Theresa M. Culley


	Theresa M. Culley Assistant Professor Ph.D, The Ohio State University Plant Biology

Education

University of California, Irvine	BS	1994	Biological Sciences (Concentration in Ecology & Environmental Biology)
The Ohio State University	PhD	2000	Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology

Experience

2002 - present	Assistant Professor; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati; Cincinnati, Ohio
2000-2002	Postdoctoral Researcher; Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of California - Irvine; Irvine, CA
1998-2000	Graduate Research Assistant; Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, & Org. Biology, The Ohio State Univ.; Columbus, Ohio
	Graduate Teaching Associate; Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, & Org. Biology, The Ohio State Univ.; Columbus, Ohio
1994-1998	Graduate Research Assistant; Dept. of Plant Biology, The Ohio State Univ.; Columbus, Ohio
	Graduate Teaching Associate; Dept. of Plant Biology, The Ohio State Univ.; Columbus, Ohio
1995	Teaching Assistant; University of Michigan Biological Station, Pellston, Michigan

Research Interests

Plant population ecology
Invasive species
Pollination biology

Conservation of rare species (especially Hawaiian endemics)

Population genetics

Statistics

Community ecology

Society Memberships

Society for the Study of Evolution
Botanical Society of America
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
Sigma Xi
American Violet Society

Fellowships and Awards

Presidential Fellowship - The Ohio State University, 1999-2000
Professional Development Fund Scholarship to attend International Botanical Congress, 1999
Scholarship to attend the Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics - NC State, 1999

Publications

Culley, Theresa M., Stephen G. Weller, Anne K. Sakai, and Kelly A. Putnam (In press) Characterization of microsatellite loci in the Hawaiian endemic shrub, Schiedea adamantis (Caryophyllaceae), and amplification in related genera. Molecular Ecology Resources.

Culley, T.M. and N.A. Hardiman (2007) The beginning of a new weed: history and spread of the ornamental Callery Pear tree in the United States. BioScience 57(11):956-964.

Sakai, A., S.G. Weller, TM. Culley, D.R. Campbell, A. Dunbar-Wallis and A. Andres (In press) Sexual dimorphism and the genetic potential for evolution of sex allocation in the gynodioecious plant, Schiedea salicaria. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

Weller, S.G., A.K. Sakai, T.M. Culley, D.R. Campbell, P. Ngo, and A. K. Dunbar-Wallis (In press) Sexually dimorphic inflorescence traits in a wind-pollinated species: heritabilities and genetic correlations in Schiedea adamantis (Caryophyllaceae). American Journal of Botany.

Hardiman, N.A. and T.M. Culley (In press) Genetic analysis of Callery Pear cultivars to determine the origin of invasive populations. In: Nicole Cavender, ed. Ohio Invasive Plant Research Conference Proceedings, Ohio Biological Survey, Columbus, OH. pp. 59-66. [Peer-reviewed book].

Culley, T.M., S.J. Sbita, and A. Wick. 2007. Population genetic effects of urban habitat fragmentation in the perennial herb Viola pubescens (Violaceae) using ISSR markers. Annals of Botany 100(1):91-100.

Thompson, Ki., M.C. Miller, and T.M. Culley (2007) Comparison of plant species richness, diversity, and biomass in Ohio wetlands. The Ohio Journal of Science 107(3):2-9.

Culley, T.M. and M.R. Klooster. 2007. The cleistogamous breeding system: a review of its frequency, evolution and ecology in angiosperms. The Botanical Review 73(1):1-30.

Washburn, S.J. and T.M. Culley. 2006. Epiphytic macrolichens of the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area - Part II: Distribution, diversity and urban ecology. The Bryologist 109: 516-52.

Weller, S.G., A.K. Sakai, T.M. Culley, D.R. Campbell and A.K. Dunbar-Wallis. 2006. Predicting the pathway to wind pollination: Heritabilities and genetic correlations of inflorescence traits associated with wind pollination in Schiedea salicaria (Caryophyllaceae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19(2): 331-342.

