Brady, Sean G.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Seán Brady, Curator of Hymenoptera (Ants & Bees)

Phone: 301-238-1078 Fax: 202-786-2894 E-mail Address: bradys@si.edu Mailing Address: Smithsonian Institution Laboratories of Analytical Biology Museum Support Center 4210 Silver Hill Road Suitland, MD 20746 Shipping Address: (same as above) Education: Ph.D. University of California, Davis Research Interests:

Phylogenetics, molecular evolution, and systematics of ants and bees Social insect evolution and ecology Coevolutionary dynamics, especially in fungus-growing ants Phylogenetic and molecular evolutionary theory and methodology My research concentrates on increasing our understanding of the origins, diversification, and molecular evolution of social insects, especially ants and bees. I am particularly interested in applying comparative approaches that incorporate evidence from systematics, ecology, genetics, and genomics in order to address specific questions in ant and bee evolution.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Brady, S.G. 2003. Evolution of the army ant syndrome: the origin and long-term evolutionary stasis of a complex of behavioral and reproductive adaptations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 100: 6575-6579.


 * Brady, S. G., J. Gadau and P. S. Ward. 1999. Is the ant genus Camponotus paraphyletic? Pages 27-28 in Austin, A. D. and P. J. DeBarro. Fourth International Hymenopterists Conference: program and abstracts. International Society of Hymenopterists, Glen Osmond, SA. 96 pp


 * Brady, S.G., Schultz, T.R., Fisher, B.L. & Ward, P.S. 2006. Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 103: 18172-18177.


 * Brady, S.G. & Ward, P.S. 2005. Morphological phylogeny of army ants and other dorylomorphs. Systematic Entomology 30: 592-618.


 * Gadau, J.; Brady, S. G.; Ward, P. S. 1999.  Systematics, distribution, and ecology of an endemic California Camponotus quercicola (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 92(4): 514-522


 * LaPolla, J.S., Brady, S.G. & Shattuck, S.O. 2010b. Designation of a neotype for Paratrechina currens Motschoulsky, 1863. Notulae Naturae 481: 1-2.


 * Sosa-Calvo, J., S. G. Brady and T. R. Schultz. 2009. The gyne of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant species Mycetosoritis explicata. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 18(1): 113-120.


 * Ward, P., and Brady, S. 2003. Phylogeny and biogeography of the ant subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17(3): 361-386


 * [[Media:Ward & Brady 2009.pdf|Ward, P.S. & Brady, S.G. 2009. Rediscovery of the ant genus Amyrmex Kusnezov and its transfer from Dolichoderinae to Leptanilloidinae. Zootaxa 2063: 46-54. PDF]]


 * Ward, P.S., Brady, S.G., Fisher, B.L. & Schultz, T.R. 2010. Phylogeny and biogeography of Dolichoderinae ants: effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference. Systematic Biology 59: 342-362.