Below is an abbreviated CV. My full CV is available here.
Curriculum Vitae
Martha Monica Muñoz
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Martha Monica Muñoz
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Appointments
2019—present Assistant Professor; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
2017—2019 Assistant Professor; Department of Biological Sciences; Virginia Tech
2015—2017 Post-doctoral Researcher; Department of Biology; Duke University
2014—2015 Post-doctoral Researcher; Research School of Biology; The Australian National University
2007—2008 Fulbright Research Scholar; National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain
Education
2008—2014 Ph.D. Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Advisor: Jonathan Losos
2003—2007 B. A. Biology (with Distinction), Boston University
summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
Fellowships, Honors, and Awards
2019 ‘Scientist to Watch’, The Scientist Magazine, November 2019 Issue (upcoming)
2019 Boston University Department of Biology: Distinguished Alumni ‘Rising Star’ Award
2017 Young Investigator Award, American Society of Naturalists
2017 Foerster-Bernstein Postdoctoral Fellowship, Duke University (declined)
2014 National Science Foundation, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (declined)
2014 Raymond Huey Best Student Talk, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
2013 John Parker Merit Fellowship, Harvard University
2012 Robert A. Chapman Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University
2010 National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship
2008 Herchel Smith Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University
2007 William J. Fulbright Research Fellowship (Spain)
2006 Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Boston University (early induction)
2006 College of Arts and Sciences Merit Award, Boston University
2006 Harold C. Case Award, Boston University
2003 National Hispanic Merit Scholar
Funded Grants:
2018 National Science Foundation, Rules of Life:FELS Conference Grant, $21,868 (PI)
2018 Global Change Center Seed Grant, Virginia Tech, $19,810 (co-PI)
2012 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $14,999
2012 Sigma Xi Grant-In-Aid, $500
2012 Ken B. Miyata Expedition Grant, Harvard University, $9,100
2012 DavidRockefellerCenterforLatinAmericanStudiesGrant, Harvard, $1,500
2010 George PutnamExpeditionGrant,HarvardUniversity, $9,700
2008 Ken B. Miyata Expedition Grant, Harvard University, $5,260
2006 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Grant, Boston University, $3,500
Publications
27. Bodensteiner BL, Agudelo-Cantero GA, Arietta AZA, Gunderson AR, Muñoz MM, Refsnider JF, Gangloff EJ. Thermal adaptation revisited: how conserved are thermal traits of reptiles of amphibians? Journal of Experimental Zoology A (in review)
26. Domínguez-Guerrero SF, Bodensteiner BL, Pardo-Ramírez A, Aguillón-Gutierrez DR, Méndez-de la Cruz FR, Muñoz MM. Thermal physiology responds to interannual temperature shifts in a montane horned lizard, Phrynosoma orbiculare. Journal of Experimental Zoology A (in review)
25. Camarillo H, Muñoz MM. Weak relationships between swimming morphology and water depth in wrasses belie multiple selective demands on form-function evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology (in review)
24. Farallo VR, Muñoz MM, Uyeda JC, Miles DB. Scaling between macro- to microscale climatic data reveals strong phylogenetic inertia in niche evolution in plethodontid salamanders. Evolution (in press)
23. Muñoz MM, Price SA. The future is bright for evolutionary morphology and biomechanics in the era of big data. Integrative and Comparative Biology 59:icz121.
22. Muñoz MM. The evolutionary dynamics of complex mechanical systems. Integrative and Comparative Biology 59:icz077.
21. Salazar JC, Castañeda MR, Londoño GA, Bodensteiner BL, Muñoz MM. 2019. Physiological evolution during adaptive radiation: A test of the island effect in Anolis lizards. Evolution 73:1241-1252.
20. Dominguez-Guerrero S, Muñoz MM, Pasten-Tellez D, Arenas-Moreno D, Rodrigues-Miranda L, Manriquez-Moran N, Mendez de la Cruz F. 2019. Behavior constrains physiological plasticity of a wild lizard population. Journal of Thermal Biology 79:135-143.
19. Muñoz MM, Bodensteiner BL. Janzen’s hypothesis meets the Bogert effect: Connecting climatic variation, thermoregulatory behavior, and rates of physiological evolution. Integrative Organismal Biology 1:oby002 (Invited contribution for inaugural issue)
18. Kuo C-Y, Muñoz MM, Irschick DJ. 2019. Lizard foraging: A perspective integrating sensory ecology and life histories. Pp. 87-106 In Behavior of Lizards: Evolutionary and Mechanistic Perspectives (VL Bels & AP Russell, Eds.) Taylor and Francis Publishing; Abingdon, UK.