Sakai, A.K., S.G. Weller, W.L. Wagner, M. Nepokroeff and T.M. Culley. 2006. Adaptive radiation and evolution of breeding systems in Schiedea (Caryophyllaceae), an endemic Hawaiian genus. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 93 (1): 49-63.

Culley, T.M., A.K. Dunbar-Wallis, A.K. Sakai, S.G. Weller, M.Mishio, D.R. Campbell and M. Herzenach. 2006. Genetic variation of ecophysiological traits in two gynodioecious species of Schiedea (Caryophyllaceae). New Phytologist 169(3).

Culley, T.M. 2005. Characterization of newly developed microsatellite loci in the Stemmed Yellow Violet, Viola pubescens (Violaceae). Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 882-884.

Klips, R.A. and T.M. Culley. 2004. Natural hybridization between prairie milkweeds, Asclepias sullivantii and A. syriaca: morphological, isozyme, and hand-pollination evidence. International Journal of Plant Sciences 165(6): 1027-1037.

Culley, T.M., and T.C. Grubb, Jr. 2003. Genetic effects of habitat fragmentation in Viola pubescens (Violaceae), a perennial herb with chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers. Molecular Ecology 12(11): 2919-2930.

Cummings, C.L., H.M. Alexander, A.A. Snow, L.H. Rieseberg, M. Kim, and T.M. Culley. 2002. Fecundity selection in an experimental sunflower crop-wild system: how well do ecological data predict crop allele persistence? Ecological Applications 12(6): 1661-1671.

Culley, T.M., S.G. Weller, and A.K. Sakai. 2002. The evolution of wind pollination in angiosperms. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17(8): 361-369.

Culley, T.M., L.E. Wallace, K. Gengler-Nowak, and D.J. Crawford. 2002. A comparison of two methods of calculating G_ST, a genetic measure of population differentiation. American Journal of Botany 89(3): 460-465.

Culley, T.M. 2002. Reproductive biology and delayed selfing in Viola pubescens (Violaceae), an understory herb with chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers. International Journal of Plant Sciences 163(1): 113-122.

Culley, T.M., and A.D. Wolfe. 2001. Population genetic structure of the cleistogamous plant species Viola pubescens, as indicated by isozyme and ISSR molecular markers. Heredity 86(5): 545-556.

Snow, A.A., K.L. Uthus, and T.M. Culley. 2001. Fitness of hybrids between cultivated Raphanus sativus and weedy R. raphanistrum: implications for weed evolution. Ecological Applications 11(3): 934-943.

Culley, T.M. 2000. Inbreeding depression and floral type differences in Viola canadensis (Violaceae), a perennial herb with chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers. Canadian Journal of Botany 78(11): 1420-1429.

Culley, T. M., S. G. Weller, A. K. Sakai, and A. E. Rankin. 1999. Inbreeding depression and selfing rates in a self-compatible, hermaphroditic species, Schiedea membranacea (Caryophyllaceae). American Journal of Botany 86(7): 980-987.

Non-peer Reviewed Publications

Culley, T.M. 2002. The perfect violet: fact or fiction? The American Violet Society Gazette 3(1). Online at www.americanvioletsociety.org

Culley, T.M. 2001. Natural pollination of Viola flowers. The American Violet Society Gazette 2(1) Online at www.americanvioletsociety.org

Culley, T.M. 2000. Why violets are so successful. The American Violet Society Gazette 1(4). Online at www.americanvioletsociety.org

Selected Contributed Papers

A.A. Snow*, T.M. Culley, L.G. Campbell, N.C. Ellstrand, K.L. Uthus, and S. Hegde. A decade of introgression: crop alleles in experimental populations of wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum). Scientific Meeting on Crop Gene Flow & The Occurrence and Consequence of Gene Introgression between Crops and Their Sexually Compatible Relatives, North Central Weed Science Society, Kansas City, Missouri; December 2005.

