CURRICULUM VITAE 04-27-15
Focused on Activities related to Advancing Diversity and Disseminating Career Skills
Kathryn W. Tosney, Ph.D.
Professor, The University of Miami
Director, SEEDS (a SEED for Success)
Director, UGalapagosFall Study Abroad Program
http://www.as.miami.edu/biology/people/KathrynTosney
http://ugalapagosfall.miami.edu/
http://www.as.miami.edu/seeds/
Address
Biology Department
The University of Miami
1301 Memorial Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146
(305) 284-2673
FAX (305) 284-3039
[email protected]
Education
The University of Oregon
Stanford University
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
Yale University
The University of Connecticut
1972-1975 Phi Beta Kappa
1975-1979 Ph.D.
1977- summer
1980-1982
1983-1984
Positions
Professional training
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, The University of Oregon, 1974-1975
Graduate Student with N. K. Wessells, Stanford University, 1975-1979, NSF Fellow 1975-1978
Postdoctoral Fellow with L.T. Landmesser, Yale University and The University of Connecticut,
1980-1984, Muscular Dystrophy and NIH postdoctoral fellowships
The University of Michigan, Department of Biology
Assistant Professor, 1984-1989; Associate Professor, 1990-1995; Professor, 1995-2005
Associate Director, Developmental Neurobiology NIH Training Program, 1990-2000
Group Leader, Developmental Biology and Genetics Group, 1986-1989, 1992-1993
Associate Chair, 1991-1995
The University of Miami, Biology department
Professor and Chair, 2006-2014
Director of SEEDS: Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success, 2008-2012
an NSF ADVANCE for Women in Science Program
Director of SEEDS: A SEED for Success, 2012-present
an institutionalized university-wide program to promote diversity and career success
Director of UGalapagosFall, a study abroad program, 2012-present
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Awards
NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, 1975-1978
Francis Lou Kallman Award for Graduate Excellence, Stanford University, 1979
Muscular Dystrophy Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1979-1981
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1982-1984
The University of Michigan Amoco Faculty Teaching Award, 1991 ($1000 prize)
Excellence in Education Awards, College of Literature, Sciences and the Arts, The University of Michigan,
1992, 1993, 1995 ($1000 prizes)
Faculty Recognition Award, College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts, The University of Michigan,
1994 ($1000 prize)
Gayle Morris Sweetland Fellow, The University of Michigan, 1999
Hamburger Outstanding Education Prize, Society for Developmental Biology, 2015 ($2,000 prize)
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS AVAILABLE
To make arrangements, please contact me at [email protected]
Survival in Academia (talk)
You’ve heard the term “publish or perish.” Alas, one can both publish AND perish. This lecture gives
one survivor’s perspective on navigating the shoals of academia. It was germinated by life-experience. I
was tenured early, but five of my equally-accomplished friends were denied tenure, despite their grants
and despite similar numbers of publications in similar journals. Reflection on these cases has leant
heuristic insights into planning a successful career.
Creating effective posters (talk, with optional half-day or day-long workshop)
Is the space in front of your poster perennially devoid of people? Do only your competitors come
(and take detailed notes)? Do those who do come fail to understand your research? My talk discusses
design elements that hinder or enhance your effective communication. These elements are available
online as a downloadable PowerPoint at http://tinyurl.com/nbym498 In a half-day workshop,
participants apply what they learned from my talk by critiquing posters made by people in their
department. In doing so, they practice using a dispassionate method of critiquing that focuses on the
issue at hand, rather than on themselves (“I think that...”), on the authors (“They should have ...”) or on
the poor defenseless poster. This strategy, once mastered, is useful in establishing oneself as a person
who focuses on issues, rather than on self-aggrandizement, personal attack, or irrelevance. Mastering
this strategy is difficult, but using it will enhance your reputation as a respected and valued researcher.
The full –day workshop adds an afternoon exercise for participants who have prepared posters in a
PowerPoint form that can be projected for viewing. First, each poster is critiqued by other participants
and by me. Then participants redesign their poster and project it again for fine-tuning.
