University of Michigan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Wesley Brown

Wesley Brown

  • Professor Emeritus
    Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1976

Contact information

  • 21277 Metompkin View Ln
    Parksley, VA 23421-2459
  • Phone: (757) 665-4364
  • Email: wbrown@umich.edu

Fields of study

Molecular biology, evolution of animal mitochondrial DNA, and metazoan phylogeny

Research interests

Characterization of types and rates of change of mitochondrial DNA among metazoans; relationships among metazoan phyla, classes and orders.

Academic background

B.S., 1958, Political Science, University of Colorado
M.S., 1964, Biology, University of Colorado
Ph.D., 1976, Biophysics, California Institute of Technology
Postdoc, 1976, University of California, San Francisco
Research Associate, 1978, University of California, Berkeley
Professor, University of Michigan, 1980-2002; Emeritus, 2002-present

UM affiliation

  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
  • College of Literature, Science, and the Arts