Ruth E. Timme
The University of
Texas at Austin Plant
Biology
Ph.D. 2006
San Francisco State
University Biology
(Ecology and Systematics) M.A. 2001
San Francisco State
University Biology
(Botany) cum laude. B.S. 1999
2009 – current Pre-award
grant coordinator,. University of Maryland – College Park.
2006 – current Research
Associate. University of Maryland – College Park.
2004 – 2006 Graduate
Research Assistant and Laboratory Manager, UT at Austin..
2004 Internship
- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA.
2001 – 2002 TeacherÕs
Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin.
1999 – 2001 TeacherÕs
Assistant - San Francisco State University.
2000 Lecturer
- World of Plants, San Francisco State University.
Timme, RE and CF Delwiche. In
review. Uncovering the evolutionary
origin of plant molecular processes: comparison of Coleochaete (Coleochaetales) and Spirogyra (Zygnematales) transcriptomes. BMC Plant Biology.
Handy, SM, TR Bachvaroff, RE Timme, DW Coats, S Kim, CF Delwiche. 2009. Phylogeny of the Dinophysiaceae
(Dinophyceae, Dinophysiales) Based on rDNA Genes. Journal of Phycology.
Timme, RE, BB Simpson, CR Linder. 2007. High
Phylogenetic Resolution for Helianthus (Asteraceae) using the 18s-26s
Ribosomal DNA External Transcribed Spacer. American Journal of Botany 94(11): 1837-1852.
Timme, RE,
J Kuehl, J Boore, R Jansen. 2007. A comparative analysis of the Lactuca
and Helianthus (ASTERACEAE) plastid genomes: identification of divergent
regions and categorization of shared repeats. American Journal of Botany 94(3): 302-312.
W Xu, WJ Briggs, J
Padolina, RE Timme, W Liu, CR
Linder, DP Miranker. 2004. Using MoBIoSÕ scalable genome joins to find
conserved Primer Pair Candidates between two genomes. Bioinformatics 20:i355-i362.
Moret, BME, L Nakhleh,
T Warnow, CR Linder, A Tholse, A Padolina, J Sun, R Timme. 2004.
Phylogenetic Networks: Modeling, Reconstructibility, and Accuracy, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational
Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB) 1(1):13-23.
Participant in the NSF
funded WEBS Symposium. October 2008.
Training and mentoring
undergraduate students in molecular lab techniques, 2002-current.
Contributor to The
Jepson Manual 2nd Ed. – Revision of the genus Polemonium (Polemoniaceae).
Active participant in
CIPRES (Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research) group, funded by NSF.
International Phycological Congress. 2009.
Invited symposium talk.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 2009
(Guest lecturer for Evolution course).
University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 2009
(Two guest lectures for Intro. to Horticulture).
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
2007 (Department seminar).
George Mason University, VA. 2007 (Guest
lecturer for Plant Taxonomy).
Rice University, Houston, TX. 2006 (Department
Seminary).
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont
Graduate School, Claremont, CA. 2005 (Dept. Seminar).
Timme, Ruth and
Charles F. Delwiche. 2009. Evolution Meetings, Moscow, Idaho. "EST survey
of the Charophytes: Evolutionary origin of plant processes.Ó (Presentation)
Timme, Ruth and
Charles F. Delwiche. 2009. Plant and Animal Genome Meeting, San Diego, CA.
"EST survey of the Charophytes: Evolutionary origin of plant processes.Ó
(Poster)
Timme, Ruth and
Charles F. Delwiche. 2008. Botany Meetings, Vancouver, BC, Canada. "EST
survey of the Charophytes." (Poster)
Timme, Ruth E.,
Jennifer V. Kuehl, Jeffrey L. Boore, and Robert K. Jansen. 2005. Botany
Meetings, Austin, TX. "The first sequenced chloroplast genomes in the
Asteraceae: a comparison of sunflower and lettuce." (Poster)
Timme, Ruth E., 2005.
Evolution Meetings, UAF, Alaksa. Undergraduate Symposium "IGERT:
Computational phylogenetics and applications to biology." (presentation)
Timme, Ruth E., Anneke
Padolina, Weijia Xu, Willard Briggs, Rui Mao, Kai Yan, Danial P. Miranker,
Randy Linder. 2005. Evolution Meetings, UAF, Alaska. "Identification of
new nuclear DNA markers for phylogenetic reconstruction in angiosperms."
(presentation)
Timme, Ruth E., Beryl
Simpson, Randy Linder. 2004. Botany Meetings, Snowbird, Utah. ÒBetter
Phylogenetic Resolution in Helianthus
(Asteraceae).Ó (poster)
Timme, Ruth E.,
Willard Briggs, Wenguo Liu, Dan Miranker, Anneke Padolina, Weijia Xu, Randy
Linder. Evolution Meetings, Fort Collins, CO. 2004. ÒIdentification of nuclear
DNA markers for phylogenetic reconstruction in angiosperms.Ó (presentation)
Research Excellence Award in Organismal Plant
Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
Continuing Tuition Fellowship, Plant Biology
Department, UT Austin, 2005 - 2006.
Philanthropic Educational
Organization (P.E.O.) Scholar Award, 2005.
Dissertation
Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 2004.
IGERT Fellowship in
Computational Phylogenetics, National Science Foundation, 2003.
IGERT Fellowship in
Computational Phylogenetics, National Science Foundation, 2002.
College of Natural
Sciences Dean's Excellence Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2001.
Research Grant,
California Native Plant Society Bristlecone Chapter, 2000.
Research Grant,
California Native Plant Society East Bay Chapter, 2000.
University Academic
Scholarship, San Francisco State University, 2000.