Cori Tice

Education & Positions

Education:

• PhD, Biology, Mississippi State University (2020)
• MS, Biology, East Carolina University (2016)
• BS, Biology, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi (2014)
• BS, Mathematics, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi (2014)

Positions:

• Postdoctoral Associate, Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University (2022-2023)
• Extension Associate, Row Crop Entomology, Mississippi State University (2018-2022)

TTU Instruction

• BIOL 1401: Biology of Plants (online and F2F)
• BIOL 2202: Interdisciplinary Science Issues (online)
• BIOL 1404: Biology II
• BIOL 4301/6301: Global Change Ecology (online)

Selected Publications: (alternate name - Cori Speights)

• Speights, C., J. Harmon, and B. Barton. 2017. Contrasting the potential effects of daytime versus nighttime warming on insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 23, 1-6.
• Barton, B., M. Hodge, C. Speights, A. Autrey, M. Lashley, and V. Klink. 2018. Testing the AC/DC hypothesis: Rock and roll is noise pollution and weakens a trophic cascade. Ecology and Evolution, 8:15, 7649-7656.
• Speights, C., B. Silliman, and M. McCoy. 2017. The effects of elevated temperature and dissolved pCO2 on a marine foundation species. Ecology and Evolution, 7:11, 3808-3814.
• Harrison, L., E. Kooienga, C. Speights, J. Tomberlin, M. Lashley, B. Barton, and H. Jordan. 2020. Microbial succession from a secondary death event following mass mortality, BMC Microbiology, 20:1, 1-11.
• Speights, C. and B. Barton. 2019. Timing is everything: effects of day and night warming on predator functional traits. Food Webs, 21: e00130.
• Speights, C., C. Wolff, M. Barton, and B. Barton. 2018. Why and how to create nighttime warming treatments for ecological field experiments. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 91:4, 471-480.
• Speights, C., and M. McCoy. 2017. Range expansion of a fouling species indirectly impacts local species interactions. PeerJ, 5, e3911.
• Whalen, D., A. Catchot, J. Gore, D. Cook, B. Barton, R. Brown, J. Irby, and C. Speights. 2022. Impacts of winter annual cover crops and neonicotinoid seed treatments on arthropod diversity in Mississippi soybean. Environmental Entomology, 51:3, 578-585.