PATRICK GROF-TISZA

Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

p.groftisza@gmail.com http://patrickgroftisza.weebly.com

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2021- Research Scientist, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2018-2021 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (MSCA-IF), Department of Biological and Environmental

Sciences, University of Eastern Finland; Host: James Blande

2016-2018 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California,

Davis

2008-2015 Ph.D., Ecology, University of California, Davis

Committee: Richard Karban (chair), Marcel Holyoak, Jay Rosenheim, Hugh Dingle

2001-2005 B.S., Biology, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD; Summa cum laude

ACADEMIC INTERESTS
Multitrophic interactions Animal behavior & spatial dynamics
Chemical ecology Integrative Pest Management (IPM)
Biodiversity Sustainable Agriculture

PUBLICATIONS († = co-first author, * = student mentee)

Submitted/In review/ (available upon request)

Grof-Tisza, P., Muller*, M.H., Gónzalez-Salas, R., Bustos-Segura. C., and B. Benrey. The Mesoamerican
Milpa agroecosystem fosters greater arthropod diversity compared to monocultures. (In revision
Agriculture Ecosystems and the Environment)

Grof-Tisza, P. Bustos-Segura., C., Nobel, G., Turlings, T., and B. Benrey. Social predatory wasps use
herbivore-induced maize leaf volatiles to locate Spodoptera caterpillars (submitted)

Peer Reviewed Publications

29. Robinson, M.L., P.G. Hahn, P.G., Inouye, B.D., Underwood, N., Whitehead, S.R….
Grof-Tisza, P… and W.C. Wetzel. Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain variability in global
herbivory (in Press Science)

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28. Saunier, A., Grof-Tisza, P. ; and J. D. Blande. 2023. Effects of ozone exposure on the foraging behavior of
Bombus terrestris. Environmental Pollution 316:120573

27. Pepi A., Pan V., Grof-Tisza, P., Holyoak M., Ballman A., Laws-McNeil A., Mase V., Moseley C., and R.
Karban. 2023. Spatial habitat heterogeneity influences host-pathogen dynamics in a patchy population
of Ranchman's tiger moth. Ecology July 20:e4144.

26. Dalíková, M. Provazníková, I., Provazník, J., Grof-Tisza, P. Pepi, A. and P. Nguyen. 2023. The Role of
Repetitive Sequences in Repatterning of Major Ribosomal DNA Clusters in Lepidoptera, Genome
Biology and Evolution 15: evad090

25. Grof-Tisza, P., Kruizegar, N*, Terahauta, A. I., and J. D, Blade. 2022 Volatile-mediated induced and
passively acquired resistance in Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata). Journal of Chemical Ecology 48:
730–745

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24. Grof-Tisza, P., Morelon, S; Desurmont, G. A. and, B., Benrey. 2022. Population-specific plant-to-plant
signaling in wild lima bean. Plants 1: 2320.

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23. Pepi, A., Grof-Tisza, P ., Karban, R., Pepi, A. and M.A. Holyoak. 2022. Hilltopping influences spatial
dynamics in patchy population of tiger moths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20220505

22. Karban,R., Grof-Tisza, P., and C. Couchoux. 2022. Consistent individual variation in plant communication:
Do plants have personalities? Oecologia 199, 129–137.

21. Grof-Tisza, P., Karban, R., Suanier. A., Rasheed. M. U., and J. Blande. 2021. Risk of herbivory negatively
correlates with the diversity of volatile emissions involved in plant communication. Proceedings of the
Royal Society B 288:20211790

20. Grof-Tisza, P., Karban, R., Pan*, V., and J. Blande. 2020. Assessing plant-to-plant communication and
induced resistance in sagebrush using the sagebrush specialist Trirhabda pilosa. Arthropod-Plant
Interactions 14:327–332.

19. Grof-Tisza, P., Karban, R., Pepi, A. and M.A. Holyoak. 2019. Precipitation dependent source-sink
dynamics in a spatially-structured population of an outbreaking caterpillar. Landscape Ecology
34:1131–1143.

