Assistant Professor Department of Integrative Biology University of Texas at Austin
Research Associate Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Education: B.S. (2007) Biochemistry and Genetics, Texas A&M University Ph.D. (2013) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan Earl S. Tupper Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-2016), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Invited Presentations: 2018 Sedio, B.E. Can metabolomics reveal the chemical niches thought to generate and maintain diversity in forest tree communities? Plant-Insect Ecology Symposium, Jihočeská universzita (University of South Bohemia), Czech Republic.
2018 Sedio, B. E. Can metabolomics reveal the chemical niches thought to generate and maintain diversity in forest tree communities? ForestGEO Workshop, Nové Hrady, Czech Republic.
2018 Sedio, B.E. Comparative metabolomics of forest communities: Species differences in foliar chemistry are greater in the tropics. Tyson Research Center Summer Seminar Series, St. Louis, Missouri.
2017 Sedio, B.E. Forest metabolomics: Do secondary metabolite niches drive plant community ecology and evolution? Earl S. Tupper Seminar, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
2016 Sedio, B.E. Mass spectrometry molecular networks reveal the chemical niches that drive the ecology and evolution of tree communities. Ecological Society of America (ESA), Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
2016 Sedio, B.E. Ecological drivers and consequences of intraspecific variation in secondary chemistry in a tropical forest tree community. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), Montpellier, France.
2016 Sedio, B.E. Redes moleculares de compuestos defensivos de plantas facilitan la ecología química de bosques tropicales. II Simposio Internacional de Bioinformática, Biociencias, y Bioingeniería. Ciudad del Saber, Panama City, Panama.
2015 Sedio, B.E. Fine-scale niche structure of Neotropical forests reflects a legacy of the Great American Biotic Interchange (Plenary Talk). Network for Neotropical Biogeography, Panama City, Panama.
2014 Sedio, B.E. What explains the diversity of tropical trees? Insights from biogeography and plant-herbivore ecology. Earl S. Tupper Seminar, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
2014 Sedio, B.E. El impacto de los enemigos naturales en la diversificación y la coexistencia de un género hiperdiverso de árboles tropicales. Simposio de Intercambio Científico STRI-INDICASAT, Panama City, Panama.
2013 Sedio, B.E. Tropical forest niche structure reflects the Great American Biotic Interchange at fine spatial scales. ATBC, San José, Costa Rica.
2012 Sedio, B.E. Character displacement of anti-herbivore defenses in the absence of specialist enemies. IBRG Seminar, Princeton University.
2012 Sedio, B.E. PacBio sequencing of plant-insect interactions: How does secondary chemistry influence host use among the herbivores of congeneric plants? ATBC, Bonito, Brazil.
2011 Sedio, B.E. Character displacement of anti-herbivore defenses in a world without specialists. XVIII International Botanical Congress, Melbourne, Australia.
2010 Sedio, B.E. Character displacement of anti-herbivore defenses in a world without specialists. Earl S. Tupper Seminar, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
2010 Sedio, B.E. Divergence in anti-herbivore defense among sympatric Psychotria shrubs and implications for herbivory in phylogenetically clustered assemblages. ATBC, Bali, Indonesia. *Al Gentry Award for Best Student Oral Presentation.
2010 Sedio, B.E. Character displacement of anti-herbivore defenses in a world without specialists. Bambi Seminar, Barro Colorado Island Research Station, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
2009 Sedio, B.E. Going Psycho in Panama: Tropical forest community assembly and the Psychotria of Barro Colorado Island. Bambi Seminar, Barro Colorado Island Research Station, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
2009 Sedio, B.E. La coexistencia de especies de Psychotria: Una perspectiva filogenética. University of Michigan symposium at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras and Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
2009 Sedio, B.E. Conserved microhabitat affinities drive phylogenetic clustering among Psychotria on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. ESA, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Contributed Presentations: 2017 Sedio, B.E. Invasive plant species exhibit chemically novel foliar metabolomes compared to native plants in eastern North America. ESA, Portland, Oregon.
2017 Sedio, B.E. Forest metabolomics reveals the sources of chemical diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities. ATBC, Mérida, Yucatán, México.
2015 Sedio, B.E. Molecular networks of plant secondary chemistry reveal character displacement of anti-herbivore defenses in Psychotria trees. Society for the Study of Evolution and American Society of Naturalists, Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil.
2014 Sedio, B.E. The role of natural enemies in the diversification and coexistence of a hyperdiverse genus of tropical trees. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Fellows Symposium, Panama City, Panama.
2012 Sedio, B.E. Biogeographic history determines local-scale community structure in a hyperdiverse clade of Neotropical plants. ESA, Portland, Oregon.
2008 Sedio, B.E. Coexistence in tropical forest Psychotria: A phylogenetic approach. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Evaluation Seminar, University of Michigan.
2007 Sedio, B.E. Molecular phylogenetic analysis reveals relationships among endangered, endemic plants of the genus Physaria (Brassicaceae). Texas A&M University Student Research Week. *First Place in Biological Sciences Category and Outstanding Accomplishments in Interdisciplinary Research Awards.
Teaching: See Teaching tab.
Professional Activities: Reviewer for: American Naturalist, Arthropod-Plant Interactions, Biotropica, Ecography, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Forest Ecology and Management, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Vegetation Science, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Molecular Phylogeography and Evolution, New Phytologist, PLoS ONE.
2007-present. Member of Ecological Society of America. 2007-present. Member of Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. 2015-present. Member of American Society of Naturalists. 2015-present. Member of Society for the Study of Evolution. 2018-present. Member of Botanical Society of America.
Languages: English (native) Spanish Brazilian Portuguese