GRANTS & AWARDS
2020/2023 St. Louis Academy of Science Outstanding Scientist – Science Educator
2023 Bayer Fund Grant [$20,000]
2022 Bayer Fund Grant [$20,000]
2021 Bayer Fund Grant [$20,000]
2020 Dana Brown Charitable Trust Award [$12,000]
2020 Boeing Foundation Grant [$30,000]
2020 Bayer Fund Grant [$20,000]
2020 Fontbonne University, Office of Academic Affairs’ Student Research Awards (9) with M. Boaz, V. Harris, P. Flavin, A. Rivas, M. Bondo, B. Dobbs, K. Kavanaugh, C. Loehr, S. Freeman [$200 per student applicant]
2020 Fontbonne Community Connection Award, Fontbonne University; Girls in Science support [$6430]
2019 Bayer Fund Grant [$20, 000]
2019 Fontbonne University, Office of Academic Affairs’ Student Research Awards (9) with B Weber, B Durant, V. Leone, M. McDermott, T. Scales, D. San Pedro, A. Rivas, S. Freeman [$200 per student applicant]
2019 Joan Goostree Stevens Excellence in Teaching Award nominee, Fontbonne University
2018 Monsanto Fund Grant [$22,000]
2018 Boeing Foundation Grant [$26,000]
2018 Fontbonne Community Connection Award, Fontbonne University; One Health Day 5K [$3500]
2018 Fontbonne University, Office of Academic Affairs’ Student Research Awards (9) with S Norman, F Nazari, B Nguyen, B Durant, T Ritter, K Walker (2), C Schmidt, P Mohammad [$200 per student applicant]
2017 Monsanto Fund Grant [$25,000]
2017 Fontbonne Community Connection Award, Fontbonne University, with Madalyn Cooksey and Jaylah Jones [$1,400]
2017 Fontbonne University, Office of Academic Affairs’ Student Research Awards () with M Cooksey (2), M Picciolo (2), K Reedy, H Wiegman, B Nguyen, Z Pelker, L Smith (2) [$200 per student applicant]
2016 Monsanto Fund Grant [$14,000]
2016 Wells Fargo Foundation Grant [$3500]
2016 Fontbonne University, Office of Academic Affairs’ Student Research Awards (12) with Z Carel, J Horneker, J Rujawitz (2), L Smith, C Graham (2), P Akitani, C King, A Metzger, O Hollander, & B Macklin [$200 per student applicant]
2016 Fontbonne Community Connection Award, Fontbonne University, with L Smith, Z Carel, and J Rujawitz [$4,500]
2015 Missouri Stem Foundation Grant recipient, Lewis and Clark Career Center [$1000]
2015 Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Research Experience for Undergraduates, Council for Undergraduate Research
2015 Fontbonne Community Connection Award, Fontbonne University [$6,906]
2015 Mission Infusion Grant, Fontbonne University [$500]
2013 Research Fellowship, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
2011 Fisher Fellowship, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
2010 Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Student Workshop and Travel Award
2010 National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Fellowship, GLOBES Program, University of Notre Dame
2009 Leakey Fellowship, The Leakey Foundation
2009 American Society of Parasitologists, Marc Dresden Travel Award
2009 Teaching Excellence in Biological Sciences Certification, Kaneb Center, University of Notre Dame
2008 Vespucci Fellowship, Vespucci Institute: GI Science, Fiesole, Italy
2008 Ideas Competition Winner, Mendoza School of Business, Gigot Entrepreneurial Center
2008 Experiencing Africa and Asia Fellowship, Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame
2007 Language Award, Center for Asian Studies, University of Notre Dame
2007 Fisher Fellowship, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
2006 Striving for Excellence in Teaching Certification, Kaneb Center, University of Notre Dame
2006 National Science Foundation, BSC 0639787*, "The Impact of Population Structure on Pathogen Transmission in Balinese Macaques" *Contributed significantly to the development and writing.
2006 Best Presentation Award, Tenth Annual Swarm Agent-based Simulation Meeting (SwarmFest2006) for the presentation, "Modeling Disease Transmission in Long-tailed Macaques on Bali, Indonesia", Notre Dame, IN
2005 Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching, Kaneb Center, University of Notre Dame
2002 Saint Louis University Research Grant
2001 Crescent Hills Research Award, Tyson Research Center, Washington University
2001 Saint Louis University Research Grant
CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIUMS/PANELS HOSTED OR ORGANIZED
2022 Stories of the Exploited: Mini-conference on the abuse of BIPOC in science. Fontbonne University, organizer.
2020 Stories of the Exploited: Mini-conference on the abuse of BIPOC in science. Fontbonne University, organizer. CANCELED – COVID.
