Dr. Greer Dolby, PI
Evolutionary biology, population genomics, Earth processes, causality, complexity and statistical modeling, more
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.
Postdocs & Graduate students
Karla Vargas
ASU Postdoc (co-advisor: Arvind Varsani)
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
UAB PhD Student
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
ASU MSc. student
Application of structural equation modeling to integrate earth-life data across river networks
Derek Benson
ASU PhD student (Primary advisor: Dale DeNardo)
Physiological genomics, telomere eco-physiology and transcriptional control of drought tolerance in snakes
Undergraduates - Current
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
Molecular genetic analysis of immune genes in speciating desert tortoises
Avery Paulsen
ASU Undergraduate Researcher
Demography and evolutionary genomics of chelonians
Kirstin Slaton
UAB Undergraduate Researcher
Molecular genetic analysis of immune genes in speciating desert tortoises
Undergraduates - Alumni
Nandini Manepalli
High School
Intern
Functional genomics, and genomic adaptation in desert tortoises
Nandini Manepalli
UAB
Lab technician
Epigenomics & bioinformatics
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
ASU - Barrett Honors Student
Comparative genomics and gene family evolution of heat shock factors across tetrapods.