Since 2007, my independent research has focused on evolutionary genetics and taxonomy of Central African amphibians and reptiles.

• UTEP College of Science and Building Scholars Mentoring Award - UTEP College of Science and Building Scholars (10/06/2023)
• University of Texas System Rising STARs Award - University of Texas System (08/01/2022-08/31/2022)
• Top 2% Zoologist in the World - Ioannidis et al. 2020. Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLoS Biology 18:e3000918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918 (11/01/2020-11/30/2020)
• Presidential nomination for TAMEST award - TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas) (04/26/2018)
• Outstanding Efforts in Securing Extramural Funding Award - UTEP ORSP (02/02/2017)
• Outstanding Efforts in Securing Extramural Funding Award - UTEP ORSP (02/02/2016)
• Outstanding Efforts in Securing Extramural Funding Award - UTEP ORSP (04/15/2015)
• Outstanding Paper published in 2014 for Systematics and Biodiversity - Editorial Board, Systematics and Biodiversity (02/03/2015)
• Recommendation for article of special significance by Faculty of 1000 for “Repeated origin and loss of adhesive toepads in geckos.” (07/01/2012-07/31/2012)
• Honors Disseration Defense - The University of Kansas (01/01/2006-12/31/2006)
• Invited Participant for POY Workshop - American Museum of Natural History (01/01/2006-12/31/2006)
• Graduate Student Paper Presentation - The University of Kansas (01/01/2004-12/31/2004)
• Invited Participant for Amphibia Tree Workshop I - University of Texas Austin (01/01/2004-12/31/2004)
• Invited Participant for Summer Research Experience for Student program in Guinea, West Africa - National Science Foundation/ grant from Dr. Frank Pezold (01/01/2001-12/31/2001)
• Invited Participant for US-West Africa Workshop: Niger River Aquatic and Riparian Vertebrate Conservation - National Science Foundation/ grant from Dr. Frank Pezold (01/01/2000-12/31/2000)
• First Place - Western New York Science Congress (01/01/1990-12/31/1990)
• Junior Volunteer of the Year Award - Buffalo Zoological Society (01/01/1900-12/31/1900)

• Ph D in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas (2006)
• MS in Biology, University of Louisiana at Monroe (1998)
• BS in Biological Sciences, Binghamton University (1996)
• City Honors High School (1992)

• Specimen collection is essential for modern science PLoS Biology 21 11 (2023), M W. Nachman, E J. Beckman, R C. Bowie, C Cicero, C J. Conroy, R Dudley, T B. Hayes, M S. Koo, E A. Lacey, C H. Martin, J A. McGuire, J L. Patton, C L. Spencer, R D. Tarvin, M H. Wake, I J. Wang, A Achmadi, S T. Álvarez-Castañeda, M J. Andersen, J Arroyave, C C. Austin, F K. Barker, L N. Barrow, G F. Barrowclough, J Bates, A M. Bauer, K C. Bell, R C. Bell, A W. Bronson, R M. Brown, F T. Burbrink, K J. Burns, C D. Cadena, D C. Cannatella, T A. Castoe, P Chakrabarty, J P. Colella, J A. Cook, J L. Cracraft, D R. Davis, A R. Davis Rabosky, G D’Elía, J P. Dumacher, J L. Dunnum, S V. Edwards, J A. Esselstyn, J Faivovich, J Fjeldså, O A. Flores-Villela, K Ford, J Fuchs, M K. Fujita, J M. Good, Eli Greenbaum, H W. Greene, S Hackett, A Hamidy, J Hanken, T Haryoko, M T. Hawkins, L R. Heaney, D M. Hillis, B D. Hollingsworth, A D. Hornsby, P A. Hosner, M Irham, S Jansa, R A. Jiménez, L Joseph, J J. Kirchman, T J. LaDuc, A D. Leaché, E P. Lessa, H López-Fernández, N A. Mason, J E. McCormack, C D. McMahan, R G. Moyle, R A. Ojeda, L E. Olson, C K. Onn, L R. Parenti, G Parra-Olea, B D. Patterson, G B. Pauly, S E. Pavan, A T. Peterson, S Poe, D L. Rabosky, C J. Raxworthy, S` Reddy, A Rico-Guevara, A Riyanto, L A. Rocha, S R. Ron, S M. Rovito, K C. Rowe, J Rowley, S Ruane, D Salazar-Valenzuela, A J. Shultz, B Sidlauskas, D S. Sikes, N B. Simmons, M L. Stiassny, J W. Streicher, B L. Stuart, A P. Summers, J Tavera, P Teta, C W. Thompson, R M. Timm, O Torres-Carvajal, G Voelker, R S. Voss, K Winker, C Witt, E A. Wommack, R M. Zink.
