Faculty Profiles

Dr. Sam Borstein

Borstein, Samuel Robert (Principal). NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, National Science Foundation, Federal, $207000. (Submitted: November 19, 2019, Funded: March 1, 2021 - August 31, 2023). Grant.
Borstein, Samuel Robert (Principal). University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunity Research Mentor Grant, University of Michigan, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1000. (Funded: November 2022 - April 2023). Grant.
Borstein, Samuel Robert (Principal). University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunity Research Mentor Grant, University of Michigan, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1000. (Funded: December 2021 - August 2022). Grant.
Borstein, Samuel (Co-Principal), O'Meara, Brian C. (Principal). Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, Federal, $19630. (Submitted: October 13, 2016, Funded: 2017 - 2020). Grant.
Borstein, Samuel Robert. EEB Department Summer Research Grant, University of Tennessee, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1500. (Funded: 2017). Grant.

Borstein, S. R., Hammer, M. P., O’Meara, B. C., & McGee, M. D. (2024). The macroevolutionary dynamics of pharyngognathy in fishes fail to support the key innovation hypothesis. Nature Communications, 15, 10325.
Borstein, S. R. (2020). dietr: an R package for calculating fractional trophic levels from quantitative and qualitative diet data. Hydrobiologia, 847, 4285–4294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04417-5
McGee, M. D., Borstein, S. R., Meier, J. I., Marques, D. A., Mwaiko, S., Taabu, A., … Seehausen, O. (2020). The ecological and genomic basis of explosive adaptive radiation. Nature, 586, 75–79. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2652-7
Borstein, S. R., Fordyce, J. A., O’Meara, B. C., Wainwright, P. C., & McGee, M. D. (2019). Reef fish functional traits evolve fastest at trophic extremes. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(2), 191–199. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0725-x
McGee, M. D., Borstein, S. R., Neches, R. Y., Buescher, H. H., Seehausen, O., & Wainwright, P. C. (2015). A pharyngeal jaw evolutionary innovation facilitated extinction in Lake Victoria cichlids. Science, 350(6264), 1077–1079. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab0800

Award / Honor Recipient: Progress Toward Dissertation Research Award, University of Tennessee Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. 2017
Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Research Award, University of Tennessee Graduate Student Senate. 2017
Award / Honor Nominee: Wake Award for best student presentation in the division of phylogenetics and comparative biology, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. 2015
Award / Honor Recipient: 2nd Place Best Seminar Presentation, California State University System. 2013
Award / Honor Recipient: Best Seminar in Marine & Aquatic Biology, West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference. 2013