Department News
Patricia Wittkopp
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2002
- Wittkopp Lab
Contact information
- University of Michigan
1059/1061 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
Alisha John (MCDB), Brian Metzger (EEB), Kraig Stevenson (Bioinformatics), Bing Yang (MCDB), David Yuan (MCDB)
Postdoctoral fellows
Joseph Coolon, Fabien Duveau, Richard Lusk
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
- Center for Statistical Genetics
- Program in Biomedical Sciences
- Department of Computational Medicine and Biology
Related news
A primer in the March 2013 journal GENETICS pairs undergraduate teaching concepts in population genetics with current research on speciation and sequencing.
EEB postdoctoral fellow Rich Lusk received a National Research Service Fellows Award from the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Professor Patricia Wittkopp was selected as one of six interdisciplinary faculty nationwide to create guidelines for a new Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Texas.
