Jesse Grismer

Jesse Grismer

Jesse Grismer, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology

Education: 

  • Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 2016.
  • M.S., Biology, Villanova University, 2010.
  • B.S., Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 2007.

Research Area

  • Conservation genomics, taxonomy
  • Exploration and species discovery in Central Asia and the South Pacific.
  • The use of genomic data to identify board-scale patterns of dispersal and colonization between South Pacific archipelagos in boid and elapid snakes, and scinid lizards
  • The evolution of parthenogenesis in Southeast Asian Butterfly Lizards
  • Conservation genetics of Southern California herpetofauna

Contact Info

Jesse Grismer, Ph.D.
E-mail: jgrismer@lasierra.edu
Phone: (951) 785-2101
Building: Price Science Complex, Room 207

Awards/Grants

  • 2015 Summer Fellowship, University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ($3,000 for Agamidae Phylogenomics)
  • 2014 Revisiting Przhevalsky’s Expeditions: Population Genetics in the Gobi Desert. National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration ($20,000 for herpetological surveys and genetic work in the Gobi Desert)
  • 2014 Travel Award, University of Kansas, Department of Biology ($700 for museum specimen work in Germany) 2013 Field Research Award, University of Kansas, Department of Biology ($2,000 for field work in Central Asia)
  • 2009 Travel Award, Villanova University Department of Biology ($700 for travel to the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Portland, Oregon)
  • 2008 Travel Award, Villanova University Department of Biology ($700 for travel to the First Annual Agamid Lizard Symposium, Bonn Germany)
  • 2003 Rychman Undergraduate Research Endowment, La Sierra University ($1,000 grant for field research in the Seribuat Archipelago, Malaysia)

Representative Publications

  1. Grismer J. L., J. A. Schulte II, P. Wagner, S. Travers, M. D. Buehler, L. J. Welton, R. M. Brown. The Eurasian invasion: phylogenomic data reveal multiple Southeast Asian origins for Indian dragon lizards. BMC Evolutionary Biology.16: 1–11 (2016).
  2. Grismer L. L., E. S. H. Quah, P. L. Wood Jr., S. Anuar, A. Muin, H. Davis, M. L. Murdoch, J. L.Grismer, M. Cota, A. J. Cobos. Dragons in the mist: three new species of Pseudocalotes Fitzinger (Squamata: Agamidae) from the sky island archipelago of Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa. 4136: 3 (2016).
  3. Grismer L. L., P. L. Wood Jr, A. Aowphol, M. Cota, M. S. Grismer, M. L. Murdoch, C. A. and J. L.Grismer. Out of Borneo, again and again: biogeography of the Stream Toad genus Ansonia Stoliczka (Anura: Bufonidae) and the discovery of the first limestone cave dwelling species. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society. In Press (2016).
  4. Grismer J. L., A. M. Bauer, L. L. Grismer, K. Thirakhupt, A. Aowphol, J. R. Oaks, P. L. Wood Jr., K. O. Chan, N. Thy, M. Cota, T. Jackman. Multiple origins of parthenogenesis, and a species phylogeny for the Southeast Asian butterfly lizards, Leiolepis. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 113: 1080–1093 (2014).
  5. Grismer, L. L., P. L. Wood Jr., S. Anuar, A. Riyanto, A. Norhayati, M. A. Muin, M. Sumontha, J. L.Grismer, K. O. Chan, E. S. H. Quah, O. S. A. Pauwels. Systematics and natural history of Southeast Asian rock geckos (genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) with descriptions of eight new species from Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. Zootaxa 3880: 1–147 (2014).