by Andrea | Apr 20, 2021
Understanding how organisms adapt to their environment is a major goal in evolutionary biology. Mallory’s research aims to identify the factors underlying environmental adaptation by integrating evolutionary analyses of DNA sequence variation with experimental studies...
by Andrea | Apr 20, 2021
Nicolas’ research focuses on linking phenotypic variation with genotypic variation and fitness within species for complex, quantitative traits. Through fine-mapping of natural genome-wide variation, he is localizing putatively causal loci segregating as...
by Andrea | Apr 18, 2021
Ryan’s research focuses on bacterial reduction of perchlorate, a toxic compound found in drinking water. His work integrates comparative genomics, genetics, and biochemistry in an effort to uncover how this metabolism functions, how it is regulated, and how...
by Andrea | Apr 18, 2021
Abby is working towards identifying materials for selective metal binding that can be applied to water remediation and the improvement of metal separation procedures. As selective metal chelation is relatively unexplored area, she is using a combinatorial library...
by Andrea | Apr 18, 2021
Jennifer’s research interests focus on understanding the behavioral response of highly phenotypically plastic animals to ecosystem change. Octopuses play an important predatory role in almost every coastal environment, yet we know little about their behavioral...
