Ryan Raaum

University of Florida

Department of Anthropology / UF Genetics Institute

Room 415, 1376 Mowry Road, PO Box 103601

Gainesville, FL 32611

raaum@anthro.ufl.edu

http://raaum.org

Positions Held

2006- Postdoctoral Associate, Anthropology, Dr. Connie Mulligan, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2005-2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Cell Biology, Dr. Anura Rambukkana, Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Spring 2005 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lehman College, New York, NY
2004-2005 Research Assistant, Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Spring 2004 Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College, New York, NY
Fall 2003 Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College, New York, NY
Summer 2003 Adjunct Lecturer, New York University, New York, NY
1998-2003 Graduate Research Assistant, New York University, New York, NY
Fall 2001 Graduate Teaching Assistant, New York University, New York, NY
Summer 1997 Field Research Assistant to Dr. James Paterson in the Budongo Forest, Uganda

Education

2004 Ph.D., Anthropology, Dr. Todd Disotell, New York University, New York, NY
2001 M.A., Anthropology, Dr. Todd Disotell, New York University, New York, NY
1998 B.Sc. (Honours), Anthropology, Dr. James Paterson, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

Fellowships and Awards

2003-2004 James Arthur Dissertation Fellowship, New York University
1998-2003 McCracken Fellowship, New York University
1993-1994 National Merit Scholarship, Harvey Mudd College

Grants

2003-2004 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (with Todd Disotell), Nucleotide Substitution Rate Variation in the Catarrhini (Order Primates)

Publications

Sterner KN, Raaum RL, Zhang YP, Stewart CB & Disotell TR. (2006). Mitochondrial data support an odd-nosed colobine clade. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 40(1):1-7.

Raaum RL, Sterner KN, Noviello CM, Stewart C-B & Disotell TR. (2005). Divergence Date Estimates from Complete Catarrhine Mitochondrial Genomes: Concordance with Nuclear DNA and Fossil Evidence. Journal of Human Evolution 48(3):237-257.

Disotell TR & Raaum RL. (2003). Molecular Timescale and Gene Tree Incongruence in the Guenons, in The Guenons: Diversity and Adaptation in African Monkeys. Edited by M. Glenn and M. Cords, pp. 25-34.New York: Kluwer.

Software

dvlr (dorsal, ventral, left, right), a program that enables users to collect 3D landmarks in two specimen orientations and then 'paste' them together to create a single individual. Available from the NYCEP Morphometrics Group web site.

resample, a program that enables users to resample a curvilinear set of semi-landmarks into a user-prescribed set of evenly-spaced semi-landmarks, using weighted linear interpolation. Available from the NYCEP Morphometrics Group web site.