2019 Diversity and Social Justice Film Series, Fontbonne University, co-organized by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Jack Taylor Library
2016 American Association of Physical Anthropology Annual Meeting, Committee on Diversity-Anthropologists outside Anthropology Departments, Contingent and Teaching-focused Faculty (COD-AACT) symposium organizer
2016 American Society of Primatologists/International Primatological Society Annual Meeting, symposium organizer
2015 Midwest Primate Interest Group Annual Meeting, symposium organizer
2015 Midwest Primate Interest Group Annual Meeting Local Host
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Podium Presentations
2019
Lane-deGraaf, KE. Population genetics, disease dynamics, and environmental racism: a look at urban raccoons. Ecological Society of America & United States Society for Ecological Economics Joint Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY.
Lane-deGraaf, KE. Raccoons as a proxy for primates: challenges of primatology at small liberal arts schools. Midwest Primate Interest Group Annual Meeting, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL.
2018
Lane-deGraaf, KE. Environmental racism and wildlife: the DNA remembers. Primary Source: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Memory and Identity. St. Louis, MO.
Lane-deGraaf, KE. Research as teaching: What motivates undergraduates? 19th Annual Midwest Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Indiana University, South Bend, IN.
2017
Cooksey, M, Reedy, K, Picciolo, M, Gal A, and Lane-deGraaf, KE. Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) genetic & parasite networks shaped by human land use Midwest Primate Interest Group Annual Meeting, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
2016
Carel, Z, Kubowicz, N, Carroll, D, Lane-deGraaf, KE. p-Hacking in primatology. International Primatology Society/American Society of Primatologists Joint Meeting, Chicago, IL.
2015
Carel, Z, Hibbeler, P, Hopkins, H, Followell, A, Kubowicz, N, Carroll, D, Lane-deGraaf, KE. p-Hacking in primatology. Midwest Primate Interest Group Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
2013
Hollocher, H, Lane-deGraaf, KE, Fuentes, A. Monkeying around with parasites. Annual Meetings of American Society of Naturalists, Society for the Study of Evolution, and Society of Systematic Biologists, Snowbird, UT.
2012
Lane, KE, Fuentes, A, and Hollocher, H. Landscape dynamics: genetics and parasitism in Balinese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). Midwest Primate Interest Group Annual Meeting, Kent, OH.
Lane, KE, Jolles, A, Amish, S, Luikart, G, Ezenwa, V. Natural and artificial disease-induced selectaion at immune loci in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Annual Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.
2010
Lane, KE, Fuentes, A, and Hollocher, H. Interactions between spatial genetic structuring and parasite burdens and transmission in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Midwest Primate Interest Group Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Lane, KE, Fuentes, A, and Hollocher, H. Interactions between spatial genetic structuring and parasite burdens and transmission in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Annual Conference, Ithaca, NY.
2009
Lane, KE, Hollocher, H, and Fuentes, A. MHC homozygosity: a reliable indicator of parasitism? Midwest Primate Interest Group Annual Meeting, Allendale, MI.
Lane, KE. Balinese macaques (Macaca fascicularis) and their gut pathogens: intensity, diversity, and spatial dynamics. Meeting of American Parasitologists Annual Meeting, Knoxville, TN.
Lane, KE, Fuentes, A, Hollocher, H. MHC heterozygosity: can one survivie without the tribe? Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Annual Conference, Athens, GA.
2008
Lane, KE, Hollocher, H, Fuentes, A. Balinese macaques (Macaca fascicularis) and their gut pathogens: prevalence3, abundance, and spatial dynamics. Midwest Primate Interest Group Meeting, Notre Dame, IN.
2006
Lane, KE, Kennedy, RC, Neiderwieser, G, Madey, G, Fuentes, and Hollocher, H. Modeling disease transmission in Balinese macaques (Macaca fascicularis): the LiNK model. Midwest Primate Interest Group Meeting, Champaign-Urbana, IL.
Lane, KE, Neiderweiser, G, Kennedy, RC, Madey, G, Fuentes, A, Hollocher, H. Modeling disease transmission in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) on Bali. 10th Annual SwarmFest Agent Based Simulation Meeting, Notre Dame, IN.
2005
Lane, KE, Johnson, N, Watanuskul, L, Rompis, ALT, Arta Putra, IGA, Wandia, IN,
Lobo, N, Jones-Engel, L, Fuentes, A, and Hollocher, H. Assessing genetic structure in Balinese macaques (Macaca fascicularis) and its implications for disease transmission. 3rd Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, MO.
