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Kevin R. Theis, Ph.D.

Research Educator Track

Office Address: 540 East Canfield, 7130 Scott Hall

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201

Telephone: 313-577-9746

E-mail Address: [email protected]

EDUCATION Graduate (Ph.D.):

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Baccalaureate (B.S. w/ Honors):

SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY

Baccalaureate (B.A.):

LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY

DATES

2008

2001

1996

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

Postdoctoral Fellow

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

2009 – 2014

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor (Research Educator, Tenure Track, Primary Appointment)

Microbiology, Immunology & Biochemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Assistant Professor (Secondary Appointment)

Internal Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Research Assistant Professor

Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Visiting Assistant Instructor

Zoology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

9 / 1 / 2015 – present

9 / 1 / 2015 – present

1 / 1 / 2015 – 8 / 31/ 15

2005 – 2007

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Society for Microbiology

Animal Behavior Society

2008 – 2018

2000 – 2018

HONORS/AWARDS

Selected for inclusion in a Special Issue of mSystems, an American Society for

Microbiology journal, highlighting the perspectives of early career systems

microbiology scientists

Invited Plenary Speaker, 1st International Conference on Holobionts, Paris, France

Two of my papers on hologenomics, published in PLoS Biology and mSystems,

recommended on Faculty 1000

2018

2017

2017

2

Research featured in children’s book, The Secrets of the Bird’s Smart Brain (Chapter 2)

Research featured in public television documentary, The Microbes that Rule Our

World (originally aired November 5, 2016)

Research featured in Ed Yong’s New York Times Best-Seller, I Contain Multitudes:

The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Chapter 3)

Research featured in a commentary in the journal BioEssays, “Microbes and animal

olfactory communication: Where do we go from here?”, 36: 1- 8

Invited Plenary Speaker, AAAS General Meeting, Chicago, IL

Invited Plenary Speaker, General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology,

San Francisco, CA

Invited Plenary Speaker, Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium,

Groningen, the Netherlands

Travel Award, American Society for Microbiology, ASM Conference on Beneficial

Microbes, San Diego, CA

Excellence-in-Teaching Citation

MSU Foundation, Michigan State University Distinguished Student Speaker Award

Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Behavior, Michigan State University

Inspirer of Learning

Department of Residence Life, Michigan State University

John R. Shaver Research Fellowship, Michigan State University

Recruiting Fellowship, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University

Honors, distinction from baccalaureate thesis from SUNY ESF, Biology

2017

2016

2016

2014

2014

2012

2012

2008

2008

2008

2008

2005 – 2006

2002

2001

SERVICE

Wayne State University

Department / Division

Salary Committee

Seminar Committee

Graduate Studies Committee

School of Medicine

Served as a mentor for the Medical Mentors Pipeline Program; Shelby Gilyard

completed a six-week research fellowship in my laboratory

Consulted with CMMG and IM on establishing a genomic sequencing and data

analysis facility within the SOM; visited the facility at Wash U, St. Louis using my

own start-up funds

University

Dinner with Professors

Judge for Graduate Student Research Day

Judge for Graduate and Postdoc Research Symposium

Panelist for Graduate and Postdoctoral Professional Development workshop on

Multiple Role Management

2016 – present

2015 – present

2015 – present

2017

2016

2017

2016 – 2017

2016

2015 – 2017

3

Professional

Convener of session Host-Microbiota evolutionary ecology: ramifications

for managing microbiomes at Michigan Meeting 2016 - Unseen Partners:

Microbial Communities that Support Human and Environmental Health

Selection committee for 11th Annual Early Career Scientists Symposium,

Ecosystems within organisms: ecology and evolution of the microbiome,

University of Michigan

Contributor to the Art of Animal Microbes exhibit at Cornell University

Convener and moderator of Sandbox Session. Host-microbial co-

evolutionary models: is a synthesis possible? BEACON Congress 2014,

East Lansing, MI.

Co-moderator of symposium, The role of bacteria in vertebrate chemical

signaling: the scents of symbiosis. International Society of Chemical

Ecology / Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XIII, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Evaluator for mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research

Experiences (mid-SURE 2013)

Moderator of session, Evolution of Behavior and Group Dynamics. BEACON

Congress 2013, East Lansing, MI.

