People
Most of the 2021–2022 Barker Lab at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument!
Dr. Michael S. Barker
Associate Professor and Associate Department Head, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Associate Professor, BIO5
Director, Bioinformatics Degree Program
msbarker@arizona.edu
Phone: 520–621–2213
Office: BioSciences West 321E
Lab: BioSciences West 321
EEB Department Page
@BarkerLab on Twitter
Also on Twitter: @PolyploidPapers @BrassicaPapers @PteridophytePub
Dr. Justin Conover
Incoming 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
Geoff Finch
EEB Ph.D. Student
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
Qiuyu Jiang
Seongyeon Kang
Incoming EEB Ph.D. Student, Fall 2022
Exploring chromosomal evolution in flowering plants
Dr. Sylvia Kinosian
Incoming NSF PRFB Postdoctoral Fellow
Testing hypotheses to explain the evolution of high chromosomes numbers among homosporous vascular plants
Michael McKibben
EEB Ph.D. Student
Studying the evolutionary consequences of paleopolyploidy and diploidization with a focus on Brassica
Andrew Vizzerra
EEB Master’s Student
Studying the different impacts of polyploidy and hybridization on genome evolution in Selaginella allopolyploids and homoploid hybrids
Dr. Shing Zhan
Honorary Manton Postdoctoral Fellow
Studying chromosomal and genome evolution across the plant phylogeny
Polly Barker
Lab mascot and guard dog of BSW 321E
Honorary Members
Dr. Cristian Román-Palacios
Lab Alumni
Graduate Students
Dr. Zheng Li
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology, Moran Lab, University of Texas, AustinDr. Anthony Baniaga
Herbarium Curator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of EEB, University of California, Los AngelesStacey Jorgensen
Lab tech at UAGC
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Paul Blischak
Data Scientist, Bayer Crop ScienceDr. Brittany Sutherland
CPING Project Manager, University of Louisiana
WebsiteDr. Xinshuai Qi
Data Science Manager, Benson HillDr. Hannah Marx
Assistant Professor and Herbarium Curator, University of New Mexico
WebpageDr. Patrick Edger
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
WebpageDr. Emily Sessa
Associate Professor, University of Florida
WebpageDr. Rebecca Rundell
Associate Professor, SUNY-ESF
WebpageDr. 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 UniversityTara Hall
Graduate student at Cornell UniversityThomas Kidder
Bioinformatics B.S. graduate
Architect of high throughput PASTA and inference of paleopolyploidy throughout the plant phylogenySally Galuska
Bioinformatics B.S. graduate
Tamed GO annotations with HMMs in Beholder and helped develop machine learning approaches to study plant genomesChris Reardon
Master of MAPS and machine learning for plant genomesAlexandra Pond
Evaluated the age and nature of the polyploidy in the ancestry of the Hawaiian Silversword AllianceAlex Trostle
Lab tech at Baylor UniversityAnshu Goyal
Graduate student at USCKyle Jenkins
Undergrad research student with David Enard
Visiting Scholars
Hanghui Kong
Rongpei Yu
Elton Assis