People
PI
Gideon Bradburd
My research is focused around incorporating geography into statistical methods for studying population structure, admixture, demography, local adaptation, and natural selection in a variety of empirical systems.
More info: [CV], [Google Scholar], [github].
Contact: bradburd (at) msu (dot) edu
twitter: (at) gbradburd
Office: 153 Giltner Hall, Michigan State University
My research is focused around incorporating geography into statistical methods for studying population structure, admixture, demography, local adaptation, and natural selection in a variety of empirical systems.
More info: [CV], [Google Scholar], [github].
Contact: bradburd (at) msu (dot) edu
twitter: (at) gbradburd
Office: 153 Giltner Hall, Michigan State University
Postdocs
Rachel Toczydlowski My research interests to date have centered on how plant populations respond to changing environmental conditions and selective pressures via phenotypic plasticity, evolution, and migration. I completed my PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2019. For my dissertation, I combined classic field methods (e.g. common gardens) and nextgen sequencing to study population genetics, local adaptation, and inbreeding in Impatiens capensis. In the Bradburd Lab, I am tackling synthetic analyses of spatial population genetic data across geographic and macroevolutionary scales. I am also continuing collaborations with visual artists, social scientists, and foresters on a variety of ongoing research and outreach projects.
Matteo Tomasini I have wide interests in population genetics, and I address them using mathematical, statistical and computational methods. In 2019 I finished my PhD at the University of Bern with Laurent Excoffier and Stephan Peischl, where I worked on mathematical models to study the impact of gene flow on evolutionary rescue. In the Bradburd Lab, I am trying to develop a method to infer patterns of isolation by distance using a biologically relevant model. I am also interested in various other topics, from human evolution to clustering methods to study population structure.
PhD students
Meaghan Clark I am a first year graduate student co-advised by Gideon Bradburd and Sarah Fitzpatrick. I completed a Master's degree with Jeanne Roberston at CSU Northridge. Research interests TBD!
Visiting scholars
Kirsty MacLeod I am a behavioural and evolutionary ecologist with broad interests in maternal investment, reproductive systems, stress physiology, and sociality. I'm fascinated by how individuals interact with one another and their environment, how those interactions affect physiology and behaviour, and how this contributes to evolution and shapes vertebrate communities. My current and recent work investigates how physiological stress during gestation influences offspring morphology, behaviour, and survival. I am based at Lund University in Sweden, but when I'm passing through MSU, the Bradburd lab is my home away from home.
Other lab personnel
Eloise Wolf Weber-Bradburd I am co-advised by Gideon Bradburd and Marjorie Weber. My research is focused on developing new forms of dance, notions of personal property and, concurrently, the ability to share that property (work ongoing). Future research plans include sleeping in a little bit later on weekends.
Keywords: "chickenbutt"
Keywords: "chickenbutt"
Banjo woof!
GradBurds (Lab alumni)
Emily Puckett - now Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee, Memphis
Kelsey Yule - now Collections Manager at the NEON Biorepository collections at Arizona State
Kelsey Yule - now Collections Manager at the NEON Biorepository collections at Arizona State