Antimicrobial resistance poses a global challenge to human health that is only expected to increase without significant treatment innovations. Novel therapeutic strategies are needed for …
Domestic species are an example of experimental evolution involving intentional selective breeding for particular traits. These species provide an opportunity to study varying rates of …
Abstract of “Communities Within a Community: The Gut Microbiomes of Co-occurring Small Mammals in a Kenyan Savanna” by Bianca R. Palmer Brown, Ph.D., Brown University, …
Knowledge of genetic diversity within natural populations, how this variation is maintained, and its underlying selective drivers are central to both evolutionary ecology and biological …
Statistical and computational methods for detecting evolutionary processes in human genomic data have been going through rapid advances across multiple fields of study and timescales. …
Abstract of Development and Evolution of Scyphomedusae, by Rebecca R. Helm, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2016. Scyphozoan jellyfish are important members of marine ecosystems. Jellyfish, …
Identifying genetic targets of natural selection is a primary goal of evolutionary biology research. However, molecular signatures of natural selection must be interpreted with caution …
Over the past decade, genome-wide associations studies (GWAS) and other methods have used human genetic data to successfully identify thousands of genomic elements underpinning complex …
Since the completion of the Human Genome Project and the first whole human genome sequence in 2003, the number of whole human genome sequences available …
The progression from embryo to reproductive adult to death describes the fundamental life history of an organism. From the perspective of evolutionary biology, life histories …
In eukaryotes, DNA is first transcribed into precursor-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) which is then followed by extensive RNA processing events. One such event is RNA splicing, …
Fatigue is poorly understood, beyond muscle energetics. For C. elegans, swimming is a more energetically costly behavior than crawling and can be classified as a …
Understanding the mechanisms used by organisms living in extreme environments on Earth is a first step towards rationally designing organisms for living in space. The …
With increasing temperature extremes during critical crop reproductive periods, crop yield will decline, and food stability will be threatened. As flowering plants, crop reproduction depends …
In recent years, it has become increasingly appreciated that the human microbiome plays an important role in health and disease. Optimally, the gut microbiota contributes …
This dissertation spans work on how fish swallow food, software for performing color segmentation of biological images, and the role of feeding in the evolution …