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Jessica Ware
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Jessica Lee Ware is an African American Canadian-American evolutionary biologist and entomologist. She is the associate curator of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In addition, she is a principal investigator at the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics and an associate professor for the Richard Gilder Graduate School.
Ware has served as president of the Entomological Society of America, and as President of the Worldwide Dragonfly Association. She studies the evolution of insect physiology and behavior, particularly dragonflies and dictyoptera, as well as their biogeography (their geographic distribution). Ware was a contributor to a major study of the phylogenomics of insect evolution, and developed molecular phylogeny of hexapoda. Ware warns of the dangerous losses occurring in insect taxonomies, which are being reported as high as 80%.
Jessica Lee Ware was born in 1977 in Montreal, Quebec, one of twins (her twin is artist and activist Syrus Marcus Ware).
Ware has said that she became interested in biology because her grandparents, Gwen and Harold Irons, in northern Canada encouraged her to collect snakes, insects, and frogs. Ware attended the University of Toronto Schools (UTS) for grades 7–13.
Ware earned a Bachelor of Science in invertebrate zoology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 2001. She pursued entomology after a work-study position at the Spencer Entomological Museum at UBC, which helped to support her during her studies.
After graduating, Ware traveled to Costa Rica to work with Diane Srivastava for a semester. She reports that her time there led to her to choose research as a career, and it was also her first experience of working with other scientists of color.
Ware went directly from her bachelor's degree to the doctoral program at Rutgers University. She was awarded a PhD in 2008, with a dissertation titled, Molecular and morphological systematics of Libelluloidea (Odonata: Anisoptera) and Dictyoptera, an examination of the evolutionary history of the Libelluloidea superfamily of dragonflies.
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