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Dikow, Rebecca B.

Research Data Scientist

Positions

• Research Data Scientist, Office of Chief Information Officer 2016 -

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Background And Education

education and training

• Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago , Committee on Evolutionary Biology 2007 - 2012
• B.S. in Biological Sciences, Cornell University , College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 1999 - 2003
• National Museum of Natural History , Biodiversity Genomics Initiative 2012 - 2016

awards and honors

• Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2018

Research And Grants

co-principal investigator on

• Deepening our understanding of digitized herbarium samples using machine learning  awarded by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards

Publications

selected publications

• article

  • Roa-Varón, Adela, Dikow, Rebecca B., Carnevale, Giorgio, Tornabene, Luke, Baldwin, Carole C., Li, Chenhong, and Hilton, Eric J. 2021. "Confronting Sources of Systematic Error to Resolve Historically Contentious Relationships: A Case Study Using Gadiform Fishes (Teleostei, Paracanthopterygii, Gadiformes)." Systematic Biology 70 (4):739-755. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa095 2021
  • Arias, Carlos F., Dikow, Rebecca B., McMillan, W. Owen, and De Leon, Luis F. 2021. "De Novo Genome Assembly of the Electric Fish Brachyhypopomus occidentalis (Hypopomidae, Gymnotiformes)." Genome Biology and Evolution, 13, (10). Oxford; England: Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab223. 2021
  • Olsen, Lindsey K., Heckenhauer, Jacqueline, Sproul, John S., Dikow, Rebecca B., González, Vanessa L., Kweskin, Matthew P., Taylor, Adam M., Wilson, Seth B., Stewart, Russell J., Zhou, Xin, Holzenthal, Ralph, Pauls, Steffen U., and Frandsen, Paul B. 2021. "Draft Genome Assemblies and Annotations of Agrypnia vestita Walker, and Hesperophylax magnus Banks Reveal Substantial Repetitive Element Expansion in Tube Case-Making Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera)." Genome Biology and Evolution, 13, (3), Oxford; England: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab013. 2021
  • Li, Xuankun, Ellis, Emily, Plotkin, David, Imada, Yume, Yago, Masaya, Heckenhauer, Jacqueline, Cleland, Timothy P., Dikow, Rebecca B., Dikow, Torsten, Storer, Caroline G., Kawahara, Akito Y., and Frandsen, Paul B. 2021. "First annotated genome of a mandibulate moth, Neomicropteryx cornuta , generated using PacBio HiFi sequencing." Genome Biology and Evolution, 13, (10). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab229. 2021
  • Tsuchiya, Mirian T. N., Dikow, Rebecca B., Koepfli, Klaus-Peter, Frandsen, Paul B., Rockwood, Larry L., and Maldonado, Jesús E. 2021. "Whole-Genome Sequencing of Procyonids Reveals Distinct Demographic Histories in Kinkajou (Potos flavus) and Northern Raccoon (Procyon lotor)." Genome Biology and Evolution 13 (1):Article evaa255-Article evaa255. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaa255 2021
  • Feng, Shaohong, Stiller, Josefin, Deng, Yuan, Armstrong, Joel, Fang, Qi, Reeve, Andrew Hart, Xie, Duo, Chen, Guangji, Guo, Chunxue, Faircloth, Brant C., Petersen, Bent, Wang, Zongji, Zhou, Qi, Diekhans, Mark, Chen, Wanjun, Andreu-Sánchez, Sergio, Margaryan, Ashot, Howard, Jason Travis, Parent, Carole, Pacheco, George, Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S., Puetz, Lara, Cavill, Emily, Ribeiro, Ângela M., Eckhart, Leopold et al. 2020. "Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics." Nature 587 (7833):252-257. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2873-9 2020
  • Tsuchiya, Mirian T. N., Dikow, Rebecca B., and Cassin-Sackett, Loren. 2020. "First genome sequence of the Gunnison's prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni), a Keystone species and player in the transmission of sylvatic plague." Genome Biology and Evolution 12 (5):618-625. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaa069 2020