Writing for your life (talk, with optional workshop)
Writing is hard. Editing is easy—or at least easier, provided that you have effective strategies for
editing. My talk focuses on two strategies that do increase the clarity and power of your writing. The
first is the highly effective "reader-oriented" writing strategy, described in the seminal article, The
Science of Science Writing by Gopen and Swan. This strategy identifies positions in a paragraph where
readers expect to find the emphasis. If you put the words you want to emphasize in such positions, it is
more likely that your reader will emphasize the words that you want to be emphasized. In contrast, if
you put those words in third of six successive prepositional phrases, only you would know to emphasize
it. Your message would be lost. The second strategy is using the argumentative structure. Effective
arguments have a structure, and you can learn how to examine your paragraphs, exhume your
argument, and present it in a most convincing way. When my talk is combined with a workshop,
participants prepare a short document (often a one-page specific aims for a grant proposal) and send it
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to me and the other participants a week before the talk. They receive back a brief exercise to complete
before the talk. During the workshop, they are guided in using the two strategies to edit and perfect
their own specific aims.
ACTIVITIES CENTERED ON DIVERSITY, WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
SEEDS http://www.as.miami.edu/seeds/
Building on the success of my NSF ADVANCE for Women in Science award, SEEDS is now significantly
expanded it scope. It is now a university-level office that focuses on diversity programs and career
success across all disciplines and all three UM campuses that are designed to increase opportunity for all
faculty at UM.
Programs administered by SEEDS http://www.as.miami.edu/seeds/programs/
SEEDS You Choose Leadership Awards are investigator-initiated awards designed to support diversity
and foster community and career satisfaction. The SEEDS Distinguished Lecturers program brings in
prominent women and other underrepresented minorities for seminars, mentoring events and
networking. SEEDS Career Workshops bring in experts for day-long workshops on diversity and career
skills. SEEDS Sponsored Mentoring assures that women and junior faculty engage effectively with
internationally renowned speakers. SEEDS Speed Mentoring provides opportunities for faculty and
mentees to meet for an hour of intense interactions of 5-10 minutes each, followed by a
networking/social event. In the annual SEEDS Networking Event, faculty network in a gallery showing
the work by all past You Choose Leaders, and after a dinner buffet, hear an update on university
progress by the President or Provost and the Director of SEEDS, followed by a new interactive theatre
presentation by the SEEDS Interactive Theatre Ensemble. The interactive theatre provides an occasion
for insight and discussion, as faculty are drawn into the sketches focused on diversity issues in common
academic situations, such as faculty searches or mentoring interactions. Sketches are available for
presentation in departments or other units. For an article on using theatre in faculty development, see
Cook and Steiger (2006) Change, The Magazine of Higher Learning 38:33-39.
Organizations and Groups
University of Michigan, Chair of WINS (Women in Natural Sciences), 2000-2006
University of Michigan NSF Advance for Women in Science program, Implementation Committee, 20022006
Simmons Leadership Conference, Boston, MA, April, 2003
Association for Women in Science, 2003-present
American Association of University Women, 2004-present
National Academies Convocation on Biological, Social and Organizational Contributions to Science and
Engineering Success, chaired by Donna Shalala, Washington, DC, December, 2005
University of Miami, Mary Bartlett Bunge Distinguished Women in Cell Biology Committee 2008present
University of Miami, Director of SEEDS (Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success),
initially supported by NSF Advance for Women in Science award (2008-2013) and now
institutionalized and supported by the University of Miami, 2008-to present
National Women’s Law Center, supporter, 2012-present
NIH Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE), External Advisory Committee for grant
supporting minority faculty, Sanford Children’s Health Research Center, 2013-2014
ADVANCE Implementation Mentors (AIM) Network, national organization, 2013-present
University of Miami Task Force for Faculty Recruitment, Application, and Hiring, 2013present
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Survival in Academia presentations
Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1990
Georgetown University Medical School Graduate Student Assoc., Washington, DC, 1990
University of Kansas Medical School, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, 1991
University of Michigan Biology Department Postdoc club, August 1994
Keynote speaker, Rackham Awards Ceremony for Excellence in Teaching Assistants, 1994
The University of Utah Medical School, 1996
Rutgers University, Women in Neuroscience Program, November, 2000
Wesleyan Biology Department, February, 2001
Medical College of Ohio, March, 2001
University of Minnesota, March 2002
University of Oregon, Neuroscience Program, December, 2002
Wayne State University, Neuroscience and Environmental training programs, 2004
