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Brenda Cameron
(she/her)
Brenda is the lab manager and czar. In addition to working with us, she manages the Bay, Grosberg and Stachowicz labs as well, and is an award-winning lab safety expert.
Vibha is a biochemistry major interested in computational biology. They are currently working under Natasha Dhamrait to understand the evolution of transposable elements in the maize genome.
Elli is a Plant Biology graduate student coadvised by Dan Kliebenstein, working on the evolution of gene networks and the evolution of cross-incompatibility loci.
Natasha is a student in the Population Biology graduate group with interests including plant evolution, domestication, genome biology, and transposable elements.
Regina is a student in the Population Biology graduate group, currently working on the population genetics and archaeology of the maize domestication locus tga1.
Forrest is a graduate student in Integrative Genetics and Genomics
working on climate adaptation in maize as part of a large international
collaboration led by CIMMYT. He is
coadvised by Dan Runcie.
Beibei is a postdoc working on the evolution of transposable elements
in maize and teosinte During her PhD she worked on epigenetics in maize.
Hana Lubin
(they/them)
Hana is a sophomore interested in plant ecology and genetics. They are currently working with Regina Fairbanks to update our list of genes targeted by selection during maize domestication.
Paulo is a graduate student in Integrative Genetics and Genomics working on using whole genome assemblies to study allelic diversity and demography in maize.
Sowmya Mambakkam
(she/her)
Sowmya is a sophomore Genetics and Genomics major investigating the population genetics of inversions in Zea and convergent adaptation in perennials grasses.
Alyssa is a Plant Biology graduate student working on the origins of polyploidy and environmental adaptation in big blue stem as part of the PanAnd project.
Garnet is a Genetics and Genomics major working to understand the evolution and genomic variability of cross-incompatibility loci in maize and teosinte.
Jeff is a Professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology
and a faculty member of the Center for
Population Biology and the Genome Center.
Ayelet Salman-Minkov
(she/her)
Ayelet is a project scientist working in collaboration with Dan Runcie and CIMMYT to understand how
genotype-environment association approaches can be used for crop
breeding.
Sam is an NSF Plant Genome postdoc working on the coevolution of humans and their domesticated plants. She is coadvised by Graham Coop.
Cristian is a Genomics Data Scientist at Bayer Vegetables R&D and a PhD graduate student in Integrative Genetics and Genomics working on genomic selection, pangenomes, and inbreeding depression in Zea. He is coadvised by Dan Runcie.
Genetic diversity in maize and teosinte
Evolution of Incompatibility Loci in Maize and Teosinte
Quantitative Genetics of Genotype x Environment Interaction
Evolutionary Genetics of Transposable Elements
Convergent Evolution in the Andropogoneae
Evolutionary genetics of highland adaptation in maize