  • White, Alexander E., Dikow, Rebecca B., Baugh, Makinnon, Jenkins, Abigail, and Frandsen, Paul B. 2020. "Generating segmentation masks of herbarium specimens and a data set for training segmentation models using deep learning." Applications in Plant Sciences 8 (6):Article e11352. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11352 2020
  • Legeai, Fabrice, Santos, Bernardo F., Robin, Stéphanie, Bretaudeau, Anthony, Dikow, Rebecca B., Lemaitre, Claire, Jouan, Véronique, Ravallec, Marc, Drezen, Jean-Michel, Tagu, Denis, Baudat, Frédéric, Gyapay, Gabor, Zhou, Xin, Liu, Shanlin, Webb, Bruce A., Brady, Seán G., and Volkoff, Anne-Nathalie. 2020. "Genomic architecture of endogenous ichnoviruses reveals distinct evolutionary pathways leading to virus domestication in parasitic wasps." BMC Biology 18 (1):Article 89. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00822-3 2020
  • Mandel, Jennifer R., Dikow, Rebecca B., Siniscalchi, Carolina M., Thapa, Ramhari, Watson, Linda E., and Funk, Vicki A. 2019. "A fully resolved backbone phylogeny reveals numerous dispersals and explosive diversifications throughout the history of Asteraceae." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (28):14083-14088. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903871116 2019
  • Jones, Katy E., Fér, Tomáš, Schmickl, Roswitha E., Dikow, Rebecca B., Funk, Vicki A., Herrando‐Moraira, Sonia, Johnston, Paul R., Kilian, Norbert, Siniscalchi, Carolina M., Susanna, Alfonso, Slovák, Marek, Thapa, Ramhari, Watson, Linda E., and Mandel, Jennifer R. 2019. "An empirical assessment of a single family-wide hybrid capture locus set at multiple evolutionary timescales in Asteraceae." Applications in Plant Sciences 7 (10):Article e11295. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11295 2019
  • Ohdera, Aki, Ames, Cheryl L., Dikow, Rebecca B., Kayal, Ehsan, Chiodin, Marta, Busby, Ben, La, Sean, Pirro, Stacy, Collins, Allen G., Medina, Mónica, and Ryan, Joseph F. 2019. "Box, stalked, and upside-down? Draft genomes from diverse jellyfish (Cnidaria, Acraspeda) lineages: Alatina alata (Cubozoa), Calvadosia cruxmelitensis (Staurozoa), and Cassiopea xamachana (Scyphozoa)." GigaScience 8 (7):https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giz069 2019
  • Ren, Zhumei, von Dohlen, Carol D., Harris, Aj, Dikow, Rebecca B., Su, Xu, and Wen, Jun. 2019. "Congruent phylogenetic relationships of Melaphidina aphids (Aphididae: Eriosomatinae: Fordini) according to nuclear and mitochondrial DNA data with taxonomic implications on generic limits." PloS One 14 (2):1-10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213181 2019
  • Edelman, Nathaniel B., Frandsen, Paul B., Miyagi, Michael, Clavijo, Bernardo, Davey, John, Dikow, Rebecca B., Garcia-Accinelli, Gonzalo, Van Belleghem, Steven M., Patterson, Nick, Neafsey, Daniel E., Challis, Richard, Kumar, Sujai, Moreira, Gilson R. P., Salazar, Camilo, Chouteau, Mathieu, Counterman, Brian A., Papa, Riccardo, Blaxter, Mark, Reed, Robert D., Dasmahapatra, Kanchon K., Kronforst, Marcus, Joron, Mathieu, Jiggins, Chris D., McMillan, W. Owen, Di Palma, Federica et al. 2019. "Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation." Science 366 (6465):594- . https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw2090 2019
  • Cortes-Rodriguez, Nandadevi, Campana, Michael G., Berry, Lainie, Faegre, Sarah, Derrickson, Scott R., Ha, Renee Robinette, Dikow, Rebecca B., Rutz, Christian, and Fleischer, Robert C. 2019. "Population Genomics and Structure of the Critically Endangered Mariana Crow (Corvus kubaryi)." Genes 10 (3):187. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10030187 2019
  • Hawkins, Melissa T. R., Culligan, Ryan R., Frasier, Cynthia L., Dikow, Rebecca B., Hagenson, Ryan, Lei, Runhua, and Louis, Edward E., Jr. 2018. "Genome sequence and population declines in the critically endangered greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) and implications for conservation." Bmc Genomics 19:445-445. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-4841-4 2018
