Jessica Ware

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Jessica Lee Ware

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Jessica Lee Ware is a Canadian-American evolutionary biologist and entomologist. [1] [2] She is the associate curator of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. [3] [4] In addition, she is a principal investigator at the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics and an associate professor for the Richard Gilder Graduate School. [5]

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Ware has served as president of the Entomological Society of America, [6] and as President of the Worldwide Dragonfly Association. [7] She studies the evolution of insect physiology and behavior, particularly dragonflies and dictyoptera, as well as their biogeography (geographic distribution). [5] Ware was a contributor to a major study of the phylogenomics of insect evolution, [8] and developed molecular phylogeny of hexapoda. [9] Ware warns of the dangerous losses occurring in insect taxonomies, which are being reported as high as 80%. [3]

Early life and education

Jessica Lee Ware was born in 1977 in Montreal, Quebec, and has a twin brother, artist and activist Syrus Marcus Ware. [2] Ware has said that she became interested in biology because her grandparents, Gwen and Harold Irons, in northern Canada encouraged her to collect snakes, insects, and frogs. [10] Ware attended the University of Toronto Schools (UTS) for grades 7–13. [2]

Ware earned a Bachelor of Science in invertebrate zoology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 2001. [2] She pursued entomology after a work-study position at the Spencer Entomological Museum at UBC, [11] which helped to support her during her studies. [2]

After graduating, Ware traveled to Costa Rica to work with Diane Srivastava for a semester. She reports that her time in Costa Rica inspired her to pursue research as a career, and it was also her first experience of working with other scientists of color. [2]

Ware went directly from her bachelor's degree to the doctoral program at Rutgers University. [2] She was awarded a PhD in 2008, with a dissertation titled, Molecular and morphological systematics of Libelluloidea (Odonata: Anisoptera) and Dictyoptera, [12] an examination of the evolutionary history of the Libelluloidea superfamily of dragonflies. [3]

Career

In 2010, Ware became an assistant professor at Rutgers University, and was granted tenure in 2016. [13] In 2020 she was hired as an assistant curator of Odonata & non-holometabolous insect orders at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in Manhattan, New York, [5] later becoming associate curator. She is helping to develop the Susan and Peter J. Solomon Family Insectarium at AMNH, which will explore the diversity and importance of insect orders. [3] Ware is also a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. [2]

Ware contributed to a major study of the phylogenomics of insect evolution, [8] and developed molecular phylogeny of hexapoda. [9] She has undertaken fieldwork in several continents. [2]

Ware is active in encouraging women and people from under-represented groups to become entomologists. [2] [10] She was a featured speaker at the March for Science in Washington DC in 2017. [14] [15] [16] [1] She co-founded Entomologists of Color (www.entopoc.org) [17] and co-organized #BlackInEnto week in February 2021. [18]

She is a contributor to Entomology Today, [19] and serves on the board of several entomological journals. [2]

Ware has served on the Governing Board of the Entomological Society of America, representing the SysEB section. [20] As of May 7, 2020, Ware was elected to become Vice President-Elect of the Entomological Society of America, starting her term as vice president in November 2020, and as president in November 2021. [6]

From 2019 to 2021, she served as President of the Worldwide Dragonfly Association. [7]

She has been on NOVA PBS shows about insect entomophagy, and butterflies. She has also been featured on Jonathan Van Ness's podcast Getting Curious . [21]

Honors

Personal life

Ware's maternal family is from England but they have lived in Canada since the early 20th century. Ware's paternal family are from the southern United States. Ware has dual citizenship.

Ware was married to another entomologist, however, they are now separated and she is a single parent to two children. [2] [10] Ware identifies as bisexual. [32]

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