Kendra Abts
Doctoral Assistantship and NSF GRFP recipient
Project Description
Investigating MHC-based mate choice in the captive Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) population in the San Diego Zoo.
Education
Undergraduate: B.S. Biology and Wildlife Ecology UW-Madison.
Research Interest
Zoo biology, captive breeding, the use of molecular techniques to inform wildlife management, population genetics, quantitative genetics, and animal behavior. I am also interested in outreach and extension.
Jackie Doyle
Post Doc
Project Description
Jackie is a postdoc working on golden eagles. She has sequenced the genome and is monitoring a population in southern California.
Jennifer Antonides
PhD student
Project Description
Jenny has sequenced the bananaquit genome, and is in the midst of assembly, annotation, and interpretation. She has also done some work on whale population genetics.
Yanzhu Ji
PhD student
Project Description
Yanzhu is studying the expression of transposable elements in vertebrate transcriptomes. She is using a variety of bioinformatic approaches to test evolutionary hypotheses.