Theodore J. Cohn Research Fund Recipients (2011-Present)
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2018
Christel Wandji (Cameroon) – Response of grasshoppers communities to forest destruction and habitat conversion in the savanna-forest transition zone in the center region of Cameroon ($1500)
Nakano Mari (New Zealand) – Male mate choice in the stick insect Clitarchus hookeri: sexual vs parthenogenetic females ($1500)
Oto Kaláb (Czech Republic) – How heavy transmitters can be used on small ground dwelling Orthoptera species? ($1500)
Fran Rebrina (Croatia) – Spatial and temporal dynamics of orthopteran assemblages in response to a motorway ($1490)
Federico Marangoni (Italia) – Genetic diversity in populations of Anonconotus italoaustriacus Nadig, 1987 (Orthoptera) in north-eastern Italy ($1500)
Dale Broder (CO, U.S.A.) – Exploring a novel cricket song in the field: who can hear it and what do they like about it? ($1470)
Jorge Humberto Medina Durán (Mexico) – Coevolutionary patterns between the lubber grasshopper genus Taeniopoda (Caelifera: Romaleidae) and its protozoan parasites (Eugrearina: Apicomplexa) ($1478)
Jacob Wilson (CO, U.S.A.) – Effects of maternal age on male offspring ($1365)
Daniela Santos (Brazil) – Are the phallic complex of Pygmy grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tetrigidae) useful in taxonomy? ($1485)
Bert Foquet (TX, U.S.A.) – A field study of phase transition in the Central American locust Schistocerca piceifrons ($1500)
Mounica Kota (MN, U.S.A.) – Signal Loss and Compensation in Teleogryllus oceanicus ($1496)
2017
Yadav Sonu (India) – Understanding the adaptive capacity of alpine grasshoppers under climate change ($1500) – report published in Metaleptea 38(3)
Simeon B. Borisov (Bulgaria) – Temporal and spatial evolution of the Poecilimon jonicus-group in southern Greece ($1478)
David Musiolek (Czech Republic) – Tolerance of groundhoppers’ eggs to dehydration – why do females of genus Tetrix search for mossy patches? ($1500) – report published in Metaleptea 38(1)
Claudia Hallagan (U.S.A.) – The effects of advanced maternal age on multiple generations of offspring immunocompetency ($1381.67)
Gabrielle A. Gurule-Small (U.S.A.) – Effects of anthropogenic noise on mating decisions and fitness ($1234.71)
Ryan Selking (TX, U.S.A.) – Radio Telemetric Analysis of Diurnal and Nocturnal Activities of the Leaf-Masquerading True-Leaf Katydid Genus Mimetica Pictet, 1888 ($1500)
Maxine Laubscher (South Africa) – A morphological, acoustic and genetic comparison of bladder grasshopper species from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa ($2550) – report published in Metaleptea 38(3)
Yanina Mariottini (Argentina) – Bio-ecological studies of Bufonacris claraziana (Acridoidea: Tristiridae) and susceptibility to the biocontrol agents Paranosema locustae and Beauveria bassiana ($1500) – report published in Metaleptea 38(2)
María Celeste Scattolini (Argentina) – Ecological and evolutionary diversification in Scotussae genus group (Melanoplinae: Dichroplini) ($1500)
Cody Gale (TX, U.S.A.) – Investigating a Photolytic Metabolite in the Nocturnal Grasshopper Schistocerca ceratiola Hubbell and Walker (Orthoptera: Acrididae) ($1500)
Emma Colosi (U.S.A.) – Selection and hybridization in a field cricket contact zone ($1500)
2016
Jessica Tanner (U.S.A.) – Adaptative behavioral plasticity in the calling song of Teleogryllus oceanicus ($1492) – report published in Metaleptea 37(2)
Charly Oumarou Ngoute (Cameroon) – Life cycle of Eyprepocnemis plorans (Charpentier, 1825) (Orthoptera: Eyprepocnemidinae) in south Cameroon rainforests ($1500) – report published in Metaleptea 37(2)
Lisa A. Treidel (U.S.A.) – Good Eats? The effect of diet nutrient composition on development and life history traits of the variable field cricket, Gryllus lineaticeps ($1531) – report published in Metaleptea 37(2)
