Kendra B. Sewall CURRICULUM VITAE Department of Biology Duke University Box 90338 Durham, NC 27708 Phone: (919) 660-­‐0927/(530) 908-­‐5648 email: k.sewall@duke.edu website: http://www.duke.edu/~ks201 EDUCATION PhD BA Animal Behavior, University of California, Davis, April 2008 Age-­‐dependent plasticity of call production and responsiveness in red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra): Implications for social intermixing and evolution Biology, Middlebury College (cum laude), June 2000 1998 School for International Training, Ecology and Conservation, Madagascar (study abroad) APPOINTMENTS AND TRAINING Assistant Professor of Biology, Virginia Tech NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Begins Jan 2013 Feb 2010 -­‐ present May 2008 – Feb 2010 TEACHING POSITIONS North Carolina Agriculture and Technology State University, Greensboro Visiting Assistant Professor, BIO 101, Concepts in Biology Lecture and Lab -­‐ course website: http://ncatbio101.pbworks.com University of California, Davis Co-­‐Instructor, NPB 102, Animal Behavior Lecture Science Education Graduate Research Fellow Teaching Resources Center Teaching Assistant Consultant Montana Natural History Center and University of Montana Community Science Educator and Volunteer Outreach Coordinator -­‐ Americorps member 2010 2007 2004 – 2006 2003 2001 – 2002 PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING Seminar in College Teaching, SPIRE Fellowship Program, UNC Chapel Hill National IRACDA Teaching and Research Conference, UCSF Chancellor’s Teaching Fellowship Mentorship Program, UC Davis Science Education Research Working Group and Annual Conferences, UC Davis Excellence in College Teaching, Teaching Resources Center, UC Davis Spring 2009 2009 Spring 2007 2004-­‐2006 Fall 2002 GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS FELLOWSHIPS Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA), National Institutes of Health 2010 -­‐ F32HD056981, Impact of early nutrition on neural mechanisms of signal processing, Sewall: PI, Nowicki: Sponsor, Jarvis: Co-­‐sponsor (3 yrs, c.a. $150,000) SPIRE Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (3 yrs) 2008 Chancellor’s Teaching Fellowship, UC Davis (1 yr) 2007 Animal Behavior Block Grant, UC Davis (1 semester) 2007 NSF Teaching Fellowship (GK-­‐12 Program), UC Davis (2 yrs) 2004 Mentorship Research Fellowship, UC Davis (1 yr) 2002 C.V. – Kendra Sewall, PhD -­‐ page 1 of 4 GRANTS AND AWARDS Student Research Grant, American Ornithologists Union ($1500) Student Research Grant, Animal Behavior Society ($1000) Travel Award, International Society for Behavioral Ecology ($1500) Travel Award, Graduate Studies, UC Davis ($1000) Founder’s Award for Best Student Poster, Animal Behavior Society ($100) Americorps Education Award ($4725) Cole Memorial Prize for Excellence in Biology, Middlebury College ($500) 2007 2006 2006 2006 2005 2001 2000 PUBLICATIONS * indicates student co-­‐authors IN PROGRESS Sewall, K. B., S. P. Caro and K. W. Sockman. Submitted. Song competition affects monoamine levels in sensory and motor forebrain regions of male songbirds. Developmental Neurobiology Sewall, K. B., J. Soha, S. Peters, K. W. Sockman and S. Nowicki. In prep. An apparent trade-­‐off between investing in vocal ornaments and spatial learning in a songbird. Sewall, K. B. 2012. Vocal matching in animals. American Scientist. 100:306-­‐315. DOI: 10.1511/2012.97.306 Sewall, K. B. 2011. Early social learning of discrete call variants in red crossbills: implications for reliable signaling. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65:157-­‐166. DOI: 10.s1007/s00265-­‐010-­‐
1022-­‐0 Sewall, K. B., *E. C. Dankoski and K. W. Sockman. 2010. Song environment affects singing effort and vasotocin immunoreactivity in the forebrain of male Lincoln’s sparrows. Hormones and Behavior. 58:544-­‐553. DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.04.002 Caro, S. P., K. B. Sewall, K. G. Salvante and K. W. Sockman. 2010. Female Lincoln’s sparrows modulate their behavior in response to variation in male song quality. Behavioral Ecology. 21(3):562-­‐569. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq022 Sewall, K. B. 2009. Limited adult vocal learning maintains call dialects but permits pair distinctive calls in red crossbills. Animal Behaviour. 77: 1303-­‐1311. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.033 Sewall, K. B. and T. P. Hahn. 2009. Social experience modifies behavioral responsiveness to a preferred
