Research Associate, Moore Lab of Zoology and Genomics Center
Whitney uses genomics and museum specimens to study evolutionary and adaptive processes in birds. Her research includes color and visual system evolution, phylogenetics, and conservation genomics. She is currently a NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County where she is using museum specimens to understand how birds have responded to climate change in the past to better conserve them in the future. From 2012-2019 she was the head of the Moore Lab DNA program, and she remains affiliated with lab research projects during her postdoc fellowship at NHMLAC.
Education: B.S. Occidental College; PhD UCLA
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