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My research interests span molecular evolution, phylogeography, and conservation genetics. Visit the CGAB website for a comprehensive list of Current and Past ProjectsPeople and Publications

Questions that interest me range from understanding the evolutionary processes in small isolated populations, to the use of molecular markers to infer current and historical population processes at various spatial and temporal scales. I am question driven rather than organism bound. Thus, I work with a variety of invertebrate and vertebrate taxaAs Director of the YIBS, Molecular Systematics and Conservation Genetics Center, I facilitate training in the use of molecular tools to approach a wide variety of organismal and environmentally based questions, for undergraduate and graduate students, post-doc’s and faculty. 

News

September 29, 2022
In this paper we compare the genome of a female tortoise found in 2019 on Fernandina island with the only other tortoise ever found on this island more than 100 years ago, a...
Tortoise trying to escape
September 13, 2017
Yale News: An international expedition to a remote Galapagos Island rescued enough tortoises to start a breeding program that may help resurrect an extinct species,...
January 7, 2016
How we rediscovered ‘extinct’ giant tortoises in the Galápagos Islands – and how to save them January 7, 2016 The Galápagos Islands, 1,000 kilometres off the...