team
Moisés (Moi) Expósito-Alonso , PhD
Principal Investigator & Assistant Professor (by courtesy) of BiologyMoi aims to mentor creative scientists that apply ecology, evolution, and genetics principles to understand and solve climate change problems
@MExpositoAlonso mexpositoalonso@carnegiescience.edu mexpositoalonso@stanford.eduMoi's Google ScholarMoi's CV
Ru aims to develop new genome editing and sequencing technologies and promote science communication
@PengYunruypeng@carnegiescience.edu
Lucas aims to develop methods and software to understand eco-evolutionary processes under climate change
@LucCzechlczech@carnegiescience.edu Lucas' Google Scholar
Megan is interested in using machine learning algorithms to understand selection across plant genomes in response to stress.
@MeganRRuffleymruffley@carnegiescience.edu Megan's Google Scholar
Shannon aims to develop computational models to understand the importance of gene expression modulation for climate adaptation.
@s_hateleyslhateley@carnegiescience.edu Shannon's Google Scholar
Lauren aims to develop deep learning methods for biodiversity modeling to understand both better!
@leg2015gillespl@stanford.edu lgillespie@carnegiescience.edu
Laura aims to investigate the spatial and temporal structure in plant populations and how these inform adaptations to climate change.
@laura_leventhallleventh@stanford.edu lleventhal@carnegiescience.edu
Erin aims to use CRISPR to engineer polygenic traits in plants
@ZessingAroundezess@carnegiescience.edu Erin's Google Scholar
Lisa aims to investigate climate adaptation in mosquitoes, and the consequences of adaptation on disease transmission
@Lisa_Couperlcouper@stanford.edu
Will aims to understand the multi-dimensional phenotypes explaining drought adaptation
@williangvianaviana@stanford.edu
Clara aims to learn about the genetics of plants and their adaptations to climate
ckiesch@stanford.edu
Kristy Mualim
Research Assistant(collaborator, Kundaje Lab)Kristy works to apply machine learning models to genomics data and is now incredibly excited to start applying them to plants to understand their adaptability to climate change.
kmualim@carnegiescience.edu
Marlot Westera
Visiting Intern(Utrecht University)Marlot aims to understand how climate-driven selection varies across functional regions in the genome
m.e.westera@students.uu.nl
Lola, Maria & Henrietta
Lab friends experts in herbivory experiments and random Markov walks.
We are always searching for talented and creative researchers, and are happy to develop together ideas for a competitive fellowship.
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alumni
Seba Toro Arana (Biology PhD student rotating Fall 20)
Alanna Pyke (Genetics PhD student rotating Fall 20)
Eva Sehr (Bioinformatics Master student, FH Campus Wien 2019-2020)
Andrea Ramirez (Biology PhD student rotating Winter 20)
Veronica Pagowski (Biology PhD student rotating Fall 19-Spring20)
active collaborators
All GrENE-net consortium @rround the world
Detlef Weigel @ Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Hernán A Burbano @ University College London, UK
Rasmus Nielsen @ University of California Berkeley, USA
Oliver Bossdorf @ University of Tübingen, Germany
Rachael Bay @ University of California Berkeley, USA
Stephen Keller @ University of Vermont, USA
Matt Fitzhpatrick @ University of Maryland, USA
Christian Rellstab @ Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland
Dmitri Petrov @ Stanford University, USA
Erin Mordecai @ Stanford University, USA
Hunter Fraser @ Stanford University, USA
Sue Rhee @ Carnegie/Stanford University, USA
Ben Blonder @ University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
José Dinneny @ Stanford University, USA
Noah Whiteman @ University of California Berkeley, USA
Dominique Bergmann @ Stanford University, USA