Convener and moderator of plenary session, Who’s in charge? How microbes affect

animal behavior. 112th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology,

San Francisco, CA.

Panelist for graduate-level Professional Development seminar, Michigan

State University

2016

2014 – 2015

2014

2014

2014

2013

2013

2012

2010 – 2014

Affiliate Medical Organizations

Detroit Medical Center: Served as a faculty mentor for Maternal-Fetal Medical

Fellows. Two Fellows have completed formal research rotations in my laboratory.

One has successfully defended his thesis (June 12, 2017).

Perinatology Research Branch: Provide research, advisory, and administrative

services in support of the Perinatology Research Branch. Specifically, I am the

Section Head of the Perinatal Infectious Disease and Human Microbiome Unit. I

develop and direct the research agenda for the Unit, defend this agenda during

NICHD Site Visits and reviews, generate SOPs for microbiome collection and

storage, provide weekly progress reports and attend weekly Section Head meetings,

and present and publish Unit findings in accordance with PRB guidelines.

2016 – 2018

2016 – 2018

Community

Provided interviews about my research to science writers from Nature, Science,

National Geographic, NPR’s Science Friday, Vice, the Los Angeles Times, among

others. Also provided interviews to journalism graduate students at Boston

University, MIT, and UC Santa Cruz. Featured in Hide n’ Seek, an episode of The Really Wild Show on BBC that “turns

around the reputation of the bad boys of Africa – hyenas”

2012 – 2018

2005

Scholarly Service Grant Review Committees

4

National/International

Ad hoc reviewer, Israel Science Foundation

Ad hoc reviewer, National Science Foundation, Division of Behavioral and

Cognitive Sciences, Biological Anthropology

Ad hoc reviewer, National Science Foundation, Division of Integrative

Organismal Systems, Symbiosis, Defense and Self-Recognition

Ad hoc reviewer, National Science Foundation, Division of Integrative

Organismal Systems, Animal Behavior

Ad hoc reviewer, National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental

Biology, Dimensions of Biodiversity

Full member (panelist), National Science Foundation, Division of

Environmental Biology, Dimensions of Biodiversity, Arlington, VA

Ad hoc reviewer, Graduate Women in Science

Full member (panelist), National Science Foundation, Division of

Integrative Organismal Systems, Arlington, VA

Regional/Local

Ad hoc reviewer, BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action,

Michigan State University

Service for Peer-Reviewed Journals Editorship

Editorial Board Membership

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Coevolution) – Associate Editor

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Chemical Ecology) – Review Editor

Review of Manuscripts

Molecular Ecology

Frontiers in Immunology

Integrative & Comparative Biology

Microbial Ecology

Microbiome

Nature Ecology and Evolution

Postgraduate Medicine

Trends in Biotechnology

Acta Biotheoretica

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (3, 2018; 2, 2017; 3, 2016)

Environmental Microbiology

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Frontiers in Microbiology (1, 2018; 1, 2017; 1, 2016)

Journal of Experimental Biology (1, 2018; 1, 2016)

Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences

mBio

PLoS Pathogens

2017

2017

2017

2016

2015, 2016

2015

2013 – 2014, 2018

2012

2011 – 2018

2017 – present

2014 – present

2018

2017

2017

2017

2017

2017

2017

2017

2016

2016 – 2018

2016

2016

2016 – 2018

2016 – 2018

2016

2016

2016

5

Scientific Reports (1, 2017; 1, 2016)

The ISME Journal (1, 2017; 1, 2016)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology (1, 2016; 1, 2015)

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Behavioral Ecology

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Genes (1, 2011; 1, 2018)

Animal Behaviour (1, 2016; 3, 2010)

Naturwissenschaften

Review of Textbooks / Monographs / Chapters

Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XIII

Cambridge University Press

Springer-Verlag

Oxford University Press

2016 – 2017

2016 – 2017

2015 – 2016

2015

2015

2014

2014

2011 – 2018

2010 – 2016

2009

2015

2013

2013

2011

TEACHING

Teaching at Wayne State University

Graduate students

IM 7450 Current Trends in Immunology, Microbiology and Virology, Co-Instructor

IM 7020/7520 Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenesis, Co-Instructor

