David C. Tank Assistant Professor, Plant Systematics Director, Stillinger Herbarium Department of Forest Resources E-mail: dtank@uidaho.edu Office: Room 204D, CNR Phone: (208) 885-7033 Web: http://www.phylodiversity.net/dtank

Education & Experience:

• Ph.D., University of Washington, 2006

• M.S., Michigan State University, 2000

• B.S., Michigan State University, 1998

• Postdoctoral Associate, Division of Botany, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 2006-2008

• Lecturer, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 2007

• Interim Collections Manager, Division of Botany, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 2007

• Doctoral Fellow, Melinda Denton Plant Systematics Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Biology, University of Washington, 2005

• Predoctoral Lecturer, Department of Biology, University of Washington, 2004-2005

• Research Assistant, North Cascades National Park Foray Project, Department of Botany, University of Washington, 2002

• Doctoral Fellow, Molecular Phylogenetics and Systematics Graduate Fellowship, Department of Botany, University of Washington, 2000-2002

Specialty Areas of Interest:

• Molecular Plant Systematics & Evolution
• Phylogenetics & Bioinformatics
• Phylogenetic Nomenclature

Recent and Current Research:

• Species-level phylogenetics of the paintbrushes (Castilleja) and their close relatives in Orobanchaceae

• Revisionary systematics of the paintbrushes and their relatives - including treatments for the Flora of North America and the Jepson Manual

• Phylogenetics and historical biogeography of the campanulid clade - a major lineage of asterid angiosperms

• Bioinformatic approaches for assessing the state of phylogenetic knowledge

Selected Publications:

• Tank, DC, JM Egger, and RG Olmstead. 2008. Phylogenetic classification of subtribe Castillejinae (Orobanchaceae). Systematic Botany, in press.

• Wetherwax, M and DC Tank. 2008.  Chloropyron. In BG Baldwin et al. (eds), The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, Second Edition.  University of California Press, Berkeley, in press.

• Wetherwax, M and DC Tank. 2008.  Cordylanthus. In BG Baldwin et al. (eds), The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, Second Edition.  University of California Press, Berkeley, in press.

• Wetherwax, M and DC Tank. 2008.  Dicranostegia. In BG Baldwin et al. (eds), The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, Second Edition.  University of California Press, Berkeley, in press.

• Smith, S.A., D.C. Tank, L-A. Boulanger, C.A. Bascom-Slack, K. Eisenman, et al. 2008. Bioactive endophytes warrant intensified exploration and conservation. PLoS ONE 3(8): e3052.

• Tank, DC and RG Olmstead. 2008.  From annuals to perennials: phylogeny of subtribe Castillejinae (Orobanchaceae). American Journal of Botany 95, 608-625.

• Tank, DC, PM Beardsley, SA Kelchner, and RG Olmstead. 2006.  L.A.S. Johnson Review No. 7. Review of the systematics of Scrophulariaceae s.l. and its current disposition. Australian Systematic Botany 19: 289-307.

• Tank, DC and T Sang. 2001. Phylogenetic utility of the glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase gene: evolution and implications in Paeonia (Paeoniaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 19: 421-429.

• Wang, X-Q, DC Tank and T Sang. 2000. Phylogeny and divergence times in Pinaceae: evidence from three genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17: 773-781.