• Geographic Distribution. Bothriechis thalassinus (Merendon Palm-Pit Viper). Herpetological Review 54 (2023), Monserrath Coto, Vladlen Henríquez, Eli Greenbaum.
• Endoparasites Geography. Hemidactylus mabouia (House Gecko). Herpetological Review 53 (2022), Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles C. Bursey, Eli Greenbaum.
• Systematics of the Central African spiny reed frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura: Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift Zootaxa 5174 (2022), Eli Greenbaum, M. Portik, Kaitlin E. Allen, Eugene R. Vaughan, Gabriel Badjedjea, Michael F. Barej, Behangana, Nancy Conkey, Bonny Dumbo, N. Gonwouo, Mareike Hirschfeld, Daniel F. Hughes, Igunzi, Chifundera Kusamba, Wilber Lukwago, Franck M. Masudi, Penner, Jesus M. Reyes, Mark-Oliver RÖDEL, E. Roelke, Soraya Romero, J Maximilian Dehling.
• Endoparasites. Leptopelis calcaratus (Spurred Forest Treefrog). Herpetological Review 52 (2021), Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles C. Bursey, Chifundera Kusamba, Eli Greenbaum.
• Endoparasites. Atheris nitschei (Great Lakes Bush Viper). Herpetological Review 52 (2021), Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles C. Bursey, Chifundera Kusamba, Eli Greenbaum.
• Endoparasites. Philothamnus angolensis (Angola Green Snake). Herpetological Review 52 (2021), Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles C. Bursey, Chifundera Kusamba, Eli Greenbaum.
• The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 (2021), Michael S. Engel, L M. Ceriaco, G M. Daniel, Pablo M. Dellape, Ivan Lobl, Milen Maranov, Roberto E. Reis, Mark T. Young, Alain Dubois, Ishan Agarwal, Pablo Lehmann Albornoz, Mabel Alvorado, Nadir Alvarez, Franco Andreone, Katyuscia Araujo-Vieira, John S. Ascher, Delio Baeta, Diego Baldo, Suzana A. Bandeira, Phillip Barden, Diego A. Barrasso, Leila Bendifallah, Flavio A. Backmann, Wolfgang Bohme, Art Borkent, Carlos R. Brandao, Stephen D. Busack, Seth M. Bybee, Alan Channing, Stylianos Chatzimanolis, Maarten J. Christenhusz, Jorge V. Crisci, Guillermo D'Elia, Luis M. Da Costa, Steven R. Davis, Carlos A. De Lucena, Thierry Deuve, Sara Fernandes Elizalde, Julian Faivovich, Harith Farooq, Adam W. Ferguson, Spartaco Gippoliti, Francisco M. Goncalves, Victor H. Gonzalez, Eli Greenbaum, Ismael A. Hinojosa-Diaz, Ivan Ineich, Jianping Jiang, Sih Kahono, Adriano B. Kury, Volker Lohrmann, Paulo H. Lucinda, John D. Lynch, Valery Malecot, Mariana P. Marques, John W. Marris, Ryan McKellar, Luis F. Medes, Silvio S. Nihei, Kanto Nishikawa, Annemarie Ohler, Victor G. Orrico, Hidetoshi Ota, Jorge Paiva, Diogo Parrinha, Olivier S. Pauwels, Martin Pereyra, Lueji B. Pestana, Paulo D. Pinheiro, Lorenzo Prendini, Jakub Prokop, Claus Rasmussen, Mark-Oliver Rodel, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, Sara M. Rodriguez, Hearty Salatnaya, Iris Sampaio, Alba Sanchez-Garcia, Mohamed A. Shebl, Bruna S. Santos, Monica M. Solorzano-Kraemer, Ana C. Sousa, Pavel Stoev, Pablo Teta, Jean-Francois Trape, Carmen Van-Dunem Dos Santos, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Cor J. Vink, Gernot Vogel, Philipp Wagner, Torsten Wappler, Jesscia L. Ware, Sonja Wedmann, Chifundera Kusamba Zacharie, Thomas Ziegler.
