Curriculum Vitae
Education¶
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Biochemistry; B.S., 2006
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Cell and Molecular Biology; PhD., Dec 2017
Honors and Awards¶
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Elected to the Software Carpentry Steering Committee (2016 - 17)
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University Graduate Continuing Fellowship, UT Austin (2016 - 17)
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William Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee Award, UT Austin (2017)
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Grant in Aid of Research, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (2016)
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Academic Enrichment Fund Award, UT Austin (2014, 15, 16)
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Honorable mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2013, 14)
Publications¶
ORCiD publication list: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7943-5650
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_bVy9pMAAAAJ&hl=en
Google Scholar statistics as of December 2017: 434 citations; h-index of 8, i10-index of 7
Pre-prints¶
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Harris RM, Kao H-Y, Alarcon JM, Hofmann HA, Fenton AA (2017) Analysis of hippocampal transcriptomic responses to technical and biological perturbations. BioRXiv 153585.
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Devenyi GA, Emonet R, Harris RM, Hertweck KL, Irving D, Milligan I, Wilson G (2017) Ten Simple Rules for Collaborative Lesson Development. arXiv:1707.02662.
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Harris RM, Otopalik AG, Smith C, Bucher D, Golowasch J, Hofmann HA (2017) Single-Neuron Gene Expression Analysis Using the Maxwell 16 LEV System. BioRXiv 107342.
Peer Reviewed Publications¶
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Renn SPC, Machado H, Duftner N, Harris RM, Sessa AK, Hofmann HA. Gene Expression Signatures of Mating System Evolution. Genome. DOI: 10.1139/gen-2017-0075.
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Dijkstra PD, Maguire SM Harris RM, Rodriguez AA, DeAngelis RS Flores SA, Hofmann HA (2017) The melanocortin system regulates body pigmentation and social behaviour in a colour polymorphic cichlid fish. Proc. R. Soc. B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2838.
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Goppert C, Harris RM, Theis A, Boila A, Hohl S, Ruegg A, Hofmann HA, Salzburger WE, Boehne A (2016) Inhibition of aromatase induces partial sex change in a cichlid fish: Distinct functions for sex steroids in brains and gonads. Sex. Dev. 10:97-110.
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Simoes JM, Barata EN, Harris RM, O13Connell LA, Hofmann HA, Oliveira RF (2015) Social odors conveying dominance and reproductive information induce rapid physiological and neuromolecular changes in a cichlid fish. BMC Genomics 16:114.
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Stiver KA, Harris RM, Townsend JP, Hofmann HA, Alonzo SH (2015) Behavioral and physiological examinations of cooperation in Symphodus ocellatus, a species with alternative male reproductive tactics. Ethol. 121:152-167.
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Smith CC, Harris RM, Lampert KP, Schartl M, Hofmann HA,Ryan MJ (2015) Copy number variation in the melanocortin 4 receptor gene and alternative reproductive tactics in swordtail Xiphophorus multilineatus. Environ. Biol. Fishes 98:23-33.
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Brawand et al. (2014) The genomic substrate for adaptive radiation: Genomes of five African cichlid fish. Nature 513: 375-381
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Fischer EK, Harris RM, Hofmann HA, Hoke KL (2014) Predator exposure alters stress physiology in guppies across timescales. Horm. Behav. 65: 165–172.
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Harris RM, Dijkstra PD, Hofmann HA (2014) Complex Structural and Regulatory Evolution of the Pro-opiomelanocortin Gene Family. Gen. Compar. Endocrinol. 195: 107-115.
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Sessa AK, Harris RM, Hofmann HA (2013) Sex Steroid Hormones Modulate Responses to Social Challenge & Opportunity in Males of the Monogamous Convict Cichlid, Amatitliana nigrofasciata. Gen. Compar. Endocrinol. 189: 59–65.
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Oldfield RG, Harris RM, Hendrickson DA, Hofmann HA (2013) Arginine Vasotocin and Prolactin Pathways are Associated with Mating System Variation in North American Cichlid Fishes. Horm. Behav. 64:44-52.
Invited Articles and Reviews¶
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Harris RM, O13Connell LA, Hofmann HA (2016) Brain Evolution, Development, and Plasticity, in The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience (ed S. V. Shepherd), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118316757.ch15
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Oldfield RG, Harris RM, Hofmann HA (2015) Integrating Resource Defence Theory with Nonapeptide Expression to Explain Variation in Territory-based Mating Systems. Front. Zool. 12:S16.
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Harris RM, Hofmann HA (2015) Seeing is believing: Dynamic evolution of opsin genes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112:1252-1253.
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Harris RM, Hofmann HA (2014) Neurogenomics of Behavioral Plasticity. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 781:149-68.
