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John Pool jpool@ wisc.edu |
John started the lab in 2011. Prior to that, he did postdocs with Chuck Langley (UC Davis) and Rasmus Nielsen (UC Berkeley & Copenhagen), and a PhD with Chip Aquadro (Cornell). At UW-Madison, he is affiliated with the Laboratory of Genetics and the Genetics PhD program, the Department of Integrative Biology and its graduate program, Wisconsin Evolution, the Center for Genomic Science Innovation, and the Genome Sciences Training Program. |
Research
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Jamie Freeman jcfreeman2@ |
Jamie joined the lab after gaining experience as an
undergraduate, masters student, and lab manager in Jeff Scott's lab at
Cornell, where she studied
insecticide resistance in house flies. Here, she is bringing
order to the lab, and researching the contribution of geographic
diversity to adaptive potential. |
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Max Shpak mshpak@ |
Dr. Shpak joined the lab having already published
extensively in evolutionary genetics. He has been a cancer
genomics researcher, a professor (UTEP), a postdoc with Sergey
Gavrilets (U. Tenn.), a PhD student with Gunter Wagner
(Yale), and an
undergrad researcher with Alexei
Kondrashov (then at Cornell). He is currently
doing population genomics on museum fly genomes. |
PhD Students: | ||
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Chris McAllester cmcallester@ |
Chris is a Genetics PhD
student
interested in using theory and computation to answer evolutionary
questions. He is currently investigating a new model for
inversion maintenance. As an undergraduate at Cornell, he did
computational research on transcription factor binding sites with Robert Reed. |
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Tiago Ribeiro tribeiro@ |
Tiago is an Integrative
Biology
PhD student.
He is researching the genetic architecture of adaptive trait evolution
and the utility of SNP-level differentiation for detecting local
adaptation. He received a masters
degree from the
University of São Paulo working with Christina Miyaki. |
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Matt Lollar mlollar@ |
Matt is a Genetics PhD
student interested in behavioral evolution and reproductive
isolation. He is investigating the genetic basis
of hybrid breakdown in male mating success within D. melanogaster. He did
masters research on fly behavior with Janis O'Donnell
at the University of Alabama. |
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Siyuan Feng sfeng77@ |
Siyuan is a Genetics PhD
student
interested in altitude adaptation and the integration of population and
functional genomics. He is currently analyzing population genomic
data from the agricultural pest Drosophila
suzukii. His masters
research was advised by Mingzhou
Li at Sichuan Agricultural University. |
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Myron Child mbchild@ |
Myron is a Genetics PhD student interested in reproductive isolation and its relationship with adaptive evolution. He is investigating the mechanisms underlying hybrid breakdown in male mating success within D. melanogaster. Before arriving at UW-Madison, Myron worked in the labs of Dean Castillo (then at Utah) and Hernan Garcia (Berkeley). |
Undergraduates: | ||
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Eleyna Escobedo |
Eleyna is a class of Dec. 2023 Biology & Life Science Communication major. |
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Boqin Yang |
Boqin is a class of 2025 Microbiology major and Biocore student. |
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Emmah Daanen |
Emmah is a class of 2025 Genetics & Genomics major and Global Health student. |
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Charlotte Wood |
Charlotte is a class of 2025 Zoology major and Biocore student. |
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Molly Hansen |
Molly is a class of 2025 Genetics & Genomics major. |
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Joy Zhang |
Joy is a class of 2025 Biology & Japanese major. |
Lab alumni (and year finished): Postdocs: Ryuichi Sugino (2014) - computational biologist at Saitama Cancer Center Justin Lack (2015) - computational biologist at the National Institutes of Health Héloïse Bastide (2016)- faculty member at University of Paris-Sud & CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette Amir Yassin (2016) - faculty member at CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette Yuheng Huang (2019) - postdoc at UC-Irvine with Grace Lee Maud Duranton (2021) - researcher at Ifremer, Montpellier, FR PhD students: Jeremy Lange (2021) - computational biologist at Genus Plc / ABS Global Quentin Sprengelmeyer (2021) - McNair Scholars Director at UW Platteville Short term residents: Davorka Gulisija (2013) - faculty member at the University of New Mexico Murillo Rodrigues (2018) - PhD student at the University of Oregon with Andrew Kern and Peter Ralph Juliana Cordeiro (2019) - faculty member at Universidade Federal de Pelotas (Brazil) Samantha Vold (2020) - Life Sciences Communication graduate student at UW-Madison Undergraduates who finished their UW careers in the Pool Lab: Nicole Bangart (2014) Evan Johanning (2014) - Lab Supervisor at Assurance Drug Testing Dylan Braun (2015) - Scientist at Thermo Fisher Ben Groth (2017) - PhD Student at UC Davis Grant Hoppel (2017) - Science Teacher Matt Monette (2017) - Medical student at Des Moines University Audrey Simard (2017) - PhD Student at Penn State Vedika Ramesh (2018) - Genetic Counseling Assistant at Cleveland Clinic Tim Biewer-Heisler (2019) - PhD student at Indiana University Daria Ghorbanpoor (2020) - Dental student at University of Michigan Clarice Danen (2021) - Genetic Counseling Intern at Marshfield Clinic Olivia Gargulak (2021) Zach Johnson (2021) - Conservation Geneticist at West Virginia Zoo |