TITLES:

Assistant Professor of Zoology, Department of Zoology, and Curator of Genetic Resources, Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, thesis title: "Mitochondrial DNA evolution in social babblers (Aves: Pomatostomus)," 1986-1992

B.A., Biology, Harvard University, magna cum laude, thesis title: "Mitochondrial DNA variation and the phylogeny of African Mole-Rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae), 1981-1986

POSITIONS:

Undergraduate, Harvard Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, R. L Honeycutt lab: "Mitochondrial DNA variation and phylogeny of African mole-rats (Bathyergidae), 1985-1986

Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, advisors: J. L Patton and N. K Johnson; Department of Biochemistry, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, A. C. Wilson lab; mitochondrial DNA evolution and populati on biology of birds), 1987-1992

Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Evolution, Center for Mammalian Genetics, University of Florida, Gainesville, E. K. Wakeland lab; evolution of major histocompatibility genes in birds, 1992-1994

Assistant Professor of Zoology, Department of Zoology, and Curator of Genetic Resources, Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, January 1995-present

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Mount Missim, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea: assisted research on dispersion and ecology of birds of paradise and bowerbirds, and intensive monitoring of forest bird populations, September-December 1986

Australia: collected Pomatostomus babblers and other Australo-Papuan songbird genera throughout eastern and northern Australia, February-December 1987.

Australia and Fly River region, Papua New Guinea: supervised volunteers in collection of blood samples and vocal recordings from populations of cooperatively breeding grey-crowned babblers, February-June 1990

RESEARCH AWARDS, GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS:

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1986-1990

Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for senior honors thesis, 1986

Carl B. Koford research award, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 1987

Louise Kellogg research award Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 1988

National Geographic Research Grant, 1989

National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 1989

Frank M. Chapman Memorial Award, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1989

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1990-1991

National Science Foundation Graduate Student Travel Award, 1991

Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellowship in Molecular Studies of Evolution, 1992-1994

Ernst Mayr Award for best student presentation, Society of Systematic Biology, Harvard University, 1992

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS:

• Honeycutt, R. L , S. V. EDWARDS, K Nelson, and E. Nevo. 1987. Mitochondrial DNA variation and the phylogeny of African mole-rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae). Syst. Zool., 36: 280-292.

• EDWARDS, S.V., and A.C. Wilson. 1990. Phylogenetically informative length polymorphism and sequence variability in mitochondrial DNA of Australian songbirds (Pomatostomus). Genetics, 126:695-711.

• EDWARDS, S.V., P. Arctander, and A.C. Wilson. 1991. Mitochondrial resolution of a deep branch in the genealogical tree for perching birds. Proc. Roy. Soc. London, Ser. B, 243:99-107.

• EDWARDS, S. V. 1993. Long-distance gene flow in a cooperative breeder detected in genealogies of mitochondrial DNA sequences. Proc. Roy. Soc. London, Ser. B, 252:177-185.

• EDWARDS, S. V. 1994. Mitochondrial gene genealogy and gene flow among island and mainland populations of a sedentary songbird, the grey-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis). Evolution, in press.