Michael Angilletta
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Phone: 480-965-4321
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LSC 488 Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 9508Campus: Scottsdale
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Mike Angilletta is a President's Professor in the School of Life Sciences and the Associate Dean for Learning Innovation at EdPlus. He earned a BS in Biology from The College of New Jersey and a PhD in Ecology & Evolution from the University of Pennsylvania.
Previously, Mike served on the faculty at Indiana State University (2000-2010), where he was 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 biology, which ultimately led him to serve as the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Programs (2012-2014) and then the Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs (2014-2020). In these roles, Mike administered nine degree programs on campus while doubling enrollment by launching three degree programs online. His team partnered with CogBooks to expand the use of adaptive learning technology in the curriculum and partnered with Labster and Google to develop online laboratory courses in virtual reality.
These experiences enabled Mike to transition to a new position in the School of Life Sciences as the Associate Director of Learning Innovation. In this role, Mike collaborated on a university-wide 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.
Now, Mike serves as the Associate Dean for Learning Innovation in EdPlus, where he leads the development of learning experiences that blend best practices in teaching with emerging tools in digital technology.
Thermoregulatory Behavior
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Angilletta, M. J., J. P. Youngblood, L. K. Neal, J. M. VandenBrooks. 2019. The neuroscience of adaptive thermoregulation. Neuroscience Letters 692: 127-136.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rusch, T. and M. J. Angilletta. 2017. Competition for thermal resources between lizards alters thermoregulatory behavior and hormone levels. Functional Ecology 31: 1519-1528.
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Rusch, T. W., M. W. Sears, and M. J. Angilletta. 2023. The structure of the thermal landscape determined behavioral and physiological responses to simulated predation risk. Functional Ecology 37: 2826-2839.
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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.
Thermal Adaptation
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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.
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Czarnoleski. M., E. Szlachcic, V. Privalova, A. M. Labecka, A. Sikorska, L. Sobczyk, J. M. VandenBrooks, and M. J. Angilletta. 2023. Oxygen and temperature affect cell sizes differently among tissues and between sexes of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Insect Physiology 150: 104559.
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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.
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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.
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Vimmerstedt, J., D. Padilla, M. J. Angilletta, J. M. VandenBrooks. 2019. Oxygen supply limits the heat tolerance of avian embryos. Biology Letters 15: 20190566.
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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. 2019. The origin and maintenance of metabolic allometry in animals. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 598–603.
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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
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Angilletta, M. J., M. W. Sears, J. M. VandenBrooks. 2019. Fundamental flaws with the fundamental niche. Integrative and Comparative Biology 59: 1038–1048.
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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.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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Youngblood, J. P., A. J. Cease, S. Talal, F. Copa, H. E. Medina, J. E. Rojas, E. V. Trumper, M. J. Angilletta, and J. F. Harrison. 2023. Climate change expected to improve digestive performance and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts. Ecological Monographs 93: e1550.
Performance and Deception
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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.
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Graham, Z. A. and M. J. Angilletta. 2022. Distinguishing between unreliability and dishonesty: a comparative study of aggressive communication in crayfish. Functional Ecology 36: 73-82.
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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.
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Hunter, A. H., T. P. Pavlic, M. J. Angilletta, and R. S. Wilson. 2022. Identifying the best strategy for soccer penalty success: A predictive model for optimising behavioural and biomechanical trade-offs. Journal of Biomechanics 141: 111208.
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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.
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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.
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Padilla, D., D. DeNardo, and M. J. Angilletta. 2022. The correlated evolution of foraging mode and reproductive output in lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20220180.
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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.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| MIC 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
| MBB 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| MIC 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
| MBB 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
2023 Spring
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| MIC 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
| MBB 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| MIC 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
| MBB 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
| BIO 320 | Fundamentals of Ecology |
| BIO 321 | Introductory Ecology Lab |
| BIO 321 | Introductory Ecology Lab |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| MIC 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
| MBB 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
| BIO 494 | Special Topics |
| BIO 494 | Special Topics |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| BIO 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
| BIO 320 | Fundamentals of Ecology |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| BIO 321 | Introductory Ecology Lab |
2019 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| MIC 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
| MBB 496 | Undergraduate Thesis |
- Angilletta, M. J. 2016. Conservation physiology: the mechanistic basis of organismal performance and population persistence during environmental stress. Keynote lecture in the Merav Ziv Memorial Symposium at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Sde Boker, Israel.
- Angilletta, M. J. 2015. From thermal physiology to macrosystems ecology: building a predictive theory for real world problems. Plenary lecture at the 9th International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry: From Molecules to Macrophysiology. Kraków, Poland.
