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The Begun Lab and Friends!
David Begun
Principal Investigator
My research interests focus primarily on population genetics and molecular evolution. I am interested in Drosophila evolutionary genetics and investigating genetic variation within and between closely related species of fruit flies. In addition, I am able to study the mechanism of evolution and research the kinds of insights that have resulted from the application of mathematical models to evolution.
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Perot Saelao
Junior Specialist
Greetings! I am the Begun lab tech and I currently enjoy the opportunity of helping Dr. Begun manage the lab's daily businesses, while at the same time conducting some of Dr. Begun's current research. I enjoy a broad range of interests regarding evolutionary genetics, and currently I am studying the genetics of adaptation along latitudinal clines. I have yet to decide on a specific field of interest and I am hoping that my time here in the Begun lab will help me narrow on one. On a more personal level I enjoy frolicking in the beautiful Davis scenery, falling off my road bike, playing sports I am good at (attempting to play sports I am bad at), and nerding out on computers. When I am not failing at research or bashing my head against the PCR machine, you can find me in the fly room where I can be seen arguing with the undergrads about why my movie tastes are better than theirs (I mean come on was Avatar really that good?).
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Alaric Smith
Genetics Doctoral Student
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Alisa Sedghifar
Population Biology Doctoral Student
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Gavin Rice
Genetics Doctoral Student (Kopp Lab)
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Grace Lee
Population Biology Doctoral Student (Langley Lab)
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Undergraduate Researchers and Assistants
Thanh Nguyen
Brooke Bivens
Casey Whipple
Puneet Kamal
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Lab Alumni!
Corbin Jones(Post-Doc), Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Todd Schlenke(Graduate Student), Assitant Professor at Emory University.
Andy Kern (Graduate Student), Assitant Professor at Dartmouth.
Brad Wagstaff (Graduate Student).
Mara Lawniczak (Graduate Student).
Alisha Holloway (Post Doc).
Tom Turner(Graduate Student), Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara.
Mia Levine(Graduate Student), Post Doc at the Malik Lab
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