2002
Lane, KE, Valone, TJ. Population size, parasitism, and fluctuating asymmetry as a quick metric of health in four species of Missouri bats (Vespertillionidae). Missouri Academy of Science 38th Annual Meeting, Columbia, MO.
Poster Presentations
2020
Leone, V, Weber, B, Durant, B, McDermott, M, Scales, T, San Pedro, D, Rivas, A, Freeman, S, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Colistin-resistance: grocery carts, overuse of antimicrobials, and the failure of an antibiotic of last resort. Missouri Academy of Science Annual Meeting. CANCELED – COVID.
Leone, V, Weber, B, Durant, B, McDermott, M, Scales, T, San Pedro, D, Rivas, A, Freeman, S, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Colistin-resistance: grocery carts, overuse of antimicrobials, and the failure of an antibiotic of last resort. Fontbonne University Student Academic Exhibition. CANCELED – COVID.
2019
McDermott, M, Borgerding, S, Medina, M, Norman, S, Ritter, T, Tossick, M, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Parasite Burden Effect on Incidence of Automotive Culling in Raccoons. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY.
Nguyen, B, Pelker, Z, Smith, L, Lane-deGraaf, KE. The Effect of DEET Use on Urban Wildlife Foraging. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY.
Durant, B and Lane-deGraaf, KE. The Impact of BPA on Aquatic Snails. Fontbonne University Student Academic Exhibition, St. Louis, MO.
McDermott, M, Borgerding, S, Medina, M, Norman, S, Ritter, T, Tossick, M, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Parasite Burden Effect on Incidence of Automotive Culling in Raccoons. Fontbonne University Student Academic Exhibition, St. Louis, MO.
Nguyen, B, Pelker, Z, Smith, L, Lane-deGraaf, KE. The Effect of DEET Use on Urban Wildlife Foraging. Fontbonne University Student Academic Exhibition, St. Louis, MO.
2018
Nguyen, B, Pelker, Z, Smith, L, Lane-deGraaf, KE. The Effect of DEET Use on Urban Wildlife Foraging. International One Health Day. St. Louis Zoo.
2017
King, C, Akitani, P, Graham, C, Macklin, B, Wiegmann, H, Jaouni, A, Metzger, A, Rujawitz, J, Hollander, O, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Socioeconomic drivers of antibiotic resistance in urban parks. American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Hammann, R, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Urban landscape genetics and raccoons (Procyon lotor). American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
King, C, Akitani, P, Graham, C, Macklin, B, Wiegmann, H, Jaouni, A, Metzger, A, Rujawitz, J, Hollander, O, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Socioeconomic drivers of antibiotic resistance in urban parks. Missouri Academy of Science Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Cooksey, M, Jones, J, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Girls in Science: a hands-on science education. Missouri Academy of Science Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Smith, L, Picciolo, M, Lane-deGraaf, KE. p-Hacking in primatology. Missouri Academy of Science Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Hammann, R, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Urban landscape genetics and raccoons (Procyon lotor). Missouri Academy of Science Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
King, C, Akitani, P, Graham, C, Macklin, B, Wiegmann, H, Jaouni, A, Metzger, A, Rujawitz, J, Hollander, O, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Socioeconomic drivers of antibiotic resistance in urban parks. Fontbonne Student Academic Exhibition, St. Louis, MO.
Cooksey, M, Jones, J, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Girls in Science: a hands-on science education. Fontbonne Student Academic Exhibition, St. Louis, MO.
Smith, L, Picciolo, M, Lane-deGraaf, KE. p-Hacking in primatology Fontbonne Student Academic Exhibition, St. Louis, MO.
Hammann, R, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Urban landscape genetics and raccoons (Procyon lotor). Fontbonne Student Academic Exhibition, St. Louis, MO.
2016
Rujawitz, J, Hibbeler, P, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Raccoons, urban parks, and the genetics of neighborhood connectivity. International One Health Day, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, MO.
Graham, C, Lane-deGraaf, KE. The effects of neutral genetic variation on parasitism. International One Health Day, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, MO.
Carel, Z, Kubowicz, N, Hibbeler, P, Carroll, D, Hopkins, H, Followell, A, Lane-deGraaf, KE. p-Hacking in primatology. International One Health Day, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, MO.
Rujawitz, J, Hibbeler, P, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Raccoons, urban parks, and the genetics of neighborhood connectivity. Undergraduate Research Consortium Conference, St. Louis, MO.
