Robert Bode, Ph.D.

My family moved to the Pacific Northwest from New York in 1997. In complete disregard of the natural beauty around me, I headed back east for my education. I got my B.S. in biology from Hope College in Holland, Michigan, then traveled to Ithaca, New York to get a Ph.D. at Cornell University. I then took a job as a teaching post-doc at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. I finished two years of teaching and research and took a one-year sabbatical replacement position at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. Having thoroughly explored the east and mid-west, I then, in 2014, accepted a position here at Saint Martin's, once again surrounded by natural beauty and biology.

Select publications:

• Bode, R.F. and Maciejewski, A.* (2014) Herbivore Biodiversity Varies with Patch Size in an Urban Archipelago. International Journal of Insect Science, 2014:6
• Bode, R.F., and Gilbert, A.* (2016) Seed Predators, not Herbivores, exert Natural Selection on Solidago spp. in an Urban Archipelago. Environmental Entomology. 45(1): 150-154
• Bode, R.F. and Tong, R.* (2017) Pollinators Exert Positive Selection on Flower Size on Urban, but not Rural Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius L. Link) Journal of Plant Ecology 11(3): 493-501
• Porter, R.S.* and Bode, R.F. (2017) Antiviral Properties of Black Elder (Sambucus nigra). Phytotherapy Research
• Bode, R.F., Grove, S. and Krueger, N.* Limits to Biocontrol: the effects of urbanization and elevation on Bruchidius villosus and Exapion fuscirostre; two biological control agents of Cytisus scoparius. Biological Invasions 21(3): 1021-1031
• Bode, R.F., Linhart, R.D. and Dufresne, C. Variation in the Pollinator Community Visiting Invasive Cytisus scoparius L. Link (Scotch broom) along an Elevation Gradient. Submitted to Ecological Entomology 5/21/19

Accomplishments:

I am currently raising two healthy, energetic boys. One is five years old, the other is two-and-a-half. Besides that, various teaching and cooking awards and race medals pale in comparison.

Areas of interest:

Hiking (for science and pleasure), fishing, cooking, reading, running, and spending time with my children.