Mark Holder
mtholder@mail.utexas.edu
Section of Integrative Biology
School of Biological Sciences
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712, USA
(512) 232- 6283

Education
Candidate for PhD in the graduate program of the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. November 1998-present.

B.S. in Biochemistry / Genetics from Texas A&M University, College Station. December 1994.

Awards & Scholarships
Honorable Mention for the Teaching Excellence Award May 2000
National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. 1995-1998.
University Fellowship (awarded by the University of Texas at Austin) 1995.
National Merit Scholarship 1990-1994.
Texas A&M President's Endowed Scholarship 1990-1994.

Employment/Teaching
Research Assistant under Dr. David Hillis September 2000-present.

Teaching Assistant for Systematics (Spring 2000) , Cell Biology (Fall 1999), and Genetics (Spring 1997)

Lab Assistant/Technician in the labs of Dr. Scott K. Davis and Jeremy F. Taylor, at Texas A&M University, 1991-1995.

Papers Published
Hillis D.M, Holder M.T., "Reconstructing the tree of life" Trends in Ecology and Evolution: Special Issue, 47-50, 2000

Mark T. Holder, Mark V. Erdmann, Thomas P. Wilcox, Roy L. Caldwell, and David M. Hillis, "Two living species of coelacanths?" PNAS, 96(22) 12616-12620, Oct 26, 1999.

Kristina Kichler, Mark Holder, Scott Davis, ReneMarquez, and David Owens, "Detection of multiple paternity in the Kemp's ridley sea turtle with limited sampling," Molecular Ecology 8:819-830,1999

Accepted Pending Revision
Mark T. Holder, Jennifer A. Anderson, and Alisha K. Holloway "Difficulties in Detecting Hybridization: A Reply to Sang and Zhong" Systematic Biology

Papers Presented at Meetings
Mark Holder - "The performance of phylogenetic methods on data simulated using a complex model of evolution" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in 2001 in Knoxville, TN.

Derrick Zwickl, David Swofford and Mark Holder - "Do multiple optima in parameter space hinder maximum likelihood tree searches?" Presented by D. Zwickl at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in 2001 in Knoxville, TN.

Mark Holder - "Using branch flexibility to detect uncertainty in phylogenies" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in1999 in Vancouver, BC.

Mark Holder, David Cannatella, A. Stanley Rand, Mike Ryan, and Adao Cardoso "Phylogeny of the frog genus Physalaemus with implications for evolution of call types in the group" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in1998 in Boulder, CO.