Mindi Summers
Associate Professor (Teaching); Assistant Head (Undergraduate Programs)
Department of Biological Sciences
PhD - Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography - University of California San Diego, 2014
MS - Marine Biology
Scripps Institution of Oceanography - University of California San Diego, 2011
BSc (Hons) - Geology and Environmental Sciences
Stanford University, 2009
Contact information
Phone
Office: 403.220.8761
Location
Office
: BI041
Courses
- BIOL 607.73 - Special Problems in Biology (Animal Behaviour)
- ZOOL 507.4 - Advanced Topics in Zoology (Arachnid Diversity)
- ZOOL 507.5 - Advanced Topics in Zoology (Fresh Water Invertebrates)
- ZOOL 507.9 - Advanced Topics in Zoology (Ant Diversity)
- ZOOL 530A - Honours Research Project in Zoology
- ZOOL 567 - Animal Behaviour
- BIOL 401 - Evolutionary Biology
- ZOOL 401 - An Introduction to Invertebrate Zoology
- ZOOL 530B - Honours Research Project in Zoology
Research and teaching
Research interests
My research focuses on student learning and undergraduate research experiences in invertebrate diversity, evolution, ecology, behaviour and systematics.
Publications
- McKay DM, Summers M, Buret AG, Emmett T, & Gilleard JS. 2019. Rethinking graduate education in parasitology: a case study. Trends in Parasitology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2019.05.001
- Couch BA, Wright CD, Freeman S, Knight JK, Semsar K, Smith MK, Summers MM, Zheng Y, Crowe AJ, & Brownell SE. 2019. GenBio-MAPS: A programmatic assessment to measure students understanding ofVision and Change core concepts across general biology programs. CBE-Life Sciences. 18: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.18-07-0117
- Semsar K, Brownell S, Couch B, Crowe A, Freeman S, Smith M, Summers M, Wright C, & Knight J. 2019. Phys-MAPS: A programmatic physiology assessment for introductory and advanced undergraduates.Advances in Physiology Education. 43: 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00128.2018
- Summers MM, Couch B, Knight J, Brownell S, Crowe A, Semsar K, Wright C, & Smith MK. 2018. EcoEvo-MAPS: a tool to assess student learning in ecology and evolution through the undergraduate major. CBE-Life Sciences Education. 17: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.17-02-0037
- Smith MK, Toth ES, Borges K, Dastoor F, Johnston J, Jones EH, Nelson PR, Page J, Pelletreau K, Prentiss N, Roe JL, Staples J, Summers M, Trenckmann E, & Vinson E. 2018. Using place-based economically relevant organisms to improve student understanding of the roles of carbon dioxide, sunlight, and nutrients in photosynthetic organisms. CourseSource. https://www.coursesource.org/courses/using-place-based-economically-relevant-organisms-to-improve-student-understanding-of-the
- Trenckmann E*, Smith MK, Pelletreau KN, & Summers MM. 2017. An active-learning lesson that targets student understanding of population growth in ecology. CourseSource.https://www.coursesource.org/courses/an-active-learning-lesson-that-targets-student-understanding-of-population-growth-in-ecology
- Summers MM, Messing CG, & Rouse GW. 2017. The genera and species of Comatulidae (Comatulida: Crinoidea): taxonomic revisions and a molecular and morphological guide. Zootaxa. 4268: 151-190.https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4268.2.1
- Rouse GW, Lanterbecq D, Summers MM, & Eeckhaut I. 2016. Four new species of Mesomyzostoma (Myzostomida, Annelida). Journal of Natural History. 50: 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1056266
- Summers MM, Pleijel F, & Rouse GW. 2015. Whale falls, multiple colonisations of the deep, and the phylogeny of Hesionidae (Annelida). Invertebrate Systematics. 29: 105-123. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS14055
- Summers MM & Rouse GW. 2014. Phylogeny of Myzostomida (Annelida) and their relationships with echinoderm hosts. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14: 170. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0170-7
- Summers MM, Messing CG, & Rouse GW. 2014. Phylogeny of Comatulidae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comatulida). Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution. 80: 319-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.030
- Summers MM, Al-Hakim I, & Rouse GW. 2014. Turbo-taxonomy: 21 new species of Myzostomida (Annelida). Zootaxa. 3873: 301-344. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3873.4.1
- Summers MM, Katz S, Allen EE, & Rouse GW. 2013. Association of rhizobia with a marine polychaete. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 5: 492-498. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12043
- Payne JL, Summers M, Rego BL, Altiner D, Wei J, Yu M, & Lehrmann DJ. 2011. Early and Middle Triassic trends in diversity, evenness, and size of foraminifers on a carbonate platform in south China: implications for tempo and mode of biotic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction. Paleobiology. 37: 409-425. https://doi.org/10.1666/08082.1