Joanne Itami

jitami@d.umn.edu

office: 251 SSB, 726-6319

Lab:SSB 170, 726-8610

Joanne Itami is an Academic Advisor for the Swenson College of Science and Engineering. Office hours are 8:00 am to 4:30pm in 251SSB.

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CSE Departments	CSE Majors	Career Information
Biology, B. S. Program plan	Cell and Molecular Biology Program Plan	Biology Minor Program Plan
Pre-Dentistry ...........Pre-Medicine	Pre-Opt...............Pre-Pharm ...........Pre-Vet	Chemistry Minor Program Plan

Research on Eurosta solidaginis on Solidago

allozyme electrophoresis

Solidago ploidy

Eurosta wing morphs

Eurosta behavior

Joanne Itami is a research professor in the Biology Department at University of Minnesota Duluth. Current research in collaboration with Tim Craig, centers on evolutionary ecology and behavior of herbivore populations and their host plants. Projects include measuring allozyme, behavior, and morphological variation among host races and subspecies populations of Eurosta solidaginis on two species of Goldenrod Solidago altissima and S. gigantea and the subspecies of Solidago altissima: S. a. altissima and S. a. gilvocanescens.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Evolutionary Ecology, Plant-Animal Interactions, Population Genetics, Insect Behavior and Ecology

Recent Publications:
Craig, T.P. and J.K. Itami. 2008. Evolution of preference and performance relationships, Chapter 2 in: Tilmon, K. (Ed.) Specialization, Speciation, and Radiation: The Evolutionary Biology of Herbivorous Insects. University of California Press, Berkeley

Craig, T.P., J.K. Itami and J.V. Craig. 2007. Host plant genotype influences survival of hybrids between Eurosta solidaginis host races. EVOLUTION in press.

Craig, T.P., J.K. Itami and J.D. Horner. 2007. Geographic variation in the evolution and coevolution of a tritrophic interaction. EVOLUTION 61:1137-1152.

COURSES TAUGHT

University of Minesota Duluth Duluth MN	BIOL 1087 Freshman Seminar: ------------ Darwinian Medicine BIOL 2961 Introduction to Veterinary Medicine BIOL 4801 Evolution BIOL 1001 Biology and Society
Arizona State University West Phoenix, Arizona	BIO 300 Natural History of Arizona BIO 310 Starch Gel Electrophoretic Techniques BIO 330 Ecology and Conservation LSC 360 Biology of the Human Experience LSC 394 Introduction to Molecular Techniques LSC 435 Global Models
Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA	BIO 341 Organic Evolution

EDUCATION

B.S.
Biology, Human Ecology, College of Idaho,
Caldwell, ID

M.S.
Biology, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ

Ph.D.
Zoology, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