Yr 2 Medical Student Immunology/Microbiology/Infectious Disease, Co-Instructor

and Laboratory Instructor

IM 7040 Fundamentals of Research, Co-Instructor

MGG 7020 Metabolism and Disease, Guest Lecturer

Perinatology Research Branch

Develop and present lectures on the human microbiome to the Maternal Fetal

Medicine Fellows and associated faculty every other Monday in Research Rounds

2017

2016 – 2018

2016, 2017

2016, 2017

2016, 2017

2016 – 2018

Teaching at Other Institutions

Undergraduate students

BIO 173 Introductory Biology Lab, Guest Lecturer, University of Michigan

BIO 207 Introductory Microbiology, Guest Lecturer, University of Michigan

BIO 340 Animal Behavior, Guest Lecturer, Vassar College

MMG 425 Microbial Ecology, Guest Lecturer, Michigan State University

MMG 434 Genomics Lab, Guest Lecturer, Michigan State University

2015, 2016

2015

2013

2011, 2012

2010

6

ZOL 365 Biology of Mammals, Guest Lecturer, Michigan State University

ZOL 415 Behavioral Ecology, Guest Lecturer, Michigan State University

ZOL 313 Animal Behavior, Instructor, Michigan State University

Graduate students

MMG 803 Measuring Microbial Diversity, Co-Instructor (Senior Instructor: Thomas

Schmidt), Michigan State University

Faculty (e.g., CME)

Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Population Structures

(STAMPS), Co-Instructor, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

2008

2006, 2008, 2012

2005 – 2007

2009

2013

Mentorship

Postdoctoral Researchers

Andrew Winters, Ph.D., Research Associate, Reproductive Microbial

Ecology

Students

Madison Ahmad, M.S. Student, Reproductive Microbial Ecology

Ali Alhousseini, M.D., Ph.D. Student, Reproductive Physiology

Jonathan Greenberg, Ph.D. Student, Reproductive Microbial Ecology

Ph.D. / M.S. Committees

Paul Breen, Microbiology, Wayne State University

James Glassbrook, Virology, Wayne State University

Derek Miller, Immunology, Wayne State University

Andrew Neff, Human Microbial Ecology, Wayne State University

Katherine Nowak, Human Microbial Ecology, Wayne State University

Connie Rojas, Host Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University

[NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program; supervise microbiome work]

Dean Horton, Environmental Microbial Ecology, Central Michigan University

Patric Vaelli, Host Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University

[NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program; supervise microbiome work]

Medical School Prospectus Committees

Robin Bonomi, Ph.D.

Microbiology, Immunology & Biochemistry Laboratory Rotations

Madison Peterson, Ph.D. Student

Madison Ahmad, M.S. Student

James Glassbrook, Ph.D. Student

Jonathan Greenberg, Ph.D. Student

Master of Science in Basic Medical Sciences Committees

Qura Abid, Fecal Microbiome Transplants, Wayne State University (PI)

Sunpreet Singh, Human Microbiome, Wayne State University

Alexander Klott, Human Oral Microbiome, Wayne State University

2016 – present

2017 – present

2017 – present

2016 – present

2017 – present

2017 – 2018

2017 – 2018

2016 – present

2016 – present

2016 – present

2015 – 2018

2013 – present

2017

2018

2017

2017

2016

2018

2018

2016

7

Undergraduate Research Mentoring

Arsh Kaiser, Biological Sciences, Wayne State University

Haley Seymour, Pre-Clinical Lab Science, Wayne State University

Amruth Atyam, Biomedical Physics, Wayne State University

Michael Girdler, Pre-Medicine, University of Wisconsin (2 3-month visits)

Christina Koehler, Pre-Medicine, University of Michigan (3-month visit)

2018

2018

2018

2017 – 2018

2017

Course or curriculum development

BIO 173 Introductory Biology Lab – Human Microbiome Research Section,

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: developed and taught the scientific method

and statistical analysis portions of this inquiry-based laboratory course

mothur Workshop for Amplicon Analysis, Michigan State University, East Lansing,

MI: co-developed and taught interactive workshops on multivariate statistics,

analyzing amplicon sequence data in mothur, and running analyses through the High