18. Karban, R., LoPresti, E., Pepi, A., and P. Grof-Tisza. 2019. Induction of the sticky plant syndrome in wild
tobacco. Ecology 100: e02746

17. Grof-Tisza, P., and A. Pepi, 2018. Cannibalism of pupae by caterpillars of the Ranchman’s Tiger Moth,
Arctia virginalis (Lepidoptera: Erebidae). The American Midland Naturalist 181:139-142.

16. Pepi, A., Grof-Tisza, P., Holyoak, M. and R. Karban, 2018. As temperature increases, predator attack rate
is more important to survival than a smaller window of prey vulnerability. Ecology 99:1584-1590.

15. Grof-Tisza, P., Steel, Z., Cole, E. Holyoak, M., and R. Karban. 2017. Testing predictions of
movement behavior in a hilltopping moth. Animal Behaviour 133:161-168.

14. LoPresti. L., Grof-Tisza, P., Robbinson, M., and J. Godfrey. 2017. Entrapped sand as a plant defense:
effects on herbivore performance and preference. Ecological Entomology 43:154-161.

13. Grof-Tisza, P, Lopresti, E. and S. Heath. 2017. Plant structural complexity and mechanical defenses
mediate predator-prey interactions in an odonate-bird system. Ecology and Evolution 7:1650-1659.

12. Karban, R., Grof-Tisza, P., and M.A. Holyoak. 2017. Wet years have more caterpillars: interacting roles of
plant litter and predation by ants. Ecology 98:2370-2378.

11. Grof-Tisza, P, Steel, Z. and R. Karban. 2017. The spatial distribution and oviposition preference of the
ranchman’s tiger moth, Platyprepia virginalis (Lepidoptera: Eribidae). The Journal of the
Lepidopterists' Society 71:16-19.

10. LoPresti, E. Grof-Tisza, P., Robinson, M., Wetzel, W., and R. Karban. 2016. The natural history
supplement: furthering natural history amongst ecologists and evolutionary biologists. Bulletin of the
Ecological Society of America 97: 305-310.

9. Karban, R., Grof-Tisza, P., and J. Blande. 2016. Chemotypic variation in volatiles and herbivory for
sagebrush. Journal of Chemical Ecology 42: 829-840.

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8. Karban, R., Grof-Tisza, P., McMunn, M., Kharouba, H., and M. Huntzinger. 2015. Caterpillars escape
predation in habitat and thermal refuges. Ecological Entomology 40:725-731.

7. Hughes, K. Pearse, I. Grof-Tisza, P. and R. Karban. 2015. Individual‐level differences in generalist

caterpillar responses to a plant–plant cue. Ecological Entomology 40: 612-619.

6. Grof-Tisza, P., E. Antell*, M. A. Holyoak, R. Karban. 2015. Predation and associational refuge drives
ontogenetic niche shift in an arctiid caterpillar. Ecology 96: 80-89.

5. Karban, R., Mata, T., Grof-Tisza, P., Crutsinger, G., and M. A. Holyoak. 2013. Non-trophic effects of litter
reduce ant predation and determine caterpillar survival and distribution. Oikos 122: 1362-1370.

4. Karban, R., Grof-Tisza, P., Maron, J. L., and M. A. Holyoak. 2012. The Importance of host plant limitation
for caterpillars of the arctiid moth (Platyprepia virginalis) varies spatially. Ecology 93: 2216–2226.

3. Karban, R., Grof-Tisza, P. and M. Holyoak. 2012. Facilitation of tiger moths by out-breaking tussock moths
that share the same host plants. Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 1095–1102.

2. Schwartz, M. W. Deiner, K., Forrester, T., Grof-Tisza, P., Muir, M. J. Santos, M. J.; Souza, L. E.; Wilkerson,
M. L., and M. Zylberberg, 2012. Perspectives on the open standards for the practice of conservation.
Biological Conservation 155:169-177.

1. Rosenkranz, M. E., Wilson, D. C., Marinov, A. D., Decewicz, A., Grof-Tisza, P., Kirchner, D., Giles, B.,
Reynolds, P. R., Liebman, M. N., Kolli, V. S. K., Thompson, S. D. and Hirsch, R. 2010. Synovial fluid
proteins differentiate between the subtypes of juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Arthritis & Rheumatism
62: 1813–1823.

