Personal brief: Manus Michael Patten, Ph.D. Born December 1, 1980 in Brooklyn, NY Education: 2002–2008 Harvard University. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. PhD in Biology June, 2008. 1998–2002 Syracuse University. Graduated magna cum laude with honors earning a B.S. in Selected Studies (Biomathematics). Attended public elementary and secondary school on the Jersey shore. Employment history: 2008–present Harvard University, Preceptor in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Publications:
 201_ Patten, M. M. Population genetic models of intralocus genetic conflict. submitted 201_ Patten, M. M. Levels of selection. In Breed, M. and J. Moore (eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. 2009 Patten, M. M. and D. Haig. Maintenance or loss of genetic variation under sexual and parental antagonism at a sex-linked locus. Evolution 63: 2888-2895. 2009 Patten, M. M. and D. Haig. Parental sex discrimination and intralocus sexual conflict. Biology Letters 5: 667-670. 2008 Patten, M. M. and D. Haig. Reciprocally imprinted genes and the response to selection on one sex. Genetics 179: 1389-1394. 2007 Quental, T. B., M. M. Patten, and N. E. Pierce. Host plant specialization by means of sexual selection. American Naturalist 169(6): 830-836. 2002 Starmer, W. T., M. Patten, and M. Polak. The statistics of detecting positional fluctuating asymmetry. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(4): 491-498. Teaching Experience: 2008–present Preceptor for OEB 10: Foundations of Biological Diversity and OEB 55: Ecology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary biology at Harvard University 2007–2008 Non-resident tutor at Cabot House 2007 OEB 53 Evolution, teaching fellow 2006 BS 91r Supervised Reading, supervisor (Memes & Cultural Evolution) 2005 BS 57 Animal Behavior, teaching fellow 2004 BS50 Genetics and Genomics, teaching fellow 2004 OEB114 Vertebrate Viviparity, teaching fellow Honors and Awards: 2004–2007 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 2004 Three Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center at Harvard University for teaching 2002 S.U. biology department’s Lundgren Award for outstanding senior 1998–2002 Chancellor’s Scholarship to Syracuse University 2001 Goldwater Scholarship 2001 American Physiological Society Summer Research fellowship Posters and Presentations: 2008 “Sexual and parental antagonism on the X chromosome” University of Tennessee - Knoxville. 2008 “Evolutionary theories of sexual and parental antagonism.” Syracuse University. 2008 “Intralocus Sexual and Parental Antagonism.” Evolution meeting, Minneapolis, MN. 2007 “Memes and Cultural Evolution.” Talk delivered to EvolGroup at Harvard University. 2006 "A View of Two Conflicts From a Single Gene." Accepted talk, delivered at the 2nd annual Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior Graduate Student symposium, Cambridge, MA. 2001 “Time-course for upregulation of Na-H Exchange by Human Cytomegalovirus.” Poster presented at Experimental Biology, Orlando FL. Academic Service: 2004–2008 Departmental Mind/Brain/Behavior graduate student representative (co-chair 2006-2008) 2004–2005 Departmental graduate student council representative Ad hoc reviews for Biology Letters, Evolution, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Ecology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, and Roberts & Co. 
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