Graham, C, Lane-deGraaf, KE. The effects of neutral genetic variation on parasitism. St. Louis Undergraduate Research Consortium Conference, St. Louis, MO.
Carel, Z, Kubowicz, N, Hibbeler, P, Carroll, D, Hopkins, H, Followell, A, Lane-deGraaf, KE. p-Hacking in primatology. St. Louis Undergraduate Research Consortium Conference, St. Louis, MO
2015
Carel, Z, Kubowicz, N, Hibbeler, P, Carroll, D, Hopkins, H, Followell, A, Lane-deGraaf, KE. p-Hacking in primatology. Midwest Primate Interest Group Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Graham, C, Lane-deGraaf, KE. The effects of neutral genetic variation on parasitism. Midwest Primate Interest Group Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Hibbeler, P, Rujawitz, J, Lane-deGraaf, KE. Are urban raccoons the ultimate opportunists? Research Across the Disciplines Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO.
2013
Lane-deGraaf, KE, Amish, S, Gardipee, F, Jolles, A, Luikart, G, and Ezenwa, V. 23rd Annual Molecular Parasitology and Vector Biology Symposium, Athens, GA.
Lane-deGraaf, KE, Amish, S, Gardipee, F, Jolles, A, Luikart, G, and Ezenwa, V. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease NSF PI Meeting, Athens, GA.
Lane-deGraaf, KE. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Annual Conference,State College, PA.
2012
Lane, KE, Amish, S, Gardipee, F, Jolles, A, Luikart, G, and Ezenwa, V. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease NSF PI Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2009
Gloss, A, Lane, KE, Hollocher, H, and Fuentes, A. Midwest Primate Interest Group Meeting, Allendale, MI.
Miranda, NM, Lane, KE, Fuentes, A, and Hollocher, H. Midwest Primate Interest Group Meeting, Allendale, MI.
Dozois, AR, Lane, KE, Fuentes, A, and Hollocher, H. Midwest Primate Interest Group Meeting, Allendale, MI.
2008
Holley, C, Lane, KE, Fuentes, A, Hollocher, H. Midwest Primate Interest Group Meeting, Notre Dame, IN.
2007
Lane, KE, Kennedy, RC, Hollocher, H, Fuentes, A. Midwest Primate Interest Group Meeting, Bloomington, IN.
2006
Lane, KE, Johnson, N, Watanuskul, L, Rompis, ALT, Arta Putra, IGA, Wandia, IN, Lobo, N, Jones-Engel, L, Fuentes, A, and Hollocher, H. 75th Annual American Association of Physical Anthropology meeting.
2005
Chung, KM, Whitby, K, Geiss, B, Lane, KE, Marri, A, Engle, MJ, Diamond, MS. American Society for Virology 24th Annual Meeting.
Attendance & Participation
2018
Midwest Primate Interest Group Annual Meeting, Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN.
The Teaching Professor, Atlanta, GA.
2017
Social Media in Academia, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.
2016
Midwest Primate Interest Group Annual Meeting, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI.
American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
2015
American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
2014
Missouri Wildlife Health Meeting, Institute for Conservation Medicine, Saint Louis Zoo, St Louis, MO.
MEDIA COVERAGE
2022 Pests: How humans create animal villains – interview by Bethany Brookshire on raccoon-human interactions
2021 Ologies podcast
2020 Looking Ahead to the New Normal, Alive Magazine
One Health amid a global pandemic, St Louis Today magazine
2020 St. Louis Academy of Science 2020 Outstanding Scientist Award News:
https://www.academyofsciencestl.org/awards/
https://westnewsmagazine.com/2020/02/26/121300/business-briefs-feb-26
2019 Business Briefs: June 26, West News: https://westnewsmagazine.com/2019/06/24/112109/business-briefs-june-26
2018 Fontbonne Fuels Summer of Science, by Connie Mitchell, Ladue News
St. Louis organizations nab Boeing grants, by Nathan Rubbelke, St. Louis Business Journal
2017 Science is not just a boy thing, by Rene Delgadillo, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Monsanto helps Girls-in-Science expand at Fontbonne, St. Louis Review
Fontbonne Scientist’s Summer Program Wants More ‘Girls in Science,’ by Debbie Monterey, CBS St. Louis & KMOX
Forest Park takes stock of its turtles to create better wildlife habitat, by Eli Chen, St. Louis Public Radio/NPR affiliate. Collaborative work with Forest Park Forever and the Saint Louis Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Medicine.
Protecting Turtles, Improving the Waterway, by Katy Peace
2015 Teen Café News Promotions: https://teencafestl.wordpress.com/meet-a-scientist/