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Marty Condon

Research Pages:

Research funded by NSF

 

Additional research pages

Position: 

Associate Professor of Biology

Department: 

Biology

E-mail: 

mcondon@cornellcollege.edu

Phone: 

(319) 895-4154

Fax: 

(319) 895-5467

Mailing Address: 

Department of Biology
Cornell College
600 First Street West
Mt. Vernon, IA 52314
USA

Education

1984, Ph.D. University of Texas, Ecology & Evolution
1973, B.S., University of Michigan, Zoology

 

Teaching, Research Interests

  • Evolution and ecology of plant-animal interactions
  • Mating systems
  • Speciation
  • Systematics
  • Tephritid fruit flies
  • Frugivorous bats
  • Cucurbits
  • Heliconius butterflies
  • Hummingbirds

 

Courses Taught

  • Fundamentals of Biology
  • Seminar in Evolution
  • Ecology
  • Plant Morphology
  • Plant Systematics
  • Plant Physiology
  • Biological Problems
  • Food & Sex- An Evolutionary Perspective
  • Human Nutrition

 

Honors and Awards

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Organization of American States Fellowship
  • Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • NSF Visiting Professorship for Women
  • Visiting Scholar, Inst. Environmental Studies, University of Washington

Research Support

  • Subvention Fund, University of Texas
  • Chapman Fund, American Museum of Natural History: National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
  • Organization of American States
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Friends of the National Zoo
  • National Science Foundation (Visiting Professorship, Research Experience for Undergraduates, Multi-User Biological Equipment Award)

 

Publications

  • Condon, M.A. 1997. Review of Designing Conservation Projects by Julian Caldecott, Cambridge University Press (1996), 312 pp. Quarterly Review of Biology, in press.
  • Shashar, N., T.W. Cronin, L.B. Wolff, M.A. Condon. The polarization of light in a tropical rain forest. Biotropica, in press.
  • Kalko, E.K. and M.A. Condon. Fruit display in Gurania spinulosa (Cucurbitaceae) and the sensory modalities of Phyllostomus hastatus (Microchiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Functional Ecology, in press.
  • Condon, M.A., A. Truelove, and L. Mathew. 1997. Sexual dimorphism in mouthparts of Blepharoneura. Proceedings of the Washington Entomological Society 99: 676-680.
  • Condon, M.A. and G.J. Steck. 1997. Evolution of host use in Blepharoneura (Diptera: Tephritidae): Multiple cryptic species on sexually dimorphic host plants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 60: 443-466.
  • Condon, M.A. 1996. Hanging loose with Gurania and Psiguria. Cucurbit Network News 3: 1-2.
  • Condon, M.A. 1995. Biodiversity, systematics, and Tom Sawyer Science. Conservation Biology 9: 711-714.
  • Condon, M.A. 1995. Laboratory Manual for Biology 2 (2 editions). Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.
  • Condon, M.A. 1994. Tom Sawyer meets insects: how biodiversity opens science to the public. Biodiversity Letters 2: 159-162.
  • Condon, M.A. and A.L. Norrbom. 1994. Three sympatric species of Blepharoneura (Diptera: Tephritidae) on a single host (Gurania spinulosa, Cucurbitaceae): new species and new taxonomic methods. Systematic Entomology 19: 279-304.
  • Driscoll, C.A. and M.A. Condon. 1994. Labellar modifications of Blepharoneura (Diptera: Tephritidae): Neotropical fruit flies that damage and feed on plant surfaces. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 87: 448-453.
  • Kalko, E.K. and M. Condon. 1993. Bat-plant interactions: how frugivorous leaf-nosed bats find their food. Bat Research News 34: 115.
  • Condon, M.A., T. Sasek, and B. Strain. 1992. Allocation patterns in two tropical vines in response to increased atmospheric CO2. Functional Ecology 6: 680-685.
  • Condon, M.A., B. Yashar, and J. DeSaix (eds.) 1992. Laboratory Manual for Introductory Biology. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
  • Condon, M.A. 1991. Mutualistic interactions between scientists and children. BioScience 41: 163-165.
  • Condon, M.A. 1990. Sex change in the tropics -or- why females have to be big to hang loose. Zoogoer 19: 22-25.
  • Condon, M.A. & L.E. Gilbert 1990. Reproductive biology and natural history of Neotropical vines Gurania and Psiguria. In D.M. Bates, R.W. Robinson, and C. Jeffrey (eds.), Biology and Chemistry of the Cucurbitaceae. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, pp.150-166.
  • Condon, M.A. & L.E. Gilbert 1988. Sex expression of Gurania and Psiguria (Guraniinae: Cucurbitaceae): Neotropical vines that change sex. American Journal of Botany 75:875-884.
  • Condon, M.A. 1984. Reproductive biology, demography, and natural history of Neotropical vines Gurania and Psiguria (Guraniinae: Cucurbitaceae): a study of the adaptive significance of size-related sex change. Ph.D. dissertation, U.T., Austin.
  • Condon, M.A. & M.D. Whalen 1983. A plea for herbivore and pathogen damaged material. Taxon 32:105-107.

 

Employment

  • Cornell College, Assistant Professor
  • Hofstra University, Assistant Professor
  • University of Washington, Visiting Scholar
  • University of Maryland Baltimore County, NSF Visiting Professor
  • N.Y. Zoological Society, Consultant
  • Jatun Sacha Foundation, Visiting Instructor
  • University of N. Carolina, Visiting Lecturer
  • Smithsonian Institution (National Zoo), Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Smithsonian Institution (National Museum of Natural History), Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Smithsonian Institution (Peru), Field Botanist
  • University of N. Carolina, Lecturer
  • Duke University, Research Associate
  • University of Texas, Assistant Instructor
  • N.Y. Botanical Garden and Museu Goeldi (Brazil), Field Botanist
  • University of Texas, Teaching Assistant Structure
  • Rockefeller University, Research Assistant

 

Interests/Hobbies

  • Biology(!)

  • Bicycling

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