  • Ren, Zhu-Mei, Harris, Aj, Dikow, Rebecca B., Ma, Enbo, Zhong, Yang, and Wen, Jun. 2017. "Another look at the phylogenetic relationships and intercontinental biogeography of eastern Asian – North American Rhus gall aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Eriosomatinae): Evidence from mitogenome sequences via genome skimming." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 117:102-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.05.017 2017
  • Schuettpelz, Eric, Frandsen, Paul, Dikow, Rebecca B., Brown, Abel, Orli, Sylvia S., Peters, Melinda, Metallo, Adam, Funk, Vicki, and Dorr, Laurence J. 2017. "Applications of deep convolutional neural networks to digitized natural history collections." Biodiversity Data Journal 5:e21139. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e21139 2017
  • Wen, Jun, Harris, Aj, Ickert-Bond, Stefanie, Dikow, Rebecca B., Wurdack, Kenneth J., and Zimmer, Elizabeth Anne. 2017. "Developing integrative systematics in the informatics and genomic era, and calling for a global Biodiversity Cyberbank." Journal of Systematics and Evolution 55 (4):308-321. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12270 2017
  • Dikow, Rebecca B., Frandsen, Paul B., Turcatel, Mauren, and Dikow, Torsten. 2017. "Genomic and transcriptomic resources for assassin flies including the complete genome sequence of Proctacanthus coquilletti (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) and 16 representative transcriptomes." PeerJ 5:e2951. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2951 2017
  • Mandel, Jennifer R., Barker, Michael S., Bayer, Randall J., Dikow, Rebecca B., Gao, Tian-Gang, Jones, Katy E., Keeley, Sterling, Kilian, Norbert, Ma, Hong, Siniscalchi, Carolina M., Susanna, Alfonso, Thapa, Ramhari, Watson, Linda, and Funk, Vicki Ann. 2017. "The Compositae Tree of Life in the age of phylogenomics." Journal of Systematics and Evolution 55 (4):405-410. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12265 2017
  • Nygaard, Sanne, Hu, Haofu, Li, Cai, Schiott, Morten, Chen, Zhensheng, Yang, Zhikai, Xie, Qiaolin, Ma, Chunyu, Deng, Yuan, Dikow, Rebecca B., Rabeling, Christian, Nash, David R., Wcislo, William T., Brady, Seán Gary, Schultz, Ted R., Zhang, Guojie, and Boomsma, Jacobus J. 2016. "Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant-fungus agricultural symbiosis." Nature Communications 7:e12233. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12233 2016
  • Mandel, Jennifer R., Dikow, Rebecca B., and Funk, Vicki Ann. 2015. "Using phylogenomics to resolve mega-families: An example from Compositae." Journal of Systematics and Evolution 53 (5):391-402. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12167 2015
  • Wen, Jun, Egan, Ashley N., Dikow, Rebecca B., and Zimmer, Elizabeth Anne. 2015. "Utility of transcriptome sequencing for phylogenetic inference and character evolution." in Next-generation sequencing in plant systematics, edited by Hörandl, E. and Appelhans, M. S., 51-91. International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT). https://doi.org/10.14630/000003 2015
  • Mandel, Jennifer R., Dikow, Rebecca B., Funk, Vicki Ann, Masalia, Rishi R., Staton, S. Evan, Kozik, Alex, Michelmore, Richard W., Rieseberg, Loren H., and Burke, John M. 2014. "A Target Enrichment Method for Gathering Phylogenetic Information from Hundreds of Loci: An Example from the Compositae." Applications in Plant Sciences 2 (2):https://doi.org/10.3732/apps.1300085 2014
  • Callicrate, Taylor, Dikow, Rebecca B., Thomas, James W., Mullikin, James C., Jarvis, Erich D., and Fleischer, Robert C. 2014. "Genomic resources for the endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers." BMC Genomics 15 (1):https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-1098 2014
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. and Smith, William Leo. 2013. "Complete genome sequences provide a case study for the evaluation of gene-tree thinking." Cladistics 29 (6):674-682. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12020 2013
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. and Smith, William Leo. 2013. "Genome-level homology and phylogeny of Vibrionaceae (Gammaproteobacteria: Vibrionales) with three new complete genome sequences." BMC Microbiology 13:80. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-13-80 2013

