Contact

Suzanne Estes

Department of Biology, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR, 97207-0751

E-mail: estess@pdx.edu     Phone: 503.725.8782     Fax: 503.725.3888

 

Employment

Assistant professor, Portland State University, 2005 - present

Postdoctoral fellow, Oregon State University, 2002 - 2005

Graduate teaching assistant, University of Oregon, 1997 - 2002

Laboratory assistant, Kerr Environmental Research Center, USEPA, 1993 - 1997

 

Press

Professional profile in Minority Scientist Network (Science Careers), 2007 link

Publication from postdoctoral work subject of Nature News and Views report, "The Elvis Paradox" 2007 link

Publication from PhD work subject of Nature News and Views report, "Compensation Claim" 2003 link

 

Funding

NSF, DEB-0743871, Evolutionary Paths of Compensatory Mutation in Genetic Networks, with Dee Denver, Zoology, OSU

PSU ORSP Faculty Enhancement Grant, The Influence of Genetic Network Organization on Compensatory Adaptive Evolution, 2007-2008

NSF, DEB-0724649, Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplement, 2007

NSF, DEB-0625211, Research Starter Grant: The Genetic Mechanisms of Compensatory Evolution, 2006-2007

PSU ORSP Professional Travel Grant, 2006

NSF, DBI-0208328, Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002-2005

NIH Graduate Traineeship in Genetics, 2002

Gates Millennium Fellowship, 2002 (declined)

NIH Graduate Traineeship in Genetic Mechanisms of Evolution, 1997-2002

Chickasaw Nation Higher Education Grant, 1993-2002

ECU Foundation Scholarship, 1993-1997

ECU Presidential Scholarship, 1993-1997

GTE Jump Start Scholarship, 1993-1995

 

Professional Memberships

American Indian Science and Engineering Society

Genetics Society of America

Society for the Study of Evolution

 

 

Publications

 

 

 

Presentations

Estes, S. and P. C. Phillips. Variation in pleiotropy and the mutational underpinnings of the G-matrix, Society for the Study of Evolution meeting, Stony Brook, NY, 2006.

Estes, S. Spectrum of deleterious and compensatory mutations. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 2005.

Estes, S. Properties of deleterious and compensatory mutations. Mississippi State Univ., Starkville, MS, 2005.

Estes, S. Properties and evolutionary implications of mutation. Portland State Univ., Portland, OR, 2005.

Estes, S. Evolutionary implications of mutational properties in C. elegans. Biological Sciences Department Seminar, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, CA, 2004.

Estes, S., M. Lynch, and P. C. Phillips. Effect of population size on fitness correlates in C. elegans: Implications for the distribution of mutational effects. Society for the Study of Evolution meeting, Chico, CA, 2003.

Estes, S. Properties of spontaneous and induced mutations in C. elegans. Department of Zoology Seminar Series, OSU, Corvallis, OR, 2003.

Ajie, B. A., S. Estes, M. Lynch and P. C. Phillips. Effect of spontaneous mutation on behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans. Animal Behavior Society meeting, Corvallis, OR, 2001.

Estes, S. and M. Lynch. Rapid fitness recovery in mutationally degraded lines of Caenorhabditis elegans. Society for the Study of Evolution meeting, Bloomington, IN, 2000.

Service Activities

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2007 − present

Career shadowing with Canby High School students, Spring 2007 – present

Biology TA training event coordinator (Biology, PSU), Fall 2007, 2008

Undergraduate advisor for General Biology track, Fall 2006 – 2007

Served on faculty panel for Freshman Diversity Recognition Scholarship success class, Fall 2006, 2007

Reviewer for Diversity Recognition Scholarship, Winter 2006, 2008

Discovery Days (public outreach) volunteer (OSU), 2004

Session Chair, Society for the Study of Evolution meeting, Colorado State Univ., 2004

Served as manuscript referee for: Animal Behavior, Conservation Biology, Evolution,  Genetica, Genetics, The American Naturalist, PLoS