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University of Idaho
Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
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Moscow, ID 83844-1136
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Lisette Waits
Professor
Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources

UI Laboratory for Conservation and Ecological Genetics

Center for Research on Invasive Species and Small Populations

IGERT Doctoral program in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Production   

Initiative for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST)             


Ph.D. (1996) Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
B.S. (1991) Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens


Fish and Wildlife Resources
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-1136
Office Phone: (208) 885-7823
Office Fax: (208) 885-9080
E-mail: lwaits@uidaho.edu

Experience:              Download CV

August 2001-Current Affiliate Faculty, CATIE, Costa Rica
August 2000-Current Bioinformatics Program Faculty Member
November
1997-Current
Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Fish and Wildlife
August 1997-Current Environmental Science Faculty Member
1996 - 1997 NSF/NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Universite Joseph Fourier, France
1996 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Human Genetics, Univ. of Utah
1991-1996 Research Assistant, Department of Human Genetics, Univ. of Utah

Professional Interests:  
  • Conservation Genetics
  • Landscape Genetics 
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Molecular Systematics
Courses:   
  • Wlf 440 Conservation Biology
  • Wlf 540 Conservation Genetics
  • Interdisciplinary Research in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Production
  • Spatial Methods in Ecology and Conservation

 

Recent and Current Research:

  • Genetic diversity and gene flow of Montana wolverines
  • Hybridization of red wolves and coyotes
  • Genetic structure of brown bears in Kamchatka
  • Paternity and Mating structure in Montana cougars
  • Landscape genetics of amphibians in Northern Idaho 
  • Phylogeography of brown bears and Asiatic black bears
  • Gene flow and landscape genetics of cougars 
  • Genetic analyses of bear scat, felid & canid and hair collected in the field
  • Historical analysis of brown bear genetic diversity in the lower 48 states
  • Non-invasive sampling methods for monitoring the size of small populations
  • Biodiversity conservation and sustainable production in Idaho and Costa Rica
  • Landscape genetics of black bears on Kenai Peninsula
  • Genetic structure of macaw and parrot species in Peru
  • Genetic structure and diversity of Andean bear populations
  • Systematics and landscape genetics of Idaho ground squirrels
  • Gene flow and landscape genetics of Mongolian gazelles and wolves
  • Genetic structure and mating system of swift fox

 

 Current Graduate Students:
Justin Bohling, PhD Student Wildlife Resources Paulina Viteri, PhD Student
Caren Goldberg, PhD Candidate
William Leacock, PhD Candidate  


Selected Recent Publications:
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McCarthy, KP, TK Fuller, M Ming, TM McCarthy, K. Jumabaev, LP Waits (in press) Sign surveys, photo captures, and genetic analysis as estimators of snow leopard population size. Journal of Wildlife Management

Gebhardt, KJ, LP Waits (in press) High error rates for avian molecular sex identification primer sets applied to molted feathers. Journal of Field Ornithology.

Gebhardt, KJ, LP Waits (in press) Cross-species amplification and optimization of microsatellite markers for use in six Neotropical parrots. Molecular Ecology Resources

Boulanger, JB, KC Kendall, JB Stetz, DA Roon, LP Waits, D Paetkau (2008) Use of multiple data sources to improve DNA-based mark-recapture population estimates of grizzly bears. Ecological Applications 18:557-589.

Hansen, T, S Brunsfeld, B Finegan, LP Waits (2008) Pollen Dispersal and Genetic Structure of the tropical tree Dipteryx panamensis in a fragmented Costa Rican landscape. Molecular Ecology 17:2060-2073.

Pocewicz, A, M Nielsen-Pincus, CS Goldberg, MH Johnson, P Morgan, JE Force, LP Waits, L Vierling (2008) Predicting landscape change: comparison of landowner decision and historically-based models. Landscape Ecology 23:195-210.

Robinson, SJ, LP Waits, I Martin (2007) Evaluating population structure of black bears on the Kenai Peninsula using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analyses. Journal of Mammalogy 88:1288-1299.

Murphy, MA, K Kendall, A Robinson, C Perugini, and LP Waits (2007) The impact of time and field conditions on brown bear fecal DNA amplification. Conservation Genetics. 8:1219-1224.

Adams, JR, C Lucash, L Schutte, LP Waits (2007) Locating hybrid individuals in the red wolf (Canis rufus) experimental population area using a spatially targeted sampling strategy and faecal DNA genotyping. Molecular Ecology 16:1823-1834.

Storfer, A, M Murphy, JS Evans, CS Goldberg, S Robinson, SF Spear, R Dezzani, E Delmelle, L Vierling, LP Waits (2007) Putting the “landscape” in landscape genetics. Heredity 98:128-142.

Byers, J and LP Waits (2006) Good genes and sexual selection in nature. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103:16343-16345.

Cegelski, CC, LP Waits, NJ Anderson, CJ Kyle and C Strobeck (2006) Genetic diversity and population structure of wolverine (Gulo gulo) populations at the southern edge of their current distribution in North America with implications for genetic viability. Conservation Genetics 7:197-211.

Waits, LP and D Paetkau (2005) New non-invasive genetic sampling tools for wildlife biologists: a review of applications and recommendations for accurate data collection. Journal of Wildlife Management 69:1419-1433.

Garner, A, JL Rachlow, LP Waits (2005) Genetic diversity and population divergence in fragmented habitats: conservation of Idaho ground squirrels. Conservation Genetics 6:759 – 774.

Miller, CR, P Joyce, LP Waits (2005) Estimating the size of small populations using genetic mark-recapture. Molecular Ecology 14:1991-2005.

 

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