Tim O’Connor (CA, U.S.A.) – Does host plant polyploidization promote co-divergence of a specialist orthopteran community? ($1500) – report published in Metaleptea 37(2)
Salomón Sanabria-Urbán (Mexico) – Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical grasshoppers of the genus Sphenarium Charpentier, 1842 (Orthoptera; Pyrgomorphidae) ($1500) – report published in Metaleptea 37(1)
Precious Tshililo (South Africa) – Testing the unified species concept: Incorporating genetic markers for species delimitation of agile grasshoppers (Acrididae: Euryphyminae), a southern African endemic subfamily with low morphological variation ($1500)
Owen G. Miller (U.S.A.) – Consequences of variation in development time in a field cricket (Gryllus vocalis) ($1519)
Rebecca Ehrlich (U.S.A.) – Paling in comparison: Sexual and thermal selection on melanin-based immunity in insects ($1425) – report published in Metaleptea 38(2)
2015
Matan Shelomi (Germany) – Bergmann’s and Allen’s Rule in Mediterranean Phasmatodea ($1128) – report published in Metaleptea 36(1)
Louisa Maree Sivyer (New Zealand) – Phylogeography and environmental niche modelling of the grasshopper genus Phaulacridium in New Zealand: evidence of range shifts since the LGM ($1470) – report published in Metaleptea 36(2)
Katherine Crocker (U.S.A.) – Whether parents are helping: Is variable hormone provisioning an adaptive, plastic phenotype? ($1500)
Lara-Sophie Dey (Germany) – Phylogeography and evolution of the band-winged grasshopper genera Thalpomena Saussure, 1884 and Pseudoceles Bolivar, 1899 ($1271.08) – report published in Metaleptea 36(1)
Josip Skejo (Croatia) – The phylogenetic position of the Eurasian genus Psophus Fieber, 1853 (Oedipodinae: Locustini) ($1259.70)
Jantina Toxopeus (Canada) – Physiological and molecular adaptations to freezing in the great grig, Cyphoderris monstrosa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidea) ($500) – report published in Metaleptea 36(1)
Matthew Heck (U.S.A.) – Testing for reductions in age-associated damage upon dietary restriction and RNAi-mediated knockdown of neuropeptide F in Romalea microptera ($1500) – report published in Metaleptea 37(2)
Tobias Schulte-Middelmann (Germany) – Inter- and Intra-island diversification in the genus Ariagona Krauss, 1892 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidea) ($1500) – report published in Metaleptea 36(2)
Jorge Gutierrez Rodriguez (Spain) – Ring speciation and evolutionary history of the genus Lluciapomaresius Barat 2012 ($1500) – report published in Metaleptea 37(1)
Kristin Duffield (U.S.A.) – A terminal investment threshold for male decorated cricket calling based on age-dependent residual reproductive value and infection cue intensity ($1500) – report published in Metaleptea 36(3)
Paul Alvarado Lenhart (TX, U.S.A.) – The effect of gut microbiomes on nutrient regulation in a grazing insect ($1470) – report published in Metaleptea 36(1)
2014
Marianna Anichini (Italia) – To be “Pavarotti” in a crowded concert hall? Song competition between bushcricket males in natural choruses ($1001) – report published in Metaleptea 35(1)
Tom Chen (U.S.A.) – Sex or Death: Behavioral syndrome of a field cricket (Gryllus sp.) as a function for parasitoid avoidance ($700) – report published in Metaleptea 35(2)
Morgan DePerno (U.S.A.) – Vibrational communication in the Mahoenui giant weta (Deinacrida mahoenui) ($1041) – report published in Metaleptea 35(2)
Kristopher Keane (U.S.A.) – Raw materials of sexual selection: Signal variation in a rare, lekking cricket ($991) – report published in Metaleptea 35(3)
Ricardo Mariño-Pérez (TX, U.S.A.) – On the origin of the New World Pyrgomorphidae ($1000) – report published in Metaleptea 35(3), 35(2)