Performance Computer Center

MMG 490/890 Microbial Metagenomics, Michigan State University, East Lansing,

MI: developed and taught the ecological community analysis components of this

inquiry-based short course

BS 110 Organisms & Populations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI:

participated in the inquiry-based redesign of this introductory biology laboratory

course, especially the comparative anatomy section

MCAT Preparatory Course, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI: co-

developed and implemented interactive lessons to increase conceptual understanding

of biological principles and improve critical thinking skills

2015

2013 – 2014

2009 – 2012

2008

2007

GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND OTHER FUNDING

National/International Grants and Contracts

Role: Section Head of the Perinatal Infectious Disease and Human Microbiome Unit (7 / 1 / 16 – present)

PI: Roberto Romero

Title: “Support Services for the PRB/PPRO, NICHD Base Award.” HHSN275201300006C

The goal is to conduct clinical and basic research in perinatal medicine and related disciplines with the goal of

developing novel diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive strategies to reduce adverse pregnancy outcome, infant

mortality and handicap.

Source: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

5/2013-1/2023

Role: Co-PI, Percent Effort: 5%

PI: Jeffrey Withey

Title: “Mechanisms for Vibrio cholerae colonization and pathogenesis in zebrafish.” NIH R01 AI127390-01A1

The major goal of this study is to evaluate the physiological mechanisms underlying Vibrio colonization of

zebrafish intestines in the broader context of the zebrafish microbiota.

Source: NIH/NIAID

5/2017-4/2022

Total Direct Costs: $1,322,375

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Center/University Level Grants

Co-PIs: Danielle Whittaker, Kevin Theis; Research Associate: Joel Slade

Title: “Reproductive isolation in action: Do rapid changes in scent-producing symbiotic microbes shift host

reproductive signals?”

The major goal of this study is to understand the contribution of symbiotic microbes to reproductive isolation and

speciation of chemically signaling songbirds.

Source: BEACON (NSF DBI0939454)

6/2018-5/2019

Total Direct Costs: $82,519

Note: 52 percent of proposals were funded, at an average total direct cost of $65,116

PI: Kevin Theis

Support of Andrew Winters, Ph.D., a Research Associate in the Perinatal Infectious Disease and Human

Microbiome Unit

Source: Wayne State University Perinatal Initiative and the Perinatology Research Branch

5/2017-4/2019

Total Direct and Fringe Benefits: $138,968

Co-PIs: Francesca Luca, Kevin Theis, Roger Pique-Regi

Title: “Functional genomic analysis of host-microbiome interactions in the female reproductive system”

This award provides financial assistance for developing a new interdisciplinary collaboration on interactions

between the vaginal epithelium and vaginal microbiota

Source: Wayne State University, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics

8/2017-12/2018


Co-PIs: Danielle Whittaker, Kevin Theis; Research Associate: Joel Slade

Title: “Evaluating the contribution of symbiotic microbes to reproductive isolation of vertebrate populations.”

The major goal of this study is to evaluate whether symbiotic bacteria are serving as pre-mating reproductive

barriers via influencing chemical signaling in junco populations, thereby reinforcing evolutionary divergence.


6/2017-5/2018


Note: 25 percent of proposals were funded, at an average total direct cost of $72,805 [$26,028 – $146,251]

Co-PIs: Kay Holekamp, Kevin Theis; Graduate Student: Connie Rojas

Title: “Evolution of the gut microbiome: a long-term analysis in a wild mammal population.”

The major goals of this study are to evaluate gut microbiome evolution in a natural mammal population,

including maintenance of functionality, extent of functional redundancy, and alterations in bacterial species-

level gene repertoires within a single mammal host population over three decades.


6/2017-5/2018


Note: 25 percent of proposals were funded, at an average total direct cost of $72,805 [$26,028 – $146,251]

Pending National/International Grants and Contracts

n/a

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Previously funded Grants and Contracts

Co-PIs: Kevin Theis, Phil Pellett, Andrew Winters, Will Close

Title: “Facilitating Trainee Success in the Age of Big Data”

This project award provides financial means for establishing a self-maintaining community of biomedical

computational biologists and bioinformaticists at WSU.

