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It is an exciting time to be studying the evolutionary forces that shape genomic variation in natural populations. After decades as a theory-rich and data-poor discipline, rapidly advancing genomic technology is turning the intellectual dynamic in population genetics on end. Rapidly mounting data revealing the patterns of genomic variation among individuals and closely related taxa are challenging available analytic methods and demanding richer models of the underlying mechanisms. The research in this lab focuses on this revolutionary change in the scope of population genetic data and on the many opportunities to powerfully address genetic mechanisms and interactions in evolution.
- Theoretical modeling of genetic and ecological mechanisms that shape the patterns of genomic polymorphism and divergence.
- Large scale population genomic resequencing (scaleable technologies and computational analyses).
- Empirical evolutionary population genomics of Drosophila, conifers and Arabidopsis.
- Computational approaches to population genomic analysis.
Research Training and Opportunities:
- Postdoctoral research: support available.
- Graduate student research: support available.
- Undergraduate research assistants: support available.