Faculty Profile for Dr. Sam Borstein

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Dr. Sam Borstein
Assistant Professor — Biology
SUPP 384
phone: (512) 245-2178

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Martinez, C. M., Korn, C. A., Williamson, S., Satterfield, D., Roberts-Hugghis, A. S., Barley, A., … Wainwright, P. C. (2024). Replicated Functional Evolution in Cichlid Adaptive Radiations. The American Naturalist, 204(3), 242–257. https://doi.org/10.1086/731477
  • Blackburn, D. C., Boyer, D. M., Gray, J. A., Winchester, J., Bates, J. M., Baumgart, S. L., … Stanley, E. L. (2024). Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D-imaging: the openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network. BioScience, 74(3), 169–186. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad120
  • Kolmann, M. A., Nagesan, R. S., Andrews, J. V., Borstein, S. R., Figueroa, R. T., Singer, R., … Lopez-Fernandez, H. (2023). DiceCT for Fishes: Recommendations for pairing iodine contrast agents with μCT to visualize soft tissues in fishes. Journal of Fish Biology, 102(4), 893–903. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15320
  • Coronado‐Franco, K. V., Tedesco, P. A., Kolmann, M. A., Borstein, S. R., Evans, K. O., & Correa, S. B. (2022). Feeding habits influence species habitat associations at the landscape scale in a diverse clade of Neotropical fishes. Journal of Biogeography, 49(12), 2181–2192. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14490
  • Borstein, S. R., Lucanus, O., Gajapersad, K., Singer, R. A., Mol, J., & Lopez-Fernandez, H. (2022). Fish Diversity of the Upper Tapanahony River, Suriname. Misc Publ Mus Zool Univ Michigan, 211, 1–19.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Research Award, University of Tennessee Graduate Student Senate. 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Progress Toward Dissertation Research Award, University of Tennessee Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. 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

Selected Grants

  • 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 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 (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.

Selected Service Activities

Participant
February 2020-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Tissue and Cell
September 2024
Judge
2024 Texas State University Department of Biology Student Colloquium
February 23, 2024
Reviewer / Referee
Journal of Animal Ecology
February 20, 2024
Reviewer / Referee
Systematic Biology
2021