Corrie Moreau

• Ph.D. Harvard University (2003 – 2007)
• M.A. San Francisco State University/California Academy of Sciences (2000 – 2003)
• B.S. San Francisco State University (1996 – 2000)

Selected Publications

• Moreau, C. S. & Ware, J. L. (2021). Fund natural-history museums, not de-extinction. Nature 598: 32.
• Duplais, C., Sarou-Kanian, V., Massiot, D., Hassan, A., Perrone, B., Estevez, Y., Wertz, J. T., Martineau, E., Farjon, J., Giraudeau, P. & Moreau, C. S. (2021). Gut bacteria are essential for normal cuticle development in herbivorous turtle ants. Nature Communications 12: 676.
• Grewe, F., Kronforst, M. R., Pierce, N. E. & Moreau, C. S. (2021). Museum genomics reveals the Xerces blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces) was a distinct species driven to extinction. Biology Letters 17: 20210123.
• Nelsen, M. P., Ree, R. H. & Moreau, C. S. (2018). Ant-plant interactions evolved through increasing interdependence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 115(48): 12253-12258.
• Short, A. E. Z., Dikow, T. & Moreau, C. S. (2018). Entomological collections in the age of big data. Annual Review of Entomology 63: 513-530.
• Blanchard, B. D. & Moreau, C. S. (2017). Defensive traits exhibit an evolutionary trade-off and drive diversification in ants. Evolution 71-2: 315-328.
• Rubin, B. E. R. & Moreau, C. S. (2016). Comparative genomics reveals convergent rates of evolution in ant-plant mutualisms. Nature Communications 7: 12679.
• Moreau, C. S. & Bell, C. D. (2013). Testing the museum versus cradle biological diversity hypothesis: Phylogeny, diversification, and ancestral biogeographic range evolution of the ants. Evolution 67(8): 2240-2257.
• Russell, J. A.,+, Moreau, C. S.+, Goldman-Huertas, B., Fujiwara, M., Lohman, D. J. & Pierce, N. E. (2009). Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 106(50): 21236-21241. [+ co-first authors]
• Moreau, C. S., Bell, C. D., Vila, R., Archibald, S. B. & Pierce, N. P. (2006). Phylogeny of the ants: Diversification in the age of angiosperms. Science 312(5770): 101–104.

• Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. 2021.
• Cornell Graduate Diversity & Inclusion Faculty Champion Award. 2021.
• Entomological Society of American Fellow. 2020.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. 2018.
• National Geographic Women of Impact 2018.
• Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Honor Society) elected full member. 2018.
• Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 2016.
• National Geographic Explorer – National Geographic Society. 2014.
• Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Miller Institute of Basic Research in Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow. 2007–2008

• ENTOM 9900: Doctoral Level Thesis Research
• BIOG 2990: Introduction to Research Methods in Biology
• BIOEE 9990: Ph.D. Dissertation Research
• ENTOM 4040
• ENTOM 4610
• ENTOM 7670