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Kevin R. Thornton

Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
School of Biological Sciences

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2003, Genetics


B.S., University of Puget Sound, 1997, Biology

Phone: 824-0614
Email: krthornt@uci.edu

University of California, Irvine
407 Steinhaus Hall
Mail Code: 2525
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests 		Genome evolution, gene duplication, population genetics, adaptation
   
URL Research Page
   
Academic
Distinctions 		Sloan Postdoctoral Fellowship (Computational Molecular Biology)
   
Appointments Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University
   
Research
Abstract 		My lab studies the molecular basis of adaptation in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Currently, the main project in the lab is the study of "copy-number variation" in the genus Drosophila. We are currently using Illumina sequencing to sequence population samples of D. yakuba, D. simulans, and D. mauritiana to identify polymorphic gene duplications, large insertions and deletions, and transposable element insertions.
   
Publications For an up-to-date list of my publications from PubMed, please copy/pase the following link into your browser:
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My Google Scholar profile is available at http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xUvEtFMAAAAJ
   
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Last updated 04/17/2012