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Erik B. Dopman

Dopman Lab
Tufts University
200 Boston Ave., Suite 4739
Medford, MA 02155

Office: 617-627-4890

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Graduate Student

I am broadly interested in the evolution and maintenance of natural diversity. Currently, I focus on seasonally adaptive traits, particularly those which help to determine the phenology of an organism. In highly seasonal environments selective pressures vary temporally, so many organisms rely on environmental cues to optimize their life history strategy. I am interested in the interaction between these cues (particularly those impacted by global climate change) and organismal phenology, population dynamics, and selection.

Graduate Student

Research interests forthcoming.

Graduate Student

My research focuses on the process of speciation, specifically the contribution of multiple barriers to gene exchange between hybridizing populations, as well as the effect of major changes in genomic architecture to speciation dynamics. My current project focuses on populations of European Corn Borer, Ostrinia nubilalis, a moth which communicates via two distinct pheromone channels in North America and Europe. My research utilizes next generation sequencing techniques to explore in detail genomic regions which contribute to reproductive isolation and aims to understand the underlying genes and selective histories.

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Graduate Student

I am interested in comparatively studying the genetic basis of parallel evolution, specifically in seasonal timing, in the European corn borer and its close relative, Asian corn borer. I would like to incorporate state-of-the-art molecular techniques such as next-generation sequencing and CRISPR/Cas9