Education and Professional Experience

• 2007 - present Research Assistant Scientist, University of Miami
• 2005 - 2007 Postdoctoral Researcher, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
• 1999 - 2005 Ph.D. Arizona State University, Genetics
• 1998 - 1999 Research Assistant in Developmental Genetics, Arizona State University
• 1996 - 1999 B.S. Arizona State University, Zoology

Grants

• 2003, Center for Bioinformatics, Graduate Fellowship
• 2003, Z Game and Fish, Genetic Variation in AZ. Springsnails, Heritage Grant
• 2001,AZ Game and Fish, Genetic Variation in AZ. Springsnails, Heritage Grant

Areas of Focus

• Tropical Biology

Selected Publications

• Hedrick P., Lee R., and C. Hurt (in press). "Genetic Evaluation of Captive Populations of Endangered Species and Merging of Populations: Gila Topminnows as an Example". Heredity.

• Hedrick P. and C. Hurt 2012. Conservation genetics and evolution in an endangered species: research in Sonoran topminnow. Early View Available April 2012. Evolutionary Applications.

• Hurt C., Anker A. and N. Knowlton. 2009. A multilocus test of simultaneous divergence across the Isthmus of Panama using snapping shrimp in the genus Alpheus. Evolution 63: 514--530.

• Olendorf R., Rodd H. F., Punzalan D, Houde A., Hurt C., Reznick D. N. and K. A. Hughes. 2006. Frequency--dependent Survival in Natural Guppy Populations. Nature 441: 633--636.

• Hurt C., Farzin M., and P. W. Hedrick.2005. Examining the process of allopatric speciation in the endangered Sonoran topminnow using cytonuclear genotype frequencies. Genetics 71: 655--672.