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Anne D. Yoder (Lead Section Rough Draft)

Anne Daphne Yoder (born 1960) is an American biologist, researcher, and professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Yoder's works includes the study, preservation, and conservation of the multifarious biodiversity found in Madagascar. One of her main research topics focuses on the diverse lemur population found on the island. Specifically, Yoder's research concentrates on assorted geographic factors that lead to varying levels of biological differences in the speciation process. Her investigations utilize genome research to further understand the complex and unique degree of speciation that occurs in lemur populations.

Biography

Anne Yoder is the daughter of Edwin and Mary Jane Yoder. She married Robert Charles Blankenship on July 25, 1992.

Education and Career

Yoder received her B.A. in zoology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 1981. She went on to recieve her Ph.D. in biology from Duke University in 1992. In 2005, Yoder became a professor of biology in the Trinity College of Arts and Science at Duke University. In 2006, Yoder went on to become the director of the Duke Lemur Center, a facility Yoder often cites as the inspiration and advent of her career in the zoological and ecological sciences. Later, in 2011, she joined DuPRI's Center for Population Health & Aging as a faculty research scholar. That same year, she also became a faculty network member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. Most recently, in 2014, Yoder became an affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society.

Research

Yoder's works centers a diverse selection of research topics including environmental studies, speciaition, biological evolution, phylogenetics, and phylogeography. She has published and co-published over one hundred research papers since 1992 in various scientific and academic journals including, Molecular Ecology, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Primatology, and American Journal of Physical Anthropology.^[1] In addition to her published papers, Yoder maintains her own website, The Yoder Lab, that includes updates concerning her continued research. From her website, Yoder has written that her research statement consists of "Integrative Evolutionary Genetics in the Service of Conserving Biodiversity."^[4]

Awards

• 2009 Collaborative Research: Testing the role of historical geology and rivers for shaping the distribution of land vertebrate biodiversity in western Madagascar, National Science Foundation - Environmental Biology
• 2009 Continued Support of the Duke University Primate Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History., National Science Foundation – Division of Biological Infrastructure:
• 2009 Lemur disease ecology: Linkinghealth, ecosystem viability and conservation in Madagascar (with Meredith Barrett), National Science Foundation – Graduate Research Fellowship
• 2009 Linking Wildlife Health, Ecosystem Viability, Genetic Diversity, and Conservation in Madagascar. with Meredith Barrett), aint Louis Zoo Field Research for Conservation Program – Lemur Disease Ecology
• 2009 REU Supplement for Collaborative Research: Testing the Role of Historical Geology and Rivers for Shaping the Distribution of Land Vertebrate Biodiversity in Western Madagascar, National Science Foundation - Environmental Biology
• 2009 U.S.-Mauritius Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Project: Baker's Rule and Mating System Evolution in Madagascan CoffeaRubiaceae). (with Mike Nowak), National Science Foundation – International Programs
• 2009 Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Integrating species distribution models, Geographic Information Systems and coalescent phylogenetic methods into phylogeography studies. (with Jason Br, National Science Foundation – Division of Biological Infrastructure:
• 2009 Expanding Research Facilities at the Duke Lemur Center - RFA-RR-09-008 Recovery Act Limited Competition: Extramural Facilities Improvement Program. (co- PI with Peter Lange), National Institutes of Health
• 2006 Catalysis Meeting Award, “Patterns of Biodiversity in Madagascar” (with C. Kremen), National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent
• 2006 The Neurobiology of Sleep and Hibernationwith P. Klopfer and A. Krystal), Duke Provost’s Fund
• 2005 A high-throughput DNA analyzer for comparative population genomics., National Science Foundation – Division of Biological Infrastructure

Anne D. Yoder

Planned Contributions:

I have decided to do my research project over the biologist Anne Daphne Yoder. Currently, no article exists over this scientist, so this will be a great oppurtunity to start from scratch and to add all the foundational material for an article. Yoder has published close to a hundred articles during her career, won multiple awards, and contributed chapters to several biological books. Much of her research centers around the ecology of Madagscar. Based on my research thus far, it seems I will have easy time mapping her career and scientific contributions, but finding biographical information such as DOB and where Yoder grew up may be more difficult.

Since no article exists for Yoder, I have compiled a list of additions I want to contribute to her article during the course of this project.

-      Biography: Life and Career

-      Selected Publications

-      Photo of the Scientist

-      Date of birth

-      Nationality

-      Occupation

-      Years Active

-      Employer

-      Known for

-      Awards and as I continue to research Yoder I am sure other aspects will be added as well. My plan is to also research what other topics FA on Wikipedia include. Honors

-      Memberships

Bibliography

Duke University Professor of Biology Overview for inclusion in Research and Career: https://biology.duke.edu/people/anne-daphne-yoder

The Yoder Lab for inclusion in Research: http://testing.komplekscreative.com/yoderlab/cms/

New York Times Article about Yoder's marriage in 1992 for biographical information: http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/26/style/weddings-anne-d-yoder-r-c-blankenship.html

Short Biography from Duke Today: https://today.duke.edu/2006/04/biography-duke-lemur-center-director-anne-d-yoder

Lemur Research - https://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112566&org=NSF