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.
Postdoc & Graduate students - Current
Griffin McDaniels
PhD student, UAB
Ecology, evolution, conservation of reptiles; multi-'omics, adaptation, and speciation in rattlesnakes and Texas tortoise
Jade Mellor
PhD student, UAB
Controls on distribution of genomic traits across populations, speciation genomics and adaptation of desert tortoises; epigenetic responses to natural disasters
Austin Biddy
PhD Student, UAB
Hierarchical multi-'omic controls on adaptation in rattlesnakes. Geogenomics & earth-life evolution on the Baja peninsula
Dreu Dixon
MSc. Student, UAB
Dreu is interested in comparative epigenetics, chromatin evolution, and microbial evolution
Sarah Baty
PhD Candidate, ASU
(co-advisor: Kenro Kusumi)
Multi-'omic integration and adaptive introgression in the desert brittlebush genus, Encelia; Earth-life evolution on the Baja peninsula
Karla Vargas
Postdoc, ASU
(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.
Postdocs & Graduate students – Alumni
Garett Maag
MSc., ASU
Application of structural equation modeling to integrate earth-life data across river networks
Now: PhD student, U. Michigan
Raúl Araya-Donoso
Ph.D., ASU
(co-advisor: Kenro Kusumi)
Evolutionary potential, ecological adaptation and speciation in Uta and Anolis lizards; Earth-life evolution on the Baja peninsula
Undergraduates - Current
MaKinley Kendrick
UAB
Undergraduate researcher
Copy number variation in venom-resistance genes in Baja lizards
Anna Nguyen
UAB
Bioinformatics technician
Copy number variation of mucin genes in speciating chelonians
Kenneth Ho
UAB
Bioinformatics technician
Molecular mechanisms of color variation in Uta stansburiana
Lucy Hyun
UAB
Bioinformatics technician
Katie Cowart
UAB
Undergraduate Researcher
microbiome community effects on plant growth in Arabidopsis thaliana
Kirstin Slaton
UAB Undergraduate Researcher
Molecular genetic analysis of immune genes in speciating desert tortoises
Undergraduates - Alumni
Avery Williams
UAB
Bioinformatics Technician
Analysis of topologically associated domains & adaptive variants in nonmodel species
Now: PhD student at UCSD
Ovoke Moss
UAB
Lab technician
Molecular genetic analysis of immune genes in speciating desert tortoises
Now: ROTC
Melissa Hall
UAB
Bioinformatics technician
Habitat modeling and genomic-environmental associations
Now: Medical coordinator, UAB
Heaven Wright
UAB
Lab technician
Epigenomics & bioinformatics
Nandini Manepalli
High School Intern
Functional genomics, and genomic adaptation in desert tortoises
Avery Paulsen
ASU Undergraduate researcher
Mathematics & biology
Now: PhD student at NCSU
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.
Matheo Morales
ASU - Barrett Honors Student
Comparative genomics and gene family evolution
Now: PhD candidate, Yale University