Dr. Greer Dolby, PI
Evolutionary biology, population genomics, Earth processes, causality, complexity and statistical modeling, more
I invite students from all intellectual backgrounds to join our research group, which is committed to a supportive 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
Ecology, evolution, conservation of reptiles; multi-'omics, adaptation, and speciation in rattlesnakes and Texas tortoise
Jade Mellor
PhD Candidate
Controls on distribution of genomic traits across populations, speciation genomics and adaptation of desert tortoises; epigenetic responses to natural disasters
Austin Biddy
PhD Candidate
Hierarchical multi-'omic controls on adaptation in rattlesnakes. Geogenomics & earth-life evolution on the Baja peninsula
Dreu Dixon
MSc. Student
Characterization and divergence of regulatory RNAs among rattlesnakes in a phylogenetic framework
Bryan Holmes
ABM MSc Student
Genome-wide chromatin confirmation divergence among rattlesnakes in response to drought
Joshua Hughes
ABM MSc Student
Genome-wide methylation divergence among rattlesnakes in response to drought
Postdocs & Graduate students – Alumni
Sarah Baty
Ph.D., ASU
(co-advisor: Kenro Kusumi)
Multi-'omic integration and adaptive introgression in the desert brittlebush genus, Encelia; Earth-life evolution on the Baja peninsula
Now: Scientist, Los Alamos National Lab
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
Now: Postdoc, Yale University
Karla Vargas
Postdoc, ASU
(co-advisor: Arvind Varsani)
NSF Postdoc fellow. Host-virus dynamics and viral diversity associated with wild populations of vertebrate species across the Sonoran Desert.
Garett Maag
MSc., ASU
Application of structural equation modeling to integrate earth-life data across river networks
Now: PhD student, U. Michigan
Undergraduates & technicians - Current
Taylor Kelley
UAB
Field Technician
Ecology and evolution of native crayfish
Anna Nguyen
UAB
Bioinformatics technician
Information embeddedness and transfer from landscapes to populations
Kenneth Ho
UAB
Bioinformatics technician
Gene expression analysis and RNA evolution in rattlesnakes
Undergraduates - Alumni
Makinley Kendrick
UAB
Undergraduate researcher
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
Copy number variation in venom-resistance genes in Baja lizards
now: MSc student at U. South Alabama
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