1. Jessica Lee Ware is a Canadian-American evolutionary biologist and entomologist.
22 Facts About Jessica Ware
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Jessica Ware is curator and chair of the Division of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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Jessica Ware is current president of the Society of Systematic Biologists.
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Jessica Ware was a contributor to a major study of the phylogenomics of insect evolution, and developed molecular phylogeny of hexapoda.
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Jessica Lee Ware was born in 1977 in Montreal, Quebec, and has a twin brother, artist and activist Syrus Marcus Ware.
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Jessica 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.
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Jessica Ware earned a Bachelor of Science in invertebrate zoology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 2001.
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Jessica Ware pursued entomology after a work-study position at the Spencer Entomological Museum at UBC, which helped to support her during her studies.
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Jessica Ware went directly from her bachelor's degree to the doctoral program at Rutgers University.
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Jessica Ware was awarded a PhD in 2008, with a dissertation titled, Molecular and morphological systematics of Libelluloidea and Dictyoptera, an examination of the evolutionary history of the Libelluloidea superfamily of dragonflies.
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In 2010, Jessica Ware became an assistant professor at Rutgers University, and was granted tenure in 2016.
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Jessica Ware is helping to develop the Susan and Peter J Solomon Family Insectarium at AMNH, which will explore the diversity and importance of insect orders.
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Jessica Ware is a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
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Jessica Ware contributed to a major study of the phylogenomics of insect evolution, and developed molecular phylogeny of hexapoda.
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Jessica Ware is active in encouraging women and people from under-represented groups to become entomologists.
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Jessica Ware was a featured speaker at the March for Science in Washington DC in 2017.
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Jessica Ware is a contributor to Entomology Today, and serves on the board of several entomological journals.
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Jessica Ware has served on the Governing Board of the Entomological Society of America, representing the SysEB section.
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Jessica Ware has been on NOVA PBS shows about insect entomophagy, and butterflies.
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Jessica Ware has been featured on Jonathan Van Ness's podcast Getting Curious.
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Jessica Ware was the narrator on the PBS Terra show Insectarium.
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Jessica Ware was married to another entomologist they are now separated and she is a single parent to two children.