Pease Lab

integrative genomic evolution

James Pease

Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Wake Forest University
Graduate Program Director in Biology
Faculty Directory of STEM Scholarships, WFU Scholars Program
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Computer Science
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan — Ann Arbor
Ph.D. Indiana University — Bloomington
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James is interested in understanding the processes of molecular genomic and trait diversification, speciation, and hybridization using integrative computational population genomic, phylogenomic, and transcriptomic analyses.

Andria Harkey

Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. Wake Forest School of Medicine
B.S. University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Andria is interested in genome-scale responses to environmental signals in plant growth and physiology, as well as developing tools to help biologists make sense of the myriad genomic datasets that have been and are being generated. She is currently working on the Genomics of Thermotolerance in Tomato Reproduction project.

Christina Harvey

Ph.D. Student, Department of Biology
M.S. University of Louisana at Lafayette
B.S. McNeese State University

Christina is researching the evolution of traits across the tree of life. More specifically, she is interested in how trait evolution results in diverse physiological processes between species. Christina is exploring this topic by investigating muscle-calcium relationships in Aves.

Arjun Potter

Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. Princeton University
M.A. Princeton University
B.S. Cornell University
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Arjun is a community ecologist with broad interests in species interactions, allometry, plant and animal traits, savanna ecology, animal nutrition, and predation. He is currently working as part of our Acacia Eco-Evo Genomics Project.

Ellen Weinheimer

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology
B.A. Washington University in St. Louis

Ellen is interested in genomic patterns of adaptation and introgression during speciation, and developing new genomes for understudied tree genera in North American and East Africa. She currently leading the African Acacia Eco-Evo-Genomics Project in our lab.

Jessica Behrendt

Jessica (B.S. Biology) is working as part of our tomato genomics project to expand our genomic sequence database.

Olivia Delgado

Olivia (B.S. Biology) is working on our vertebrate muscle molecular evolution to understand the molecular diversity of muscle-related genes.

Murren Kelly

Murren (B.S. Biology) is researching topics related to the changing nature of genetic counseling as genomic screening advances.

Sid Subramanian

Sid (B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) is working as part of our African acacia eco-evo-genomics project to conduct greenhouse experiments on acacia ecophysiology.