Mike Angilletta is a President's Professor and the Associate Director of Learning Innovation in the School of Life Sciences. He earned a BS in Biology from The College of New Jersey and a PhD in Ecology & Evolution from the University of Pennsylvania.
Between 2000 and 2010, Mike served on the faculty at Indiana State University, where he was ultimately promoted to the rank of Professor. While at ISU, Mike established an international reputation as an evolutionary biologist who focuses on adaptation to temperature, publishing numerous scientific articles and an award-winning book (Thermal Adaptation, Oxford University Press).
After coming to ASU in 2010, Mike got involved in efforts to improve the undergraduate curriculum in the Biological Sciences. Between 2010 and 2012, he served as the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Programs, overseeing the scheduling and staffing of courses for more than 3000 students spread among 9 degree programs in the School of Life Sciences. Between 2014 and 2020, Professor Angilletta served as the Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs, expanding the use of adaptive learning technology in the curriculum and leading the development of three online degree programs. To establish a fully online program in biology, he partnered with Labster and Google to develop online laboratory courses in virtual reality.
As the Associate Director of Learning Innovation, Mike collaborates with Ed Plus and the University Technology Office to create innovative learning experiences. His team focuses on the BioSpine Initiative---a project designed to maintain an aligned curriculum in biology that leverages adaptive learning technology. This curriculum is currently being mapped to national standards, such as the BioCore Guide (Brownell et al. 2017, CBE - Life Sciences Education) and the BioSkills Guide (Clemmons et al. 2020, CBE - Life Sciences Education). Angilletta also participates in a university initiative called Dreamscape Learn, a partnership between ASU and Dreamscape Immersive that combines Hollywood storytelling and cutting-edge technology to enable students to conduct collaborative research in a virtual world.
Thermoregulatory Behavior
Angilletta, M. J., J. P. Youngblood, L. K. Neal, J. M. VandenBrooks. 2019. The neuroscience of adaptive thermoregulation. Neuroscience Letters 692: 127-136.
Camacho Guerrero, A., J. M. VandenBrooks, A. Riley, R. S. Telemeco, and M. J. Angilletta. 2018. Oxygen supply did not affect how lizards perceived thermal stress. Integrative Zoology 13: 428-436.
Rusch, T., M. W. Sears, and M. J. Angilletta. 2018. Lizards perceived abiotic and biotic stressors independently when competing for shade in terrestrial mesocosms. Hormones and Behavior 106: 44-51.
Basson, C.H., O. Levy, M. J. Angilletta, and Susana Clusella-Trullas. 2017. Lizards paid a greater opportunity cost to thermoregulate in a less heterogeneous environment. Functional Ecology 31: 856-865.
Rusch, T. and M. J. Angilletta. 2017. Competition for thermal resources between lizards alters thermoregulatory behavior and hormone levels. Functional Ecology 31: 1519-1528.
Sears, M. W., M. J. Angilletta, M. S. Schuler, J. D. Borchert, K. F. Dilliplane, M. Stegman, T. W. Rusch, and W. A. Mitchell. 2016. Configuration of the thermal landscape determines thermoregulatory performance of ectotherms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. 113:10595–10600.
Sears, M. W. and M. J. Angilletta. 2015. Costs and benefits of thermoregulation revisited: statistical and spatial distributions of temperature drive energetic costs. The American Naturalist 185: E94-E102.
Thermal Adaptation
Alton, L. A., C. Condon, C. R. White, and M. J. Angilletta. 2017. Colder environments did not select for a faster metabolism during experimental evolution of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 71: 145-152.
Teague, C., J. Youngblood, K. Ragan, M. J. Angilletta, and J. M. VandenBrooks. 2017. A positive genetic correlation between heat tolerance and hypoxia tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster. Biology Letters 13: 20170309.
Adrian, G.J., M. Czarnoleski, and M. J. Angilletta. 2016. Flies evolved small bodies and cells at high or fluctuating temperatures. Ecology and Evolution 6: 7791-7996.
Le Vinh Thuy, J., J. M. VandenBrooks, and M. J. Angilletta. 2016. Developmental plasticity evolved according to specialist-generalist tradeoffs in experimental populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Biology Letters 12: 20160379.
Condon, C., A. Acharya, G. J. Adrian, A. M. Hurliman, D. Malekooti, P. Nguyen, M. H. Zelic, and M. J. Angilletta. 2015. Indirect selection of thermal tolerance during experimental evolution of Drosophila melanogaster. Ecology and Evolution 5: 1873-1880.
Condon, C., B. C. Cooper, S. Yeaman, and M. J. Angilletta. 2014. Temporal variation favored the evolution of generalists in experimental populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 68: 720-728.
Vimmerstedt, J., D. Padilla, M. J. Angilletta, J. M. VandenBrooks. 2019. Oxygen supply limits the heat tolerance of avian embryos. Biology Letters 15: 20190566.
Youngblood, J. P., C. R. B. da Silva, M. J. Angilletta, and J. M. VandenBrooks. 2019. Oxygen limitation does not drive the decreasing heat tolerance of grasshoppers during development. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 92: 567-572.
Impacts of Climate Change
Angilletta, M. J., M. W. Sears, J. M. VandenBrooks. 2019. Fundamental flaws with the fundamental niche. Integrative and Comparative Biology doi: 10.1093/icb/icz084.
