Nicole Gerardo
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Nicole Marie Gerardo | |
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| Education | Rice University, University of Texas at Austin |
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| Institutions | Emory University |
| Website | https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/gerardolab/ |
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 “Farming Ants Reveal Evolution Secrets”, Emory University, May 13, 2009 |
Nicole M. Gerardo is an entomologist and Professor of Biology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] In 2021, she became editor of the Annual Review of Entomology.[2][3][4]
Early life and education
[edit]Gerardo earned a B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 1997;[1] she received her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas in 2004.
Career
[edit]Gerardo's work focuses on evolutionary ecology, in particular the relationships between both beneficial and harmful microbes and their hosts.[5] For example, aphids are supplied with nutrients by beneficial bacteria and may have lowered immunity to ensure that the relationship continues.[6][7][8][9][10] Her whole-genome analyses of insect species have revealed that the pea aphid appears to have lost the Imd pathway, considered a key immune pathway in many species.[11] Her work on the genetics of insect species has also revealed patterns of immune gene evolution of monarch butterflies.[12] Another of her areas of study involves fungal pathogens, fungus-growing ants and their gardens, which are regarded as a model of symbiosis.[13]
Gerardo has published across several journals and in early 2025, her h-index was 36.[14]
Awards and honors
[edit]- 2020, Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, Emory University[15]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Nicole Gerardo". Emory University. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ Harrison, Jon (2021). "Preface". Annual Review of Entomology. 66: v–vi. doi:10.1146/annurev-en-66-111120-100001. PMID 33417817.
- ^ "Editor of the Annual Review of Entomology". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Annual Reviews website, Annual Review of Entomology, retrieved 20 February 2025
- ^ Sinai and Synapses website, Dr Nicola M Gerardo
- ^ "Pesky aphid thrives despite weak defenses". Futurity. 2010-02-23. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ Clark, Carol (April 14, 2008). "April 14, 2008 Following the ant trail". Emory Report. 60 (27). Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ Gavrilles, Beth (October 11, 2012). "New studies reveal connections between animals' microbial communities and behavior". Odum School of Ecology. University of Georgia. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ Kolodny, Oren; Callahan, Benjamin J.; Douglas, Angela E. (28 September 2020). "The role of the microbiome in host evolution". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 375 (1808): 20190588. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0588. PMC 7435159. PMID 32772663.
- ^ Gerardo, Nicole; Hurst, Gregory (December 2017). "Q&A: Friends (but sometimes foes) within: the complex evolutionary ecology of symbioses between host and microbes". BMC Biology. 15 (1): 126. doi:10.1186/s12915-017-0455-6. PMC 5744397. PMID 29282064.
- ^ Palmer, William J.; Jiggins, Francis M. (August 2015). "Comparative Genomics Reveals the Origins and Diversity of Arthropod Immune Systems". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32 (8): 2111–2129. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv093. PMC 4833078. PMID 25908671. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ Tan, Wen-Hao; Talla, Venkat; Mongue, Andrew J.; de Roode, Jacobus C.; Gerardo, Nicole M.; Walters, James R. (20 July 2021). "Population genomics reveals variable patterns of immune gene evolution in monarch butterflies ( Danaus plexippus )". Molecular Ecology. 30 (18): 4381–4391. Bibcode:2021MolEc..30.4381T. doi:10.1111/mec.16071. PMID 34245613. S2CID 235791167.
- ^ Currie, Cameron R. (October 2001). "A Community of Ants, Fungi, and Bacteria: A Multilateral Approach to Studying Symbiosis". Annual Review of Microbiology. 55 (1): 357–380. doi:10.1146/annurev.micro.55.1.357. hdl:1808/835. PMID 11544360. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ Google Scholar website, Nicole Gerardo, retrieved 20 February 2025
- ^ "Faculty and staff honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring and more". Emory Report. May 12, 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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