Jay Hosler
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Jay Hosler is the author and illustrator of science-oriented comics. He is best known for his graphic novels Clan Apis, about the life of a honey bee, and The Sandwalk Adventures, which follows a conversation about evolution between Charles Darwin and a mite living in his left eyebrow. Hosler is also an entymologist and professor of biology at Juniata College.
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[edit] Biography
Hosler grew up in Huntington, Indiana and is a 1989 graduate of DePauw University. He a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in 1995, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Ohio State University's Rothenbuhler Honey Bee Research Laboratory.[1][2]
Hosler was not formally trained in art, but grew up reading comics and says he "was always a doodler". He drew comic strips for the student newspaper when he was at DePauw, and was paid for a daily comic strip in the student paper when he was at Notre Dame. He first mixed his interests in science and cartooning with his 1997 publication Cow-boy.[1]
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Comics
- Cow-Boy #1, Active Synapse, 1997
- Clan Apis, Active Synapse, ISBN 0-9677255-0-X, 2000
- The Sandwalk Adventures: Darwin, Evolution and Follicle Mites. Active Synapse, ISBN 0967725518, 2003
- "The Conundrum of the Killer Coronavirus" in the Emerging Diseases issues of Your World: Biotechnology and You (14.1), 2004
- "The Diabolical Dr. Nonono" in AWIS Magazine, 2004
- illustrated 6 pages in Suspended in Language by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis, G. T. Labs, ISBN 0-9660106-5-5, 2004
[edit] Scientific Publications
- Hosler, Jay S., Buxton, Kristi L. and Smith, Brian H. (2000). Impairment of Olfactory Discrimination by Blockade of GABA and Nitric Oxide Activity in the Honey Bee Antennal Lobe. Behavioral Neuroscience 114 No. 3 pg. 514–525
- Hosler, Jay S. and Smith, Brian H. (2000). Blocking and the detection of odor components in blends. Journal of Experimental Biology 203, 2797-2806
- Chandra, S., Hosler, J. S. and Smith, B. H. (2000). Heritable variation for latent inhibition and its correlation to reversal learning in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Journal of Comparative Psychology 114, No.1, 86-97.
- Hosler, J. S., Burns J. E., and Esch H. E. (2000). Flight Muscle Resting Potential and Species-Specific Differences in Insect Chill-Coma. Journal of Insect Physiology 45 No.5 pg. 621-627
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ a b Biemiller, Lawrence. "Darwin's Talking Mite." The Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 49, Issue 40, Page A48. June 13, 2003.
- ^ Hosler, Jay. Jay Hosler, Ph.D. [curriculum vita]
[edit] References
- Chronicle of Higher Education Profiles Prof. Jay Hosler '89, Whose Comics Teach DePauw University News. June 10, 2003.
- "Teaching Comic" of Prof. Jay Hosler '89 Featured in Magazine DePauw University News. December 6, 2004.
- The Sandwalk Adventures [review] reviewed in Comics Worth Reading, Jan 22, 2006.
- Holy Evolution, Darwin! Comics Take On Science, by Neda Ulaby on NPR's Morning Edition. Includes interviews with Jay Hosler and science comic writer Jim Ottaviani. Aired Feb. 14, 2005.