Telemeco, R., B. Fletcher, O. Levy, A. Riley, Y. Rodriguez-Sanchez, C. D. Smith, C. Teague, A. Waters, M. J. Angilletta, and L. B. Buckley. 2017. Lizards fail to plastically adjust nesting behavior or thermal tolerance as needed to buffer populations from climate change. Global Change Biology 23: 1075-1084.
Levy, O., L. B. Buckley, T. H. Keitt, and M. J. Angilletta. 2016. Ontogeny constrains phenology: opportunities for activity and reproduction interact to dictate potential phenologies in a changing climate. Ecology Letters 19: 620-628.
Levy, O., L. B. Buckley, T. H. Keitt, and M. J. Angilletta. 2016. A dynamically downscaled projection of past and future microclimates. Ecology 97: 1888.
Buckley, L. B., J. C. Ehrenberger, and M. J. Angilletta. 2015. Thermoregulatory behavior limits local adaptation of thermal niches and confers sensitivity to climate change. Functional Ecology 29: 1038-1047.
Levy, O., L. B. Buckley, T. H. Keitt, C. D. Smith, K. Boateng, D. Kumar, and M. J. Angilletta. 2015. Resolving the life cycle alters expected impacts of climate change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20150837.
Smith, C. D., R. Telemeco, J. VandenBrooks, and M. J. Angilletta. 2015. Oxygen supply limits the heat tolerance of lizard embryos. Biology Letters 11: 20150113.
Performance and Deception
Angilletta, M. J., R. S. Wilson, and G. Kubitz. 2019. Self-deception in non-human animals: weak crayfish escalated aggression as if they were strong. Behavioral Ecology 30: 1469-1476.
Graham, Z. A., D. J. Padilla, and M. J. Angilletta. Claw size predicts dominance within and between invasive species of crayfish. Animal Behaviour 164: in press.
Graham, Z. A., D. Padilla, and M. J. Angilletta. 2020. Virile crayfish escalate aggression according to body size instead of weapon size. Animal Behaviour 163: 9-15.
Hunter, A. H, M. J. Angilletta, and R. S. Wilson. 2018. Behaviours of shooter and goalkeeper interact to determine the outcome of soccer penalties. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 28: 2751–2759.
Hunter A. H., M. J. Angilletta, T. Pavlic, G. Lichtwarke, and R. S. Wilson. 2018. Modeling the two-dimensional accuracy of soccer kicks. Journal of Biomechanics 72: 159-166
Hunter, A. H., S. Murphy, M. J. Angilletta, and R. S. Wilson. 2018. Anticipating the direction of soccer penalty shots depends on the speed and technique of the kicks. Sports 6: 73.
Wilson, R. S., G. David, S. C. Murphy, A. C. Niehaus, M. J. Angilletta, A. Hunter, and M. D. Smith. 2017. Skill not athleticism predicts individual variation in match performance of soccer players. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284: 20170953.
Murphy, S.C., W. von Hippel, S. L. Dubbs, M. J. Angilletta, R. S. Wilson, R. Trivers, and F. K. Barlow. 2015. The role of overconfidence in romantic desirability and competition. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 41: 1036-1052.
White, C. R., D. J. Marshall, L. A. Alton, P. A. Arnold, J. E. Beaman, C. L. Bywater, C. Condon, T. S. Crispin, A. Janetzki, H. S. Winwood Smith, M. J. Angilletta, S. F. Chenoweth, C. E. Franklin, L. G. Halsey, M. R. Kearney, S. J. Portugal, and D. Ortiz-Barrientos. The origin and maintenance of metabolic allometry in animals. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 598–603.
Wilson, R. S. and M. J. Angilletta. 2015. Dishonest signaling during aggressive encounters. Pp. 205-228 in Animal Signalling: A Functional Approach. (D. J. Irschick, M. Briffa, and J. Podos, eds.). Ralph Wiley Press.
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 320 | Fundamentals of Ecology |
BIO 321 | Introductory Ecology Lab |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MIC 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
MBB 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 320 | Fundamentals of Ecology |
BIO 321 | Introductory Ecology Lab |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MIC 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
MBB 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 182 | General Biology II |
BIO 320 | Fundamentals of Ecology |
BIO 321 | Introductory Ecology Lab |
BIO 432 | Why People Steal,Cheat,and Lie |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 320 | Fundamentals of Ecology |
BIO 321 | Introductory Ecology Lab |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MIC 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
MBB 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 182 | General Biology II |
BIO 320 | Fundamentals of Ecology |
BIO 432 | Why People Steal,Cheat,and Lie |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 282 | ConceptualApproachBioMajors II |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
Summer 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 182 | General Biology II |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 282 | ConceptualApproachBioMajors II |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 182 | General Biology II |
BIO 189 | Life Sciences Career Paths |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
Summer 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 182 | General Biology II |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 1998-present
Animals Behavior; Biological Sciences; Environmental Life Sciences; Evolutionary Biology
Professor, Arizona State University (2013-present); Associate Professor, Arizona State University (2006-2013); Associate Professor, Arizona State University (2010-2010); Associate Professor, Indiana State University (2006-2010); Assistant Professor, Indiana State University (2000-2006)
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