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EDUCATION
Dissertation: Evaluating alternative approaches to identifying wildlife corridors
M.A. Biology: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Los Angeles Thesis: Mimicry in competitive relationships: Examples, theory, and tests
B.S. Biology: Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior
Study Abroad: University of Århus, Denmark
Doctoral Student: Landscape Biodiversity Lab, Ecology, MSU
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Hansen • Modeling/analysis: evaluating and developing methods of predicting wildlife corridors
Research Specialist: Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
Supervisor: Dr. Ethan Perlstein, Lewis-Sigler Institute Fellow • Laboratory studies: mechanism of action of disease-relevant, small-molecule drugs in the
Masters Student: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Grether • Literature synthesis: role of mimicry in competitive relationships • Field studies: testing competitive mimicry hypotheses in coral reef fishes,
Research Assistant: Brackenridge Field Laboratory, UT Austin
Supervisor: Dr. Lawrence Gilbert • Field study: effects of invasive fire ants on native ant communities and use of parasitic
Research Assistant: Section of Integrative Biology, UT Austin
Supervisor: Dr. Kathrin Stanger-Hall • Field and laboratory studies: North American firefly flash signal evolution
Teaching Assistant: Montana State University
• Molecular and Cellular Biology (lab course)
Teacher-Naturalist: Flat Rock Brook Nature Center, Englewood, NJ
• On-site and outreach environmental education for school groups and public • Development of high school environmental awareness outreach programs
Teaching Assistant: UCLA • Introduction to Ecology and Behavior
• Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity (lab course)
• Marine Biology Quarter: Moorea, French Polynesia (field course) Spring 2006 • Conservation Biology
Rainey, M. M., Korostyshevsky, D., Lee, S., & Perlstein, E. O. 2010. The antidepressant sertraline
targets intracellular vesiculogenic membranes in yeast. Genetics 185: 1221-1233.
Rainey, M. M. 2009. Evidence of a geographically variable competitive mimicry relationship in
coral reef fishes. Journal of Zoology 279: 78-85.
Rainey, M. M. & Grether, G. F. 2007. Competitive mimicry: synthesis of a neglected class of
mimetic relationships. Ecology 88(10): 2440-2448.
• Best Presentation, Montana Space Grant Consortium Student Research Symposium 2010 • Montana Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship
• Honorable Mention, NSF Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program
• Recognition of Excellence as teaching assistant, UCLA EEB
• Quality of Graduate Education Fellowship, UCLA EEB
• Neely Scholar, University of Texas Integrative Biology
• Distinguished College Scholar, University of Texas Natural Sciences
• Dean’s Scholars Honors Program, University of Texas Natural Sciences 2000–2004 • National Merit Scholar
• Evaluating methods of predicting wildlife corridors using GPS data from migrating elk 2010
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
• Evaluating methods of predicting wildlife corridors in a changing climate
Montana Space Grant Consortium Student Research Symposium, Bozeman, MT
• Competitive mimicry in a coral reef fish
Public presentation, Flat Rock Brook Nature Center, Englewood, NJ
• Competitive mimicry: approaches to modeling
• Phylogenetic relationships of 20 North American firefly species (poster)
University of Texas Undergraduate Research Poster Session (with D. Blair & L. Reinhard)
• Ecological Society of America member
• International Association for Landscape Ecology member
• Montana Society for Conservation Biology member
• Population Connection workshop trainer
• Field methods: basic mapping techniques, population size estimation, taxon-specific collection
methods, quantitative behavioral observation, certified scientific diver
• Lab methods: molecular phylogenetic techniques, yeast genetics techniques • Computing skills (descending order): ArcGIS, R, MARK, SAS, Python, MS Access, RSI ENVI
• Landscape connectivity: science and practice of identifying and protecting key wildlife linkages,
especially best practices for spatially explicit connectivity modeling
• Managing the matrix: understanding how native species function in human-modified landscapes and
using that knowledge to innovate management and land use planning
• Threshold effects of land use change on habitat suitability and connectivity • Use of landscape genetics to evaluate habitat suitability and measure connectivity
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