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Background
I am originally from Freeport, Illinois (USA), but my family and I moved to Dallas, Texas in the late 1980's.
While in Texas, I enrolled in the Bachelor of Science program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology
at the University of Texas at Austin. As an undergraduate research fellow at UT, I studied under the supervision
of David Hillis, Larry Gilbert, and Greg Sword.
Following my undergraduate work, I went on to pursue my Ph.D. at Cornell University in Rick Harrison's lab. My
Ph. D. committee consisted of Amy McCune, Chip Aquadro and Rick, but I often interacted with members of the
Aquadro lab and also people in Andy Clark's lab. My dissertation work concentrated on speciation in "Z" and "E"
pheromone strains of the European corn borer moth, Ostrinia nubilalis. Together with Rick and other
collaborators, we are continuing to make advances in this new model organism for speciation research.
Research interests
Some of my research interests in the Hartl lab are on the consequences of selfish elements for patterns
of natural genetic variation in host species and the interplay between these elements and patterns of
normal genome function.
Publications
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Dopman, E. B., and D. L. Hartl. 2007. A portrait of copy-number polymorphism
in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104:19920-19925.
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Dopman, E. B., L. Pérez, S. M. Bogdanowicz, and R. G. Harrison. 2005. Consequences
of reproductive barriers for genealogical discordance in the European corn borer. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
102: 14706-14711.
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Dopman, E. B., S. M. Bogdanowicz, and R. G. Harrison. 2004. Genetic mapping of
sexual isolation between E and Z pheromone strains of European corn borer. Genetics 167: 301-309.
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Dopman, E. B., G. A. Sword, and D. M. Hillis. 2002. The importance of the ontogenetic niche
in host-associated divergence: evidence from a generalist grasshopper. Evolution 56: 731-740.
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Sword, G. A., and E. B. Dopman. 1999. Developmental specialization and geographic
structure of host plant use in a polyphagous grasshopper, Schistocerca emarginata.
Oecologia 120: 437-445.
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Hobbies
Playing ultimate, adding unusual ingredients to "classic" recipes, and trying to figure out the
differences between the accepted practice and the accepted theory of the US political system (that's
a full time job by itself, and so I am accepting intern applications).
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