L. Lacey Knowles
- Associate Professor
- Associate Curator, Museum of Zoology
- Ph.D., Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1999
Contact information
- University of Michigan
2085 Museums Building
1109 Geddes Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 - Phone: (734) 763-5603
- Lab: (734) 763-7943
- Fax: (734) 763-4080
- Email: knowlesl@umich.edu
Fields of study
Speciation, sexual selection, phylogeography, and evolutionary radiations
Academic background
I received my Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1999. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona in 1999-2002.
Graduate students
Diego Alvarado Serrano, Qixin He, Tristan McKnight, Carlos Munoz, Andrea Thomaz, Lucy Tran, Jen-Pan Huang, Rob Massatti
Research assistant
Racquel Marchan
Postdoctoral fellows
Jason Brown, Hayley Lanier, Pavel Klimov
Visiting scholar
Dr.Guo-Fang Jiang, professor, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology and Institute of Genetic Resources, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University
Lab alumni
Bryan Carstens, Postdoctoral Fellow 2004-07, now Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
Tim Connallon, Ph.D. 2009, now Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Unviversity, tconnal@umich.edu
Dan Edwards, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Huateng Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow in systems biology, Nephrology/ Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
John McCormack, Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-10, now Assistant Professor at Occidental College
Elen Oneal, Ph.D. 2009, now Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University, eo22@duke.edu
Corrine Richards, Ph.D. 2008, Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-09, University of California Berkeley, now Assistant Professor, Tulane University, cori@tulane.edu
Amanda Zellmer, Ph.D. 2010, now Postdoctoral Fellow, Louisiana State University
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Museum of Zoology
Related news
EEB graduate student Qixin He has been awarded a Doctorate Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) of $15,000 from the National Science Foundation.
EEB graduate student Diego Alvarado Serrano has been awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.
Professor L. Lacey Knowles was selected as the Distinguished Glaser Seminar speaker at Florida International University.
Professor L. Lacey Knowles is president-elect of the Society of Systematic Biologists.