• Geographic Distribution. Leptopelis calcaratus (Spurred Forest Treefrog). Herpetological Review 52 (2021), Eli Greenbaum, Daniel F. Hughes, Mathias Behangana.
• Foraging and scavenging behavior of the prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis): no evidence that envenomation cues facilitate kleptoparasitism of struck prey Amphibia-Reptilia (2021), Mark Teshara, Amy E. Wagler, Rulon Clark, Eli Greenbaum.
• A new species of Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from the northern mountains of Tanzania Journal of Natural History 54 (2020), Laura Greenwood, Simon P. Loader, Lucinda Lawson, Eli Greenbaum, Breda M. Zimkus.
• Chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in African amphibians: A continental analysis of occurrences and modeling of its potential distribution Herpetologica 76 (2020), Breda M. Zimkus, V Baláž, A M. Belasen, Rayna C. Bell, Alan Channing, J Doumbia, E B. Fokam, L N. Gonwouo, Eli Greenbaum, V Gvoždík, M Hirschfeld, Kate Jackson, T Y. James, C Kusamba, J G. Larson, L. -B. Mavoungou, M. -O. Rödel, A. -G. Zassi-Boulou, J Penner.
• African herald snakes, Crotaphopeltis, show population structure for a widespread generalist but deep genetic divergence for forest specialists Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 58 (2020), Hanlie Engelbrecht, William R. Branch, Eli Greenbaum, Marius Burger, Werner Conradie, Krystal A. Tolley.
• 野性与文明一位进化遗传学家在刚果(金)丛林的新发现 [Chinese translation of Emerald Labyrinth by Zhu Hongfei] Grand China Publishing House (2020), Eli Greenbaum.
• Developmental systems drift and the drivers of sex chromosome evolution Molecular Biology and Evolution 37 (2020), C. M. S. Cauret, M. -T. T. Gansauge, A S. Tupper, B. L. S. Furman, M Knytl, X Song, Eli Greenbaum, M Meyer, Ben J. Evans.
• Exploring rainforest diversification using demographic model testing in the African foam-nest treefrog (Chiromantis rufescens) Journal of Biogeography 46 (2019), Adam D. Leaché, Dan M. Portik, D Rivera, M. -O. Rödel, Johannes Penner, V Gvoždík, Eli Greenbaum, C Ofori-Boateng, Marius Burger, E A. Eniang, Rayna C. Bell, M K. Fujita.
• Genetic structuring of the widespread genus Psammophylax (Fitzinger 1843), with the description of a new genus and species Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 57 (2019), C Keates, Werner Conradie, C. M. R. Kelly, Eli Greenbaum, S Edwards.
• Diversifying into the branches: Species boundaries in African green and bush snakes, Philothamnus (Serpentes: Colubridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130 (2019), Hanlie Engelbrecht, William R. Branch, Eli Greenbaum, G J. Alexander, Kate Jackson, Marius Burger, Werner Conradie, Chifundera Kusamba, A. -G. Zassi-Boulou, Krystal Tolley.
