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fixing a conflict of interest for wikipedia page for Rosemary Gillespie (biologist)
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Rosemary Gillespie is an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently the President of the American Genetics Association, and was previously President of the International Biogeography Society. In the past, she has served at the president of the American Arachnological Society and the treasurer of the International Society of Arachnology. She is also the currently associate director of the Essig Museum of Entomology and a Professor and Schlinger Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work on the evolution of communities on hotspot archipelagoes.

Education and previous employment
She was born and raised in Scotland. She received her B.SC in Zoology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 1986. She went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hawaii, working closely with The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, and based on Maui. She also spent a year at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. She took an appointment of Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1992. She left Hawaii and moved to the University of California at Berkeley in 1999.

Research
Her research program is aimed at understanding what drives biological diversification, particularly at the level of populations and species. She uses islands of known age and isolation to assess the combined temporal and spatial dimension of biogeography and determine patterns of diversification, adaptive radiation, and associated community assembly with a focus on spiders and insects. Most of her work has been in the [|Hawaiian Islands], though she has also worked in French Polynesia, [|Fiji], [|Pohnpei], and [|Kosrae]. Themes include adaptive radiation and community assembly on islands with emphasis on patterns of repeated evolution of similar forms, the rate of species accumulation and approach to equilibrium within an island system, and mechanisms of dispersal to the islands. Most of her work has been on spiders, in particular species in the genus [|Tetragnatha] (Tetragnathidae). She also works on the evolution of diversity within species, with the primary focus here on color polymorphism in the [|Hawaiian Happy face spider] which has evolved the same color polymorphism independently on different islands, and the research aims to uncover the molecular basis for the modification. She currently has a large program examining the importance of priority, sequence, abundance, and interaction strengths in determining how biological communities develop, and how this might render them resilient to intrusion by non native species.

Science communication
She led "Exploring California Biodiversity" (2003-2016), a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded museum and field-based outreach program focused on graduate fellows and high-school/middle-school students in minority-dominated urban schools in the Bay Area. The project forged connections between the university and the surrounding community, enriching K-12 science education, and training graduate students to be better communicators of science. Prior to moving to UC Berkeley she was part of an effort for Using Hawaii’s Unique Biota for Biology Education, an NSF program that worked with underrepresented Pacific Island students. She also led several programs to encourage participation of underrepresented minorities in higher education, including an NSF-funded Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology program that encouraged Pacific Islander undergraduates to undertake field and laboratory research in biology  She was awarded NSF’s Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) in Nov 2005.

Rggillespie1 (talk) 21:18, 22 October 2018 (UTC)