Campus Directory

Division: Physical & Biological Sciences

Department/College/Unit: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Title: Associate Professor

Faculty Type: Regular Faculty

Web Site: UCSC Paleogenomics Lab

Office Location: 144 Biomedical Sciences

Mail Stop: EE Biology / EMS

Campus Address: 1156 High Street
Santa Cruz CA 95064
USA

Biography, Education, and Training: BS, Ecology, University of Georgia (1999)
MS, Ecology, University of Georgia (1999)
DPhil, Zoology, Oxford University (2003)

Areas of Expertise: Molecular evolution; Genome evolution; Ancient DNA

Research Interests: My research aims to better understand how populations and species change through time, in particular in in response to environmental and other changes to their habitat. To address this, my group uses the latest experimental and computational approaches to analyze genetic information isolated from fossil and archived remains. I am particularly interested in learning what drives two particularly important evolutionary processes: speciation and extinction.

Teaching Interests: Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Ecology
Paleogenomics

Awards, Honors, and Grants: Packard Fellow, 2010
PopTech Science and Public Leadership Fellow, 2010
National Geographic Emerging Explorer, 2010
MacArthur Fellow, 2009
Searle Scholar, 2009
University Research Fellow, The Royal Society, 2006
Rhodes Scholar, 1999

Selected Publications: For a complete list ing of publications, see my Google scholar page

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