Kathleen Donohue

Kathleen Donohue (born 1963) is an American biologist at Duke University. She researches how adaptation occurs on a genetic basis and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013 for her work.

Kathleen Donohue
Born1963 (age 59–60)
CitizenshipUS
Education
Scientific career
Institutions

Education

Kathleen Donohue attended Stanford University, graduating in 1985 with two bachelor's degrees. She then attended the University of Chicago for her master's degree (1988) and PhD (1993).[1] Her doctoral advisor was Ellen Simms and her dissertation was titled "The evolution of seed disperal in Cakile edentula var. lacustis".[2]

Career

In her early career, she was a faculty member at the University of Kentucky and Harvard University.[3] In 2008 she was hired at Duke University as an associate professor. She was appointed to full professor in 2012. She researches how adaptation occurs on a genetic basis, including phenotypic plasticity, maternal effect, epigenetics, niche construction, biological dispersal, natural selection at multiple scales. From 2017 to 2020 she was director of Duke's ecology program.[4]

Selected publications
  • Donohue, Kathleen; Rubio De Casas, Rafael; Burghardt, Liana; Kovach, Katherine; Willis, Charles G. (2010). "Germination, Postgermination Adaptation, and Species Ecological Ranges". Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 41: 293–319. doi:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102209-144715.
  • Donohue, Kathleen (2009). "Completing the cycle: Maternal effects as the missing link in plant life histories". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 364 (1520): 1059–1074. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0291. PMC 2666684. PMID 19324611.
  • Donohue, Kathleen; Dorn, Lisa; Griffith, Converse; Kim, Eunsuk; Aguilera, Anna; Polisetty, Chandra R.; Schmitt, Johanna (2005). "The Evolutionary Ecology of Seed Germination of Arabidopsis Thaliana: Variable Natural Selection on Germination Timing". Evolution. 59 (4): 758–770. doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb01751.x. PMID 15926687. S2CID 840152.

Awards and honors

In 2013 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the plant sciences division. She was an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012 and of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis in 2013.[3] In 2015 she served as president of the American Society of Naturalists.[1]

References
  1. "Kathleen Donohue". Duke Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  2. "Ecology & Evolution Alumni". The University of Chicago Department of Ecology & Evolution. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  3. "Kathleen Donohue". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  4. "Kathleen Donohue". Scholars@Duke. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
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