Tim O'Connor

Tim O'Connor
Ph.D. Candidate

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Integrative Biology

Office: 4095 Valley Life Sciences Building
tko2 [at] berkeley [dot] edu

Under renovation -- coming soon!

PUBLISHED

Morlon, H*, TK O'Connor*, JA Bryant, LK Charkoudian, KM Docherty, E Jones, SW Kembel, JL Green, and BJM Bohannan. 2015. The biogeography of putative microbial antibiotic production. PLoS ONE doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130659 (* indicates equal contribution)

O'Connor, TK*, PT Humphrey*, RT Lapoint, NK Whiteman, and PM O'Grady. 2014. Microbial interactions in the ecology and evolution of Hawaiian Drosophilidae. Frontiers in Microbiology 5:616. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00616.

Press: Popular Science

Kembel, SW, TK O'Connor, HK Arnold, SP Hubbell, SJ Wright, and JL Green. 2014. Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111:13715–13720.

Meadow, JF, AE Altrichter, SW Kembel, TK O'Connor, GZ Brown, JL Green, and BJM Bohannan. 2014. Bacterial communities on classroom surfaces vary with human contact. Microbiome 2:7. doi:10.1186/2049-2618-2-7.
Kembel, SW, JF Meadow, TK O'Connor, G Mhuireach, D Northcutt, J Kline, M Moriyama, GZ Brown, BJM Bohannan, and JL Green. 2014. Architectural design drives the biogeography of indoor bacterial communities. PLOS ONE doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087093
Meadow, JF, AC Bateman, KM Herkert*, TK O'Connor, and JL Green. 2013. Significant changes in the skin microbiome mediated by the sport of roller derby. PeerJ 1:e53. doi:10.7717/peerj.53 (* indicates mentored undergraduate)

Meadow, JF, AE Altrichter, SW Kembel, J Kline, G Mhuireach, M Moriyama, D Northcutt, TK O'Connor, AM Womack, GZ Brown, JL Green, and BJM Bohannan. 2013. Indoor airborne bacterial communities are influenced by ventilation, occupancy, and outdoor air source. Indoor Air doi:10.1111/ina.12047
O'Connor, TK, CK Starr, and SA Cameron. 2011. The Neotropical social wasp Mischocyttarus alfkenii Ducke (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) is a pair of ethospecies. Systematic Entomology 35:446-452 (result of undergraduate thesis).
Hines, HM, JH Hunt, TK O'Connor, JJ Gillespie, and SA Cameron. 2007. Multigene phylogeny reveals eusociality evolved twice in vespid wasps. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:3295-3299.

IN PREPARATION

O'Connor, TK. (In preparation). Host plant polyploidy determines distribution and diversity of galling insects in North American deserts.
Lapoint, RT, AD Gloss, S Ayala, A Castillo, J Charbonneau, AC Nelson Dittrich, B Goldman-Huertas, SC Groen, PT Humphrey, JAH Koop, D LaRoche, P Nabity, AG Schissler, TK O’Connor, and NK Whiteman. (In preparation). Fly genomes reveal evolutionary origins of herbivory.

2017 - Philomathia Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Sciences
2016 - Southwestern Association of Naturalists Howard McCarley Research Grant
2016 - Orthopterists' Society Theodore J. Cohn Research Grant
2016 - American Museum of Natural History Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant
2015 - University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant
2015 - University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Research Grant
2014 - Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Grant-in-Aid of Research
2014 - Society for the Study of Evolution Rosemary Grant Award
2014 - Mycological Society of America Clark T. Rogerson Student Research Award
2014 - University of Arizona College of Science Galileo Circle Scholarship
2012 - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2012 - NSF IGERT Fellowship in Comparative Genomics