Professional Documents
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Rynkiewicz CV Spring 2018
Rynkiewicz CV Spring 2018
Professional Appointments
2017-present Assistant Professor of Ecological Sciences
Fashion Institute of Technology
Department of Science and Mathematics
Education
2013 Ph.D., Indiana University, Department of Biology
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Program
Advisor: Keith Clay
Publications
Babayan, S. A., W. Liu, G. Hamilton, E. Kilbride, E. C. Rynkiewicz, M. Clerc, and A. B. Pedersen. 2018. The
Immune and Non-Immune Pathways That Drive Chronic Gastrointestinal Helminth Burdens in the Wild.
Frontiers in Immunology. 9(56).
Rynkiewicz, Evelyn C.*, Julia Brown*, Danielle M. Tufts, Ching-I Huang, Helge Kampen, Stephen J. Bent,
Durland Fish, and Maria A. Diuk-Wasser. 2017. Closely-related Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto strains
exhibit similar fitness in single infections and asymmetric competition in multiple infections. Parasites &
Vectors. 10:64. *authors contributed equally to this work
Rynkiewicz, Evelyn C., Chris Hemmerich, Doug Rusch, Clay Fuqua and Keith Clay. 2015a. Concordance of
bacterial communities of two tick species and blood of their shared rodent host. Molecular Ecology. 24:
2566-2579.
Rynkiewicz, Evelyn C., Amy Pedersen, and Andy Fenton. An ecosystem approach to understanding and
managing within-host parasite community dynamics. 2015b. Trends in Parasitology. 31: 212-221.
Rynkiewicz, Evelyn C. and Keith Clay. Tick community composition in Midwestern US habitats in relation to
sampling method and environmental conditions. 2014. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 64:109-119.
Rynkiewicz, Evelyn C., Hadas Hawlena, Lance A. Durden, Michael W. Hastriter, Greg Demas, and Keith Clay.
2013. Associations between innate immune function and ectoparasites in wild rodent hosts. Parasitology
Research. 112:1763-1770.
Hawlena, H., E. Rynkiewicz, E. Toh, A. Alfred, L. A. Durden, M. W. Hastriter, D. E. Nelson, R. Rong, D. Munro,
Q. Dong, C. Fuqua, and K. Clay. 2013. The arthropod, but not the vertebrate host or its environment,
dictates bacterial community composition of fleas and ticks. ISME J. 7:221-223.
Civitello, David J., Evelyn Rynkiewicz and Keith Clay. 2010. Meta-analysis of co-infection in ticks. Israel Journal of
Ecology & Evolution. 56: 417-431
Bonner, Jose, James Hengeveld, Richard Holdeman, William Ruf, and Evelyn Rynkiewicz. 2008-present. Biology
L113 Laboratory Manual. Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Invited Talks
3/20/2018 Fairleigh Dickinson University (Madison, NJ)
2/22/2013 Wabash College (Crawfordsville, IN)
Professional Presentations
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease: 2010-2017 (selected for oral presentation 2015)
British Ecological Society: 2014, 2015
British Society for Parasitology: 2014, 2015
Ecological Society of America: 2011-2013, 2015
European Wildlife Disease Association: 2014
Indiana Academy of Science meeting: 2010-2011
Univ. of Michigan Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Early Career Scientists Symposium: 2011
IU Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior Conference: 2010-2012
IU Women in Science Research Conference: 2011
IU EEB Brown Bag Seminar: 2008, 2011