Source: Wayne State University, BEST Program

1/2017-12/2017


Co-PIs: Danielle Whittaker, Kevin Theis, Thomas Getty; Percent Effort: 5%

Title: “Evolutionary implications of sexual selection on socially transmissible phenotypes.”

The major goals of this study were to evaluate how sociality and breeding systems shape behaviorally relevant

avian microbiomes, and to model the implications of socially transmitted phenotypes for evolutionary theory

and sexual selection.


5/2015-4/2016

Total Direct Costs: $24,186.50

Note: 33 percent of proposals were funded; average total direct cost not reported

Co-PIs: Kevin Theis, Danielle Whittaker, Co-Is: Aaron Wagner, Heather Goldsby; Percent Effort: 50%

Title: “Signaling with symbionts: testing the hologenome theory of evolution using songbirds and digital

organisms.”

The major goals of this study were to evaluate the contribution of symbiotic bacteria to avian chemical

signaling and to model these evolutionary interrelationships in a digital arena.


8/2013-12/2014



Co-PIs: Heather Eisthen, Kevin Theis, James Foster, Patric Vaelli; Percent Effort: 50%

Title: “The role of symbiotic bacteria in a predator-prey coevolutionary arms race.”

The major goal of this study was to evaluate if symbiotic microbes are the source of tetrodotoxin in rough-

skinned newts.


8/2013-12/2014



Co-PIs: Kevin Theis, Kay Holekamp, Thomas Schmidt; Percent Effort: 20%

Title: “Scent marking mammals, their microbial symbionts, and the hologenome theory of evolution.”

The major goals of this study were to extend my prior work with spotted hyenas to evaluate whether symbiotic

bacterial communities underlie the chemical signaling systems of striped and brown hyenas as well, and to

contribute to the development of the hologenome concept of evolution.


8/2012-7/2013



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Role: PI, Percent Effort: 80 – 100%

Co-PIs: Kay Holekamp, Thomas Schmidt

Title: “A symbiotic approach to the study of animal communication.”

The major goal of this study was to evaluate whether symbiotic bacterial communities underlie the complex

chemical signaling systems of spotted hyenas.

Source: NSF (IOS 0920505)

9/2009-8/2013


Previously Submitted, Not Funded Grants and Contracts

Role: Co-PI, Percent Effort: 5% (2017)

PI: Danielle Whittaker

Title: “Evaluating the contribution of symbiotic microbes to reproductive isolation of vertebrate populations.”

Source: NSF (IOS Symbiosis, Defense and Self-Recognition)

Preproposal submission

Role: Co-PI, Percent Effort: 5% (2016)

PI: Jeffrey Withey

Title: “Mechanisms for Vibrio cholerae colonization and pathogenesis in zebrafish.”

The major goal of this study is to evaluate the physiological mechanisms underlying Vibrio colonization of

zebrafish intestines in the broader context of the zebrafish microbiota.

Source: NIH/NIAID

Total Direct Costs: $1,248,250.30

Role: PI, Percent Effort: 100 % (2013)

IOS – Solicited Full Proposal – Renewal of IOS 0920505

Title: “A symbiotic approach to the study of animal communication.”

The major proposed goals of this study were to evaluate mechanistic hypotheses explaining how hyenas’

physiological condition and social circumstances modulate their behaviorally-relevant bacterial communities in

ways that affect their chemical signaling systems.


PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Publications

* Author is a student or postdoctoral mentee; † Author is a student whose dissertation committee I served on; ‡

Author is a student who completed a research rotation in my laboratory

1. Theis KR. Hologenomics: systems-level host biology. mSystems, 2018; 3(2):e00164-17. doi:

10.1128/mSystems.00164-17.