17. Muñoz MM, Hu Y, Anderson PSL, Patek SN. 2018. Strong mechanical relationships bias the tempo and mode of morphological evolution. eLife 7:e37621.
16. Boronow KE, Shields IH, Muñoz MM. 2018. Parallel behavioral divergence with microhabitat in Anolis (Squamata: Dactyloidae) lizards from the Dominican Republic. Breviora 561:1-17.
15. Muñoz MM, Losos JB. 2018. Thermoregulation simultaneously promotes and forestalls evolution in a tropical lizard. American Naturalist 191: E15-E26.
14. Muñoz MM, Anderson PSL, Patek SN. 2017. Mechanical sensitivity and the dynamics of evolutionary rate shifts in biomechanical systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 284:20162325.
13. Muñoz MM, Langham GM, Brandley MC, Rosauer D, Williams SE, Moritz C. 2016. Basking behavior predicts the evolution of heat tolerance in Australian rainforest lizards. Evolution 70:2537–2549.
12. Muñoz MM, Moritz C. 2016. Adaptation to a changing world: Evolutionary resilience to climate change. In: How Evolution Shapes Our Lives: Essays on Biology and Society. (JB Losos & RE Lenski, Eds.) Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
11. Phillips BL, Muñoz MM, Hatcher A, Macdonald S, Llewelyn J, Lucy V, Moritz C. 2016. Heat hardening in a tropical lizard: geographic variation explained by the predictability and variance in environmental temperatures. Functional Ecology 30:1161–1168.
10. Conover AE, Cook EG, Boronow KE, Muñoz MM. 2015. Effects of ectoparasitism on behavioral thermoregulation in the tropical lizards, Anolis cybotes (Squamata: Dactyloidae) and A. armouri (Squamata: Dactyloidae). Breviora 545:1-13.
9. Muñoz MM, Crandell KE, Campbell-Staton S, Fenstermacher K, Kim-Frank H, Van Middlesworth P, Sasa M, Losos JB, Herrel A. 2015. Multiple paths to aquatic specialization in four species of Central American aquatic Anolis lizards. Journal of Natural History 49:1717—1730.
8. Muñoz MM. 2015. The London Baedeker for the Darwin enthusiast. Evolution: Education and Outreach 8:1
7. Muñoz MM, Wegener JE, Algar AC. Untangling intra- and interspecific effects on body size clines reveals divergent processes structuring convergent patterns in Anolis lizards. American Naturalist 184:636—646.
6. Muñoz MM, Stimola MA, Algar AC, Conover A, Rodriguez A, Landestoy MA, Bakken GS, Losos JB. 2014. Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 281:20132433.
5. Muñoz MM, Crawford NG, McGreevy TJ, Messana NJ, Tarvin RD, Revell LJ, Zandvliet RM, Hopwood JM, Mock E, Schneider AL, Schneider CJ. 2013. Divergence in coloration and ecological speciation in the Anolis marmoratus species complex. Molecular Ecology 22:2668—2682.
4. Muñoz MM, Hewlett J. 2011. Ecological consequences of continual volcanic activity on the lizard, Anolis lividus, from Montserrat. Herpetological Review 42:160—165.
3. Yamaguchi A, Muñoz MM, Bose TO, Oberlander JG, Smith, S. 2010. Sexually distinct development of vocal pathways in Xenopus laevis. Developmental Neurobiology 70:862—874.
2. Crandall ED, Jones EM, Muñoz MM, Akinronbi B, Erdmann MV, Barber PH. 2008. Comparative phylogeography of two seastars and their ectosymbionts within the Coral Triangle. Molecular Ecology 17:5276—5290.
1. Reitzel AM, Sullivan JC, Brown BK, Chin, DW, Cira EK, Edquist SK, Genco BM, Joseph OC, Kaufman CA, Kovitvongsa K, Muñoz MM, Negri TL, Taffel JR, Zuehike RT, Finnerty JR. 2007. Ecological and developmental dynamics of a host-parasite system involving a sea anemone and two ctenophores. Journal of Parasitology 93:1392—1402.
