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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.

Postdoc & Graduate students - Current

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Griffin McDaniels

PhD student, UAB

 Ecology, evolution, conservation of reptiles; multi-'omics, adaptation, and speciation in rattlesnakes and Texas tortoise

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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

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Austin Biddy

PhD Student, UAB

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

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Dreu Dixon

MSc. Student, UAB

Dreu is interested in comparative epigenetics, chromatin evolution, and microbial evolution

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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

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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

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Garett Maag

MSc., ASU

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

Now: PhD student, U. Michigan

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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

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MaKinley Kendrick

UAB

Undergraduate researcher

Copy number variation in venom-resistance genes in Baja lizards

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Anna Nguyen

UAB 

Bioinformatics technician

Copy number variation of mucin genes in speciating chelonians

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Kenneth Ho

UAB

Bioinformatics technician

Molecular mechanisms of color variation in Uta stansburiana

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Lucy Hyun

UAB  

Bioinformatics technician

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Katie Cowart

UAB  

Undergraduate Researcher

microbiome community effects on plant growth in Arabidopsis thaliana

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Kirstin Slaton

UAB  Undergraduate Researcher

Molecular genetic analysis of immune genes in speciating desert tortoises

Undergraduates - Alumni

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Avery Williams

UAB

Bioinformatics Technician

Analysis of topologically associated domains & adaptive variants in nonmodel species

Now: PhD student at UCSD

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Ovoke Moss

UAB

Lab technician

Molecular genetic analysis of immune genes in speciating desert tortoises

Now: ROTC

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Melissa Hall

UAB 

Bioinformatics technician

Habitat modeling and genomic-environmental associations

Now: Medical coordinator, UAB

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Heaven Wright

UAB

Lab technician

Epigenomics & bioinformatics

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Nandini Manepalli

High School Intern

Functional genomics, and genomic adaptation in desert tortoises

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Avery Paulsen

ASU Undergraduate researcher

Mathematics & biology

Now: PhD student at NCSU

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Alex Yu

ASU - Barrett Honors Student

Comparative evolutionary genomics of MMP genes.

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Dylan Wang

ASU - Barrett Honors Student

Comparative evolutionary genomics of mucin genes.

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Yash Sharma

ASU - Barrett Honors Student

Comparative genomics and gene family evolution of heat shock factors across tetrapods.

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Matheo Morales

ASU - Barrett Honors Student

Comparative genomics and gene family evolution 

Now: PhD candidate, Yale University

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