Technical Reports
Steel, Z., L., Wilkerson, M., Grof-Tisza, P. and K. Sulzner. Assessing species and area vulnerability to climate
change for the Oregon Conservation Strategy: Willamette Valley Ecoregion. 2011. Prepared for the
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Defenders of Wildlife.

Ling-ru, C., Wehrmann, A. Hammock, B., Calanchini, Grof-Tisza, P., Turner, M., and M. Johnson. 2008.
Bacteria Monitoring Inventory of California’s Freshwater Beaches Prepared for the State Water
Resources Control Board’s Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, HONORS, AWARDS (Total ~$340,000)

2018 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship ($220,000)
2017 Mary Bowerman Science and Research Grant ($1,000)
2015 Marin Rod and Gun Club Grant ($2,000)
2014 University of California’s Nature Reserve System Grant ($2,300)
2014 Mildred E. Mathias Grant ($2,000)
2013 Professor for the Future Fellowship, UCD ($3,000)
2013 UC Davis Jastro Shields Grant, UCD ($2,500)
2013 Teaching Assistant Consultant Fellowship, UCD ($3,500)
2012, 2011 NSF-STEM Fellowship ($68,000)
2012 Graduate Group of Ecology Block Grant Fellowship, UCD ($10,500)
2011 UC Davis Jastro Shields Grant, UCD ($1,750)
2010 NSF-Graduate Research Fellowship Program honorable mention
2009 Graduate Group of Ecology Block Grant Fellowship, UCD ($10,500)
2005 Valedictorian/Commencement speaker Frostburg State University, FSU
2005 Frostburg State University Department of Biology Honor Award
2005 Summa Cum Laude and invited to Dean’s Colloquium, FSU
2004 Nemacolin Trout Unlimited Scholarship, FSU ($1,000)
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2004 NSF-REU Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh ($3,000)
2002, 2001 Academic Excellence Scholarship, FSU ($8,000)
2001 Lewis J. Ort Science Scholarship, FSU ($1,000)

PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
2014 Professors for the Future, Graduate Studies, UC Davis
Awarded competitive fellowship that develops leadership skills and pedagogical knowledge for
aspiring professors through the development of campus-wide workshops

2013-14 Teaching Assistant Consultant, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, UC Davis
Received competitive fellowship, where I developed and led teaching workshops for graduate
students and post-docs; conducted consultations with teaching assistants based on mid-quarter
evaluations, in-class observations, and video recordings to improve graduate student teaching

2013 Seminar on College Teaching, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, UC Davis
Participated in a seminar focused on curriculum design, evidence-based teaching, developing an
inclusive classroom, and active learning

2011, 2012 National Science Foundation GK-12 Pedagogical Preparation, Bodega Marine Lab, UC Davis
Learned how to facilitate open-inquiry-based instruction in high school classrooms – training for
NSF GK-12 STEM Fellows

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Professor/Instructor of Record

2021 Ecological Interactions, University of Neuchâtel
2019, 2020 Design of Ecological and Environmental Experiments, University of Eastern Finland
2016, 2017 Study Design and Field Methods (NATR 310), American River College
2016 Foundations of Biology (Biol 300), American River College, Sacramento, CA
2015, 2016 Survey of Biology (Biol 303), American River College, Sacramento, CA
2015 Natural History and Field Ecology of Coastal California (Biol 390), American River College,
Sacramento, CA;

Teaching Assistant
2014, 2015 Terrestrial Field Ecology (ECL 225), UC Davis
2014 Ecology and Evolution of Plant and Animal Interactions (EVE 181), UC Davis
2014 Positioning Yourself for Success (SAS 098), Student mentoring program, UC Davis
2011 Introduction to Biology (BIS 2A), Lead TA overseeing 5 TAs, UC Davis
2009, 2010 Introduction to Biology (BIS 2A), UC Davis

K-12 Teaching
2012, 2013 National Science Foundation-Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (NSF-
STEM) Grades K-12 Fellowship, Santa Rosa High School, Santa Rosa, CA
Designed and taught a yearlong inquiry-based ecology curriculum for high school students, where
students designed and executed their own research projects

Guest Lecturer
2018 American River College, Conservation Biology (BIOL 310)
Lecture title: Island biogeography and metapopulation dynamics.