vocal signal in red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra). Animal Behaviour. 77:123-­‐128. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.09.016 Hahn, T. P., J. M. Corneluis, K. B. Sewall, T. R. Kelsey and M. Hau. 2008. Environmental regulation of annual schedules in opportunistically-­‐breeding songbirds: Adaptive specializations or variation on a theme of white-­‐crowned sparrow? General and Comparative Endocrinology 157: 217-­‐226. DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.05.007 Sockman, K. W., K. B. Sewall, G. F. Ball, and T. P. Hahn. 2005. Economy of mate attraction in the Cassin’s finch. Biology Letters 1: 34-­‐37. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0257 Sewall, K. B., T. R. Kelsey, and T. P. Hahn. 2004. Discrete variants of evening grosbeak flight calls. Condor. 106: 161-­‐165. DOI: 10.1650/7394 INVITED TALKS American Scientist/ Sigma Xi Lunch Lecture, Raleigh NC Gonzaga University, University of Kentucky, Albion College, Washington and Lee, Washington and Jefferson College, University of Western Kentucky Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State Curriculum in the Environment and Ecology, UNC Chapel Hill 2011 2011 2009 2009 C.V. – Kendra Sewall, PhD -­‐ page 2 of 4 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS * indicates student co-­‐authors Sewall, K. B. and S. Nowicki. 2011. The relationship between behavioral syndromes and behavioral plasticity in male song sparrows (talk). Integrative and Comparative Biology. 51:E127-­‐E127 Sewall, K. B., S. P. Caro and K. W. Sockman. 2010. Effects of persistent song playback on the brain and behavior of male Lincoln’s sparrows (talk). Animal Behavior Society, Williamsburg, VA Sewall, K. B., S. P. Caro and K. W. Sockman. 2010. Quality of the song environment affects levels of monoamines and their metabolites in the forebrain of male Lincoln’s sparrows (talk). Integrative and Comparative Biology. 50:E160 *Aldredge, R. A., Salvante, K. G., K. B. Sewall, K. W. Sockman. 2010. Experience with photostimulation up-­‐regulates vasoactive intestinal polypeptide in the hypothalamus of female house finches (poster). Integrative and Comparative Biology. 50:E198 Caro, S. P., K. B. Sewall, K. G. Salvante, *R. A. Aldredge, K. W. Sockman. 2010. Behavior and brain responses of female Lincoln’s sparrows to variation in male song quality (talk). Integrative and Comparative Biology. 50:E25 Sewall, K. B., *E. C. Dankoski and K. W. Sockman. 2009. Modulation of singing effort and its relationship with arginine vasotocin and monoamines in Lincoln's sparrows (poster). Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Lansing, MI Sewall, K. B. and K. W. Sockman. 2009. Context-­‐dependent modulation of song effort in a territorial songbird, the Lincoln’s sparrow (poster). Integrative and Comparative Biology. 49: E305 *Parker, S. D., K. B. Sewall and T. P. Hahn. Heterospecific vocal mimicry in Cassin’s finch (Carpodacus cassinii) (poster). Integrative and Comparative Biology. 49:E285 Sewall, K. B. and K. W. Sockman. 2008. Age dependent plasticity of call production in red crossbills: implications for social and population dynamics (talk). Birdsong Workshop, Millbrook, NY Sewall, K. B. 2007 Age-­‐dependent plasticity in signal production and response in red crossbills: Implications for social intermixing (Allee talk). Animal Behavior Society, Burlington, VT Sewall, K. B. 2006. Early learning of behavioral phenotypes in red crossbills (poster). Integrative and comparative biology. 46: E248. Sewall, K. B. 2006. Call convergence in red crossbills (talk). Animal Behavior Society, Snowbird, UT. Sewall, K. B. 2006. Signal convergence in red crossbills (talk). International Society for Behavioral Ecology. Tours, France. Sewall, K.B. 2005. Discrimination of group specific signals in red crossbills (poster). Animal Behavior Society, Snowbird, UT. Sockman, K. W., K. B. Sewall, G. F. Ball, T. P. Hahn. Economy of mate attraction in the Cassin’s finch (poster). Integrative and comparative biology. 44: 642 Sewall, K. B. and T. P. Hahn. 2004. Social experience influences behavioral discrimination of call types in red crossbills (poster). Integrative and comparative biology. 44: 746. Sewall, K. B. 2004. Behavioral discrimination between discrete call types in red crossbills (talk). Animal Behavior Society. Oaxaca, Mexico. Sewall, K. B. and T. P. Hahn. 2002. Differential heterospecific mimicry in three species of cardueline finches (poster). Integrative and Comparative Biology 42: 1310. SCIENCE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PRESENTATIONS Faulds, R., K. Kellet, K. B. Sewall, and C. Passmore. 2006. Using inquiry to develop high school students’argumentation skills. The National Science Teacher’s Association. Workshop co-­‐leader. Sewall, K. B., M. Smith and C. Passmore. 2006. Language arts applications to using inquiry in science education. The National Science Teacher’s Association, Western States. Workshop leader. Workshops in Teaching Innovations and Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation, Co-­‐Presenter, C.V. – Kendra Sewall, PhD -­‐ page 3 of 4 Teaching Resources Center, UC Davis Workshop and Training Organizer for Science in the Schools and Nature After School Volunteer Naturalists, Museum Docent Program, Montana Natural History Center PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES REVIEWER Animal Behaviour, Condor, Behavioral Ecology, Current Zoology, American Naturalist, Behavioral and Brain Research, City University of New York (Faculty Grants), NSF (Graduate Fellowship) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Ad Hoc Curriculum Committee, Animal Behavior Group, UC Davis Graduate Admissions Committee, Animal Behavior Group, UC Davis Executive Committee, Animal Behavior Group, UC Davis 2005 2004 2003 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Animal Behavior Society, American Ornithologist’s Union, National Science Teacher’s Association C.V. – Kendra Sewall, PhD -­‐ page 4 of 4