Department News
Stephen A. Smith
- Assistant Professor
- Ph.D. Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 2008
- Lab website
Contact information
- University of Michigan
2071A Kraus Natural Science Building
830 North University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048 - Phone: (734) 764-7923
- Fax: (734) 763-0544
- Email: eebsmith@umich.edu
Fields of study
Phylogenetics, computational evolutionary biology, biogeography, phyloinformatics
Academic background
Ph.D. Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 2008
M.S. Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 2005
B.A. Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, 2003
Postdoctoral fellows
Joseph Brown, Cody Hinchliff, Ya Yang
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Related news
Scientists Trace the Tree of Life exhibit to open at Museum of Natural History
From late July through late October, the U-M Museum of Natural History will present the exhibit DNA and the Tree of Life in the Museum’s rotunda.
New York Times quotes Smith on Open Tree of Life
Read the June 4, 2012 New York Times article about the Open Tree of Life project, which quotes Professor Stephen Smith.
On the U-M Gateway: Smith plays key role in effort to create first comprehensive tree of life
Since Darwin, assembling an evolutionary tree that shows the relationships between all known species of life has been one of the grandest and most daunting challenges facing biologists.
