CURRICULUM VITAE

 

DEBORAH ANN ROACH

EDUCATION

MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, SOUTH HADLEY, MASS.  1975-1978

Biology. B.A. Undergraduate thesis:  "Anatomical, Reproductive, and Physiological Features of Early Colonizing Alpine Plant Species".

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, N.C.  1979-1984

M.S. thesis:  "Buried Seed and Standing Vegetation in Two Adjacent Tundra Habitats, Northern Alaska".

Ph.D. thesis:  "Ecological Genetics of Life History Components in Geranium carolinianum".


EMPLOYMENT

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of Biology, University of Virginia 1998-present

RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of Zoology, Duke University 1987-1998

ASSISTANT DEAN, Natural Sciences, Duke University 1987-1990

NIH POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, Department of Zoology, Duke University 1984-1987

TEACHING ASSISTANT, Department of Botany, Duke University 1980-1984

 

PUBLICATIONS     

  • Roach, D.A. and J. Gampe. 2004. Age specific demography in Plantago: Uncovering age-dependent mortality in a natural population.
    American Naturalist 164(1).
  • Vaupel, J.W., A. Baudisch, M. Dolling, D.A. Roach, and J. Gampe. 2004. The case for negative senescence. Theoretical Population Biology. 65:339-351.
  • Roach, D.A.2004. Evolutionary approaches to the study of whole plant senescence. pp. 331-348. In: Plant Cell Death Processes
    (L.D. Nooden, Ed.). Academic Press.
  • Roach, D.A. 2003. Age specific demography in Plantago: Variation among cohorts in a natural population. Ecology 84(3):749-756 .
  • Lacey, E.P., D.A. Roach, D.Herr, S. Kincaid, and Rachel Perrott. 2003. Multigenerational effects of flowering and fruiting phenology in Plantago lanceolata. Ecology 84(9):2462-75.
  • Dudycha, J. and D.A. Roach. 2003.  Pathogen frequency in an age-structured population of Plantago lanceolata. Oecologia 136:141-147.
  • Roach, D.A. 2001. Environmental effects on age-dependent mortality: A test with a perennial plant species under natural and protected conditions. Journal of Gerontology 36:687-694.
  • Roach, D.A. 1999. Ecology and the comparative approach. (Book review).  New Phytologist 142:1-2.
  • Roach, D.A. 1993. Evolutionary senescence in plants. Genetica 91:53-64. Reprinted in Genetics and Evolution of Aging, 1994, M.R. Rose and C.E. Finch (Eds.), p.71-82, Volume 3 of Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution, Kluwer Academic Publishers.     
  • Roach, D.A. 1992.  Parental care and the allocation of resources across generations.   Evolutionary Ecology  6:187-197.
  • Roach, D.A. 1992. The biology of life span. (Book review). Ecology 73(1):379-381.    
  • Roach, D. A. and R. Wulff. 1987.  Maternal effects in plants.  Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.  18:209-35.
  • Roach, D. A. 1987.  Variation in seed and seedling size in Anthoxanthum odoratum.  American Midland Naturalist.  117(2):258-264.
  • Roach, D. A. 1986.  Time of seed production and dispersal in Geranium carolinianum:
    Identifying the important components of fitness for an annual plant.  Ecology 67(2):572- 576.
  • Roach, D. A. 1986.  Life history variation in Geranium carolinianum. I. Covariation between characters at different stages of the life cycle. American Naturalist 128(1):47-57.
  • Roach, D. A. 1985.  Genetic and environmental constraints to selection response for juvenile characters in Geranium carolinianum.  In:  Genetic Differentiation and Dispersal in Plants. pp. 191-201. (P. Jacquard, G. Heim, and J. Antonovics Eds.) NATO ASI Series, Vol. G5.  Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
  • Roach, D. A. and P. J. Marchand.  1984.  Recovery of alpine disturbances: early growth and survival in populations of the native Species Arenaria groenlandica, Juncus trifidus, and Potentilla tridentata.    Arctic and Alpine Research.  16(1):37-43.
  • Roach, D. A. 1983.  Buried seed and standing vegetation in two adjacent tundra habitats, northern Alaska.  Oecologia 60(3):359-364.
  • Marchand, P. J. and D. A. Roach. 1980. Reproductive strategies of pioneering alpine species: Seed production, dispersal, and germination. Arctic and Alpine Research. 12(2):137-146.

TEACHING
Undergraduate:
             BIOL 314 Biology of Aging
Graduate:   
             BIOL 825 Scientific Papers and Presentations
             BIOL 807 Colloquium in Population Biology
             BIOL 881 Selected Topics in Ecology and Evolution

 

AWARDS

Phi Beta Kappa

University of Virginia Lilly Teaching Fellowship Award 2002-03

Biology Department Distinguished Teaching Award May 2005
UVA Cavalier Distinguished Teaching Professor 2006-2008