Dr. Greer Dolby, PI

Evolutionary biology, population genomics, Earth processes, causality, complexity and statistical modeling, more

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I invite students from all different disciplinary and cultural backgrounds to join our research group, which is committed to an inclusive and intellectually rigorous environment. Email me if you are interested in a tech, undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral position.

Karla Vargas

Karla is an NSF Postdoc fellow. Host-virus dynamics and viral diversity associated with wild populations of vertebrate species across the Sonoran Desert.

Jade Mellor

UAB PhD student

Controls on distribution of genomic traits across populations, speciation genomics and adaptation of desert tortoises; epigenetic responses to natural disasters

Austin Biddy

Hierarchical multi-'omic controls on adaptation in rattlesnakes. Geogenomics & earth-life evolution on the Baja peninsula

Raúl Araya-Donoso

ASU PhD student (co-advisor: Kenro Kusumi)  

Evolutionary potential, ecological adaptation and speciation in Uta and Anolis lizards; Earth-life evolution on the Baja peninsula

Sarah Baty

ASU PhD student (co-advisor: Kenro Kusumi) 

Multi-'omic integration and adaptive introgression in the desert brittlebush genus, Encelia; Earth-life evolution on the Baja peninsula

Garett Maag

Application of structural equation modeling to integrate earth-life data across river networks

Derek Benson

Physiological genomics, telomere eco-physiology and transcriptional control of drought tolerance in snakes

Nandini Manepalli

High School

Intern

Functional genomics, and genomic adaptation in desert tortoises

Melissa Hall

UAB 

Bioinformatics   technician

Habitat modeling and genomic-environmental associations

Avery Williams

UAB

Bioinformatics technician

Analysis of topologically associated domains & adaptive variants in nonmodel species

Ovoke Moss

UAB

 Lab technician

Immunology & developmental biology

Kirstin Slaton

UAB

Lab technician

Bioinformatics and genomics

Heaven Wright

UAB

Lab technician

Epigenomics & bioinformatics

Avery Paulsen

ASU  Undergraduate Researcher

Demography and evolutionary genomics of chelonians

Alex Yu

ASU - Barrett Honors Student

Comparative evolutionary genomics of MMP genes.

Dylan Wang

ASU - Barrett Honors Student

Comparative evolutionary genomics of mucin genes.

Yash Sharma