2016 California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA Ecology and Environmental Issues
seminar (BIO/ENVS186B)
Lecture title: Understanding the importance of non-trophic resources in conservation biology.

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2015 American River College, Sacramento, CA, Principles of Ecology (NATR 320)
Lecture title: The importance of ontogeny and species interactions on population structure.

2014 UC Davis, Ecology and Evolution of Plant and Animal Interactions (EVE 181)
Lecture title: The effects of herbivory on plant communities.

2014 American River College, Conservation Biology (BIOL 352)

Lecture title: Climate change vulnerability analysis for species of conservation concern within the
Willamette Valley Ecoregion

2013 American River College, Conservation Biology (BIOL 352)

Lecture title: Intersection of conservation research and policy.

Workshop Facilitator
2015 Society for Ecotoxicology and Chemistry Conference, Sacramento, CA
Workshop title: “Introduction to Data Manipulation, Analysis, and Visualization with the Statistical
Package R”

2014 Professional Development for Graduate Students, Postdocs and Faculty, UC Davis
Workshop title: “Introduction to the Statistical Package R”

2014 Pedagogical Workshop Series, UC Davis

Workshop title: “The Learner-Centered Classroom: How to Engage, Motivate, and Assess Student
Learning”

2013 Teacher’s Assistant Orientation Training, UC Davis

Co-designed and led the teacher’s assistant orientation training, which is required fall graduate
student teaching assistants at UC Davis

2010 Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Salem, OR.

Workshop title: “Assessing species’ vulnerability to climate change in the Willamette Valley
Ecoregion”

MENTORING
2021 Matia Muller, Yulisa Moreno, Clarisse Erb: UNE
Ecology MSc students studying the biotic interactions of intercropping systems

2019 Natasja Krutzenga, Erasmus Intern; Project title: “Plant communication in sagebrush”

2019 Ila Uronen and Colin Jarba, Summer field technicians assisting with plant communication
experiments and choice-tests with beetles

2018 Vincent Pan, Entomology Honors Student; Project title: “Understanding interspecies volatile-
mediated communication within sagebrush”; Current position: PhD student Michigan State
University

2017 Jia Wang, UCD Provost’s Undergraduate Fellow; Project title: “Testing the Importance of Volatile
Cues in Host Location by the Parasitic Fly Thelaira americana.”
Fellowship award: $750

2014 Adriana Stagnaro, Field technician; Current position: Project Coordinator at Gold Ridge
Resource Conservation District, Sebastopol, California

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2013 Edward Antell, Field technician; Current position: PhD Student, University of California, Berkeley

2012 Keenan Hartert, Field technician; Current position: PhD Student, University of Nebraska Medical
Center

2010 Ronald Bracken, Part-time laboratory technician, Current position: Registered Nurse, Alameda
County Medical Center

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Academic conferences; oral/poster* presentations

2023 Plant Signaling and Behavior – Invited speaker
2023 Plant-Herbivore Interaction* Gordon Research Conference
2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 Ecological Society of America
2013, 2017 Entomological Society of America

Invited academic lectures

2020 University of Turku, Finland, Biology department seminar
2019 California State University, East Bay CA, Biology department seminar
2018 University of Georgia, GA, Entomology department seminar
2017 California State University, East Bay CA, Biology department seminar
2017 Loyola Marymount University, CA, Biology department seminar

ACADEMIC SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP

Current Reviewer, Oecologia, Oikos, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Journal of Applied
Ecology,
Ecological Entomology, Insects, Ecology, Biology Letters

2008-10 Society for Conservation Biology Outreach Program Chair, UC Davis

Coordinated visits and taught ecological concepts through interactive activities with local
elementary schools

2004-05 Vice President for Tri-Beta Biology Honor Society, FSU

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