• dataset

  • Cortes-Rodriguez, Maria Nandadevi, Campana, Michael G., Berry, Lainie, Faegre, Sarah, Derrickson, Scott R., Ha, Renee Robinette, Dikow, Rebecca B., Rutz, Christian, and Fleischer, Robert C. 2021. [Dataset] "Mariana Crow (Corvus kubaryi) genome assembly and annotation." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13531016.V1 2021
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "American Women's History Initiative Symposium Project first names." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13125743.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "American Women's History Initiative Symposium Project word counts." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13125734.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "Augustus and Blast2GO GFF files from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor)." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13239677.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca. 2020. [Dataset] "Cynomys gunnisoni GFF files." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.11529999.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca. 2020. [Dataset] "Cynomys gunnisoni VCF file." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.11529915.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "Data from AWHI Symposium Funk List Project." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13125725.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca. 2020. [Dataset] "High resolution JPG images used for masking." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.9922148.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca. 2020. [Dataset] "High resolution ground truth masks." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.9922232.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "Kinkajou (Potos flavus) Platanus assembly masked using RepeatMasker from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor)." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13239704.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "Kinkajou (Potos flavus) de novo assembly using ALLPATHS-LG from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor)." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13239698.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "Kinkajou (Potos flavus) de novo assembly using MaSuRCA from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor)." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13239680.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca. 2020. [Dataset] "Metadata for high resolution masked herbarium images." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.11771004.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "Nucmer alignments and coordinate files used to generate dotplots from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor)." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13239713.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "PSMC plot." Distributed by https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13154156.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "Pseudochromosome Ragout assemblies and ago files from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor)." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13239710.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Platanus assembly masked using RepeatMasker from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor)." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13239707.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "Raccoon (Procyon lotor) de novo assembly using ALLPATHS-LG from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor)." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13239701.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "Raccoon (Procyon lotor) de novo assembly using MaSuRCA from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor)Untitled Item." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13239686.V1 2020
  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] "VCF files from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor)." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13239518.V1 2020

• report

  • Edelman, Nathaniel B., Frandsen, Paul B., Miyagi, Michael, Clavijo, Bernardo, Davey, John, Dikow, Rebecca, García-Accinelli, Gonzalo, Van Belleghem, Steven, Patterson, Nick, Neafsey, Daniel E., Challis, Richard, Kumar, Sujai, Moreira, Gilson, Salazar, Camilo, Chouteau, Mathieu, Counterman, Brian, Papa, Riccardo, Blaxter, Mark, Reed, Robert D., Dasmahapatra, Kanchon, Kronforst, Marcus, Joron, Mathieu, Jiggins, Chris D., McMillan, W. O., Di Palma, Federica et al. 2018. [Report] Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation. Evolutionary Biology. http://biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.1101/466292. 2018

• software

  • Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. "Fern Segmentation pickle file." Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/software/Fern_Segmentation_pickle_file/12967889/1. 2020

Affiliation

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• Red Siskin Initiative

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Location

• Office of Chief Information Officer  Department