: 18 Nov 2007—Invited talk
  • “Sistemas reproductivos en Solaria atropurpureum en el matorral mediterráneo de Chile” IV Congreso Peruano de Ecología; Arequipa, Perú: 18-22 Nov 2007—Participant talk
  • “Diferenciación fisiológica entre los sexos de Kageneckia angustifolia: hembras tienen curvas más grandes que los machos” III Reunión Bi Nacional de ecología; La Serena, Chile: 03 Oct 2007—Participant talk
  • “Gunsite trajectories: constraints vs independence of floral traits, life history, and mating system within and between gunsite Clarkia subspecies” Evolution 2006; Stony Brook, New York: 25 Jun 2006—Participant talk
  • “Where there’s a way, there’s a willow: ecological correlates of sexual dimorphism in Salix glauca” University of Missouri; Columbia, MO: 02 Nov 2005—Defense talk
  • “Sugar and spice and everything nice: similar phenolic chemistry may not mean similar defense in an alpine willow shrub, Salix glauca” Learning from Plants; Botanical Society of America; Austin, Texas: 16 Aug 2005—Participant talk
  • “Jack Sprat revisited: ecological niche partitioning in Salix glauca” 89th annual forum; Lessons of Lewis & Clark: Ecological Exploration of Inhabited Landscapes; Ecological Society of America; Portland, Oregon: 04 Aug 2004—Participant talk
  • “Phenolic defense chemicals in Salix glauca” Creative Activities Forum; University of Missouri: 15 Mar 2003—Participant talk
  • “Sex, drugs, and defense in Salix glauca” Ecology Lunch Seminar; University of Missouri: 05 May 2001—Invited talk
  • “First year trials and tribulations conquered” Alumni Speaker, Ronald E. McNair Informal Gathering; Truman State University: 19 Jan 2000—Invited talk
  • “Jack Sprat revisited: ecological niche partitioning in Salix glauca” Life Sciences Week; http://lsrdb.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/Search/search.cgi; University of Missouri: 08 Apr 2004—Poster
Publications:

2013. Arroyo,Mary T. K., Dudley, L. S., Jespersen, G., Pacheco, D. A., Cavieres, L. A., Temperature-driven flower longevity in a high alpine species influences reproductive assurance. New Phytologist: in press

2012. Dudley, L. S., Hove, A. and S. J. Mazer. Physiological performance and mating system in Clarkia: Does phenotypic selection predict divergence between sister species? American Journal of Botany 99:488-507. doi:10.3732/ajb.1100387

2011. Montalva J., Dudley L. S., Arroyo M.T.K., Retamales H. & Abrahamovich A.H. Geographic distribution and associated flora of native and introduced bumble bees (Bombus spp.) in Chile. Journal of Apicultural Research 50: 11-21. doi:  10.3896/IBRA.1.50.1.02

2010. Kalin Arroyo, M. T., Dudley, L. S., Pliscoff, P. Cavieres, L. A., Squeo, F. A., Marticorena, C., and R. Rozzi. A possible correlation between the altitudinal and latitudinal ranges of species in the high elevation flora of the Andes. IN Data Mining for Global Trends in Mountain Biodiversity, Eds. E. M Spehn and C. Korner. CRC Press, New York. pp 29-38.

2010. Mazer, S. J., Dudley, L. S., Hove, A. A., Emms, S. K., and Verhoeven, A. S. Physiological performance in Clarkia sister taxa with contrasting mating systems: do early-flowering autogamous taxa avoid water stress relative to their pollinator-dependent counterparts? International Journal of Plant Sciences 171: 1029-1047. 
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/656305

2009. Mazer, S. J., Dudley, L. S., Delesalle, V. A., Paz, H., and Galusky, P. Stability of pollen-ovule ratios in pollinator-dependent versus autogamous Clarkia sister taxa: testing evolutionary predictions. New Phytologist 183: 630-648. 
doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02886.x

2008. Montalva, J., Dudley, L. S., and Arroyo, M.T.K. First record of Xylocopa (Schonnherria) splendidula Lepeletier 1841 (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopini) in the mediterranean zone of Chile. Gayana 72: 258-260.

2007. Dudley, L. S. and C. Galen. Stage-dependent patterns of drought tolerance and gas exchange vary between sexes in the alpine willow, Salix glauca. Oecologia 153:1-9. doi:10.1007/s00442-007-0712-4

2007. Dudley, L. S., S. J. Mazer, and P. Galusky. The joint evolution of mating system, floral traits, and life history in Clarkia (Onagraceae): genetic constraints vs. independent evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 2200-2218. 
doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01421.x

2006. Dudley, L. S. Ecological correlates of secondary sexual dimorphism in Salix glauca (Salicaceae)” American Journal of Botany 93: 1775-1783. doi: 10.3732/ajb.93.12.1775.
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