Joseph Coolon

Joseph Coolon
Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2008

U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Contact information

University of Michigan
1061 Kraus Natural Science Building
830 N. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
Phone: (734) 647-5483

Fax: (734) 763-0544
Email: jcoolon@umich.edu

Fields of study
Evolutionary genetics and genomics, ecological genomics

Mentor
Patricia Wittkopp

Research interests
I am broadly interested in understanding the genetic mechanisms that underlie organismal responses to their environment, with specific interest in responses to global environmental change phenomena. In my research I have used an interdisciplinary approach to ask questions that lie at the interface of multiple disciplines and span multiple levels of biological organization, from genes to communities. I have considerable interest in how different genotypes interact with the environment in different ways and the connection between genotypes and phenotypes. Gene expression is a critical intermediate in these processes and my current project focuses on regulatory variation and evolution. In particular, I am investigating how cis- and trans-regulatory changes contribute to divergent gene expression in Drosophila species.

Wittkopp Lab