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L. Lacey Knowles

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

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Dig it: DDIG grant for Qixin He

EEB graduate student Qixin He has been awarded a Doctorate Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) of $15,000 from the National Science Foundation.

Alvarado Serrano wins Rackham Predoc Fellowship

EEB graduate student Diego Alvarado Serrano has been awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.

Knowles selected as FIU Distinguished Glaser Seminar speaker

Professor L. Lacey Knowles was selected as the Distinguished Glaser Seminar speaker at Florida International University.

Knowles president-elect of SSB

Professor L. Lacey Knowles is president-elect of the Society of Systematic Biologists.