Open Access Educational Materials¶
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Ahmadia A, Allen J, Banaszkiewicz P, Becker E, Bekolay T, Blischak J, Boughton A, Bray E, Cabunoc Mayes A, Crouch S, Davis N, Davis M,Duckles J, Emonet, R; Fortin, FA, Gonzalez I, Hamm C, Hansen M, Harris RM, et al. (2016) Software Carpentry: Instructor Training. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.57571
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Harris RM, Hofmann HA (2014). Laboratory Experiments for the 2014 Integrative Molecular Neuroscience Module. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.60725
Invited and Contributed Talks¶
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The North Door. Nerd Nite Austin Texas. January 10, 2018. Slides
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UT Austin. RNA/DNA Club. December 11, 2017
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UT Austin. Thesis Defense. October 18, 2017. Sides
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Yale University. James Noonan Lab. September 15, 2017
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Yale University. Daniel Colón-Ramos Lab. September 14, 2017
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Marine Biological Laboratories. Neural Systems & Behavior Course. July 24, 2017. Slides
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The University of Texas at Tyler. Biology Department. November 9, 2016
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UT Austin. Brain, Behavior, & Evolution Graduate Seminar. October 2016
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UT Austin. Chips & Dips Graduate Seminar. April, 6, 2016
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Michigan State University. Annual BEACON Congress. August 18, 2015
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UT Austin. Waggoner Center for Alcohol Addiction Seminar. May 20, 2015
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UT Austin. Brain, Behavior, & Evolution Graduate Seminar. April 17, 2015
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Gulbenkian Institute of Science. COPEWELL Workshop on Functional Neuroanatomy of Fish. April 11, 2015. Slides
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UT Austin. 10th Annual Integrative Biology Graduate Student Symposium. April 5, 2014
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St. Edwards University. 3rd Annual Texas Poeciliid Conference. December 14, 2013
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UT Austin. 9th Annual Integrative Biology Graduate Student Symposium. April 20, 2013
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UT Austin. Darwin Day. February 10, 2013.
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University of Bergen. NORDFORSK Behavioural Fish Neuroscience Network Workshop. November 16, 2012.
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University of Bergen. Behavioural Fish Neuroscience Network Conference. November 12, 2012
Scientific Posters¶
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2017 The Moore Foundation Early Career Researcher Symposium. Waikoloa Beach, HI
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2016 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA
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2016 International Congress of Neuroethology. Montevideo, Uruguay
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2016 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting Portland, OR
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2015 Celebration of Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratories. Woods Hole, MA
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2015 Annual Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research Advance. Austin, TX
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2015 National Science Foundation Data Science Workshop. Seattle, WA
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2014 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Washington DC. Poster
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2014 Annual BEACON Congress. Lansing, MI
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2014 Animal Behavior Conference. Bloomington, IN
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2014 Brain Behavior & Evolution Symposium. Austin, TX
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2014 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting. Austin, TX
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2013 Gordon Research Conference in Neuroethology. West Dover, VT
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2013 Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA
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2012 Gordon Research Conference in Genes and Behavior. Galveston, TX
Selected GitHub Repositories¶
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Thesis. The GitHub repository where I build a website for an easy-to-read-on-a-phone version of my thesis.\
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IntegrativeProjectWT2015. My bioinformatic workflow for studying transcriptional plasticity in the mouse hippocampus and its role in avoidance learning.\
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DissociationTest. My bioinformatic workflow for testing the influence of cellular dissocation on hippocampal gene expression in laboratory mice.\
Professional Activities¶
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Peer-reviewer Behavioral Ecology; Gene; Genes, Genomes & Genetics; Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A; Physiology & Behavior; PLOS ONE; Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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Secretary Software Carpentry Steering Committee, 2017-2018
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Member Software Carpentry Steering Committee, 2016-2017
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Poster Judge College of Natural Science Undergraduate Research Forum, 2016, 17
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Coordinator Annual Big Data in Biology Symposia, 2012 - 2017
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Coordinator Summer School for Big Data in Biology, 2014 - 2016
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Co-Chair Complementary Session to Symposium - New Frontiers in the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, January 2016
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Blogger PLOS Neuroscience Community, BEACON: An NSF Center for Evolution in Action, Data Carpentry, and Software Carpentry, Since 2014
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Graduate Representative Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program External Review Committee, October 2014
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Coordinator Transdisciplinary Graduate Student Luncheon, October 2014
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Spanish Translator “Welcome to the World of Mushrooms”, INBio Park, Costa Rica, 2009
Teaching¶
Lesson Development¶
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Instructor Training, Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry
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Reproducible Research with Jupyter Notebooks, Data Carpentry
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Integrative Molecular Neuroethology, Neural Systems & Behavior Course
Lead or Co-Lead Instructor¶
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Instructor Training, Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry (2016 – present)
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Integrative Molecular Neuroethology, Neural Systems & Behavior Course (2013 - present)
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Introduction to Git for Bioinformatics, UT Austin (2017). Slides
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Introduction to Unix and R, for Bioinformatics, UT Austin (2016)
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The UNIX Shell, Software Carpentry (2015)
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Version Control with Git, Software Carpentry (2015)
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Introduction to Spanish, Futura Language Professionals (2008 - 2009)
Teaching Assistant¶
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Biostatistics (SDS 328M), UT Austin (2017)
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Introduction to Core Next-generation Sequencing Tools, UT Austin (2015, 16, 17)
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Problems in Modern Biology (BIO 301E), UT Austin (2013)
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Organic Chemistry Laboratory (CH 210C), UT Austin (2007-2009)
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Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory (CH 118K/L), UT Austin (2007)
Guest Lecturer¶
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Comparative Animal Physiology (BIO 361T), UT Austin (2016)
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Introduction to Biological Statistics, UT Austin (2014)
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Neurobiology of Social Behavior, University of the Republic of Uruguay (2013). Slides
Social Media and Blogs¶
Twitter: Personal @raynamharris, Bioinformatics @texas_cbrs, and Neuroscience @nsb_mbl
Professional/personal blog: https://medium.com/@raynamharris/.