Evolutionary biologist studying mammalian (and now fish!) speciation, hybridization, and adaptation 🐭🐹🐰🐟 | Postdoc in the Schumer lab at Stanford
Kelsie Hunnicutt
I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A
Thrilled that our new review article on animal hybridization is now up on EcoEvoRxiv! 🎉 Working on this review with @mollyschumer.bsky.social was a blast, and it was such a wonderful opportunity to catch up on all the amazing work in animal hybridization over the last few years!
Very proud to share this outstanding work by @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social - now out in Genetics!
Check out coverage of our work on the mechanisms of adaptation to high altitude. stories.du.edu/magazine/dep...
Alyssa Kaatmann will have a poster on developing cell lines and gene editing techniques in swordtails (111 at Poster Session 2)
With @hybridzones.bsky.social & @jenncoughlan.bsky.social, we have been working on an update to Daven Presgraves' influential 2010 review on hybrid incompatibilities (shorturl.at/cJndf). The preprint is available here (shorturl.at/DTC48) with an updated table of almost 100 incompatibilities!
I won't be at Evolution this year, but check out awesome talks & posters from four lab members:
Gabe Preising will present on the genetic basis of body size polymorphism in swordtails (6/21 at 4:30 PM in Sexual Selection III)
@victoriabgrant.bsky.social will present on her work on the genomics of black footed cats (6/22 at 9:30 in Molecular Ecology I)
@kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social will be talking about new work on recurrent evolution of hybrid melanoma (6/22 at 12 PM in Hybridization II )
Molly Schumer
Kelsie Hunnicutt
Erica Larson
Molly Schumer
For over a century, evolutionary biologists have been motivated to understand the mechanisms through which organisms adapt to their environments. Coloration and pigmentation are remarkably variable wi...