Professional Reviewing
Journals: American Naturalist, Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Breviora, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Ecography, Ecology Letters, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Functional Ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Herpetologica, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Integrative Organismal Biology, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Herpetology, Journal of Morphology, Journal of Thermal Biology, Molecular Ecology, Nature Communications, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Oecologia, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Zoology
Ad Hoc Reviews and Panels: National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation
Society Service
2019—2021 Secretary, Division of Ecology & Evolution; SICB
2017—2020 Public Affairs Committee; SICB
2017 Huey Award Committee Chair; Division of Ecology and Evolution; SICB
2016 Huey Award Committee; Division of Ecology and Evolution; SICB
2019—present Assistant Professor; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
2017—2019 Assistant Professor; Department of Biological Sciences; Virginia Tech
2015—2017 Post-doctoral Researcher; Department of Biology; Duke University
2014—2015 Post-doctoral Researcher; Research School of Biology; The Australian National University
2007—2008 Fulbright Research Scholar; National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain
Education
2008—2014 Ph.D. Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Advisor: Jonathan Losos
2003—2007 B. A. Biology (with Distinction), Boston University
summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
Fellowships, Honors, and Awards
2019 ‘Scientist to Watch’, The Scientist Magazine, November 2019 Issue (upcoming)
2019 Boston University Department of Biology: Distinguished Alumni ‘Rising Star’ Award
2017 Young Investigator Award, American Society of Naturalists
2017 Foerster-Bernstein Postdoctoral Fellowship, Duke University (declined)
2014 National Science Foundation, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (declined)
2014 Raymond Huey Best Student Talk, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
2013 John Parker Merit Fellowship, Harvard University
2012 Robert A. Chapman Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University
2010 National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship
2008 Herchel Smith Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University
2007 William J. Fulbright Research Fellowship (Spain)
2006 Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Boston University (early induction)
2006 College of Arts and Sciences Merit Award, Boston University
2006 Harold C. Case Award, Boston University
2003 National Hispanic Merit Scholar
Funded Grants:
2018 National Science Foundation, Rules of Life:FELS Conference Grant, $21,868 (PI)
2018 Global Change Center Seed Grant, Virginia Tech, $19,810 (co-PI)
2012 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $14,999
2012 Sigma Xi Grant-In-Aid, $500
2012 Ken B. Miyata Expedition Grant, Harvard University, $9,100
2012 DavidRockefellerCenterforLatinAmericanStudiesGrant, Harvard, $1,500
2010 George PutnamExpeditionGrant,HarvardUniversity, $9,700
2008 Ken B. Miyata Expedition Grant, Harvard University, $5,260
2006 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Grant, Boston University, $3,500
Publications
27. Bodensteiner BL, Agudelo-Cantero GA, Arietta AZA, Gunderson AR, Muñoz MM, Refsnider JF, Gangloff EJ. Thermal adaptation revisited: how conserved are thermal traits of reptiles of amphibians? Journal of Experimental Zoology A (in review)
26. Domínguez-Guerrero SF, Bodensteiner BL, Pardo-Ramírez A, Aguillón-Gutierrez DR, Méndez-de la Cruz FR, Muñoz MM. Thermal physiology responds to interannual temperature shifts in a montane horned lizard, Phrynosoma orbiculare. Journal of Experimental Zoology A (in review)
25. Camarillo H, Muñoz MM. Weak relationships between swimming morphology and water depth in wrasses belie multiple selective demands on form-function evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology (in review)
24. Farallo VR, Muñoz MM, Uyeda JC, Miles DB. Scaling between macro- to microscale climatic data reveals strong phylogenetic inertia in niche evolution in plethodontid salamanders. Evolution (in press)
23. Muñoz MM, Price SA. The future is bright for evolutionary morphology and biomechanics in the era of big data. Integrative and Comparative Biology 59:icz121.
22. Muñoz MM. The evolutionary dynamics of complex mechanical systems. Integrative and Comparative Biology 59:icz077.
21. Salazar JC, Castañeda MR, Londoño GA, Bodensteiner BL, Muñoz MM. 2019. Physiological evolution during adaptive radiation: A test of the island effect in Anolis lizards. Evolution 73:1241-1252.
20. Dominguez-Guerrero S, Muñoz MM, Pasten-Tellez D, Arenas-Moreno D, Rodrigues-Miranda L, Manriquez-Moran N, Mendez de la Cruz F. 2019. Behavior constrains physiological plasticity of a wild lizard population. Journal of Thermal Biology 79:135-143.
19. Muñoz MM, Bodensteiner BL. Janzen’s hypothesis meets the Bogert effect: Connecting climatic variation, thermoregulatory behavior, and rates of physiological evolution. Integrative Organismal Biology 1:oby002 (Invited contribution for inaugural issue)
18. Kuo C-Y, Muñoz MM, Irschick DJ. 2019. Lizard foraging: A perspective integrating sensory ecology and life histories. Pp. 87-106 In Behavior of Lizards: Evolutionary and Mechanistic Perspectives (VL Bels & AP Russell, Eds.) Taylor and Francis Publishing; Abingdon, UK.
