Brenda Cameron
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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.
Elli is a Plant Biology graduate student coadvised by Dan Kliebenstein, working on the evolution of gene networks.
Regina Fairbanks
(they/them/theirs)
Regina is a first year student in the Population Biology graduate group with interests including archaeology, genomics, and plant domestication.
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.
Mitra is a postdoctoral fellow working on the evolutionary genetics of TEs. Her previous work focuserd on ecological and evolutionary genomics of conifers.
Alyssa Phillips
(she/her/hers)
Alyssa is a Plant Biology graduate student working on environmental adaptation in big blue stem as part of the PanAnd project.
Julianna Porter
(she/her/hers)
Julianna is an Genetics & Genomics major and the recipient of the Nieland Family Award to do independennt research on adapation in Tripsacum as part of the PanAnd project. .
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
(he/him/his)
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.
Defne is an undergraduate working with Mitra to udnerstand how indigenous language groups may have structured genetic diversity in traditional maize landraces.
Edwin is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow interested in applying computational solution to problems in genetics and genomics.
Genetic diversity in maize and teosinte * Jianbing Yan * Ning Yang
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