Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
murrenc@cofc.edu

Temperate Field work on Mimulus guttatus

Tropical Field Work Tree climbing for orchids in Panama    Male (above) and Female (below) Catasteum viridiflavum Orchidaceae
 

Ecology and Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity

Ecological Genetics of Invasiveness

Plant Reproductive Ecology

Evolution of Phenotypic Integration

Conservation and Evolutionary Ecology of Forest Fragmentation

University of Connecticut
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology, July 1999
Advisor: Carl Schlichting
Dissertation title: An ecological-genetic examination of reproduction in a tropical epiphytic orchid across a fragmented forest landscape.

Organization for Tropical Studies, Tropical Ecology: An Ecological Approach, June 1995

Mount Holyoke College
Bachelors of Arts in Biological Sciences, Summa Cum Laude, May 1994
Advisor: Aaron Ellison

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching/Research Post-Doctoral Position – University of Tennessee:
Supervisor: Massimo Pigliucci
Teaching: General Biology (non-majors) Fall 2000,
                  Biological Diversity Spring 2001

Post-Doctoral Position – University of Maryland, USDA funded
Topic: The role of inbreeding in invasiveness: linking phenotypic plasticity and
inbreeding in Mimulus guttatus in home and novel environments.
Supervisor: Michele Dudash