Thomas Mitchell-Olds

Selection on the Genes that Control Complex Traits · July 20, 2013 Lecture Keynote speaker, Symposium on Plant Genomes: Evolution and Adaptation, Plant Biology 2013, Providence, RI

Pathway Function Influences Complex Traits and Fitness in Plant Populations · July 9, 2013 Lecture Symposium on Molecular Evolution of Crop Genomes and their Wild Relatives, Society for the Study of Molecular Evolution, Chicago, IL

Pathway Function Influences Complex Traits and Fitness in Plant Populations · May 26, 2013 Lecture Keynote speaker, European Science Foundation EuroEEFG Conference, Frontiers in Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands

Complex traits in complex environments: Root architecture, insect resistance, and GxE · April 24, 2013 Lecture International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines

Molecular adaptation and natural selection in plant populations · March 7, 2013 Lecture Catalysis Meeting on Landscape Genetics, NESCent, Durham, NC

Metabolism and complex traits · March 4, 2013 Lecture Banbury Conference on the Evolution of Plant Metabolic Diversity, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

A gain-of-function polymorphism controlling complex traits and fitness in nature · January 31, 2013 Lecture Symposium on New Frontiers in Plant Biology, Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Madrid, Spain

Evolution of complex traits in complex environments · January 28, 2013 Lecture Dept of Biology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

Garrett Memorial Lecture, British Society of Plant Pathology, A novel gain of function polymorphism controlling complex traits and fitness in nature · December 18, 2012 Lecture Norwich, UK

A novel gain of function polymorphism controlling complex traits and fitness in nature · December 13, 2012 Lecture Max Planck Insitute of Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

Strong selection on the genes controlling complex traits in complex environments · December 11, 2012 Lecture University of Wageningen, Netherlands

A novel gain of function polymorphism controlling complex traits and fitness in nature · December 2, 2012 Lecture Dept of Ecology and Evolution, University of California – Davis, Dept of Ecology and Evolution, University of California – Davis

A novel gain of function polymorphism controlling complex traits and fitness in nature · October 26, 2012 Lecture Ecological Genomics Symposium, Kansas City

A novel gain of function polymorphism controlling complex traits and fitness in nature · October 9, 2012 Lecture University of Minnesota

A novel gain of function polymorphism controlling complex traits and fitness in nature · September 20, 2012 Lecture Banbury Conference on Plant-Environment Interactions, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

A novel gain of function polymorphism controlling complex traits and fitness in nature · May 9, 2012 Lecture University of Georgia Spring Symposium -- Awesome Plant Biology II. Athens, GA

Evolution of complex traits in complex environments · February 22, 2012 Lecture Cologne Spring Conference on Molecular Ecology and Evolution, German National Science Foundation (DFG) Collaborative Research Program on Molecular Basis of Evolutionary Innovations, Cologne, Germany

Phenotypes phirst: Complex traits in complex environments · December 2, 2011 Lecture John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK

Analyzing complex traits in complex environments · November 28, 2011 Lecture Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC

Phenotypes phirst: Complex traits in complex environments · November 14, 2011 Lecture Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC

Phenotypes phirst: Complex traits in complex environments · October 28, 2011 Lecture Symposium on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology, University of Chicago

Phenotypes phirst: Complex traits in complex environments · October 13, 2011 Lecture Evolutionary Biology Forum, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Analyzing complex traits in complex environments · October 12, 2011 Lecture Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Complex traits in complex environments · October 9, 2011 Lecture Dept of Biology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations (Keynote Speaker) · September 5, 2011 Lecture Current Opinion Conference on Plant Genome Evolution, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Phenotypes phirst: Complex traits in complex environments (Plenary Speaker) · August 19, 2011 Lecture Plant Genomics in China XII, Anyang, China

Analyzing complex traits in complex environments · August 17, 2011 Lecture Institute of Genetics and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Advances in ecological genomics: Phenotypes phirst! (Opening Speaker) · July 10, 2011 Lecture Gordon Conference on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics, Biddeford, ME

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · June 7, 2011 Lecture Boechera Summit Workshop, Nederland, CO

Local environments maintain genetic variation in an ecological model system (Keynote Speaker) · May 4, 2011 Lecture NSF-IGERT Symposium: Genomics of Adaptation & Domestication, Tucson, AZ

Complex traits in plants · December 3, 2010 Lecture Dept of Biology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Complex traits in plants · December 1, 2010 Lecture Chinese Academy of Sciences - Institute of Botany

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · November 1, 2010 Lecture Dept of Genetics & Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · October 14, 2010 Lecture Dept of Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · July 1, 2010 Lecture International Conference on New Frontiers in Plant Systematics and Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Natural variation for insect resistance: molecular evolution and ecological consequences · June 22, 2010 Lecture Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, CO

Symposium on The New Biology for the 21st Century · April 23, 2010 Lecture National Research Council – Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Washington, DC

Phenotypes phirst: tackling complex traits in the field · March 25, 2010 Lecture DOE Joint Genome Institute Annual User Meeting, Walnut Creek, CA

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · March 12, 2010 Lecture Dept of Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA

Plant-insect interactions: Why is resistance heritable? · February 22, 2010 Lecture Dept of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · December 3, 2009 Lecture Dept of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · November 30, 2009 Lecture Dept of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Ecological and fitness consequences of a cloned QTL · October 29, 2009 Lecture Dept of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · October 27, 2009 Lecture International Plant Molecular Biology Symposium, St. Louis, MO

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · October 14, 2009 Lecture Dept of Biology, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO

