Joanne Itami

Joanne Itami

jitami@d.umn.edu

Personal office: 251 SSB, 726-6319 (Tu, Th)
SCSE SA office: 140 ENGR, 726-6319 (M, W,. F)

Lab:SSB 170, 726-8610

Advising Information

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 (Tu, Th) and 140 ENGR ( M, W, F). You can stopby for a walk-in appointment or you can email to arrange a specific appointment time.

All incoming Department of Biology freshman must meet with me before registering for classes. The three week advising period begins one week before the beginning of the registration queue. You should come prepared to your advising appointment with a graduation planner completed for at least the first 2 years of your program of study. We will go over the semester by semester plan and a review your planner APAS.

Appointments: check you UMD email for instructions for online signup for appointments.

Graduation Planner is located at plan.umn.edu

There is a quick start explanation for Graduation Planner on the page also you can stop by the Knowledge Manangement Center for help Solon Campus Center, Room 42 for help.

For online help understanding how to read your APAS and also a tutorial on how to use Graduation Planner go to the Moodle Course on Academic Planning

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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:

Dixon, M., T. P. Craig, J. K. Itami. 2009. Does a cascade of parapatric divergence in the Eurosta solidaginis system reach the third trophic level? EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY RESEARCH 11:1-17.
Craig, T.P. and J. K. Itami. 2008. Evolution of preference and performance relationships. Pages 20-28 in K. Tilmon, editor, Specialization, Speciation, and Radiation: The Evolutionary Biology of Herbivorous Insects. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Horner, J.D., T. P. Craig and J. K. Itami. 2008. The Effects of Host Race, Gender, and Host-Plant Dispersion on Alighting Behavior, Mating, and Oviposition in Eurosta solidaginis. ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTATA ET APPLICATA 128:274-282.
Craig, T .P., J. K. Itami and J. V. Craig. 2007. Host plant genotype influences survival of hybrids between Eurosta solidaginis host races. EVOLUTION 61: 2607-2613.
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