Curriculum
vitae
Ruth E. Timme, PhD
Dept. of Cell Biology and Molecular
Genetics
University of Maryland - College Park
2107 Bioscience Research Building
College Park, MD 20742
retimme AT umd DOT edu
Postdoctoral Research Associate. Current,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
PhD, Plant Biology. 2006, University of Texas at
Austin, Austin, TX.
MA, Biology (Ecology and Systematics). 2001, San
Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
BS, Biology (Botany) cum laude. 1999, San Francisco
State University, San Francisco, CA.
Research
Associate. University of Maryland. 2006 - current.
Graduate
Research Assistant and Laboratory Manager. UT at Austin. 2004 - 2006.
Teacher's Assistant - Survey of the Plant
Kingdom, University of Texas at Austin. 2002.
Teacher's
Assistant - Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates, University of Texas at
Austin. 2001.
Internship
- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA. 2004.
Graduate
Research Assistant - University of Texas at Austin.
Teacher's Assistant - Introduction to Biology,
San Francisco State University. 2000 - 2001.
Lecturer
- World of Plants, San Francisco State University. 2000.
Teacher's Assistant - World of Plants, San
Francisco State University. 1999 - 2000.
Teacher's
Assistant - Mycology, San Francisco State University. 1999.
Teacher's Assistant - Plant Taxonomy. San
Francisco State University. Spring 1999, 2000, 2001.
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.
Served as graduate student representative to the
Integrative Biology faculty. UT at
Austin. 2004.
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 MoBIoS_ scalable genome joins to find conserved
Primer Pair Candidates between two genomes. Bioinformatics 20:i355-i362.
BE Moret, CR Linder, L Nakhleh, JM Padolina, J
Sun, A Tholse, T Warnow, R Timme. An error metric for phylogenetic
networks. 2004. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
1:13-23.
CR Linder, BME Moret, L Nakhleh, J Padolina, J
Sun, A Tholse, R Timme, and T Warnow. 2003. Phylogenetic networks:
generation, comparison, and reconstruction. Technical Report TR-CS-2003-26,
University of New Mexico, 2003
Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. October 2007 (Department seminar).
George
Mason University, VA. July 2007 (Guest lecturer).
Rice
University, Houston, TX. October 2006 (Department seminar).
Rancho
Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA. April 2005 (Department
Seminar).
Conference Participation
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. Better Phylogenetic Resolution in Helianthus (Asteraceae). (poster)
Timme, Ruth E., Willard Briggs, Wenguo Liu, Dan
Miranker, Anneke Padolina, Weijia Xu, Randy Linder. Evolution Meetings, Fort
Collins, CO. 2004. Identification of nuclear DNA markers for phylogenetic
reconstruction in angiosperms. (presentation)
Timme, Ruth E., Tandy Warnow, Beryl Simpson, and
Randy Linder. 2003. Evolution Meetings, Chico, CA. Better Resolution in Helianthus (Asteraceae) using ETS
markers. (presentation)
Timme, Ruth E. 2001. Botany Meetings,
Albuquerque, NM. "The Molecular Phylogeny of the Genus Polemonium." (presentation)
Timme, Ruth E., R. Patterson. 2001. California
Botanical Conference. "The Molecular Phylogeny of the Genus Polemonium
(Polemoniaceae).
(presentation)
Research
Excellence Award in Organismal Plant Biology, University of Texas at Austin,
2006.
David
Bruton, Jr. Fellowship, Graduate Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2005
Continuing
Tuition Fellowship, Plant Biology Department, UT Austin, 2005 - 2006.
Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.)
Scholar Award, 2005.
Plant Biology Department Travel Award,
University of Texas at Austin, 2005.
David Bruton, Jr. Fellowship, Graduate Studies,
University of Texas at Austin, 2004.
Plant
Biology Department Travel Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2004.
Dissertation
Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 2004.
Plant Biology Department Travel Award, 2003.
IGERT Fellowship in Computational Phylogenetics,
National Science Foundation, 2003.
IGERT Fellowship in Computational Phylogenetics,
National Science Foundation, 2002.
Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics Tuition
and Travel Scholarship, North Carolina State University, 2002.
College of Natural Sciences Dean's Excellence
Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2001.
Nelson Fellowship, San Francisco State
University, 2000.
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.
Society Membership
American
Society of Plant Taxonomists
Botanical
Society of America