Keynote lecture: Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · October 10, 2009 Lecture Eighth Plant Genomics European Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · August 3, 2009 Lecture Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, NM

Molecular Basis And Ecological Consequences Of Variation In Secondary Metabolites · July 13, 2009 Lecture Gordon Conference on Plant Metabolic Engineering, Waterville Valley, NH

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · June 4, 2009 Lecture Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Iowa City, IA

Evolution and Fitness of Complex Trait Loci in Nature · March 5, 2009 Lecture Symposium on Plant Genomes: Genes, Networks and Applications. Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Evolution and Fitness of Complex Trait Loci in Nature · February 24, 2009 Lecture Dept of Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Evolution and Fitness of Complex Trait Loci in Nature · February 19, 2009 Lecture FEBS Symposium on "Adaptation Potential in Plants", Vienna, Austria

Evolution and Fitness of Complex Trait Loci in Nature · February 17, 2009 Lecture Dept of Plant Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations · February 4, 2009 Lecture European Union EVOLTREE Annual Meeting, Baden, Austria

Improving yield under drought · January 23, 2009 Lecture Dow AgroSciences - Exelixis Plant Sciences Symposium on Drought Tolerance in Plants. Indianapolis, IN

Advances in Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance · December 18, 2008 Lecture African Rice Center, Cotonou, Benin

Advances in Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance · December 15, 2008 Lecture African Rice Center - International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria

Nucleotide polymorphisms and their ecological consequences in natural plant populations · November 13, 2008 Lecture Dept. of Plant Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Advances in Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance · November 5, 2008 Lecture International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines

Nucleotide polymorphisms and their ecological consequences in natural plant populations · October 18, 2008 Lecture University of Massachusetts Symposium in Plant Biology. Amherst, MA

Why are complex traits polymorphic? · October 10, 2008 Lecture Third Annual Duke Systems Biology Symposium, Durham, NC

Integrating environmental and genomic data · October 2, 2008 Lecture Grand Challenge Workshop on the Mechanistic Basis of Plant Adaptation, NSF iPlant Collaborative. Tucson, AZ

Natural variation in plant populations: Systems biology and ecological genomics · March 14, 2008 Lecture Dept. of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

The genetic basis of ecologically important trait variation · January 29, 2008 Lecture Department of Biology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Evolution of ecologically important traits · January 14, 2008 Lecture Department of Biology, Earlham College, Richmond, IN

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Rice Hoja Blanca Virus and food security · August 2017 Research International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) , Cali, Colombia flag

Colombia We are working with colleagues at CIAT on resistance to Rice Hoja Blanca Virus, a major pathogen problem in tropical areas of Latin America.

Unknown - Scientific Exchange with International Rice Research Institute (hosted Indian scientist in my lab) · November 2013 Other Service to the Community

Unknown - Scientific Exchange with African Rice Center (hosted African scientist in my lab) · January 2013 Other Service to the Community

Unknown - Duke University Middle School Days · October 30, 2012 Other Service to the Community ; (Science discussions with Durham Middle School students)

Unknown - Scientific Advisory Board, GrassRoots Biotechnology · 2012 Other Service to the Community

Unknown - Duke University Middle School Days, (Science discussions with Durham Middle School students) · October 21, 2011 Other Service to the Community

Unknown - Science activities for 45 Girl Scouts aged 7 - 12 at a summer camp in rural Idaho · June 14, 2011 Other Service to the Community ; Three female Duke graduate students and I led discussions on science careers for girls, as well as field observation of local plant species, adaptation to environments, observing habitat differences, etc. These efforts also catalyzed the creation of a one week camp session focusing on nature. We will continue these activities next summer.

Unknown - Duke University Middle School Days · October 29, 2010 Other Service to the Community ; (Science discussions with Durham Middle School students)

Unknown - Duke University Middle School Days · October 16, 2009 Other Service to the Community ; (Science discussions with two groups of Durham Middle School students)

Unknown - Lecturer on Complex Trait Variation, North Carolina Central University (Four lectures per year) · 2009 Other Service to the Community

Unknown - Duke University Middle School Days · October 23, 2008 Other Service to the Community ; (Science discussions with three groups of Durham Middle School students)

Service to the Profession

Participant - Faculty Curriculum on Anti-Racism · January 11, 2021 - January 14, 2021 Professional Development Duke Office of Faculty Advancement,

Fellow - American Associate for the Advancement of Science · 2017 Committee Service

Evaluation Committee for the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology - Austrian Academy of Sciences · 2013 Editorial Activities Vienna, Austria

Advisory Board, Global Engage Plant Genomics Congress · 2013 Editorial Activities

Swiss National Centers of Excellence Selection Committee, Swiss National Science Foundation · 2013 Editorial Activities

Scientific Advisory Committee, NSF Plant Genome Project: Oryza Genome Evolution · 2013 Editorial Activities

Direct Submission Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 Editorial Activities

Scientific Advisory Board, NSF Plant Genome Project: Genetic Architecture of Maize and Teosinte · 2009 Editorial Activities

Plant Scientific Advisory Board, Joint Genome Institute, Department of Energy · 2009 Editorial Activities Walnut Creek, CA

Committee Member and co-author : US Department of Energy, Planning Workshop on Carbon Cycling and Biosequestration · April 2008 Editorial Activities

Scientific Advisory Board member, European Union EVOLTREE Consortium · 2008 - 2010 Editorial Activities

Scientific Member - Max Planck Society · 2006 Committee Service