PATRICIA L. JONES
Cornell University, Ithaca NY
e-mail: [email protected]
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
CURRENT APPOINTMENT
Postdoctoral Researcher
Agrawal Lab, Cornell University
September 2014 - present
EDUCATION
PhD: Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX
August 2008 – May 2014
Advisor: Michael J. Ryan
Co-Advisor: Rachel A. Page, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Bachelor of Arts: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
August 2003 – June 2007
Biological Sciences magna cum laude & History of Art
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Jones P.L., Agrawal A.A. invited for 2016. Learning in pollinators and herbivores. Annual
Review of Entomology.
Jones P.L., Agrawal A.A. 2016. Consequences of toxic secondary compounds in nectar for
mutualist bees and antagonist butterflies. Ecology doi: 10.1002/ecy.1483
Falk J.J., ter Hofstede H.M., Jones P.L., Dixon M.M., Faure P.A., Kalko E.K.V., Page R.A..
2015. Sensory-based niche partitioning in a multiple predator–multiple prey
community. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 282: 1-9.
Jones P.L., Ryan M.J., Chittka L. 2015. The influence of past experience with flower reward
quality on social learning in bumblebees. Animal Behaviour 101:11-18.
Halfwerk W., Dixon M.M., Ottens K., Taylor R.C., Ryan M.J., Page, R.A., Jones, P.L. 2014.
Risks of multimodal signaling: bat predators attend to dynamic motion in frog sexual
displays. Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 3038-3044.
Halfwerk W., Jones P.L., Taylor R.C., Ryan M.J., Page R.A. 2014. Risky ripples allow bats and
frogs to eavesdrop on a multisensory sexual display. Science 343: 413-416.
Jones P.L., Ryan M.J., Page R.A. 2014. Population and seasonal variation in response to prey
calls by an eavesdropping bat. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 68: 605-615.
Jones P.L., Flores V., Ryan M.J., Page R.A. 2013. When to approach novel prey? Social
learning strategies in frog-eating bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B
280: 1-6.
Jones P.L., Farris H.E., Ryan M.J., Page R.A. 2013. Do frog-eating bats perceptually bind the
complex components of frog calls? Journal of Comparative Physiology A 199: 279-283.
Jones P.L., Page R.P., Hartbauer M., Siemers B.M. 2011. Behavioral evidence for
eavesdropping on prey song in two Palearctic sibling bat species. Behavioral Ecology &
Sociobiology 65: 333–340.
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Jones P.L., Shulman M.J. 2008. Subtidal-Intertidal trophic links: American lobsters [Homarus
americanus (Milne-Edwards)] forage in the intertidal zone on nocturnal high tides. Journal
of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology 361: 98-103.
Mooney K.A., Jones P.L., Agrawal A.A. 2008. Coexisting congeners: demography, competition,
and interactions with cardenolides for two milkweed-feeding aphids. Oikos 117: 450-458.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Page R.A., Jones P.L., in press. Predator decision-making in sensory uncertainty. Perception
and Cognition in Animal Communication edited by Mark Bee & Cory Miller.
Jones P.L., Page R.A., Ratcliffe J.M. 2016. To scream or to listen? Prey detection and
discrimination in animal-eating bats Bat Bioacoustics, Springer Handbook of Acoustics
edited by Brock Fenton.
FACULTY MEMBER
Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach, Organization for Tropical Studies
(OTS), Costa Rica
2016
GUEST LECTURER
Mammalogy, Cornell University
2016
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS
Introductory Biology: Ecology & Evolution, University of Texas at Austin
Field Ecology, University of Texas at Austin
Animal Behavior, University of Texas at Austin
Genetics, University of Texas at Austin
Ecology, University of Texas at Austin
Marine Introductory Biology, Cornell University
Herpetology, Cornell University
2009, 2014
2013
2013
2010, 2012
2008
2007
2007
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
Newton Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Royal Society (declined)
Best Student Presentation, Division of Animal Behavior, Society for Integrative and
Comparative Biology Annual Meeting
Student Presentation Prize, International Bat Research Conference
Short Term Fellowship, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Frank & Fern Blair Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation
Jefferson Scholars Fellowship, University of Virginia (declined)
Dean’s Excellence Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
2014
2014
2013
2011
2009
2008
2008
2008
2008
PATRICIA L. JONES
RESEARCH GRANTS
Scholar Award, PEO Foundation ($15,000)
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation ($11,417)
Student Research Grant, Animal Behavior Society ($1,869)
Grants in Aid of Research, American Society of Mammalogists ($1,468)
2013
2012
2012
2011
MENTORING EXPERIENCE
Trained 1 undergraduate in conducting butterfly behavioral experiments,
Cornell University
Trained 1 undergraduate in conducting bee social learning experiments, Queen
Mary University
Trained 10 undergraduates in bat behavioral experiments and mentored
independent projects, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
2014 - 2015
2013
2009 - 2013
MEETING PRESENTATIONS
Ecology Society of America Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD USA
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting. Austin, TX USA.
