Joseph Cannizzaro IV | School of Integrative Biology

Contact Information

National Soybean Research Laboratory Room 131

jsc15@illinois.edu

Office Hours

By Appointment only

Research Areas

Ecology

Evolution & Systematics

Genetics & Biochemistry

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PEEC Graduate Student -- Advisors: Michael Dreslik/Arianna Kuhn

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vGbl5z8AAAAJ&hl=en

Biography

I study the Recovery and Conservation of the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus) using a variety of genomic and field based techniques.

Research Interests

Zoology

Herpetology

Conservation Biology

Zoo and Museum Collections Based Research (Zoomu)

Habitat Restoration

Population Genetics

Education

M.S., Biology, 2023: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, Advisor: Gerlinde Hobel

B.S., 2021: University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI. Major: Biology Advisors: Peter Zani, Robert Jadin

Highlighted Publications

Cannizzaro, J.S., IV., 2024. Observation of Novel predation on a Nearctic Hylid: The first documented predation of an adult Gray Treefrog Hyla versicolor (Hylidae) (LeConte 1825) by a predaceous diving beetle (Cybister spp. or Dytiscus spp). Reptiles and Amphibians Notes. 31: e20040. 1-2. https://doi.org/10.17161/randa.v31i1.20040

Cannizzaro, J. S. IV, and Höbel, G. 2023. Hidden black and yellow thigh color acts as an aposematic signal in the Eastern Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor). Ethology, 129(12) 679-685. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13404

Cover: https://www.frogbehaviour.org/wp-content/uploads/Ethology-Cover.jpg

Cannizzaro, J. S. IV, Graser, W., Koch, S.L. 2023. First Evidence of Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) in the Diet of the Blanding's Turtle (Emydoidea blandingii). Northeastern Naturalist 30(3) N31-34. https://doi.org/10.1656/045.030.0306