Postdoctoral Fellow

Melissa Gray Department of Genetics Advisor: Bret Payseur Email: mgray3@wisc.edu Phone: (608) 262-6856

Research Interests

I will be investigating house mice on Gough Island to help understand the genetic basis of rapid evolution on islands. The house mouse has colonized islands around the world and features all the genetic tools of a model organism. My research aims to develop computational methods for reconstructing the demographic history of island populations, and will implement approximate Bayesian approaches to estimate demographic parameters associated with island coloniztion from multi-locus polymorphism datasets. I will survey patterns of polymorphism at 100 rapidly mutating loci in Gough Island mice to estimate their evolutionary history. I will develop a demographic modeling approach that can be applied to other island colonization events across a diversity of species as an appropriate null model.

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