Research in the Forde lab addresses one of the central aims in ecology and evolution: understanding the mechanisms that underlie the diversity and structure of natural communities. Our research focuses how the movement of organisms across space and the ecological and evolutionary interactions among species combine to drive patterns of diversity. To answer these questions, we integrate manipulative experiments with microbes in the laboratory with mathematical models to gain insight into these complex processes.

Samantha’s C.V.      WEBS: Women Evolving Biological Sciences           

 

 

Selected Publications:     

 

S.E. Forde^*, I. Gudelj^*, R.E. Beardmore^*, S. S. Arkin, J. N. Thompson, and L. D. Hurst. 2008. Understanding the limits to generalizability of experimental evolutionary models. Nature 455:220-223. PDF

(*indicates co-first authors)

Featured in the New Scientist

 

S.E. Forde, J.N. Thompson, B.M.J. Bohannan, and R.D. Holt. 2008. Coevolution drives temporal changes in fitness and diversity across environments in a bacteria-bacteriophage interaction. Evolution. PDF

 

S.E. Forde and C.M. Jessup. Understanding evolution through the phages. In Experimental Evolution, T. Garland and M. Rose, eds. University of California Press. In review.

 

J.D. Hoeksema and S.E. Forde. 2008. A meta-analysis of factors affecting local adaptation between interacting species. American Naturalist.  171: 275-290. PDF

 

S.E. Forde, J. N. Thompson, and B.J.M. Bohannan. 2007. Gene flow reverses an adaptive cline in a coevolving host-parasitoid interaction. The American Naturalist.169: 794-801. PDF

 

D. Garant, S.E. Forde, and A. P. Hendry. 2006. The multifarious effects of dispersal and gene flow. Functional Ecology, 21: 434-443. PDF

                               

C.M. Jessup, S.E. Forde, B.J.M. Bohannan. 2005. Microbial experimental systems in ecology. Advances in Ecological Research, 37: 273-307. PDF

 

S.E. Forde, J. N. Thompson, B.J.M. Bohannan. 2004. Adaptation varies through space and time in a coevolving host-parasitoid interaction. Nature, 431: 841-844.PDF

 

C. M. Jessup, R. Kassen, S.E. Forde, B. Kerr, A. Buckling, P.B. Rainey and B.J.M. Bohannan. 2004. Big questions, small worlds: microbial model systems in ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 19(4) 189-197. PDF

 

S.E. Forde and P.T. Raimondi.  2004.  An experimental test of the effects of recruitment intensity on intertidal community composition. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 301(1) 1-14. PDF

 

S.E. Forde and D.F. Doak. 2004. Multitrophic interactions mediate recruitment variability in a rocky intertidal community. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 275: 33-45.PDF

 

P.T. Raimondi, S.E. Forde, C.M. Lively and L. Delph. 2000. Processes structuring communities: evidence for trait-mediated indirect effects through an induced polymorphism. Oikos, 91(2) 353-361. PDF

 

Students:

Jessica Midbust, undergraduate. Jessica is an undergraduate laboratory assistants, sponsored by the National Science Foundations Research Experience for Undergraduates program. She is assisting in the experiments on coevolution of E. coli and its phage T3.

 

 

 

 

 

The Forde Lab

EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Samantha E. Forde - P.I.

Research Biologist

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department

University of California Santa Cruz

forde@biology.ucsc.edu

 

NESCent working group: Mathematical models, microbes and evolutionary diversification