Culley, T.M. Genetic effects of habitat fragmentation in urban populations of the cleistogamous herb, Viola pubescens (Violaceae). Botanical Society of America, Austin, Texas; August 2005.

Hardiman, N.* and T.M. Culley. Intra-specific hybridization as a mechanism of invasiveness for Pyrus calleryana. Botanical Society of America, Austin, Texas; August 2005.

Klooster, M.R.* and T.M. Culley. Flowering phenology, pollination ecology, and gene flow in the myco-heterotroph, Monotropsis odorata (Ericaceae). Botanical Society of America, Austin, Texas; August 2005.

Weller, S.G.*, A.K. Sakai, D.R. Campbell and T.M. Culley. The quantitative genetic basis of breeding system evolution in Schiedea (Caryophyllaceae) in the Hawaiian Islands. Botanical Society of America, Austin, Texas; August 2005.

Culley, T.M.*, A.K. Dunbar-Wallis, A.K. Sakai, S.G. Weller and D.R. Campbell. Evolution of dimorphism: quantitative genetics of ecophysiological traits related to resource acquisition in the gynodioecious shrub Schiedea salicaria (Caryophyllaceae). Botanical Society of America, Snowbird, Utah; August 2004.

Snow, A., T. Culley, N. Ellstrand, K. Uthus and S. Hedge. Persistence of crop alleles in wild radish populations eight years after crop-wild hybridization. Botanical Society of America, Snowbird, Utah; August 2004.

Culley, T.M. Development of microsatellite markers in Viola pubescens (Violaceae) and comparisons to allozymes and ISSRs in a population genetic study. Botanical Society of America, Snowbird, Utah; August 2004.

Klooster, M.R. and T.M. Culley. A comprehensive survey of the occurrence and evolution of the cleistogamous breeding system in angiosperms. Botanical Society of America, Snowbird, Utah; August 2004.

Culley, T.M., A.K. Sakai, S.G. Weller, and D.R. Campbell. The quantitative genetics of sex allocation in gynodioecious Schiedea salicaria (Caryophyllaceae). In: colloquium on �Systematics and evolution of the Caryophyllaceae: a model family for integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and population studies�. American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Madison, WI: August 2002.

Culley, T.M., L.E. Wallace, K.M. Gengler-Nowak, and D.J. Crawford. A comparison of two methods of calculating G_ST, a genetic measure of population differentiation. Botanical Society of America, Albuquerque, NM; August 2001.

Culley, T.M. Genetic effects of forest fragmentation in woodlot populations of an understory herb, Viola pubescens (Violaceae). Botanical Society of America, Albuquerque, NM; August 2001.

Snow, A.A., H. Alexander, L. Rieseberg, C. Cummings, and T. Culley. Introgression of crop genes from cultivated to wild sunflower (Helianthus annuus). Third International Weed Science Congress, Gene Flow Symposium, Foz do Iguassu, Brazil; June 2000.

Snow, A.A., K.L. Uthus, and T.M. Culley. Experimental evidence for introgression of crop genes into wild radish populations (Raphanus raphanistrum): implications for evolution in weeds. Weed Science Society of America, Toronto, Canada; February 2000.

Culley, T.M. and A.D. Wolfe. Genetic variation in populations of Viola pubescens (Violaceae) using isozyme and ISSR markers. International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, MO; August 1999.

Culley, T.M. Inbreeding depression in chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers of Viola canadensis. Botanical Society of America, Baltimore, MD; August 1998.

Snow, A., T. Culley, and T. Lee. Relative fitness of F1 weed-crop hybrids, Raphanus raphanistrum X R. sativus. Brassica 97, Rennes, France; September 1997.

Culley, T.M., A.K. Sakai, and S.G. Weller. Inbreeding depression and selfing rates in a self- compatible, hermaphroditic herb, Schiedea membranacea (Caryophyllaceae. Botanical Society of America, University of Washington, WA; August 1996.

Updated January 23, 2008