{{Short description|American evolutionary biologist}} {{multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=August 2011}} {{COI|date=October 2013}} }}
'''David C. Queller''' is an [[Evolution|evolutionary]] [[biologist]] at [[Washington University in St. Louis]].<ref name="Queller's webpage">{{cite web|last=Queller|first=David|title=Washington University Web page|url=http://wubio.wustl.edu/Queller|access-date=2011-11-30|archive-date=2011-07-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724024940/http://wubio.wustl.edu/Queller|url-status=dead}}</ref> He received his BA from The University of Illinois in 1976, and his PhD from the [[University of Michigan]] in 1982.<ref name="Faculty Handbook">{{cite web|last=Queller|first=David|title=Faculty Handbook|url=http://nslc.wustl.edu/handbook/faculty.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214031357/http://www.nslc.wustl.edu/handbook/faculty.html|archivedate=2012-12-14}}</ref> Queller became a faculty member at [[Rice University]] in 1989 and remained there until 2011 when he was named [[Spencer T. Olin]] Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/22093.aspx|title=Trustees grant faculty promotions, tenure |work=Washington University in St. Louis|date=5 April 2011 |accessdate=18 August 2011}}</ref> Since the late 1980s, Queller has collaborated extensively with his wife and colleague [[Joan E. Strassmann]]. Empirically, Queller and Strassmann worked primarily with social insects<ref>{{cite web|title=What we have figured out about social insects?|date=22 February 2012 |url=http://strassmannandquellerlab.wordpress.com/social-insect-discoveries/}}</ref> until they made the switch to the social amoebae, ''[[Dictyostelium discoideum]]'', in 1998.<ref>{{cite web|title=What have we figured out about social amoebas?|date=16 August 2011 |url=http://strassmannandquellerlab.wordpress.com/home/research/questions-we-have-worked-on/}}</ref>
== Honors == *Elected Member, [[National Academy of Sciences]], 2024<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 April 2024 |title=National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members |url=https://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2024-nas-election.html |access-date=12 May 2024 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> *Fellow, [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]], 2004<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-10/ru-rbe102804.php|work=AAAS Fellow|title=American Association for the Advancement of Science}}</ref> *Fellow, [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amacad.org/news/alpha2008.aspx|title=American Academy of Arts and Sciences}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://wubio.wustl.edu/Queller David C. Queller Washington University Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724024940/http://wubio.wustl.edu/Queller |date=2011-07-24 }} * [http://strassmannandquellerlab.wordpress.com Strassmann / Queller Lab website] {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Queller, David C.}} [[Category:American evolutionary biologists]] [[Category:University of Illinois System alumni]] [[Category:University of Michigan alumni]] [[Category:Rice University faculty]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:20th-century American biologists]] [[Category:21st-century American biologists]] [[Category:Washington University in St. Louis faculty]]