Service

  • Joint Code of Conduct committee for Society for the Study of Evolution, Society of Systematic Biologists, and American Society of Naturalists, 2018-present
  • Communications Director for the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB), 2016-2017
  • Co-organizer of iEvoBio meeting, 2016
  • Co-organizer of SSB symposium on Breaking Barriers: Empirical, Theoretical, and Gender Issues in Phylogenetics for Evolution meetings in Brazil, 2015
  • Co-organizer of SSB satellite meeting in May, 2015
  • Co-organizer of iEvoBio meeting (met with SSB) May 2015
  • Co-organizer of Evolution meetings, 2014, including sole organizer for lightning talks
  • Co-organizer of iEvoBio meeting, 2014
  • Member of Phylotastic leadership team (group arranging hackathons for making trees more reusable), 2012-present
  • Organizer of lighting talks for Evolution meetings, 2013
  • UTK Faculty advisor for Darwin Day Tennessee, 2012-present
  • UTK Department representative on Dean’s advisory council, 2012-2014
  • UTK EEB Undergraduate affairs committee, 2012-2013
  • UTK EEB Graduate admissions committee, 2013-present
  • Chair, UTK EEB Web committee, 2011-present
  • Co-organizer of Comparative Methods in R hackathon, 2007
  • Bay Area Biosystematists Steering Committee: 2004-2007
  • Secretary Cambridge Entomological Club, 2001-2002
  • Reviewer for Science, Heredity, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Systematic Biology, Evolution, Systematic Entomology, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, US National Science Foundation, and others.