Greer Dolby, PI
Evolutionary biology, population genomics, Earth processes, causality, complexity and statistical modeling, more
I invite students from all different intellectual and cultural backgrounds to join our research group, which I run jointly with Dr. Kenro Kusumi. Our group is committed to inclusivity and anti-racist practices. Email me if you are interested in an undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral position.
Postdocs & Graduate students
Karla Vargas
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 in Arizona.
Raúl Araya-Donoso
Niche evolution and adaptive genomic divergence of Baja California desert animals (Dipodomys and Sceloporus).
Sarah Baty
Integration of multi-‘omic and geologic data to understand divergence, adaptation, and plasticity in the speciation of desert brittlebush, Encelia.
Garett Maag
Using SEM to quantify multi-level controls on phenotypes and integrating earth-life data
Bri McCoy
Primary advisor: Noah Snyder-Mackler
Modeling of multi-level genomic controls on the aging phenotype across animals.
Derek Benson
Primary advisor: Dale DeNardo
Derek studies physiological genomics, specifically multi-'omic controls of drought tolerance in snakes
Undergraduates
Nandini Manepalli
High School Intern
Analysis of genes under differential selection between desert tortoise lineages; functional genomics
Alexandra Cuddy
Remote Researcher
Use of structural equation modeling to quantify geological-genetic and genotype-phenotype relationships
Yash Sharma
Barrett Honors Student
Comparative genomics and gene family evolution of heat shock factors across tetrapods.
Dylan Wang
Barrett Honors Student
Evolutionary analysis of the birth, death, and duplication of SMG genes across tetrapods.
Avery Paulsen
Barrett Honors Student
Demography and evolutionary genomics of chelonians
Alex Yu
Barrett Honors Student
Comparative evolutionary genomics of the notch signaling pathway.