Bowling Green University, Women in Science Course, 2004
University of Miami. Biology Department seminar, March 2005
Florida International University, Professional Skills Class, 2006
University of Michigan Medical School, Office for Graduate Studies, 2007
University of Michigan School of Dentistry, 2008
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology National Meeting, 2009
University of Chicago Postdoctoral Association, October, 2009
Survival in Academia, Miller School of Medicine, invited by Postdoctoral Association, April, 2014
Day-long or half-day workshops on professional skills
Creating Effective Posters, Genetics Department Retreat, University of Michigan, 2005
Creating Effective Posters, Genome Sciences Training Grant Retreat, University of Michigan 2005
Presentation Skills, The Center for Pediatric Genetics Retreat at University of Delaware, 2005
Creating Effective Posters Workshop, University of Miami Graduate School, 2006, 2007
Preparing a winning chalk talk, Medical school, University of Miami, 2007, 2010
Workshop on writing and career success, Marine school, University of Miami, 2009
Presentation skills, in Preparing Future Faculty Workshop, University of Miami, 2010
Constructing compelling arguments workshop , Marine school, University of Miami, 2011
Workshop on Communicating Science, University of Miami, Marine School, April, 2014
Implicit Bias presentations, The University of Miami
College of Arts and Sciences, College Council, 2011
Marine school faculty retreat, implicit bias and mentoring talk, 2012
College of Arts and Sciences, Implicit Bias and its Impact on Faculty Searches, talk given to search
committee chairs, 2011-present
Speed Mentoring
Led or participated in Speed Mentoring events several times yearly in various units in the University of
Miami, 2009-present
Dissemination of information on diversity and women in science
University of Michigan, Women in Science course Bio 803, Winter 1985, Fall 1988
Society for Developmental Biology, Career Issues Session organizer and speaker, July 1998
Tosney, K. W. (1998). Strategies for Survival in Academia. Dev. Biol. 198: 161, Developmental Biology
Annual Meeting
Tosney (2008), Roles in Science; speaker in the workshop, Setting a Course for Women, Minorities, and
Persons with Disabilities, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April, 2008
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Tosney, K.W. (2010). Speed Mentoring. National Science Foundation, Advance for Women in Science
meeting, Washington DC
Tosney, K.W. (2011) SEEDS at the University of Miami: Using a strategy of inclusion to both build
programs and build community; NSF ADVANCE PI meeting, Washington, DC
Cook, H., Puhrmann, A., Harder, B., Johnson, B. and Tosney, K.W. (2013). Addressing isolation, a climate
issue that reduces women’s career satisfaction; NSF ADVANCE PI meeting, Washington DC
Web sites and resources for diversity issues, career and educational resources
Home page of SEEDS, Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success
http://www.as.miami.edu/seeds/
Tutorials on developing effective posters
http://www.bio.miami.edu/ktosney/file/PosterHome.html
Site on effective poster presentation, representing a collaboration with George Hess and Leon Liegel
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/
Crossword puzzles for undergraduate study of Developmental Biology
http://www.bio.miami.edu/ktosney/file/Xwrd.html
RESEARCH
View my profile on Research Gate at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kathryn_Tosney
Photos from my research have appeared in 19 reviews, 54 textbooks, 3 CD-ROMS, and on 7 journal
covers. I have given 65 invited research seminars at universities and 24 invited research talks at
professional meetings.
Research Interests
Neural crest cell migration, axon guidance, the cell biology of growth cone motility
My current focus is on marine iguana behavioral ecology and conservation
Funding History: 42 years of continuous funding
Summary of grant awards
NSF Pre-doctoral Fellowship; Muscular Dystrophy and NIH postdoctoral Fellowships
Three equipment grants ~$330,000
Two graduate and postdoctoral support grants ~$75,000
Undergraduate research support, two NSF REU grants $7,000
University of Michigan Internal Grants: three for research ~$47,000; one for teaching ~$5,000
Two NSF ADVANCE for Women in Science Departmental Transformation grants, $65,000
Two NIH R01 research grants, one for 5 years, $630,500, one for 16 years, $1,400,000
Co-PI on NIH 5 year research grant $1,360,000
Co-PI on two NSF graduate training grants (10 year program), $2,383,000
Co-PI on NIH graduate training grant, 5 years, $2,282,000
PI, NSF ADVANCE for Women in Science grant, 5 years, $1,102,000
NIH grant to build a new Neuroscience Building, $18,000,000
Most recent awards:
NSF ADVANCE: SEEDS at the University of Miami, #0820128, PI, $1,101,951 2008-2013
NIH ARRA grant, “Construction of a Neuroscience Health Annex” Provost T. Leblanc, PI (application
rules required the Provost to be PI), written by K. Tosney, D. Wellens, P. McCabe, J. Dixon, L. Glaser,
$18,000,000 with $5,000,000 cost share from UM, 2009- 2013
NIH, University of Miami IMSD program, #R25GM076419, dual PI with M. Gaines, $2,828,194, 20122017
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Publications, H index 24
Thirty-seven peer reviewed papers in:
Developmental Biology (12), Journal of Neuroscience (9), BioEssays (2), American Journal of
Embryology (2), American Journal of Anatomy (1), Anatomy and Embryology (1), Developmental.
