Scott V. EdwardsPh.D. 1992 UC BerkeleyDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, MCZ Labs Room 306 email: sedwards(at)fas.harvard.edu |
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Scott's interest in ornithology and natural history began as a
child growing up in Riverdale, Bronx, NYC, where he undertook his first
job in environmental science working for an environmental institute called
Wave Hill. He received
his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1986. As an undergraduate, Scott
took a year off from his studies to learn what it is biologists do - he
spent 6 months volunteering at the Smithsonian's National
Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, then gained his first
field experience assisting with research on the natural history and conservation
of native birds in Hawaii and northern California. He returned to Harvard
to finish his degree, and enrolled in the PhD program in the (then) Zoology
Department (now Integrative
Biology) the University of California, Berkeley. During his first
year as a graduate student, he spent 10 months in New Guinea and Australia
first volunteering in research on ecology of birds-of-paradise and later
striking off on his own to embark on what would become his dissertation
project, a study combining of the genetics and population structure of
a group of cooperatively breeding songbirds called babblers (Pomatostomus)
found throughout Australia and New Guinea. He received his PhD in 1992.
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Examples of Recent Publications:Bonneaud, C., Burnside, J., and S. V. Edwards. 2008. High-speed developments in avian genomics. Bioscience. 58: 587-595. Liu, L., D. K. Pearl, R. T. Brumfield, S. V. Edwards. 2008. Estimating species trees using multiple-allele DNA sequence data. Evolution. 62: 2080-2091. Janes, D. E., T. Ezaz, J. A. M. Graves and S. V. Edwards. 2009. Recombination and nucleotide diversity in the pseudoautosomal region of minimally differentiated sex chromosomes in the Emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae. 100: 125-136; doi:10.1093/jhered/esn065 Thomson, R. C., A. M. Shedlock, S. V. Edwards, and H. B. Shaffer. 2008. Developing markers for multilocus phylogenetics in non-model organisms: a test case with turtles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 514–525 Lee, J. Y. and S. V. Edwards. 2008. Divergence across the Carpentarian barrier: Statistical phylogeography of the Red-backed Fairy Wren (Malurus melanocephalus) Evolution 62: 3117-3134. Alcaide, M., S. V. Edwards, J. J. Negro, D. Serrano, and J. L. Tella. 2008. Extensive polymorphism and geographical variation at a positively selected MHC class II B gene of the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni). Molecular Ecology 17: 2652-2665. Edwards, S. V. 2009. Is a new and general theory of molecular systematics emerging? Evolution 63: 1-19. Brito, P. and Edwards, S. V. 2009. Multilocus phylogeography and phylogenetics using sequence-based markers. Genetica 135:439–455. List of earlier publications
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