Kathryn (Katie) Stanchak

Education

2014 - 2019. Ph.D. University of Washington, Department of Biology.

2010. Bachelor of Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Course 2A).

Publications

Peer-Reviewed:
*indicates co-first authorship

2022

Stanchak, K.E., K.E. Miller, E.W. Lumsden, D. Shikiar, C. Davis, B.W. Brunton, and D.J. Perkel. Molecular markers of mechanosensation in glycinergic neurons in the avian lumbosacral spinal cord. eNeuro 2022 link

2021

Aiello, B.R.*, K.E. Stanchak*, A.I. Weber*, T. Deora, S. Sponberg, and B.W. Brunton. 2021. Spatial distribution of campaniform sensilla mechanosensors on wings: form, function, and phylogeny. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 48, 8-17.

Arbour, J.A.,and K.E. Stanchak. 2021. The little fishes that could: smaller fishes demonstrate slow body size evolution but faster speciation in the family Percidae. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 134(4), 851-866. link

2020

Stanchak, K.E., C. French, D. Perkel, and B. Brunton. The balance hypothesis for the avian lumbosacral organ and an exploration of its morphological variation. 2020. Integrative Organismal Biology, 2(1), obaa024. link

Theobald, E.J., M.J. Hill, E. Tran, S. Agrawal, E.N. Arroyo, S. Behling, N. Chambwe, D. Laboy Cintrón, J.D. Cooper, G. Dunster, J.A. Grummer, K. Hennessey, J. Hsiao, N. Iranon, L. Jones, H. Jordt, M. Keller, M.E. Lacey, C.E. Littlefield, A. Lowe, S. Newman, V. Okolo, S. Olroyd, B.R. Peecook, S.B. Pickett, D.L. Slager, I.W. Caviedes-Solis, K.E. Stanchak, V. Sundaravardan, C. Valdebenito, C.R. Williams, K. Zinsli, and S. Freeman. 2020. Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(12), 6476-6483. link

2019

Santana, S.E., J.H. Arbour, A.A. Curtis, and K.E. Stanchak. 2019. 3D Digitization in Functional Morphology: Where is the Point of Diminishing Returns? Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59(3), 656-668. link

Stanchak, K.E., J.H. Arbour, and S.E. Santana. 2019. Anatomical diversification of a skeletal novelty in bat feet. Evolution, 73(8), 1591-1603. link

Stanchak, K.E. and S.E. Santana. 2019. Do ecogeographical rules explain morphological variation in a diverse, Holarctic genus of small mammals? Journal of Biogeography, 46(1), 110-122. link

2018

Stanchak, K.E. and S.E. Santana. 2018. Assessment of the hindlimb membrane musculature of bats: Implications for active control of the calcar. The Anatomical Record, 301(3), 441-448. link

Research Funding

2020 - Paleontological Society Arthur James Boucot Research Grant ($4,540)

2018 - Washington Chapter of The Wildlife Society ($2,500)

2017 - Washington Research Foundation and Benjamin Hall Graduate Fellowship (1 Fellowship Quarter + $3,500)

2017 - National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant ($20,116) “Dissertation Research: Developmental mechanisms of morphological novelty and adaptation in the hindlimbs of bats (Chiroptera).” (Co-PI; PI Dr. Sharlene Santana)

2017 - American Society of Mammalogists Grant-in-Aid of Research ($1,400)

2017 - University of Washington Department of Biology Sargent Award ($2,000)

2016 - American Museum of Natural History Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant ($2,440)

2016 - University of Washington Department of Biology Iuvo Award ($1,200)

2016 - Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Grant-in-Aid of Research ($1,000)

2015 - Washington Research Foundation and Benjamin Hall Graduate Fellowship (1 Fellowship Quarter + $2,900 for field training course)