2. Xu Y, Romero R, Miller D, Silva P, Panaitescu B, Theis KR, Arif A, Hassan SS, Gomez-Lopez N.

Innate lymphoid cells at the human maternal-fetal interface in spontaneous preterm labor. American

Journal of Reproductive Immunology 2018, Epub ahead of print – doi: 10.1111/aji.12820

3. Theis KR, Dheilly NM, Klassen JL, Brucker RM, Baines JF, Bosch, TCG, Cryan JF, Gilbert SF,

Goodnight CJ, Lloyd EA, Sapp J, Vandenkoornhuyse P, Zilber-Rosenberg I, Rosenberg E, Bordenstein

SR. Getting the hologenome concept right: an eco-evolutionary framework for hosts and their

microbiomes. mSystems 2016; 1(2):e00028-16. doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00028-16 [Faculty 1000; Web

of Science Highly Cited paper (Top 1% in Microbiology)]

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4. Whittaker DJ, Gerlach NM, Slowinski SP, Corcoran KP, Winters AD*, Soini HA, Novotny MV,

Ketterson ED, Theis KR. Social environment has a primary influence on the microbial and odor profiles

of a chemically signaling songbird. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2016; 4:90. doi:

10.3389/fevo.2016.0090

5. Whittaker DJ, Theis KR. Bacterial communities associated with junco preen glands: preliminary

ramifications for chemical signaling. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XIII, Shulte B, Goodwin TE,

and Ferkin MH (Editors), Springer, Chapter 8, pp. 105 – 117, 2016.

6. Venkataraman A, Sieber JR, Schmidt AW, Waldron C, Theis KR, Schmidt TM. Variable responses of

human microbiomes to dietary supplementation with resistant starch. Microbiome 2016; 4:33. PMID:

27357127

7. Theis KR, Venkataraman A, Wagner AP, Holekamp KE, Schmidt TM. Age-related variation in the

scent pouch bacterial communities of striped hyenas. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XIII, Shulte

B, Goodwin TE, and Ferkin MH (Editors), Springer, Chapter 7, pp. 87 – 103, 2016.

8. Bordenstein SR, Theis KR. Host biology in light of the microbiome: ten principles of holobionts and

hologenomes. PLoS Biology 2015; 13(8):e1002226. PMID: 26284777 [Faculty 1000; Web of Science

Highly Cited paper (Top 1% in Biology)] 9. Eisthen H, Theis KR. Animal-microbe interactions and the evolution of nervous systems. Philosophical

Transactions of the Royal Society 2015; 371:e1002226. PMID: 26598731

10. Theis KR, Venkataraman A, Dycus JA*, Koonter KD*, Schmitt-Matzen EN*, Wagner AP, Holekamp

KE, Schmidt TM. Symbiotic bacteria appear to mediate hyena social odors. Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences 2013; 110(49):19832-7. PMID: 3856825

11. Theis KR, Schmidt TM, Holekamp KE. Evidence for a bacterial mechanism for group-specific social

odors among hyenas. Scientific Reports 2012; 2:615. PMID: 3431069

12. Archie EA, Theis KR. Animal behavior meets microbial ecology. Animal Behaviour 2011; 82:425-

436. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.05.029

13. Theis KR, Heckla AL*, Verge JR*, and Holekamp KE. The ontogeny of pasting behavior in free-

living spotted hyenas. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XI, Hurst JL, Beynon RJ, Roberts SC, Wyatt TD

(Editors), Springer, Chapter 17, pp. 179 – 187, 2008.

14. Theis KR, Greene KM, Benson-Amram SR, Holekamp KE. Sources of variation in the long-distance

vocalizations of spotted hyenas. Behaviour 2007; 144(5):557-84. doi: 10.1163/156853907780713046

15. Kolowski JM, Katan D, Theis KR, Holekamp KE. Daily patterns of activity in the spotted hyena.

Journal of Mammalogy 2007; 88(4):1017-28. doi: 10.1644/06-MAMM-A-143R.1 [My roles included

data collection and analysis, and manuscript writing.]

PRESENTATIONS

Podium Presentations (refereed)

1. Theis KR. Hologenomics: systems-level host biology. 2017. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Holobionts,

Bordeaux, France. [invited abstract]

2. Theis KR. Medicine through a hologenomic lens. 2017. 1st International Conference on Holobionts,

Paris, France. [invited abstract]

3. Rojas CA†, Theis KR, Holekamp KE. Age, social group, and body site-related variation in spotted hyena

microbiota. 2017. 54th Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society, University of Toronto,

Toronto, Canada.