• High levels of hidden phylogenetic structure and diversity within Central and West African Trachylepis skinks Salamandra 55 (2019), Katie E. Allen, Walter P. Tapondjou N, Eli Greenbaum, Luke J. Welton, Aaron M. Bauer.
• A remarkable example of suspected Batesian mimicry of Gaboon Vipers (Reptilia: Viperidae: Bitis gabonica) by Congolese Giant Toads (Amphibia: Bufonidae: Sclerophrys channingi). Journal of Natural History 53 (2019), Eugene R. Vaughan, Mark S. Teshera, Chifundera Kusamba, Theresa R. Edmonston, Eli Greenbaum.
• Sexual dichromatism drives diversification within a major radiation of African amphibians Systematic Biology 68 (2019), Dan M. Portik, Rayna C. Bell, David C. Blackburn, Aaron M. Bauer, C D. Barratt, William R. Branch, Marius Burger, Alan Channing, T J. Colston, Werner Conradie, J Maximillian Dehling, Robert C. Drewes, Raffael Ernst, Eli Greenbaum, V Gvoždík, J Harvey, A Hillers, M Hirschfeld, G. F. M. Jongsma, J Kielgast, M. T. Kouete, L Lawson, Adam D. Leaché, Simon P. Loader, S Lötters, A. van der Meijden, Michele Menegon, S. Müller, Zoltan T. Nagy, C. Ofori-Boateng, A. Ohler, Ted J. Papenfuss, D Rössler, Ulrich Sinsch, M. -O. Rödel, M Veith, Jens Vindum, A. -G. Zassi-Boulou, J. A. McGuire.
• Xenopus fraseri: Mr. Fraser, where did your frog come from? PLoS ONE 14 (2019), Ben J. Evans, M. -T. T. Gansauge, Edward L. Stanley, B. L. S. Furman, C M. Cauret, C Ofori-Boateng, V Gvoždík, J W. Streicher, Eli Greenbaum, R C. Tinsley, M Meyer, D C. Blackburn.
• Robert Gravem Webb (1927–2018): Specialist on trionychid turtles and Mexican herpetology Herpetological Review 50 (2019), Eli Greenbaum, Mingna Zhuang.
• Evolutionary history of burrowing asps (Squamata: Lamprophiidae: Atractaspidinae) with an emphasis on fang evolution and prey selection PLoS ONE 14 (2019), Frank Portillo, William R. Branch, Werner Conradie, M. -O. Rödel, Johannes Penner, Michael F. Barej, Chifundera Kusamba, Wandege M. Muninga, Mwenebatu M. Aristote, Aaron M. Bauer, J. -F. Trape, Zoltan T. Nagy, P Carlino, O. S. G. Pauwels, Michele Menegon, Ivan Ineich, Marius Burger, T Mazuch, Kate Jackson, Daniel F. Hughes, Mathias Behangana, A. -G. Zassi-Boulou, Eli Greenbaum.
• A cryptic new species of Polemon (Squamata: Lamprophiidae, Aparallactinae) from the Miombo Woodlands of Central and East Africa. Copeia 107 (2019), Frank Portillo, William R. Branch, Colin R. Tilbury, Zoltan T. Nagy, Daniel F. Hughes, Chifundera Kusamba, Wandege M. Muninga, Mwenebatu M. Aristote, Mathias Behanga, Eli Greenbaum.

• Herpetofauna biodiversity over 26 years in Kibale National Park (2023), Volume Kigali, Rwanda, Dominic Troiani, Eli Greenbaum, M Wasserman, P Beck.
