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We are recruiting PhD students, undergraduates and postdocs interested in evolutionary genomics and gene regulatory evolution. Please email Dr. Katya Mack (katya.mack [at] ku.edu) to open a discussion!

Katya Mack
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Email: katya.mack [at] ku.edu

Katya Mack is an evolutionary biologist interested in the genomic basis of adaptation and speciation. Katya earned her PhD from UC Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.
Miles Whedbee
LAB TECHNICIAN

Miles Whedbee is interested in gene regulatory evolution, particularly in the context of animal adaptation to extreme environments. His previous work focused on the evolution of transcriptome plasticity, primarily through small RNA (microRNA) mediated regulation, and chemical modifications (adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing) in the transcriptome. Miles earned his PhD from Colorado State University and MS from San Diego State University.
Vinay Sagar
POSTDOC

Vinay is an evolutionary biologist interested in the evolution of phenotypes, their genetic mechanisms, and micro-evolutionary drivers. In the past, Vinay has worked with natural and captive populations of tigers to understand evolutionary forces driving their rare phenotypes using population genomics tools. In the Mack lab, he studies gene regulatory variation associated with adaptation to environmental change in house mice, by integrating molecular, population genomic, and computational approaches.
Brandon Meter
POSTDOC

Brandon is an evolutionary biologist with a keen interest in the development and adaptation of traits. He earned his PhD at Charles University in Prague, where he focused on the developmental mechanisms underlying growth and sexual size dimorphism in lizards. At the University of Kansas, Brandon aims to investigate the genetic contributions to skeletal development in mice.
Joe Ward
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER

Joe Ward is a senior at the University of Kansas studying Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.

He is interested in studying organismal plasticity as it relates to adaptation and evolution within species, and he is an active member within the Marching Jayhawks, where he plays sousaphone.
Pilot
LAB DOG

Research Interests: Squirrel biogeography