4. Theis KR. Medicine through a hologenomic lens. 2016. Unseen Partners: Microbial Communities that

Support Human and Environmental Health. Michigan Meeting – 2016. Ann Arbor, MI. [invited

abstract]

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5. Whittaker DJ, Theis KR. Love is in the air: influence of mating behavior on avian pairmates’ odor-

producing microbes. 2015. 52nd Annual Conference for the Animal Behavior Society, Anchorage, AK.

6. Eisthen HL, Theis KR. Have microbes influenced the evolution of nervous systems and behavior?

Homology and convergence in nervous system evolution. 2015. The Royal Society at Chicheley Hall,

Buckinghamshire, England.

7. Theis KR, Venkataraman A, Holekamp KE, Schmidt TM. Modeling the development of the hyena scent

pouch microbiome. 2014. International Society of Chemical Ecology / Chemical Signals in Vertebrates

XIII, Urbana-Champaign, IL. [invited abstract]

8. Whittaker DJ, Theis KR. Keeping it in the family: social environment drives avian preen gland

microbiome structure. 2014. International Society of Chemical Ecology / Chemical Signals in

Vertebrates XIII, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

9. Vaelli PV†, Theis KR, Eisthen HL. Tetrodotoxin production and detection in the rough-skinned newt.

2014. International Society of Chemical Ecology / Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XIII, Urbana-

Champaign, IL.

10. Buesching CD, Tinnesand HV, Sin SY, Theis KR, Macdonald DW. The olfactory dilemma of badgers:

Fitting in while standing out. 2014. International Society of Chemical Ecology / Chemical Signals in

Vertebrates XIII, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

11. Theis KR. Symbiotic bacteria mediate hyena social odors. 2014. AAAS General Meeting, Chicago, IL.

[invited abstract] 12. Theis KR, Holekamp KE, Schmidt TM. Symbiotic bacteria mediate hyena social odors. 2013. 50th

Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society, Boulder, CO.

13. Whittaker DJ, Theis KR. Symbiotic microbes may mediate songbird chemical signals. 2013. 50th

Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society, Boulder, CO.

14. Theis KR. Odor-producing microbes: the unheralded machinery behind animal chemical communication.

2012. 112th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, San Francisco, CA. [invited

abstract] 15. Theis KR. A symbiotic approach to the study of animal communication. 2012. Behavioral and Cognitive

Neuroscience Symposium, Groningen, the Netherlands. [invited abstract]

16. Theis KR, Holekamp KE, Schmidt TM. A fermentation hypothesis for group-specific chemical

recognition in the spotted hyena. 2011. Behavior 2011: Joint Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society &

the International Ethological Conference, Bloomington, IN.

17. Theis KR, Holekamp KE, Schmidt TM. A bacterial mechanism for group-specific social odors in

mammals. 2008. 2nd American Society for Microbiology Conference on Beneficial Microbes, San Diego,

CA.

18. Theis KR, Holekamp KE. Sex, age and scent in the spotted hyena. 2006. Chemical Signals in Vertebrates

XI, Chester, England.

19. Theis KR, Holekamp KE. Sex, age and scent in the spotted hyena. 2006. 86th Meeting of the American

Society of Mammalogists, Amherst, MA.

Poster Presentations (refereed)

1. Breen P†, Winters AD*, Theis KR, Withey JH. 2018. Internal vs. external pressures: effect of housing

systems on zebrafish and tank water microbiomes. Midwest Vibrio Summit, Bloomington, IN.

2. Vaelli PV†, Theis KR, Foster JA, Eisthen HL. 2017. Symbiotic bacteria underlie neurotoxin production

and evolution of toxin resistance in voltage-gated sodium channels of rough-skinned newts (Taricha

granulosa). Neuroscience 2017, Washington, DC.

3. Vaelli PV†, Theis KR, Coddington EJ, Foster JA, Eisthen HL. 2017. Symbiotic bacteria underlie toxin

production and voltage-gated sodium channel evolution in the rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa).

Neuroethology: Behavior, Evolution & Neurobiology – Gordon Research Conference, Les Diablerets,

Switzerland.