Elizabeth Swanger (U.S.A.) – The role of juvenile hormone in female responses to male sexual signals ($1000)
2013
Rachel Slatyer (Australia) – Getting cold in a warmer world: snow cover and egg hatching success in an Australian alpine grasshopper ($940) – report published in Metaleptea 35(1), 35(2)
Erica Kistner (U.S.A.) – How climate change may impact disease dynamics? ($1000)
Peter Moran (U.K.) – Genetic Architecture of Male Calling Song and Female Preference in Teleogryllus Crickets ($1000) – report published in Metaleptea 35(2)
Yinwei You (China) – Exploration of report genes for detecting the response of odorant receptors to specific odorants in Orthopteran insects ($800) – report published in Metaleptea 35(3)
2012
Jeffrey Cole (U.S.A.) – Testing the ring species hypothesis in the katydid Neduba in the Sierra Nevada, California ($510.44)
Elio Rodrigo Daniel Castillo (Brazil) – Study of neo-sex chromosomes in a grasshopper genus ($1000) – report published in Metaleptea 34(3)
Lauren Conroy (U.S.A.) – Comparison of agonistic and antagonistic leg use in species of camel crickets ($410) – report published in Metaleptea 34(2)
Nicholas DiRienzo (U.S.A.) – Biogenic amines and the regulation of personality in a field cricket ($614); Role of juvenile experience and immune response in determining adult personality in a field cricket ($560)
Martina Eugenia Pocco (Argentina) – Phylogeny of the Neotropical genus Diponthus and the evolution of gregariousness and aposematism displays ($1000) – report published in Metaleptea 35(3)
Bart Kensinger (U.S.A.) – Evolution of compound acoustical signals in the phaneropterine katydid Dichopetala in Texas ($1000)
Shelley Myers (New Zealand) – Speciation through clasper divergence in the New Zealand stick insect Clitarchus ($496)
Gideon Ney (U.S.A.) – Effect of geographic separation on population genetics and acoustic behavior in a cone-headed katydid ($984)
Alexandra Prokuda (U.S.A.) – Estimating female preference and preferred male trait in a field cricket: linkage disequilibrium or pleiotropy? ($822) – report published in Metaleptea 34(3)
Tyler Raszick (FL, U.S.A.) – Using RAD tag sequencing techniques to resolve a population-level phylogeny in Schistocerca lineata with different ecophenotypes ($1000) – report published in Metaleptea 34(1)
Ashley Schmidt (U.S.A.) – Evolution of tremulation (seismic) communication in New Zealand wetas ($1000) – report published in Metaleptea 34(2)
Johannes Strauss (Germany) – The complex tibial organ in non-hearing wetas (Hemiandrus, Anostostomatidae): neuroanatomy and vibration sensitivity ($3678) – report published in Metaleptea 38(2)
Laurel Symes (U.S.A.) – Effect of road noise on behavior and population dynamics in a variety of Orthoptera ($941) – report published in Metaleptea 34(2)
Derek Woller (FL, U.S.A.) – Male genitalic diversity and function in scrub endemic Melanoplus using micro-CT technology ($1000) – report published in Metaleptea 33(1), 35(2)
Amy Worthington (U.S.A.) – Do female field crickets mate multiply to acquire direct benefits from ejaculate? ($902)
2011
Juliana Chamorro-Rengifo (Brazil) – Historical and ecological factors affecting the diversity of Tettigoniidae on Brazilian Atlantic Forest remnants – report published in Metaleptea 34(1)
Marion LeGall (TX, U.S.A.) – A physiological investigation of nutrientallelochemical interactions in the generalist grasshopper Melanoplus differentialis – report published in Metaleptea 32(3)
Luciana Maroja (U.S.A.) – Skin hydrocarbon composition as a pre-mating barrier between Gryllus firmus and G. pennsylvanicus – report published in Metaleptea 32(3)
James O’Hanlon (New Zealand) – The chemical basis of ant attraction and its function as an egg dispersal stategy in Phasmatodea
Matthew Van Dam (U.S.A.) – Phylogenetic pattern & adaptations to life in dunes of North American Rhaphidophoridae