International Bat Research Conference. San José, Costa Rica.
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour and the International Ethological
Conference. Newcastle, UK.
International Society for Behavioural Ecology. Lünd, Sweden.
Association for the Study of Animal Behavior – Understanding Animal Intelligence. St.
Andrews, UK.
International Bat Research Conference. Prague, Czech Republic.
Poster at American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Poster Session. Santa Fe,
NM USA.
2015
2014
2013
2013
2012
2011
2010
2007
INVITED SEMINARS & LECTURES
Learning in Milkweed Associated Insects. Snodgrass & Wigglesworth, Cornell
Undergraduate Entomology Club
Foraging decisions in eavesdropping bats. Department of Neurobiology and
Behavior, Cornell University. Ithaca, NY USA
Interactions between innate color preferences, individual experience, and social
information in bumblebee foraging decisions. Special Symposium on Color
Signals in Invertebrates, International Society for Behavioral Ecology. New
York, NY USA
Tropical Bat Field Ecology, Smithsonian Institution & East Carolina University,
Ohio State University & Ülm University
2015
2015
2014
2012, 2013
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION & OUTREACH
South Seneca Elementary, Guest Teacher on Bat Evolution, Ecology,
Echolocation, and Conservation over three courses to two 5th grade
2016
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classrooms
Belle Sherman Elementary School, Guest Teacher of Bat Pollination, three 2nd
grade classes
Waverly Elementary School, Guest Teacher of Plant Insect Interactions, four 3rd
grade classes
Cornell University, Insectapalooza, Presenter
Bat Conservation International, Presenter
Texas Memorial Museum, Darwin Day & Fright at the Museum, Presenter
Breaking Bio Podcast, Featured Researcher
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL9RMaILIPs)
Smithsonian Institution, Secret Life of the Rainforest Documentary, Featured
Researcher (www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/secret-life-of-therainforest/0/141211#cell-phone-training-for-bats)
Arizona State University Virtual Field Course, Featured Researcher
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=468kOuRGims#t=10)
2016
2016
2014
2014
2013, 2014
2013
2012
2012
REVIEWER
Science, Current Biology, Biology Letters, Animal Behaviour, European Journal of Mammalogy,
Journal of Physiology Paris
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
Animal Behavior Society, Ecological Society of America, International Society for Behavioral
Ecology
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Interactions between monarch butterflies, bumblebees and milkweed plants
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA
Social learning strategies in bumblebees Queen Mary University, London, UK
Foraging behavior and learning in frog-eating bats Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute, Gamboa, Panamá
Responses on Bechstein’s bats and mouse-eared bats to prey cues
University of Bern, Sion, Switzerland
Response of frog-eating bats to allopatric frog calls La Selva Biological
Station, Costa Rica
Differential learning of stimuli associated with food in mouse-eared and
Natterer’s bats Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen,
Germany
Response of mouse-eared bats to katydid calls Siemers Bat Research
Station, Tabachka, Bulgaria
Phonotaxis to choruses by male túngara frogs Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute, Gamboa, Panamá
2015
2013
2009 - 2013
2011
2010
2009
2009
2008
PATRICIA L. JONES
Effect of climate change on dates of emergence from hibernation in yellowbellied marmots Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic CO, USA
Dispersal behavior of brown treecreepers in sheep pastures CSIRO, Wagga
Wagga, Australia
Foraging behavior of lobsters in the intertidal region Shoals Marine
Laboratory, Appledore Island ME USA
Bioacoustic analysis of countersinging in male tropical mockingbirds Cornell
University, Ithaca NY, USA
Tritrophic interactions between ants, aphids and milkweed plants Cornell
University, Ithaca NY, USA
2008
2007 - 2008
REFERENCES
Dr. Ulrich Mueller
Dr. Anurag Agrawal
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary
Biology, Professor of Entomology
Cornell University
[email protected]
(607) 254-2455
Dr. Michael J. Ryan
Clark Hubbs Regents Professor in
Integrative Biology
University of Texas at Austin
[email protected]
(512) 471-5078
Dr. Rachel A. Page
Staff Scientist
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
[email protected]
(507) 212-8000
Dr. Lars Chittka
Professor of Sensory and Behavioural
Ecology
Queen Mary University of London
[email protected]
+44 (0)20 7882 3043
W.M. Wheeler Lost Pines Professor in
Integrative Biology
University of Texas at Austin
[email protected]
(512) 471-7619
2006
2006
2005