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CHRISTOPHER M. HOFMANN
Department of Biological
Sciences
University of Maryland
Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
chofma1@umbc.ed
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| EDUCATION |
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| 2001 - Present |
Ph.D.
Candidate, Biological Sciences
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore MD |
| 1996-2000 |
B.S., Biology, Summa Cum Laude, with Honors
Towson University, Towson MD |
| RESEARCH |
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2001-Present
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Ph. D. Thesis Research
University of Maryland Baltimore County |
| Summer
2005 |
National Science Foundation Fellowship
East Asia and Pacific Summer
Institutes (EAPSI) Taiwan |
| 2000-2001 |
Oak
Ridge Institute for Science and Education Fellowship |
| Summer
1999 |
Fellowship: Summer Undergraduate Research in Biology (SURB) |
TEACHING |
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2001-Present
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Graduate
Teaching Assistant
Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory
Comparative
Animal Physiology Laboratory |
2002-2003 |
National Science Foundation Fellowship (GK-12)
Teacher Enhancement
Partnership Project |
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2006 American
Institute of Biological Sciences, Emerging Public Policy Leader
Award
2006 International Society
for Behavioural Ecology, Student Travel Award
2005 Alexander Wilson Prize:
Best student talk at the Wilson Ornithological Society Annual Meeting.
"Pigment co-deposition
and the masking of carotenoids in Orchard and Fuertes's Orioles."
2004 Maryland
Ornithological Society Avian Research Grant
2003 American
Ornithologists’ Union, Marcia
Brady Tucker Travel Award
INVITED SEMINARS AND LECTURES
Coloring in the
past: The Evolution of Carotenoid Coloration in New World Orioles.
2006. Symposium
Contribution: International Ornithological Congress. Hamburg,
GE
Coloring in the
Past: Pigment Use and Color Evolution in New World Orioles. 2005.
Seminar: National
Taiwan Normal University. Taipei,
TW.
Sexual Section
Lecture. 2004-Present. Ecology and Evolution (BIO 301). University of
Maryland Baltimore
County (UMBC). Baltimore, MD.
PUBLICATIONS
Hofmann, C. M., W.-S. Lo, C.-T. Yao, S.-H. Li (in press) Cryptic Sexual Dichromatism
Occurs Across Multiple Types of Plumage in the Green-backed Tit. IBIS
Hofmann, C. M.,
T. W. Cronin, and K. E. Omland. 2006 Using
Spectral Data to
Reconstruct
Evolutionary Changes in Coloration: Carotenoid Color Evolution
in
New
World Orioles. Evolution 60:1680–1691
Hofmann, C. M.,
K. J. McGraw, T. W. Cronin, and K. E. Omland. 2007
Melanin coloration in New World orioles I: carotenoid masking
and pigment
dichromatism in the orchard oriole complex. Journal of
Avian Biology 38:163-171
Hofmann, C. M.,
T. W. Cronin, and K. E. Omland. 2007 Melanin coloration
in
New World orioles II: ancestral state reconstruction reveals
lability in the use of
carotenoids and phaeomelanins. Journal of Avian Biology 38:172-181.
Omland, K. E., and C. M. Hofmann. 2006. Adding color to
the past: ancestral state
reconstruction of bird coloration in G. E. Hill and K.
J. McGraw, eds. Bird coloration. II. Function and evolution. Harvard Univ. Press.
PRESENTATIONS
Christopher M. Hofmann, Kevin J. McGraw, Thomas W.
Cronin, and Kevin E. Omland.
2005. Pigment
co-deposition and the masking of carotenoids in Orchard and Fuertes's
Orioles.
Talk: Wilson Ornithological Society / Association
of Field Ornithologists Joint Meeting, Beltsville, MD
Christopher M. Hofmann, Kevin J. McGraw, Thomas W.
Cronin, and Kevin E. Omland.
2004. Orchard Orioles: a tale of two pigments. Talk: 122nd
Stated Meeting of the
American Ornithologists’ Union. Quebec City,
QC, Poster: 10th International Behavioural
Ecology
Congress. Jyväskylä, FI
Christopher M. Hofmann, Thomas W. Cronin and Kevin
E. Omland. 2004. Spectral analysis of
color plumage in orioles:
multiple losses of a carotenoid signal. Poster: Colour Signaling Meeting.
Konnevesi
Research Station, Jyväskylä, FI.
Christopher M. Hofmann, Thomas W. Cronin, and Kevin
E. Omland. 2003. Spectrophotometric
analysis
of color among New World
orioles. (Icterus) evidence of multiple pigment
types. Poster: 121st Stated
Meeting of the American
Ornithologists' Union. Urbana-Champaign, IL.
ANCILLARY ACTIVITIES
Peer Reviewer:
Evolution
Journal of Avian Biology
AUK
American Ornithologist's Union
Public
Affairs Committee 2004-Present
Student
Affairs Committee 2003-2005
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