Welcome to the Bowden Lab at Illinois State University!
Research Interests:
- Maternal resource provisioning to offspring
- Sex determination (particularly temperature-dependent sex determination)
- Effects of steroids and steroid mimics on development
- Immune function in reptiles
Teaching Interests:
- Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
- Ecological Physiology of Animals
- Rainforest Ecology
Positions, Education & Training
2020-Present: Director, School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University
2017-Present: Distinguished Professor of Ecological Physiology, Illinois State University
2013-2017: Professor of Ecological Physiology, Illinois State University
2009-2013: Associate Professor of Ecological Physiology, Illinois State University
2003-2009 Assistant Professor of Ecological Physiology, Illinois State University
2002-2003 Affiliate Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
2001-2003 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Iowa State University
1994-2001 Ph.D., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Indiana University-Bloomington
1990-1994 B.A. (cum laude), Environmental, Population & Organismal Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder
Grants
2021-2026 National Science Foundation, IOS in collaboration with Ryan Paitz (ISU)
2018-2021 National Institutes of Health, NIAID in collaboration with Laura Vogel (ISU)
2014-2017 National Institutes of Health, NIEHS in collaboration with Ryan Paitz (ISU)
2010-2013 National Science Foundation, IOS
2008-2011 National Science Foundation, IOS in collaboration with Laura Vogel (ISU)
2008 National Science Foundation, Conference Support in collaboration with Matt Lovern (OSU)
2002-2006 National Science Foundation, IOS (co-PI)
Awards
2013 Outstanding University Researcher Award, ISU
2012 Outstanding College Researcher Award, ISU
2007 University Research Initiative Award, ISU
2007 University Teaching Initiative Award, ISU
Contact Me
Rachel M. Bowden
School of Biological Sciences
Illinois State University
Campus Box 4120
Phone: (309) 438-3834
Email Me: rmbowde@ilstu.edu