• Evolution on the forest floor: Patterns of diversification of vipers (Bitis: Macrocerastes) in the African rainforest (2023), Volume Norfolk, VA, Eugene R. Vaughan, Eli Greenbaum, Wolfgang Wüster, Olivier S. Pauwels, Zoltan Nagy, Lotanna M. Nneji, A B. Onadeko, A O. Ayoola, S O. Oladipo, V Gvoždík, Gabriel Badjedjea, Raffael Ernst, Laurent Chiro, Jean -Francois Trape, Chifundera Kusamba, S Lötters, Aaron M. Bauer, Lauren McFarland, V Musni, Philip Lavretsky.
• Pleistocene refugial diversification across highland and river systems in a widespread Central African skink (2023), Volume Albuquerque, NM, Kaitlin Allen, Walter P. Tapondjou N., Eli Greenbaum, Aaron M. Bauer, Luis M. Ceríaco, Chifundera Kusamba, M M. Kameni N., A T. Peterson, Rafe M. Brown.
• Phylogenetics and integrative taxonomy of African water snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Grayia). (2022), Volume South Africa, Teslin Chaney, Olivier S. Pauwels, Zoltan T. Nagy, V Gvoždík, Chifundera Kusamba, Gabriel Badjedjea, Franck M. Masudi, Raffael Ernst, Eli Greenbaum.
• Phylogenetics and integrative taxonomy of African water snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Grayia). (2021), Volume Phoenix, AX (virtual), Teslin Chaney, Olivier S. Pauwels, Zoltan T. Nagy, V Gvoždík, Chifundera Kusamba, Gabriel Badjedjea, Franck M. Masudi, Raffael Ernst, Eli Greenbaum.
• Mambas, malaria and militias: 21st Century Exploration and Science in the Jungles of Democratic Republic of Congo (2021), Volume Chicago, IL (via Zoom), Eli Greenbaum.
• Expecting the unexpected: Insights from a decade of herpetological fieldwork in Central Africa (2021), Volume Berkeley, CA (via Zoom), Eli Greenbaum.
• Phylogenetic relationships in the slug-eater snakes, Duberria (Lamprophiidae) (2019), Volume Cape St. Francis, South Africa, Shelley Edwards, Werner Conradie, Christopher Kelly, Eli Greenbaum.
• A snake in the grass: A molecular study of the widespread Psammophylax genus (2019), Volume Cape St. Francis, South Africa, Chad Keates, Werner Conradie, Eli Greenbaum, Shelley Edwards.
• Heralding a new systematic account of the snake genus Crotaphopeltis, with a special focus on the wide-ranging C. hotamboeia (Serpentes: Colubridae) (2019), Volume Cape St. Francis, South Africa, Hanlie R. Engelbrecht, William R. Branch, Eli Greenbaum, Marius Burger, Werner Conradie, Krystal A. Tolley.
• Kleptoparasitism and the possibility of chemical crypsis in rattlesnakes. (2019), Volume Rodeo, NM, Mark Teshera, Eli Greenbaum, Rulon W. Clark, Amy E. Wagler.
• Mambas, malaria and militias: 21st century herpetology in Democratic Republic of Congo (2019), Volume El Paso, TX, Eli Greenbaum.
• Itombwe Natural Reserve: Treasure of Congo (in Swahili) (2019), Volume South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eli Greenbaum, Chifundera Kusamba, John Baliwa, P Masiri, Jean-Claude Kyungu.
• Mountains of the moon: Comparative phylogeography of amphibians and reptiles of the Albertine Rift in Central Africa (2019), Volume Villanova, PA, Eli Greenbaum.
• Elucidating evolutionary processes in the heart of Africa: Lessons from the Congo Basin Herpetofauna (2019), Volume Villanova, PA, Eli Greenbaum.
• My slithering path to biodiversity scientist (2019), Volume El Paso, TX, Eli Greenbaum.

• DNA Barcoding and Systematics of Amphibians and Reptiles from Central Africa
• Natural History Collection Stewardship for the 21st Century at the University of Texas at El Paso
• UTEP PERSIST: UTEP Program to Educate and Retain Students In STEM Tracks