EDUCATION
PhD candidate: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (Fall 2012- present) Advisor: L. Mahadevan
BSc in Physiology, University of Wyoming (2012), 3.97 GPA, Research Advisor: Dr. Carlos Martinez del Rio
High School: Buffalo High School (2008), Buffalo, WY; 4.0 GPA, Salutatorian
RESEARCH AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2012-2016)
James Mills Pierce Fellowship (GSAS, Harvard) (2012)
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (2010-2012)
Best Student Poster Presentation, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (2012)
Wyoming NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2011)
Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium Fellowship (2010-2011)
UW Scholarship: Frederic E. Clements Ecology Scholarship (2011)
UW Scholarship: Robert A. Jenkins Undergraduate Research Award (2011)
Wyoming NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Fellowship Summer (2010)
Wyoming NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Fellowship Fall (2009)
ACADEMIC AWARDS
Wyoming Honors Scholar Stipend (2010-2012)
Wyoming Hathaway Merit Honors Scholarship (2008-2012)
AXA Achievement Scholarship (2008-2012)
Wyoming Presidents Promise Hathaway Scholarship (2008-2012)
Ellis and Nellie Patch Scholarship (2009)
INTERNSHIPS
Summer research assistant, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India. Advisor: Dr. Sanjay Sane (2012) Field and lab research related to hawk moth migrations
Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Wyoming. Advisor: Carlos Martínez del Rio (Summer 2009 and Summer 2011) Stable isotope techniques for ecophysiology studies
TEACHING
ENSC P-14810: Build your own weather station: An introduction to microcontrollers (designed and taught course), Harvard Summer School Pre-college Program (2018), link to syllabus
OEB10: Introduction to Biological Diversity (graduate teaching fellow), Harvard (2015)
LS2: Human Evolutionary Anatomy and Physiology (graduate teaching fellow), Harvard (2014)
CHEM1: General Chemistry I (undergraduate teaching fellow), University of Wyoming (2009)
OUTREACH
Concord Field Station Teacher Professional Development (Aug 2015) Taught hands on introduction to beekeeping tutorial for high school teachers
Peters J.M., Peleg, O., & Mahadevan, L. (2019) Collective ventilation in honeybee nests. J. R. Soc. Interface 16: 20180561.
Peleg, O.*, Peters, J. M.*, Salcedo, M. K., & Mahadevan, L. (2018). Collective mechanical adaptation of honeybee swarms. Nature Physics, 49, 1. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0262-1 *equal contribution
Peters, J. M., Gravish, N., & Combes, S. A. (2017). Wings as impellers: honey bees co-opt flight system to induce nest ventilation and disperse pheromones. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 220(12), 2203–2209. http://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.149476
Smith, M. L., Koenig, P. A., & Peters, J. M. (2017). The cues of colony size: how honey bees sense that their colony is large enough to begin to invest in reproduction. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 220(9), 1597–1605. http://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.150342
Gravish, N., Peters, J. M., Combes, S. A., & Wood, R. J. (2015). Collective Flow Enhancement by Tandem Flapping Wings. Physical Review Letters, 115(18), 188101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.188101
Wolf, N., Newsome, S. D., Peters, J. M., & Fogel, M. L. (2015). Variability in the routing of dietary proteins and lipids to consumer tissues influences tissue-specific isotopic discrimination. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 29(15), 1448–1456.
http://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.7239
Newsome, S. D., Wolf, N., Peters, J. M., & Fogel, M. L. (2014). Amino Acid δ13C Analysis Shows Flexibility in the Routing of Dietary Protein and Lipids to the Tissue of an Omnivore. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 54(5), 890–902. http://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu106
Peters, J. M., Wolf, N., Stricker, C. A., Collier, T. R., & del Rio, C. M. (2012). Effects of Trophic Level and Metamorphosis on Discrimination of Hydrogen Isotopes in a Plant-Herbivore System. PLoS One, 7(3), e32744. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032744
PAPERS IN PREP
Peters, J.M.*, Peleg, O.*, & Mahadevan, L. (in prep) Morphing dynamics in thermoregulating honeybee swarm clusters
Peters, J.M. & Mahadevan, L. (in prep) Distributed ventilation by self-organizing analog robots
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Peleg, O., Peters J. M., Salcedo, M. K., & Mahadevan, L. (2017). Dynamic morphology in honeybee swarms. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57, E374-E374
Peters, J. M., Peleg, O., Combes, S. A., and Mahadevan, L. (2017) Honey bee colonies use flow-mediated stigmergy to minimize shear during collective nest ventilation. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57, E375-E375
Peters, J. M., Gravish, N., Mahadevan, L., & Combes, S. A. (2016) Collective nest ventilation by honey bees: Global flow patterns arise from local fanning responses. Integrative and Comparative Biology 56, E171-E171
Clark, A. D., Peters, J. M., & Combes, S. A. (2016) Foraging yellow jackets adjust body posture and wing kinematics to maintain stability during loaded flight. Integrative and Comparative Biology 56, E269-E269
Peters, J. M., Gravish, N., & Combes, S. A. (2015) Ventilation behavior in honeybees: Linking biomechanics and group behavior. Integrative and Comparative Biology 55, E142-E142
Gravish, N., Combes, S. A., Wood, R. J., Peters, J. M. (2014) Collective fluid mechanics of honeybee nest ventilation. APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts
Peters, J. M., Carleton, S. A., Craig, C., & Martinez del Rio, C. (2013) Effects of land use on seasonal foraging behavior in white-winged doves of Arizona: Insights from stable isotope analysis, Integrative and Comparative Biology 53, E351-E351