Current lab members
Molly Schumer is an assistant professor in Biology. She is interested in understanding the ways in which hybridization impacts genetic and evolutionary processes.
Shreya Banerjee is a technician in the lab. She is interested in using genomic techniques to answer evolutionary and ecological questions.
Tris Dodge is a graduate student interested in how hybridization can enable rapid adaptation, particularly in response to human-driven environmental change. Tris wants to combine molecular data with field studies to understand how genome structure interacts with ecology to shape the functional consequences of hybridization.
Theresa Gunn is our lab and fish room manager.
Quinn Langdon is a postdoc in the lab who spent her graduate career thinking about yeast hybrids in beer, wine, cider, and the wild. She is interested in hybrids across all life, and the evolutionary pressures and genomic consequences of hybridization.
Ben Moran is a graduate student in the lab who is interested in how patterns of gene flow change across the spectrum from homogeneous populations to well-diverged species. He plans to connect the evolution of genomes under gene flow to mechanisms of reproductive isolation, and apply this knowledge to the conservation of genetic diversity in threatened populations.
Cheyenne Payne is a graduate student using genomic and proteomic tools to explore whether hybridization facilitates adaptation to environmental stress in parental species and hybrid populations.
Dan Powell is a postdoc in the lab interested in hybridization and sexual selection.
Lab alumni
Dani Blakkan was our lab and fish room manager from 2019-2020.
