Faculty Profiles

Dr. Sunni J Taylor

Senior Lecturer — Biology

SUPP 384

phone: (512) 245-4809

st1188@txstate.edu

Teaching Interests

I am interested in the development and facilitation of courses that inspire and motivate students to then pass on their knowledge and enthusiasm for the natural world to future generations.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

Shaw, J. P., Taylor, S. J., Dobson, M. C., & Martin, N. H. (2017). Pollinator isolation in Louisiana iris: legitimacy and pollen transfer. EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY RESEARCH, 18(4), 429–441.
Arnold, M. L., Brothers, A. N., Hamlin, Jennafer A. P., Taylor, S. J., & Martin, N. H. (2015). Divergence-with-Gene-Flow-What Humans and Other Mammals Got up to. RETICULATE EVOLUTION: SYMBIOGENESIS, LATERAL GENE TRANSFER, HYBRIDIZATION AND INFECTIOUS HEREDITY, 3, 255–295. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16345-1_10
Martin, N. H., & Taylor, S. J. (2013). Floral preference, flower constancy, and pollen transfer efficiency of the ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) in mixed arrays of Iris nelsonii and Iris fulva. EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY RESEARCH, 15(7), 783–792.
Taylor, S. J., Rojas, L. D., Ho, S., & Martin, N. H. (2013). Genomic collinearity and the genetic architecture of floral differences between the homoploid hybrid species Iris nelsonii and one of its progenitors, Iris hexagona. Heredity, 110, 63–70.
Taylor, S. J., AuBuchon, K. J., & Martin, N. H. (2012). Identification of Floral Visitors of Iris nelsonii. SOUTHEASTERN NATURALIST, 11(1), 141–144. https://doi.org/10.1656/058.011.0114

Selected Awards

Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi "Favorite Professors" Award, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. 2021
Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi "Favorite Professors" Award, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. 2019

Selected Grants

Taylor, Sunni J. Texas State University Service-Learning Excellence Program Mini-Grant, Texas State University Service-Learning Excellence Program, Texas State University, $500. (Funded: June 2019 - July 2019). Grant.
Taylor, Sunni J. Texas State University Service-Learning Excellence Program Mini-Grant, Texas State University Service-Learning Excellence Program, Texas State University, $500.00. (Funded: June 2018 - July 2018). Grant.
Taylor, Sunni J. Texas State University Service-Learning Excellence Program Mini-Grant, Texas State University Service-Learning Excellence Program, Texas State University, $500.00. (Funded: January 2018 - May 2018). Grant.
Taylor, Sunni J. Texas State University Service-Learning Excellence Program Mini-Grant, Texas State University Service-Learning Excellence Program, Texas State University, $500.00. (Funded: October 2017 - December 2017). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Volunteer

San Marcos CISD

2017-Present

Officer

Southwest Region of Association of Science Teacher Education

2021-2023

Member

Women in Science and Engineering Committee

February 2018-2022

Reviewer / Referee

Botany

2019-2019