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4. Rojas CA†, Holekamp KE, Theis KR. The scent pouch microbiome of juvenile spotted hyenas is age and

body site specific. 2016. 53rd Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society, Columbia, MO.

5. Vaelli PV†, Theis KR, Coddington EJ, Eisthen HL. Origins of tetrodotoxin and molecular evolution in

the voltage-gated sodium channels of poisonous newts. 2016. International Congress of Neuroethology,

Montevideo, Uruguay.

6. Vaelli PV†, Theis KR, Coddington EJ, Eisthen HL. Evolution: Microbial origins and physiological

consequences of tetrodotoxin toxicity in the rough-skinned newt. 2014. International Congress of

Neuroethology, Sapporo, Japan.

7. Waldron C, Grant R, Theis KR, Oakley B, Young V, Chang E, Schmidt TM. Culturing novel members

of the human gut microbiome. 2010. 13th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME),

Seattle, WA.

Invited Lectures/Presentations

Local/regional

1. Obesity and the Microbiome: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Nutrition, and Brain Health. 2016.

A School of Public Health All-School Symposium Panel Discussion (with Paul Burghardt, Andrew

Jones), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

2. People who know what they’re talking about don’t need Powerpoint. 2015. Symposium in Honor of

William Shields, SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY.

Invited Seminars and Grand Rounds

1. Reevaluating paradigms of sterility in perinatal medicine. 2017. Division of Infectious Disease Seminar,

Harper Hospital, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

2. Perinatal medicine through a hologenomic lens. 2017. Medical Microbiology and Immunology,

University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.

3. Hologenomics: systems-level host biology. 2017. Physiology Seminar, Wayne State University, Detroit,

MI.

4. Medicine through a hologenomic lens. 2017. Integrative Research Institute for the Life Sciences Seminar,

Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

5. A hologenomic approach to perinatal medicine. 2017. Biological Sciences Seminar, Wayne State

University, Detroit, MI.

6. A hologenomic approach to perinatal medicine. 2016. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Seminar,

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

7. Is there value in a hologenomic approach to medicine? 2016. Infectious Disease Grand Rounds,

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

8. Behavior and medicine through a hologenomic lens. 2016. Genomics@Wayne, Wayne State University,

Detroit, MI.

9. A hologenomic perspective on medicine. 2016. Immunology & Microbiology Seminar, Wayne State

University, Detroit, MI.

10. Reciprocal influence: animal microbiomes and behavior. 2015. Center for the Integrative Study of

Animal Behavior Seminar, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

11. Animal-microbe interactions: from behavior to disease ecology. 2015. Immunology & Microbiology

Seminar, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

12. Reciprocal influence: host microbiomes and behavior. 2015. Molecular and Cell Biology Seminar,

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

13. Social environment principally shapes animal microbiomes. 2014. National Evolutionary Synthesis

Center (NESCent) Catalysis Meeting: Evolution and community ecology of host-associated microbiota,

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Durham, NC.

14. Symbiotic microbes: the unheralded machinery behind animal communication. 2014. Biology Seminar,

Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI.

15. A symbiotic approach to the study of animal communication. 2013. Biology Seminar, Vassar College,

Poughkeepsie, NY.

16. A symbiotic approach to the study of animal communication. 2013. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

17. Ramifications of the hologenome theory of evolution for the study of behavioral ecology. 2012. BESO

& Behavioral Biology Seminar, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.

18. Scent marking mammals, their microbial symbionts, and the hologenome theory of evolution. 2012.

BEACON Seminar: Evolution of Communities and Collective Dynamics, Michigan State University,

East Lansing, MI.

19. Inquiry at the interface of behavioral and microbial ecology. 2011. BEACON Seminar: Evolution of

Communities and Collective Dynamics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

20. A symbiotic approach to the study of animal communication. 2009. Adaptive Peaks Seminar, SUNY

ESF, Syracuse, NY.

21. A multi-level investigation of scent marking in the spotted hyena. 2008. Ecology, Evolutionary Biology

& Behavior Seminar (Distinguished Student Speaker), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

22. Why the big stink? An investigation of scent marking in the spotted hyena. 2008. Biology Seminar, St.

Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD.

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