Christopher M. Hofmann, Ph.D.

Department of Biology

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

chofma1@umd.edu

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2007-Present               Post-doctoral Research, University of Maryland College Park

                                    Karen Carleton

 

2001-2007                   Ph.D., Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Kevin Omland & Thomas Cronin

 

 

1996-2000                   B.S., Biology, Summa cum Laude, with Honors, Towson University

 

REASEARCH           

Summer 2005               NSF Fellowship

East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Taiwan

 

2000-2001                   Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Fellowship

United States Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense- Applied Pharmacology Branch

 

Summer 1999               Summer Undergraduate Research in Biology

                                    Towson University- Department of Biological Sciences

 

TEACHING

Winter 2007                 Adjunct faculty, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Self designed course in animal communication

 

2002-2003                   National Science Foundation, GK-12 Fellowship

Teacher Enhancement Partnership Project

 

2001-2006                   Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland Baltimore County

                                    Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory

                                    Comparative Animal Physiology Laboratory

                                   

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2007                            Wolf Dissertation Award for best thesis in the Biological Sciences Department 2006-2007, University of Maryland Baltimore County

 

2006                            American Institute of Biological Sciences, Emerging Public Policy Leader Award

 

2006                            North American Ornithological Congress, Student Travel Award

 

2006                            International Society for Behavioural Ecology, Student Travel Award

2005                            Alexander Wilson Prize for best student talk at the Wilson Ornithological Society Meeting

 

2004                            Maryland Ornithological Society Avian Research Grant

 

2003                            American Ornithologists’ Union, Marcia Brady Tucker

Travel Award

 

2000                            Towson University, College of Science and Mathematics

Undergraduate Research Grant

 

PUBLICATIONS

Hofmann, C. M., T. W. Cronin, and K. E. Omland. 2008. Evolution of Sexual Dichromatism. 1. Convergent Losses of Elaborate Female Coloration in New World Orioles (Icterus spp.). AUK: In Press. 

 

Hofmann, C. M., T. W. Cronin, and K. E. Omland. 2008. Evolution of Sexual Dichromatism. 2. Carotenoids and Melanins Contribute to Sexual Dichromatism in New World Orioles (Icterus spp.). AUK: In Press. 

 

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. 

 

Lynna M. Kiere[1], C. M. Hofmann, I. E. Tracy1, T. W. Cronin, J. W. Leips, K. E. Omland. 2007. Using color to define species boundaries: quantitative analysis in the Orchard Oriole complex supports the recognition of two species. Condor:109 692–697. 

 

Hofmann, C., W.-S. Lo, C.-T. Yao and S.-H. Li. 2007. Cryptic sexual dichromatism occurs across multiple types of plumage in the Green-backed Tit. Ibis. 149:264–270. 

 

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 . 

 

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.

 

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

Kiere, L. M.1, C. M. Hofmann, J. J. Price, T. W. Cronin, and K. E. Omland. Under Review.  Discrete evolutionary changes in carotenoid color in caciques (Icteridae): convergent evolution of red coloration. Journal of Avian Biology. 

 

Friedman, N. R. C. M. Hofmann, B. Kondo, K. E. Omland. Under Review. Correlated evolution of migration and sexual dichromatism in the New World orioles (Icterus). Evolution. 

 

Hofmann, C. M., O. Seehausen, N. J. Marshall, K. L. Carleton. In Prep. Light environment limits gene expression in rapidly evolving cichlid radiations.  PNAS. 

 

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Christopher M. Hofmann, T. W. Cronin, and K. E. Omland.  2007.  The Evolution of Sexual Dichromatism in New World Orioles.  Poster: Vision Down Under, Queensland, Australia

 

Christopher M. Hofmann, T. W. Cronin, and K. E. Omland.  2007.  Evolution of sexual dichromatism through convergent losses of elaborate female coloration in New World orioles.  Talk: Evolution, Christchurch, New Zealand

 

Christopher M. Hofmann, T. W. Cronin, and K. E. Omland.  2007.  The contribution of carotenoids and melanins to sexual dichromatism in New World orioles.  Talk: 122nd Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Laramie, WY.

 

Christopher M. Hofmann, T. W. Cronin, and K. E. Omland.  2006.  Carotenoid color evolution in New World orioles: ancestral state reconstruction suggests both lability and constraint.  Talk: International Behavioural Ecology Congress. Tours, France. 

 

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.

 

INVITED SEMINARS AND LECTURES

Color evolution in New World orioles: Ancestral state reconstruction of male and female coloration. 2007 Seminar: University of Maryland, College Park MD

 

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. 

            2006 Seminar: Towson University. Towson, MD.

2005 Seminar: National Taiwan Normal University.  Taipei, TW.

 

Sexual Section Lecture.  2004-2007. Ecology and Evolution (BIO 301).  University of

            Maryland Baltimore County.  Baltimore, MD.

 

ANNICILIARY ACTIVITIES

Peer Reviewer:         

Evolution 2006, 2007, 2008                                         Behavioral Ecology 2007

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2006                   Ethology 2006

Journal of Avian Biology 2005, 2007, 2008                  Auk 2005, 2007, 2008

Journal of Field Ornithology 2006, 2007                       Ornitologia Neotropical 2007

 

SOCIETY ACTIVITIES

2006- Present              American Institute of Biological Sciences

Participated in 2005, 2006, 2008 Congressional Visit Days

 

2003-2007                   American Ornithologists’ Union

                                                Public Affairs Committee 2004-2006

                                                Student Affairs Committee 2003-2005

 

2001-2007                   Graduate Association of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County

                                                Student Representative, Faculty Search Committee, 2006

Symposium Chair, 2004-2005

                                                Symposium Speaker Committee 2002-2003

 


[1] Mentored Undergraduate Student