- Angilletta, M. J. 2014. Predicting biological impacts of climate change: the devil is in the details. Keynote lecture at the international workshop titled HETEROCLIM: Role of climatic heterogeneity across spatial and temporal scales in organisms' response to global warming. Loches, France.
- Angilletta, M. J. 2014. The new thermal biology: building a predictive theory for real world problems. Plenary lecture at the 5th International Conference on Thermal Physiology and Pharmacology of Thermoregulation. Kruger National Park, South Africa.
- Angilletta, M. J. 2013. Are Mediterranean lizards safe from climate change? Plenary lecture at the 8th International Symposium on Lacterids of the Mediterranean in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Angilletta, M. J. 2011. Plasticity of thermal tolerance: patterns, limits, and consequences. Keynote Speaker for the symposium titled Physiological plasticity of thermal tolerance, at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology. Glasgow, Scotland.
- Cherokee High School Hall of Fame, 2023
- ASU President’s Award for Innovation (Dreamscape Learn), 2023
- Thomas Edison Achievement Award for Education (Dreamscape Learn), 2023
- Nominated for Faculty Service Achievement Award, ASU Alumni Association, 2022
- ASU Leadership Academy, 2019-2020
- Nominated for Faculty Teaching Achievement Award, ASU Alumni Association, 2017
- Lincoln Fellow, Lincoln Center for Applied Bioethics, 2016-2017
- ASU's Funniest Teacher, Project Humanities, Arizona State University, 2015
- Ellerman Fellow, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- European Union Visiting Lecturer, Jagiellonian University, 2013
- Distinguished visiting speaker, Californian State University at Northridge, 2011
- Marsh Book-of-the-Year Award, British Ecological Society, 2010
- Faculty of 1000 in Biology, Physiological Ecology Section (2009-2012)
- Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research Award, Indiana State University, 2009
- Editorial Board, Journal of Thermal Biology, 2012-2018
- Guest Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2014-2015
- Inaugural Editorial Board, Conservation Physiology, 2012-2015
- Associate Editor, The American Naturalist, 2010-2013
- Inaugural Editorial Board, Oxford Bibliographies, 2011-2013
- Faculty of 1000, Physiological Ecology Section, 2009-2012
- Associate Editor, Functional Ecology, 2005-2011
- Associate Editor, Herpetologica, 2003-2005
- Ad hoc Assigning Editor, Conservation Biology, 2004
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 1998-present
Animals Behavior; Biological Sciences; Environmental Life Sciences; Evolutionary Biology
President's Professor, Arizona State University (2019-present); Professor, Arizona State University (2013-2019); 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)
Institutional
- Member of Search Committee for the University Provost, Office of the President, 2020
- President’s Professor Selection Committee, Office of the Provost, 2020-2021
- Working Group Member, Innovation Collaboratory, Office of the Provost, 2018-2020
- Chair, Search Committee for Associate Director of Faculty Affairs, SOLS, 2020
- Chair, Search Committee for Associate Director of Graduate Programs, SOLS, 2018
- Chair, Search Committee for Associate Director of Facilities, SOLS, 2017
- Chair, Academic Program Review Subcommittee, SOLS, 2016-2017
- Co-chair, Active Learning Planning Committee, SOLS, 2016-2017
- Online Program Lead Committee, CLAS, 2016-2017
- Working Group Member, Online Education, CLAS, 2016-2017
- Committee Member, First Year Forward Initiative, CLAS, 2014-2015
- Chair, Search Committee for Associate Director of Graduate Programs, SOLS, 2015
- Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs, School of Life Sciences, 2014-present
- Assistant Director of Undergraduate Programs, School of Life Sciences, 2012-2014
- Chair of search committee in Macrosystems Biology, School of Life Sciences, 2014
- Member of search committee in Elementary Science Education, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, 2012
- Workshop Leader: Responsible Conduct in Research, Office of Knowledge Enterprise and Development, 2012
- Undergraduate Programs Committee, School of Life Sciences, 2012-present
- Assessment Committee, School of Life Sciences, 2013-2014
- Interim Director of the Biology Graduate Program, School of Life Sciences, 2012
- Advisory Board for Ecosystem Conservation & Resilience Initiative, School of Life Sciences, 2012-2013
- Curriculum Reform Committee, School of Life Sciences, 2010-2014
- Communications Committee, School of Life Sciences, 2012-2013
- Advisory Committee for University Technology Office, 2012-2013
Professional
- Chair of the Division of Ecology and Evolution, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2013 - 2015
- Chair Elect of the Division of Ecology and Evolution, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2011 - 2013
- Co-Chair of Gordon Research Conference: Unifying Ecology Across Scales, 2012 - 2014