Genomic Diversity Laboratory
GDL Users
Faculty
Liliana Cortés Ortiz
Research Associate Professor
Fields of study:
Evolution of neotropical primates
Alison Davis
Assistant Professor
Assistant Curator of Herpetology, Museum of Zoology
Fields of study:
Evolution of behavior, evolutionary genomics, character evolution and phylogenetics, herpetology
Nyeema Harris
Assistant Professor
Fields of study:
Conservation biology, wildlife ecology, biogeography, community ecology, population ecology, host-parasite interactions, global change biology
Pavel Klimov
Assistant Research Scientist
Fields of study:
Molecular phylogentics, host-parsite relationships, coevolution, systematics of mites
Daniel L. Rabosky
Assistant Professor
Assistant Curator, Museum of Zoology
Fields of study:
Macroevolution, speciation, phylogenetic comparative methods, biodiversity theory, evolution and ecology of Australian reptiles, herpetology, paleobiology
Stephen A. Smith
Assistant Professor
Fields of study:
Phylogenetics, computational evolutionary biology, biogeography, phyloinformatics
Cody Thompson
Research Scientist
Collection Manager, Mammal Division
Fields of study:
Evolutionary patterns and processes of mammalian diversity
Ben Winger
Michigan Fellow
Assistant Professor
Assistant Curator, Museum of Zoology
Fields of study:
Evolution of geographic range, speciation, genomics, ornithology, seasonal migration
Students
Varun Acharya
Undergraduate Student
Patricia Billette
Research Assistant from Cortes Ortiz Lab
Sean Brady
Undergraduate Student
Michelle Clayson
Research Assistant from Harris Lab
Natalie Greenhalgh
Undergraduate Student
Maggie Grundler
Research Assistant from Rabosky Lab
Rachael Herman
Research Assistant from Winger Lab
Iris Holmes
Ph.D. Student
Amphibian population genetics, adaptive basis and evolutionary implications of organismal distribution
Joanna Larson
Ph.D. Student
Macroevolution of African amphibians, integration of morphological and molecular data
Adrian Melo Carrillo
Ph.D. Student
Focus on evolution and biodiversity, with molecular and cellular biology as the base
Ivan Monagan
Research Assistant from Davis Rabosky Lab
Marcela Nidiffer
Ph.D. Student
Evolution of behavior, dispersal patterns and social systems, molecular ecology
Daniel Nondorf
Undergraduate Student
Isabella E. Rios
Undergraduate Student
Jessica Yan
Undergraduate Student
Victoria Zakrzewski
Undergraduate Student
Post Doctoral Fellows
Sonal Singhal
Postdoctoral Fellow
Speciation and hybridization, population genomics, and macroevolution
Oscar Vargas Hernandez
Postdoctoral Fellow
Plant evolution and speciation, biogeography, phylogenetics
Nina Wale
Postdoctoral Fellow
The evolutionary ecology of parasites and the role they play in ecosystems.
Visiting Scholars
Nastassia Vlasova
Group Leader National Academy of Sciences of Belarus · Central Botanic Garden Belarus · Minsk
Plant genetics, Plant pathology, Plant ecology, Conservation genetics
Research Lab Technician
M. Raquel Marchán Marchán-Rivadeneira
Research Lab Technician
Ecomorphology, phylogeography, speciation