17. Muñoz MM, Hu Y, Anderson PSL, Patek SN. 2018. Strong mechanical relationships bias the tempo and mode of morphological evolution. eLife 7:e37621.
16. Boronow KE, Shields IH, Muñoz MM. 2018. Parallel behavioral divergence with microhabitat in Anolis (Squamata: Dactyloidae) lizards from the Dominican Republic. Breviora 561:1-17.
15. Muñoz MM, Losos JB. 2018. Thermoregulation simultaneously promotes and forestalls evolution in a tropical lizard. American Naturalist 191: E15-E26.
14. Muñoz MM, Anderson PSL, Patek SN. 2017. Mechanical sensitivity and the dynamics of evolutionary rate shifts in biomechanical systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 284:20162325.
13. Muñoz MM, Langham GM, Brandley MC, Rosauer D, Williams SE, Moritz C. 2016. Basking behavior predicts the evolution of heat tolerance in Australian rainforest lizards. Evolution 70:2537–2549.
12. Muñoz MM, Moritz C. 2016. Adaptation to a changing world: Evolutionary resilience to climate change. In: How Evolution Shapes Our Lives: Essays on Biology and Society. (JB Losos & RE Lenski, Eds.) Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
11. Phillips BL, Muñoz MM, Hatcher A, Macdonald S, Llewelyn J, Lucy V, Moritz C. 2016. Heat hardening in a tropical lizard: geographic variation explained by the predictability and variance in environmental temperatures. Functional Ecology 30:1161–1168.
10. Conover AE, Cook EG, Boronow KE, Muñoz MM. 2015. Effects of ectoparasitism on behavioral thermoregulation in the tropical lizards, Anolis cybotes (Squamata: Dactyloidae) and A. armouri (Squamata: Dactyloidae). Breviora 545:1-13.
9. Muñoz MM, Crandell KE, Campbell-Staton S, Fenstermacher K, Kim-Frank H, Van Middlesworth P, Sasa M, Losos JB, Herrel A. 2015. Multiple paths to aquatic specialization in four species of Central American aquatic Anolis lizards. Journal of Natural History 49:1717—1730.
8. Muñoz MM. 2015. The London Baedeker for the Darwin enthusiast. Evolution: Education and Outreach 8:1
7. Muñoz MM, Wegener JE, Algar AC. Untangling intra- and interspecific effects on body size clines reveals divergent processes structuring convergent patterns in Anolis lizards. American Naturalist 184:636—646.
6. Muñoz MM, Stimola MA, Algar AC, Conover A, Rodriguez A, Landestoy MA, Bakken GS, Losos JB. 2014. Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 281:20132433.
5. Muñoz MM, Crawford NG, McGreevy TJ, Messana NJ, Tarvin RD, Revell LJ, Zandvliet RM, Hopwood JM, Mock E, Schneider AL, Schneider CJ. 2013. Divergence in coloration and ecological speciation in the Anolis marmoratus species complex. Molecular Ecology 22:2668—2682.
4. Muñoz MM, Hewlett J. 2011. Ecological consequences of continual volcanic activity on the lizard, Anolis lividus, from Montserrat. Herpetological Review 42:160—165.
3. Yamaguchi A, Muñoz MM, Bose TO, Oberlander JG, Smith, S. 2010. Sexually distinct development of vocal pathways in Xenopus laevis. Developmental Neurobiology 70:862—874.
2. Crandall ED, Jones EM, Muñoz MM, Akinronbi B, Erdmann MV, Barber PH. 2008. Comparative phylogeography of two seastars and their ectosymbionts within the Coral Triangle. Molecular Ecology 17:5276—5290.
1. Reitzel AM, Sullivan JC, Brown BK, Chin, DW, Cira EK, Edquist SK, Genco BM, Joseph OC, Kaufman CA, Kovitvongsa K, Muñoz MM, Negri TL, Taffel JR, Zuehike RT, Finnerty JR. 2007. Ecological and developmental dynamics of a host-parasite system involving a sea anemone and two ctenophores. Journal of Parasitology 93:1392—1402.
Professional Reviewing
Journals: American Naturalist, Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Breviora, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Ecography, Ecology Letters, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Functional Ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Herpetologica, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Integrative Organismal Biology, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Herpetology, Journal of Morphology, Journal of Thermal Biology, Molecular Ecology, Nature Communications, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Oecologia, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Zoology
Ad Hoc Reviews and Panels: National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation
Society Service
2019—2021 Secretary, Division of Ecology & Evolution; SICB
2017—2020 Public Affairs Committee; SICB
2017 Huey Award Committee Chair; Division of Ecology and Evolution; SICB
2016 Huey Award Committee; Division of Ecology and Evolution; SICB
