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Tara Rodden Robinson, PhD

Instructor of Genetics, Extended Campus,

Oregon State University

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Genetics

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by Tara Rodden Robinson

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About the Author

Tara Rodden Robinson, RN, BSN, PhD, is a native of Monroe, Louisiana,

where she graduated from Ouachita Parish High School. She earned her

degree in nursing at the University of Southern Mississippi and worked as

a registered nurse for nearly six years (mostly in surgery) before running

away from home to study birds in the Costa Rican rain forest. From the rain

forests, Tara traveled to the corn elds of the Midwest to earn her PhD in

biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She conducted her

dissertation work in the Republic of Panama, where she examined the social

lives of song wrens. She received her postdoctoral training in genetics with

Dr. Colin Hughes (then at the University of Miami) and through a postdoc-

toral fellowship at Auburn University. Dr. Robinson received a teaching

award for her genetics course at Auburn and was twice included in Who’s

Who Among America’s Teachers (2002 and 2005).

Currently, Tara teaches genetics via distance education on behalf of the biol-

ogy program at Oregon State University. On the research side, Dr. Robinson

has conducted research on birds in locations all over the map, including

Oregon, Michigan, Yap (part of the Federated States of Micronesia), and the

Republic of Panama. Examples of her work include using paternity analysis to

uncover the mysteries of birds’ social lives, examining the population genet-

ics of endangered salmon, and using DNA to nd out which species of salmon

that seagoing birds like to eat.

When not traveling to exotic places with her husband, ornithologist W.

Douglas Robinson, Tara enjoys hiking the Coast Range of Oregon with her

two dogs in training for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure. You can nd

out more about her at www.thegeneticsprofessor.com .

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