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Dr. Lukas Klicka worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant with the University of Kansas teaching courses including Evolutionary Biology, Principles of  Genetics, Ornithology, and Principles of Organismal Biology. Prior to this, Dr. Klicka worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at San Diego State University and served as a Guest Lecturer there.  He has been an Adjunct Lecturer at Haskell Indian Nations University where he taught Organismal Biology. Dr. Klicka has been active in mentoring, having assisted a team of students on a biodiversity survey expedition to the island of Tetepare and to the Solomon Islands to examine the divergence between bird populations. He has been successful in receiving many grants as well as presenting and speaking at conferences throughout the United States. Dr. Klicka has been active in publishing as well as community outreach and volunteering.  

Field Research Experience:

• University of Kansas. Solomon Islands. Tetepare. Biodiversity survey and monitoring of birds, mammals, and herptiles with REU students (3 weeks)  2019 
• University of Kansas. Solomon Islands. Rendova, New Georgia. Biodiversity survey of birds and herptiles (4 weeks)  2016
• University of Kansas. Solomon Islands. Malaita. Biodiversity survey of birds, herptiles and fish (7 weeks)  2015
• San Diego State University. Texas. Dissertation focused collection of Vireo bellii samples (1 week)  2013
• San Diego State University. Arizona. Dissertation focused collection of Vireo bellii samples (1 week)  2013
• San Diego State University. Western Arizona and Nevada. Dissertation focused collection of Vireo bellii samples (1 week)  2012
• San Diego Natural History Museum. California biodiversity resurvey project. (1 week) 2012
• James Cook University. Australia. Two half week field expeditions. The first focused on marine biodiversity and for the second terrestrial biodiversity in the Australian outback. (1 week)  2009
• University of Nevada Las Vegas. Western United States (CO, AZ, NM, OR, WA, ID). (6 weeks)  2008
• University of Minnesota. Bahamas. Coastal ecology and tourism impact (2 weeks) 2008

Presentations:

• Mentee presentation. Isaac Rush. Kansas Ornithological Society. Song Comparison of Geographically Isolated White-eyes (Zosteropidae). 2019
• Invited speaker, KU EEB Department Seminar Series. Phylogeography of a Southwest Pacific avian species complex. 2017
• Evolution Meeting, Portland, OR. Phylogeny of Melanesian flycatchers (Aves: Monarchidae) based on ultraconserved elements. 2017
• KU EEB Graduate Student Retreat. Phylogeography and systematics of small brown birds of the Southwest Pacific. 2017
• Kansas Ornithological Society. Conservation genomics reveals multiple evolutionary units within Bell’s Vireo. 2014
• American Ornithological Society, Estes Park, CO. Conservation genomics reveals multiple evolutionary units within Bell’s Vireo. 2014
• American Ornithological Society, Chicago, IL. Phylogeography and conservation genetics of the Bell’s Vireo. 2013

Professional Development:

• Software Carpentry Workshop, Coding Bootcamp: Shell, Git, Python 2017
• SACNAS KU Graduate Chapter Workshop Series, Introduction to Shell and Python Scripting 2017
• Coursera, Programming for Everybody (Python) 2014

Outreach & Volunteering:

• Science Night, Lawrence Beer Co. Educated interested attendees in the formation, interpretation, and utility of evolutionary trees 2019
• Stand Up For Science. KU Biodiversity Institute fundraising event celebrating the history, importance, and utility of museum collections 2018
• Kansas DNA Day. Presented “Phylogeography” module 2018, 2017
• Sexy Science. KU Biodiversity Institute event highlighting sexual selection in nature 2017
• Kansas DNA Day. Developed and piloted “Phylogeography” module 2016
• Science Night, Hillcrest Elementary. Presented nocturnal bird species found in Douglas Co. “Birds of the Night” 2016
• Science of the Macabre. Halloween themed KU Biodiversity Institute event 2016, 2015
• Kansas DNA Day. Presented “Genomics and Inheritance” module 2015
• Ocean Discovery Institute. San Diego, CA. Day long workshop for students (4th–8th grade) to learn lab techniques 2014
• Julian Charter School, STEM Festival Science Fair. Judged and provided feedback for middle school and high school projects 2013

 

Klicka L. B., Campillo L. C., Manthey J. D., Andersen M. J., Dumbacher J., Filardi C. E., Joseph L., Uy J. A. C., Weidemann D.,
     Moyle R. G.. 2021. Genomic and geographic diversification of a “great speciator” (Rhipidura rufifrons). Ornithology
     (In Review).

Lane D., Aponte Justiciano M.A., Terill R. S,, Rheindt F. E., Klicka L. B., Rosenberg G. H., Price-Waldman R., Burns K. J..
     2021. A distinctive new genus and species of tanager (Passeriformes, Thraupidae) from the lower Yungas of western
     Bolivia and southern Peru. Ornithology (In Review).

Decicco L. H., Klicka L. B., Campillo L. C., Tigulu I. G., Tako R., Waihuru J., Pollard E., Sirikolo Jr L. A., Mapel X.,
     McCullough J. M., Andersen M. J., Boseto D., Moyle R. G.. 2020. New Distributional records of the Blue-faced
     Parrotfinch (Erythrura trichroa) in the Solomon Islands. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 132: 192–197.

Klicka L. B., Title P. O., Kus B.E., Burns K. J. 2016. Conservation genomics reveals multiple evolutionary units within Bell’s
     Vireo (Vireo bellii). Conservation Genetics 17: 455–471.

Klicka L. B., Campillo L. C., Manthey J. D., Qu. Y. 2015. Comparative phylogeography and niche modeling for three
     species complexes of SE China (Paradoxornis spp., Pycnonotus spp., Spizixos spp.). Current Zoology 61: 943–950.

Peterson A. T., Moyle R. G., Lei F., Campillo L. C., Hosner P. A., Klicka L. B., Lim H. C., Nyári A. S., Qu Y., Reddy S., Sheldon
     F. H., Zou F. 2015. Avian evolution and speciation in the Southeast Asian tropics. Current Zoology 61: 898–900.

Ryan, P. G., Klicka, L. B., Barker, F. K., and Burns, K. J. 2013. The origin of finches on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island,
     central South Atlantic Ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 299 - 303.

• University of Kansas, Genome Sequencing Core Voucher ($5,300) 2019
• Kenneth B. Armitage Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Kansas ($1,000) 2018
• Presenter Award, University of Kansas Graduate Student Retreat 2017
• Summer Fellowship, University of Kansas ($3,500, $3,000) 2017, 2016
• Doctoral Student Research Fund (pre and post orals), University of Kansas ($1,500) 2017,2015
• Panorama Grant, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas ($1,000) 2016, 2015
• SSB Graduate Student Research Award ($1,500) 2015
• Best Paper, Kansas Ornithological Society 2014
• American Ornithologist’s Union Conference Travel Award 2014, 2013
• Harold and June Grant Memorial Scholarship, San Diego State University ($2,600) 2013
• Ted Cohn Evolutionary Biology Fund, San Diego State University ($500) 2012
• American Ornithologist’s Union Research Award ($2,500) 2012
• American Museum of Natural History- Frank Chapman Memorial Fund ($2,350) 2012
• LA Audubon Society- Ralph W. Schreiber Ornithology Research Award ($1,500) 2012
• Mabel Myers Memorial Scholarship, San Diego State University ($1,500) 2012