People

Most of the 2022-2023 Barker Lab in Florida for Polyploidy 2023!

 
 

Dr. Michael S. Barker

Associate Department Head and Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Associate Professor, BIO5
Associate Professor, Genetics GIDP
Director, Bioinformatics Degree Program

msbarker@arizona.edu
Phone: 520–621–2213
Office: BioSciences West 321E
Lab: BioSciences West 321

EEB Department Page
@barkerms.bsky.social on Bluesky

Dr. Justin Conover

NSF PRFB Postdoctoral Fellow, Fall 2022, Co-advised with Dr. Ryan Gutenkunst

Studying how polyploidy impacts the distribution of fitness effects (DFE) of new mutations

@ConJUSTover on Twitter

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Geoff Finch

EEB Ph.D. Candidate

Analyzing the population genetic consequences of chromosome number evolution with a focus on the exceptional genus Xanthisma

Dr. Jay Goldberg

NSF PRFB Postdoctoral Fellow, Co-advised with Dr. Judie Bronstein

Researching the evolutionary genomics of plant-insect co-evolution with Datura and Manduca

Seongyeon Kang

EEB Ph.D. Student

Exploring chromosomal evolution in flowering plants

Dr. Sylvia Kinosian

NSF PRFB Postdoctoral Fellow

Testing hypotheses to explain the evolution of high chromosomes numbers among homosporous vascular plants

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Michael McKibben

EEB Ph.D. Candidate

Studying the evolutionary consequences of paleopolyploidy and diploidization with a focus on Brassica

Alex Stewart

EEB PhD Student
NSF GRFP Fellow

Studying polyploid speciation and genome evolution in salamanders

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Andrew Vizzerra

EEB Master’s Student

Studying the different impacts of polyploidy and hybridization on genome evolution in Selaginella allopolyploids and homoploid hybrids

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Dr. Shing Zhan

Honorary Manton Postdoctoral Fellow

Studying chromosomal and genome evolution across the plant phylogeny

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Polly Barker

Lab mascot and guard dog of BSW 321E

 

Honorary Members

  • Dr. Cristian Román-Palacios

Lab Alumni

Graduate Students

  • Dr. Zheng Li
    Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, Miami University

  • Dr. Anthony Baniaga
    Herbarium Curator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of EEB, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Stacey Jorgensen
    Lab tech at UAGC

Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Dr. Paul Blischak
    Data Scientist, Bayer Crop Science

  • Dr. Brittany Sutherland
    CPING Project Manager, University of Louisiana
    Website

  • Dr. Xinshuai Qi
    Data Science Manager, Benson Hill

  • Dr. Hannah Marx
    Assistant Professor and Herbarium Curator, University of New Mexico
    Webpage

  • Dr. Patrick Edger
    Assistant Professor, Michigan State University 
    Webpage

  • Dr. Emily Sessa
    Associate Professor, University of Florida 
    Webpage

  • Dr. Rebecca Rundell
    Associate Professor, SUNY-ESF 
    Webpage

  • Dr. Nils Arrigo
    Senior Bioinformatician, Sophia Genetics
    Former Group Leader, University of Lausanne 
    Webpage

Undergraduates

  • Dr. Rishi Masalia
    Bioinformatician at LeafWorks
    Personal website: https://rishimasalia.wordpress.com/

  • Kevin Holt
    Graduate student at Brown University

  • Tara Hall
    Graduate student at Cornell University

  • Thomas Kidder
    Bioinformatics B.S. graduate
    Architect of high throughput PASTA and inference of paleopolyploidy throughout the plant phylogeny

  • Sally Galuska
    Bioinformatics B.S. graduate
    Tamed GO annotations with HMMs in Beholder and helped develop machine learning approaches to study plant genomes

  • Chris Reardon
    Master of MAPS and machine learning for plant genomes

  • Alexandra Pond
    Evaluated the age and nature of the polyploidy in the ancestry of the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance

  • Alex Trostle
    Lab tech at Baylor University

  • Anshu Goyal
    Graduate student at USC

  • Kyle Jenkins

    Undergrad research student with David Enard

Visiting Scholars

  • Hanghui Kong

  • Rongpei Yu

  • Elton Assis