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Research in my lab group focuses on understanding the interaction between genomic variation in natural populations and environmental change. Human impacts on the environment, such as climate change and range fragmentation, can abruptly alter both the genetic and ecological context within which species evolve. We seek to characterize the effects of these events on the diversity and evolutionary potential within species, as well as their consequences for conservation and resource management. Our primary focus is on the genetics of forest trees and alpine plants, but we also work on other study systems with collaborators. Many of our questions require a multidisciplinary approach, and thus the tools we use to address them are broad. We make use of modern genomic and computational approaches to examine molecular variation in the genome and the evolutionary history of populations. We also apply traditional techniques from quantitative genetics and ecological field experiments to measure the strength of natural selection and the functional divergence of populations. Finally, since many of our questions involve an explicitly spatial context, we use modeling for the analysis of environmental relationships.

Courses

PBIO 2995/3995 Undergraduate Research
PBIO 3990 Introduction to Ecological Genomics
PBIO 5990 Genomic Forecasting
PBIO 6800 Ecological Genomics

Publications

Area(s) of expertise

• Population and ecological genomics
• Quantitative genetics
• Evolution
• Genomic forecasting
• Conservation
• Climate change
• Forest trees
• Alpine plants