Ainsley Seago
seago@nature.berkeley.edu
(510) 610-3580
 
Education
. 
    Doctoral Candidate, Insect Biology (in progress)
     University of California,  Berkeley  2003- 
    current GPA = 4.0

   
      B. Sci, Entomology. Magna cum laude with distinction in research
      Cornell University 1999-2003
      GPA = 3.8


      International Baccalaureate diploma
      Henry Foss High School 1995-1999
      GPA = 3.9

Courses taught/ assisted in: 	
	
ESPM 140 (Entomology) UC Berkeley; Spring 2004, Spring 2005
instructor : Sandy Purcell
Environmental Science, Summer 2004. Designed curriculum and taught course; 12 hours of lecture/ week. 
 Part of UC Outreach. 

Academic Honors and Grants
   2004: Entomology Students' Organization- travel grant to attend ESA conference 
   2004: Recipient, Walker Fund (grant for travel to Australia)
   2004: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship: Honorable Mention
   2004: ESPM departmental grant for summer research
   2004: ASUC/ Academic Opportunity Fund- grant for summer research
   2003: Entomology Students' Organization- travel grant to attend ESA conference
   2003:  Dean's Award, Cornell University (Best academic performance in major) 
              Graduated magna cum laude with distinction in research (honors thesis )
              Dean's List, 6 semesters (for high GPA)
  1999-2003: Cornell Presidential Research Scholar; $10,000 in research funding
                      plus training, poster, and seminar opportunities
  1999: R.F. Byrd Scholarship (Foss High School)
             
    
Publications , etc

Papers
Seago, A.E. and S. W. Lingafelter, 2003. Discovery of Crepidodera bella Parry 
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticini) in Maryland and redescription. 
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 111(1): 51-56.

Seago, Ainsley E. and Q. D. Wheeler, 2004.
Two New Species of Aglyptinus Cockerell with Unusual Sexually Dimorphic Antennae and Diffraction Gratings (Coleoptera: Leiodidae)
The Coleopterists Bulletin 2004 58: 235-244

Seago, A. E. Morphological Study of Chiliopelates crenulatus (Hlisnikovsky) with implications
 for systematics of Agyrtodini. Honors thesis, Cornell University. 50pp.
 (also presented as seminar talk, May 2003)

 Keys/manuals:
  Culicidae of Upstate New York, a streamlined key synthesized from several publications and with new illustrations
 of diagnostic characters, for use in Harrington lab summer 2002.

Illustration of gyrinid thoracic musculature, fig. 8.8 in Bryan Danforth's Insect Morphology (Ent 322) lab manual


 Illustrations: 

Illustrations of anole skeletal morphology  
(in Brandley, M.C., and K. de Queiroz. 2004. Phylogeny,
 ecomorphological evolution, and historical biogeography of the Anolis cristatellus series. 
Herpetological Monographs 18:90-126.)

Illustrations of carabid habitus and leg morphology 
 (in Will, K. 2004. A remarkable new species of Trirammatus Chaudoir 
(Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini) from the Valdivian Forest of Chile. 
Zootaxa 758: 1-9.