Professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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GENETIC AND ECOLOGICAL BASIS OF REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION
Speciation typically occurs when two populations split and begin to accumulate genetic differences. My group studies the process of how these genetic differences accumulate in a variety of organisms ranging from Drosophila to human pathogens. The ultimate aim of my lab is to understand the genetic basis of speciation and disentangle what factors lead to biological diversity. As a group, we tackled bold questions and are not constrained by biological systems; we will follow the data wherever it takes us. We use a range approaches that include classical genetics, field biology, genomics and phylogenetic reconstruction.