Tobias Landberg CV

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut, Storrs e-mail: tobias.landberg@uconn.edu Storrs, CT, USA

Professional preparation University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA: B.A., Anthropology Major, Biology Minor, May 2001

University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA: M.S., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, May 2004

University of Connecticut at Storrs, USA: Ph.D. candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, advanced November 2005

Appointments Mentoring Fellow

      Graduate Student Mentoring Fellow 2008, College of Liberal Arts and 	Sciences, University of Connecticut. For graduate students who are the 	primary mentors of undergraduate students.

Research Assistant Jockusch Laboratory, UCONN, 2006-present Geometric morphometric and phylogenetic analysis of morphology in Batrachoseps salamanders Teaching Assistant Evolution and Human Diversity, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 2008 Vertebrate Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 2007 Introductory Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 2004-2006 Honors Introductory Physiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003 Introductory Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2002-2003 Research Intern & Assistant Functional Morphology & Comparative Physiology Lab, UMASS Amherst, 1998-2004 Research on the functional morphology of lung ventilation and locomotion of turtles and salamanders. Curatorial Associate Massachusetts Museum of Natural History Anthropological Primate Collections, 1997-2004. Duties include preparation of osteological and preservation of soft- tissue materials, cataloguing specimens, maintaining beetle colony and training & supervising graduate and undergraduate student workers. Student Instructor Ecology and Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity Seminar UMASS Amherst, Fall 2003

Publications Landberg, T. Allometric engineering of salamanders. Abstract published in Integrative and Comparative Biology. Talk presented at SICB annual meeting in San Antonio, TX January, 2008.


Publications (continued) Landberg, T., J. Mailhot, and E.L. Brainerd, 2007. Lung ventilation in the red-eared slider turtle during treadmill locomotion. Submitted to Journal of Experimental Zoology Azizi, E., Landberg, T., and Wassersug, R. J. 2007. Vertebral function during tadpole locomotion. Zoology 110: 290-297. Landberg, T., 2004. Ontogeny of escape response performance in spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum). MS Thesis, 41 pp., University of Massachusetts Amherst. Landberg, T., J. Mailhot, and E.L. Brainerd, 2003. Lung ventilation during treadmill locomotion in a terrestrial turtle, Terrapene carolina. Journal of Experimental Biology 206(19): 3391-3404. Landberg, T., J. Mailhot, and E.L. Brainerd. 2002. Lung ventilation during treadmill locomotion in the red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta. Integrative and Comparative Biology 42(6):1261A. Azizi, E. and T. Landberg. 2002. Effects of metamorphosis on the aquatic escape response of the two-lined salamander (Eurycea bislineata). Journal of Experimental Biology 205(6): 841-849. Brainerd, E.L. and T. Landberg. 2001. Ventilatory mechanics of an elongate aquatic salamander: Amphiuma tridactylum. American Zoologist 40(6):952A.

Synergistic activities Professional service Reviewer Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology Copeia Evolution Herpetologica Journal of Experimental Biology Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology Journal of Herpetology Physiological and Biochemical Zoology Zoology Member The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology International Society of Vertebrate Morphologists Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Student representative to the Vertebrate Collections Committee, UCONN Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Association Division of Vertebrate Morphology representative to the Student and Postdoc Affairs Committee of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (2008-2011)

Awards Dwight Davis award for best student paper in vertebrate morphology (Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology) 2004 Schwenk Graduate Student Mentoring Fellowship (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut) 2007 $5000