William W. Driscoll
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
wwdrisco@email.arizona.edu
Education
B.S. Geology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 2005
Ph.D. EEB, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 2012 (expected)
Employment and education history
Aug 2011-present: Trainee, Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Biomedical Systems (NIH), Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
Jan 2010-Dec 2011: Graduate research assistant, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
July 2006-August 2006: Student, Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
Aug 2006-May 2011: Teaching assistant, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
January 2006-May 2006: Teacher, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China.
Aug 2004-May 2005: Teaching assistant, Geology Department, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.
June 2003-Aug 2004: Research assistant, Geology Department, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.
January 2003-May 2003: Student, International Environment and Development Program, American University, Washington, D. C.
May 1999-Aug 2003: Research assistant, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development center, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio.
Peer-reviewed publications
Driscoll, W. W., Pepper, J. W., Pierson, L. S., and Pierson, E. A. (2011) “Gac mutants in Pseudomonas chlororaphis biofilms: social parasite or mutualist?” Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77.
Driscoll, W. W. and Pepper, J. W. 2010. “Theory for the evolution of diffusible public goods traits.” Evolution, 64: 2682-2687.
Nedelcu, A., Driscoll, W. W., Durand, P., Herron, M., Rashidi, A., and Shelton, D. 2010. “On the paradigm of altruistic suicide in the unicellular world.” Evolution, 65: 3-20.
Driscoll, W. W., Wiles, G. C., D’Arrigo, R. D., and Wilmking, M. (2005) “Divergent tree growth response to recent climatic warming, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska.” Geophysical Research Letters, 32: L20703.
Presentations
Driscoll, W. W. and Hackett, J. (2011) “Multilevel selection and adaptive hypotheses for toxin production in microalgae.” Presentation at the Phycological Society of America 2011 National Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.
Driscoll, W. W., Pierson, L. S., and Pierson, E. A. (2011) “Public goods-mediated mutualism between global regulatory variants in Pseudomonas chlororaphis biofilms.” Presentation at the Society for the Study of Evolution 2011 National Meeting, Norman, OK, USA.
Driscoll, W. W., Pierson, L. S., and Pierson, E. A. (2011) “Spontaneous Gac mutants in Pseudomonas biological control strains: Are they cheaters or mutualists?” Presentation at the American Phytopathological Society 2011 National Meeting, Honolulu, HI, USA.
Patrick, L. D., Gregoire, P., Buzzard, V. R., Driscoll, W. W., Stark, S. C., Stegen, J. C., Kerkhoff, A., Price, C. A., Lamanna, C. A., Wiede, A. L., Savage, V. M., and Enquist, B. J. (2009) “Empirical evaluation of branching architecture patterns in “non-allometrically idealized” trees.” Poster presented at the Ecological Society of America 2009 National Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Driscoll, W. W. and Wiles, G. C. (2004) “A new dendroclimatic tree ring network from Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska.” Poster presented at Geological Society of America 2004 National Meeting, Denver, CO, USA.
Awards and Honors
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 2010. “Structured groups and the evolution of cooperation in pathogenic biofilms.”
Honors, Independent Study Thesis, The College of Wooster, 2004.
Leadership and professional service
Arizona Assurance Mentor, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 2009-2011.
Graduate Student Representative, EEB, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 2009-2010.
Organizer, prospective student week, EEB, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 2010.
Undergraduate Biology Research poster session judge, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 2010-2011.