CV and publications
EDUCATION
Institution Major Degree and Year
University of Illinois at Chicago Biology PhD 2020
Chicago, IL
Humboldt State University Wildlife Biology M.S. 2013
Arcata, CA
Skidmore College Biology B.A. 2008
Saratoga Springs, NY
RECENT APPOINTMENTS
2023 Assistant Professor, Chicago State University
2023 Researcher, Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program
2020- 2023 Post-doctoral Researcher, UIC
2015-2020 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biological Sciences, UIC
2010, 2013-14 Ornithologist, Starr Ranch, Audubon CA
2012-2013 Graduate Assistant, Department of Wildlife, HSU
2011-2013 Wright Refuge Banding Station Manager, HSU
2010-2011 Head LTREB (NSF) research technician, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: see my google scholar profile for the most up to date list of publications
Garfinkel M, Belaire A, Whelan C, Minor E. 2024. Wildlife gardening initiates a feedback loop to reverse the “extinction of experience.” Biological Conservation 289:110400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110400.
Garfinkel, M., K. Yakandawala, S. Hosler, M. Roberts, C. Whelan, and E. Minor. 2023. Testing the accuracy of a Rights-of-Way pollinator habitat scoring system. Ecological Indicators 148:110062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110062.
Garfinkel, M., S. Hosler, M. Roberts, J. Vogt, C. Whelan, and E. Minor. 2023. Balancing the management of powerline right-of-way corridors for humans and nature. Journal of Environmental Management 330:117175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.117175.
Garfinkel, M., Hosler, S., Whelan, C., & Minor, E. 2022. Powerline Corridors Can Add Ecological Value to Suburban Landscapes When Not Maintained as Lawn. Sustainability, 14(12), 7113. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127113
Garfinkel, M., Fuka, M., Minor, E. S., and Whelan, C. J. 2022. When a pest is not a pest: Birds indirectly increase defoliation but have no effect on yield of soybean crops. Ecological Applications 32 (4), e2527.
Garfinkel, M., Minor, E., and Whelan, C. J. 2021. Using faecal metabarcoding to examine consumption of crop pests and beneficial arthropods in communities of generalist avian insectivores. Ibis:ibi.12994.
Liu, C.; Minor, E.S.; Garfinkel, M.B.; Mu, B.; Tian, G. 2021. Anthropogenic and Climatic Factors Differentially Affect Waterbody Area and Connectivity in an Urbanizing Landscape: A Case Study in Zhengzhou, China. Land: 10:1070. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10101070
Garfinkel, M., Minor, E. S., and Whelan, C. J. 2020. Birds suppress pests in corn but release them in soybean crops within a mixed prairie/agriculture system. The Condor: duaa009
Minor, E.S., Anderson, E.C., Belaire, A.J., Garfinkel, M., and Smith, A.D. 2017. Urban green infrastructures and ecological networks for urban biodiversity conservation. In Ossola, A. and Niemelä, J. (Eds.), Urban Biodiversity: from research to practice (pp. 186-199). London: Routledge.
Milligan, M., Johnson, M. D., Garfinkel, M., Smith, C., and Njoroge, P. 2016. Quantifying pest control services by birds and ants in Kenyan coffee farms. Biological Conservation 194: 58-65.
Garfinkel, M., and Johnson, M. D. 2015. Rest-removal services provided by birds on small organic farms in Northern California. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 211: 24:31
Mettke-Hofmann, C., Hamel, P., Hofmann, G., Pellegrini, A., Mizen, J., Garfinkel, M., Zenzal, T., Huston, E., Schiff, N., and Greenberg, R. 2015. Competition and habitat quality influences age and sex distribution in wintering Rusty Blackbirds. PLOS One 10, e0123775.
Cooper, N., Thomas, M., Garfinkel, M., Schneider, K., and Marra, P. 2012. Comparing the precision, accuracy, and efficiency of branch clipping and sweep netting for sampling arthropods in two Jamaican forest types. Journal of Field Ornithology 83(4): 381-390.
Gordon, W., Roy, M., Vardar-Ulu, D., Garfinkel, M., Mansour, M. Aster, J., and Blacklow, S. 2009. Structure of the Notch1 Negative Regulatory Region: Implications for Normal Activation and Pathogenic Signaling in T-ALL. Blood 113(18): 4381-90.
Tang, Y., Poustovoitov, M., Zhao, K., Garfinkel, M., Canutescu, A., Dunbrack, R., Adams, P., and Marmorstein, R. 2006. Structure of a human ASF1a–HIRA complex and insights into specificity of histone chaperone complex assembly. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 13: 912-929.