Personal Background

• I am from Jamestown, Tennessee.  Some of my favorite spots are Big South Fork and Pickett State Park.
• Below is a pic of my wife, Lisa, and I.  We met in East Texas while in college.  We have two sons (Tyler and Carson) and live in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

• 1987 - B.A. University of Tennessee
• 1989 - M.S. University of Texas at Tyler
• 1994 - Ph.D. Idaho State University

• 1987-89:  Graduate Teaching & Research Assistant, University of Texas at Tyler 
• 1989-94:  Graduate Teaching & Research Assistant, Idaho State University 
• 1994-98:  Assistant Professor, Ouachita Baptist University 
• 1998-02:  Assistant Professor, Northeastern State University 
• 2002-07   Associate Professor, Middle Tennessee State University
• 2007-       Full Professor, Middle Tennessee State University

• Anatomy and Physiology I
• Anatomy and Physiology II

• Anatomy and Physiology Lab 
• Embryology 
• Evolution Seminar 
• General Zoology
• General Zoology Lab
• Genetics Lab 
• Histology 
• Human Anatomy
• Human Physiology Lab 
• Life Science (non-majors biology)
• Senior Seminar
• Vertebrate Natural History 
• Animal Physiological Ecology

• American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 
• Association of Southeastern Biologists
• Herpetologists' League
• Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles 
• Tennessee Academy of Science
• Tennessee Herpetological Society

Publications

Cobb, V.A. 1990. Reproductive notes on the eggs and offspring of Tantilla gracilis (Serpentes: Colubridae), with evidence of communal nesting. Southwestern Naturalist 35:222-224.

Ford, N.B., V.A. Cobb and W.W. Lamar. 1990. Reproductive data on the snakes of northeastern Texas. Texas Journal of Science 42:355-368.

Cobb, V.A. and L.M. Cobb. 1991. New county records for amphibians and reptiles of east Texas. Geographic Distribution. Herpetological Review 22:27-28.

Ford, N.B., V.A. Cobb and J. Stout. 1991. Habitat use and species diversity of snakes in the mixed pine-hardwood forests of east Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 36:171-177.

Ford, N.B. and V.A. Cobb. 1992. Timing of courtship in two colubrid snakes of the southern United States. Copeia 1992:573-577.

Cobb, V.A. 1994. Rattling around on the Snake River Plain. Idaho Wildlife 1:10-13. 

Cobb, V.A. 1994. Effects of temperature on the escape behavior in the cribellate spider, Oecobius annulipes (Araneae, Oecobiidae). Southwestern Naturalist 39:391-394.

Cobb, V.A. and J. Summerhill. 1996. A one-year study of the relative abundance and species diversity of reptiles within the Jack Mountain range of Hot Springs County, Arkansas. Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science 50:150-156.

Cobb, V.A. and C.R. Peterson. 1999. Crotalus viridis lutosus. Mortality. Herpetological Review 30:45-46.

Cobb, V.A. and L.M. Cobb. 2001. Hemidactylium scutatum. Geographic Distribution. Herpetological Review 32:111.

Cobb, V.A.  2002.  Plethodon ventralis. Geographic distribution. Herpetological Review 33:26.

Cobb, V.A. 2004. Diet and prey size in the flathead snake (Tantilla gracilis). Copeia 2004:396-401.

Cobb, L.M. and V.A. Cobb.  2004.  Occurrence of parasitoid wasps in the egg sacs of Pardosa moesta and Pardosa sternalis (Araneae, Lycosidae) in southeastern Idaho. Canadian Field-Naturalist 118:122-123.

Green, J.J. and V.A. Cobb.  2005.  Coluber constrictor. Reproduction. Herpetological Review 36:322.

Cobb, V.A., J.J. Green, T. Worrall, J. Pruett, and B. Glorioso.  2005. Initial den location behavior in a litter of neonate Crotalus horridus (Timber Rattlesnakes).  Southeastern Naturalist 4:723-730.

Hanna, C.J. and V.A. Cobb.  2006. Effect of temperature on hatching and nest site selection in the Green Lynx Spider, Peucetia viridans (Araneae:Oxyopidae). Journal of Thermal Biology 31:262-267.

Zepp, L. (Cobb provided multiple sidebars).  2006. Hiking trails are rerouted in a Murfreesboro park to protect Timber Rattlesnakes.  Tennessee Conservationist 72(4):23-26.

Cobb, V.A. and D.L. Shirk.  2006.  Living with timber rattlesnakes - our silent neighbors.  Tennessee Wildlife 29(6):21-24.

Hanna, C.J. and V.A. Cobb.  2007.  Critical thermal maximum of the Green Lynx Spider, Peucetia viridans (Araneae:Oxyopidae).  Journal of Arachnology 35:153-156.

Cobb, V.A. and C.R. Peterson.  2008.  Thermal ecology of hibernation in a population of Great Basin Rattlesnakes, Crotalus oreganus lutosus.  Pp. 291-302 in The Biology of Rattlesnakes.  Loma Linda University Press.

Bailey, F.C., V.A. Cobb, T.R. Rainwater, T. Worrall, and M. Klukowski.  2009.  Adrenocortical effects of human encounters on free-ranging Cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus).  Journal of Herpetology 43:260-266.

Jenkins, C.L., C.R. Peterson, S.C. Doering, and V.A. Cobb.  2009.  Microgeographic variation in reproductive characteristics among Western Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus) populations.  Copeia 2009:774-780.

Glorioso, B.M., M.L. Niemiller, and V.A. Cobb.  2010. Feeding times of Amphiuma tridactylum at Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee.  Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 85:87-90.

Green, J.J. and V.A. Cobb.  Accepted.  Coluber constrictor. Foraging. Herpetological Review

Green, J.J. and V.A. Cobb.  Accepted.  Lampropeltis getula. Foraging. Herpetological Review
 

Sites of Previous or Current Funding

• Arkansas Space Grant Consortium 
• American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 
• American Museum of Natural History 
• Environmental Science and Research Foundation 
• Idaho State University
• Middle Tennessee State University
• Morris Animal Foundation
• National Science Foundation
• Northeastern State University
• Northwest Scientific Association 
• Ross Foundation 
• Sigma Xi 
• Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency
• U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho National Environmental Research Park 
• U.S. Forest Service, Caddo Valley Ranger District

Last Update: 3/8/11 
Page Design and Layout: Chris Hebertson and Vincent Cobb