Evolutionary processes drive genomic variation in all species. Genome-scale analyses provide tremendous power to study and quantify the different mechanisms that underlie evolution, including adaptation, selective constrains, and molecular process such as mutation and recombination. GGD faculty members and their students are leaders in establishing methods for studying these evolutionary processes based on observed patterns of genome variation, and by integrating wet lab, computational, and engineering design approaches in their work.
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Charles Aquadro, The Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Science Molecular Biology & Genetics Research Interests: Population genetics and comparative genomics. Our current work focuses on population genetics and comparative functional genomics of genes that regulate germ line stem cells in Drosophila, with particular focus on the bag of marbles (bam) gene. |
607-254-4839 cfa1@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Daniel Barbash, Professor Research Interests: We perform genetic, molecular evolutionary, and genomic studies of speciation, transposable element regulation, genome stability, and meiotic segregation, using both Drosophila as an experimental organism as well as human genomic and polymorphism data. |
607-254-5208 dab87@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Adam Boyko, Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences Research Interests: Canine genomics; evolutionary and population genetics; adaptation; computational biology; genetic architecture of complex traits and diseases; artificial selection; village dogs |
607-253-3503 boyko@cornell.edu Lab Website |
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Ilana Brito, Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Research Interests: Human microbiome; horizontal gene transfer; antibiotic resistance; microbial transmission |
607-254-2938 ilb8@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Andrew Clark, Professor Molecular Biology & Genetics Research Interests: Population genetics, evolutionary genomics, genetics of complex traits |
607-255-0527 ac347@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Cedric Feschotte, Professor Molecular Biology & Genetics Research Interests: Genome biology and evolution; mobile genetic elements; endogenous viruses; gene regulation; noncoding RNAs |
607-255-8793 cf458@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Jaehee Kim, Assistant Professor Computational Biology Research Interests: The Kim lab focuses on computational problems relevant to understanding evolutionary processes and population dynamics, and in development and application of statistical methods for inference from genetic data. |
607-254-1328 jk2287@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Brian Lazzaro, Professor Entomology Research Interests: We study genetics of insect-pathogen interactions, asking why individuals vary in resistance to infection, how the immune response embeds in overall host physiology, and how natural selection acts on the immune system. |
607-255-3254 bl89@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Philipp Messer, Assistant Professor Biological Statistics & Computational Biology Research Interests: Population genetics; evolutionary genomics; computational biology |
607-255-3984 pm544@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Robert Reed, Associate Professor Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Research Interests: Evolution of developmental mechanisms; cis-regulatory evolution; functional genomics; animal color patterns; phenotypic plasticity |
607-253-4443 robertreed@cornell.edu Lab Website |
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Xinzhu April Wei, Assistant Professor Computational Biology Research Interests: We develop more accurate and scalable computational methods that utilize massive genomic datasets to gain new insights into fundamental evolutionary processes, such as demographic history, natural selection, complex traits evolution, and gene conversion. |
607-255-0873 xw583@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Mariana Wolfner, Goldwin Smith Professor and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow Molecular Biology & Genetics Research Interests: Functions and evolution of seminal proteins and other important reproductive molecules. Molecular genetics of the egg-to-embryo transition. Most of our work is with insects, including the Drosophila model system and the dengue-vector mosquito. Mariana is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences |
607-254-4801 mfw5@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
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Haiyuan Yu, Associate Professor Research Interests: Quantitative biomedicalåÊsystems biology; functional and comparative genomics/proteomics; biologicalåÊnetworks and their changes across human populations and in disease |
607-255-0259 hy299@cornell.edu Lab Website Publications |