Dynamics (1), Development (1), Experimental Neurology (1), Fine Science Points (1), Journal of
Cell Science (1), Journal of Comparative Neurology (1), Journal of Experimental Zoology (1), Journal
of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry (1), Microscopy Today (1), Molecular Biology of the Cell (1),
Scanning Microscopy (1)
Twelve peer reviewed book chapters, essays and reviews
Two Books
Tosney, K. W. (2000). “aCross Development,” Sinauer
Hess, G., K. Tosney, L. Liegel (2009) Creating Effective Poster Presentations Medical Education in Europe
(AMEE) Education Series, Scotland, UK
Summary of Research Training Activities
I have trained five Ph.D. students, three master’s students and five postdoctoral researchers. I have
served as a member of twenty additional Ph.D. dissertation committees. I trained thirty-two
undergraduates in research in my laboratory and served on twenty-nine additional undergraduate
committees for undergraduate research honors and seventy committees for undergraduate research
experiences.
Current positions of former graduate students
Dante Fenolio, Manager of Conservation and Research at the San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Texas
Michael Steketee, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine,
University of Pittsburg
Robert Oakley, Assistant Professor, George Washington University (deceased)
Ron Rozar, Biologist at the United States Forest Service, Herpetology in Malaysia
Sally Schroeter, Director, Preclinical Neuropathology, NeuroPhage Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, United
States
Current positions of former postdoctoral scholars
Gary Ten-Eyck, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy,
University of Hawaii, Hilo
Ken Balazovitch, Lecturer IV, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department, The
University of Michigan
Kevin Hotary, Research Investigator, Division of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Department of
Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Michigan
Medical School
Lisa Foa, Associate Head of Research, School of Medicine, The University of Tasmania
Michael Polinsky, Board Certified Neurosurgeon with The Brain and Spinal Center at St. Luke’s Hospital,
St. Louis, Missouri
Teaching
Current teaching
Professional Writing and Grantsmanship
Graduate Core Module in Professional Skills
Herpetology of the Galapagos (in the UGalapagos study abroad program)
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Examples of public outreach
Saturday Seminar Series for High School Seniors, The University of Michigan, Fall 1986
Mysteries of Embryology, two weeks of original research in the Math and Sciences Summer Scholar
Program for high school students 2001-2005, The University of Michigan
Michigan Society of Herpetology, Lecture, “Birth defects,” January, 2003
Kerrytown Book Fest, Panel on Science and Science Fiction, Ann Arbor, Michigan, September, 2004
Chicago Society of Herpetology, Lecture, “Breeding and Inbreeding,” November, 2008
I gave guest lectures on research in 18 teaching and training programs at other universities
National Service
Editorships
Associate Editor, The Journal of Morphology, 1985-1990
Associate Editor, Experimental Neurology, 1997-2002
Cooperating Editor, Cell & Tissue Research, 2000-2003
Director and Editor, Society for Developmental Biology Educational Website, 2004-2007
Editorial Board, Developmental Dynamics, 2003-2014
Journal reviewer
BioEssays, Brain Research, Development, Developmental Biology, Developmental Dynamics,
Experimental Cell Research, Experimental Neurology, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,
Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Neurobiology, Journal of
Neurocytology, Journal of Neuroscience, Neuron, Science, Trends in Neuroscience
Society service
Board of Directors, Society for Developmental Biology, 1996-2002
Treasurer, Society for Developmental Biology, 1999-2002
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology; Finance Committee, 2000-2003; 2004-2007;
2008-2014
NIH service
Neurology B2 study section, 1988-1992; Program Project Site Visit team, December, 1992; Neurology
B2 study section, February, October, 1993; ZRG-1 Special Emphasis Panel, November, 1994, March, July,
November, 199; Vis-C, October, 1998; Chair, NIH, ZRG-1 Special Emphasis Panel, March, 1995
NSF service
Neural Development panel, 2003-2004; NSF Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship panel, 2005-2007
Ad hoc proposal reviewer
NSF, Spinal Cord Foundation, Huntington’s Disease Society, Muscular Dystrophy, March of Dimes
National advisory and review committees
Chair, Departmental Review, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah, 1997; Chair,
Review Committee, Wesleyan Biology Department, 2009; Chair, Review Committee, Department of
Biology, Northeastern University, 2013; Member, ADVANCE Implementation Mentors (AIM), Network,
2013-present; External Advisory Committee for NIH Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence
awardee, Sanford Children’s Health Research Center, 2013-2014