Dustin Owen

PhD Student
Email:  dasowen27@gmail.com
Office: 510 Mueller Laboratory
Phone: 814.867.2252

Curriculum Vitae

Education
BS     2013  Ball State University


Research Interests
My primary research interests are in ecophysiology and behavioral ecology in vertebrates, especially pertaining to anthropogenic disturbances. I’m especially interested in how novel disturbances influence behavior and stress physiology from both an ecological and conservation context. My PhD research investigates maternal stress caused by invasive species can affect physiology of mothers and their offspring.


Grants, Fellowships, & Funding (Total: $150,399)
- Sigma Xi, Grant-in-Aid of Research ($1,000)
- Pennsylvania State University, Biology Graduate Student Travel Grant ($250)
- Pennsylvania State University, Ecology Graduate Student Travel Grant ($200)
- The Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, Charlotte Mangum Student Support Travel Grant ($99)
- Austin Peay State University, Student Travel Grant ($500)
- Austin Peay State University, Student Travel Grant ($500)
- National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship ($132,000)
- Chicago Herpetological Society, Undergraduate Research in Herpetology Grant ($1,000)
- Indiana Academy of Science, Senior Research Grant ($2,200)
- Ball State University, Aspire Travel Grant ($100)
- Sigma Xi: Ball State University Chapter, Student Research Grant ($250)
- Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Dean E. Metter Memorial Award ($1,000)
- Sigma Xi, Grant-in-Aid of Research ($500)
- Ball State University, Aspire Grant ($300)
- Chicago Herpetological Society, Undergraduate Research in Herpetology Grant ($500)

Publications
Owen DAS, MJ Sheriff, J Heppner, H Gerke, DC Ensminger, KJ MacLeod, T Langkilde. In Prep. Hot and bothered: Maternal stress alters thermal sensitivity of metabolic rate in lizard embryos. Biology Letters.
 
Owen DAS, MJ Sheriff, HI Engler, T Langkilde. In Review. Sex-dependent effects of maternal stress on offspring investment. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology.
 
Owen DAS, MS Smylie, L Swierk. 2018. A new blood sampling method for smaller anurans that preserves critical features of specimens. Herpetological Review.
 
Owen DAS, TR Robbins, T Langkilde. 2018. Trans-generational but not early life exposure to stressors influences offspring morphology and survival. Oecologia 186(2): 347-355.
 
Owen DAS, TC Carter, SA Rutan. 2015. Influence of scent and season on Sherman live-trap captures of Peromyscus. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 124(1): 32-37.
 
Jacquemin SJ, JC Doll, M Pyron, M Allen, DAS Owen. 2015. Effects of flow regime on growth rate in freshwater drum, Aplodinotus grunniens. Environmental Biology of Fishes 98:993-1003.
 
Holding ML, DAS Owen, EN Taylor. 2014. Evaluating the thermal effects of translocation in a large-bodied pitviper. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology 321A: 442-449.
 
Owen DAS, ET Carter, ML Holding, IT Moore, K Islam. 2014. Roads are associated with a blunted stress response in a North American pit viper. General & Comparative Endocrinology 202: 87-92.
 
Owen DAS, A Settineri, SJ Jacquemin, M Pyron. 2013. On the contribution of allometry to morphological variation in a freshwater gastropod Elimia livescens. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 121(2):163-166.