CURRICULUM
VITAE
DEBORAH ANN ROACH
EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, N.C. 1979-1984
M.S. thesis: "Buried Seed and Standing Vegetation in Two Adjacent
Tundra Habitats, Northern Alaska". Ph.D. thesis: "Ecological
Genetics of Life History Components in Geranium carolinianum".
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, SOUTH HADLEY, MASS. 1975-1978
Magna cum laude graduate in Biology. B.A. Undergraduate thesis:
"Anatomical, Reproductive, and Physiological Features of Early
Colonizing Alpine Plant Species".
EMPLOYMENT
CAVALIER DISTINGUISHED TEACHING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 2006-2008
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Department of Biology, University of Virginia
2005-present
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of Biology, University of Virginia
1998-2005
RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of Zoology, Duke University
1987-1998
ASSISTANT DEAN, Natural Sciences, Duke University 1987-1990
NIH POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, Department of Zoology, Duke University
1984-1987
PUBLICATIONS
Shefferson, R.P. and D.A. Roach. 2009. Longitudinal
analysis of Plantago: Adaptive benefits of iteroparity in a short-lived
herbaceous perennial (in press).
Roach, D.A., C. Ridley, and J. Dudycha. 2009. Longitudinal
analysis of Plantago: Age by environment interactions reveal aging.
Ecology 90(6): 1427-1433.
Priest, N. K., D. A. Roach, and L. F. Galloway. 2008. Cross-generational
fitness benefits of mating and male seminal fluid. Biology Letters
4:6-8.
Priest, N.K., L.F. Galloway, and D.A. Roach. 2008. Mating
Frequency and Inclusive Fitness in Drosophila melanogaster.
American Naturalist 171(1):10-21.
Priest, N.K., D.A. Roach, and L.F. Galloway. 2007. Mating-induced
recombination in fruit flies. Evolution 61(1):160-67.
Roach, D.A. and J. Gampe. 2004. Age-specific
demography in Plantago: Uncovering age-dependent mortality in a
natural population. American Naturalist 164(1): 60-69.
Vaupel, J.W., A. Baudisch, M. Dölling, D.A. Roach, and J. Gampe.
2004. The
case for negative senescence. Theoretical Population Biology
65:339-351.
Roach, D.A. 2004. Evolutionary
approaches to the study of whole plant senescence. pp. 331-348.
In: Plant Cell Death Processes (L.D. Nooden, Ed.). Academic Press.
Roach, D.A. 2003. Age
specific demography in Plantago: Variation among cohorts in a natural
population. Ecology 84(3): 749-756.
Lacey, E.P., D.A. Roach, D. Herr, S. Kincaid, and R. Perrott. 2003.
Multigenerational
effects of flowering and fruiting phenology in Plantago lanceolata.
Ecology 84(9): 2462-75.
Dudycha, J. and D.A. Roach. 2003. Pathogen
frequency in an age-structured population of Plantago lanceolata.
Oecologia 136:141-147.
Roach, D.A. 2001. Environmental
effects on age-dependent mortality: A test with a perennial plant
species under natural and protected conditions. Experimental
Gerontology 36:687-694.
Roach, D.A. 1999. Ecology
and the comparative approach.(Book review). New Phytologist
142:1-2.
Roach, D.A. 1993. Evolutionary
senescence in plants. Genetica 91:53-64. Reprinted in Genetics
and Evolution of Aging, 1994, M.R. Rose and C.E. Finch (Eds.), p.71-82,
Volume 3 of Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution, Kluwer
Academic Publishers.
Roach, D.A. 1992. Parental care and the allocation of resources
across generations. Evolutionary Ecology 6:187-197.
Roach, D.A. 1992. The
biology of life span. (Book review). Ecology 73(1): 379-381.
Roach, D. A. and R. Wulff. 1987. Maternal
effects in plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.
18:209-35.
Roach, D. A. 1987. Variation
in seed and seedling size in Anthoxanthum odoratum. American
Midland Naturalist. 117(2): 258-264.
Roach, D. A. 1986. Time
of seed production and dispersal in Geranium carolinianum: Identifying
the important components of fitness for an annual plant. Ecology
67(2): 572-576.
Roach, D. A. 1986. Life
history variation in Geranium carolinianum. I. Covariation between
characters at different stages of the life cycle. American Naturalist
128(1): 47-57.
Roach, D. A. 1985. Genetic and environmental constraints to selection
response for juvenile characters in Geranium carolinianum. In: Genetic
Differentiation and Dispersal in Plants. pp. 191-201. (P. Jacquard,
G. Heim, and J. Antonovics Eds.) NATO ASI Series, Vol. G5. Berlin:
Springer-Verlag.
Roach, D. A. and P. J. Marchand. 1984. Recovery of alpine disturbances:
early growth and survival in populations of the native species Arenaria
groenlandica, Juncus trifidus, and Potentilla tridentata. Arctic
and Alpine Research. 16(1):37-43.
Roach, D. A. 1983. Buried seed and standing vegetation in two adjacent
tundra habitats, northern Alaska. Oecologia 60(3):359-364.
Marchand, P. J. and D. A. Roach. 1980. Reproductive strategies of
pioneering alpine species: Seed production, dispersal, and germination.
Arctic and Alpine Research. 12(2):137-146.
