Career Center

The Briscoe, Emerson, Gaut, Kvon, Lee, Long, and Thornton labs at the University of California, Irvine are looking for prospective Ph.D. students to join us. Research in our labs probes the connection between variation in genes and genomes and how that affects organismal phenotypes. These labs specialize on topics in evolutionary genetics, including genome structural variation, evo-devo, epigenomics, genomics of domestication, transposable element evolution, experimental evolution, molecular evolution of the visual system, the genetics of complex traits, population and behavioral genetics. The common theme is that we combine evolutionary biology with genomics approaches (3rd-generation sequencing, transcriptomics, epigenomics, 3D genomics, genome editing etc) to understand the ev