Department News
Patricia Wittkopp
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2002
- Wittkopp Lab
Contact information
- University of Michigan
1059 Kraus Natural Science Building
830 North University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048 - Phone: (734) 763-1548
- Lab: (734) 647-5483
- Fax: (734) 763-0544
- Email: wittkopp@umich.edu
Fields of study
Evolutionary genetics and genomics, evolution of development
Academic background
Dr. Wittkopp received her B.S. at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) in 1997, her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) in 2002, and conducted postdoctoral research at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) from 2002-2005 as a fellow of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Dr. Wittkopp joined the EEB faculty in September 2005.
Graduate students
Lisa Arnold (MCDB), Brian Metzger (EEB), Kraig Stevenson (Bioinformatics), Bing Yang (MCDB), David Yuan (MCDB)
Postdoctoral fellows
Arielle Cooley, Joseph Coolon, Jonathan Gruber, Gizem Kalay (MCDB), Richard Lusk
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
- Center for Statistical Genetics
- School of Public Health
- Program in Biomedical Sciences
- Center for Computational Medicine and Biology
- U-M Medical School
Related news
Christopher Dick, Aaron King and Trisha Wittkopp have been promoted to associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology with tenure, effective Sept. 1, 2011.
Professor Patricia Wittkopp has been awarded the 2011 Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award for outstanding teaching of undergraduates.
Read about EEB faculty grants received in early 2011 by Professor Trisha Wittkopp and Anton Reznicek, curator of vascular plants, U-M Herbarium.
