Current members
Victoria L. Sork
Principal investigator
Email: vlsork[at]ucla.edu
Dr. Ryan Buck
Postdoctoral scholar
Conservation genomics of oaks
Email: rcbuck[at]ucla.edu
Dr. Alexander R. B. Goetz
Postdoctoral scholar
Demography of valley oak
Email: arbgoetz[at]ucla.edu
Berenice Badillo
PhD candidate
Plasticity and adaptation in phenotypic variation
Email: bbadillo[at]ucla.edu
Heidi Yang
PhD student
Genomic structural variation in valley oak
Email: hyangg[at]ucla.edu
Jacqueline Holmes
PhD student
Landscape genomics of scrub oaks
Email: jacqholmes[at]ucla.edu
Projects and Current collaborators
Impact of evolutionary history on tree response to climate stress
Ryan Buck, Postdoc, UCLA
Frank Davis, UC Santa Barbara
Jessica W. Wright, US Forest Service
Lee Love-Anderegg, UC Santa Barbara
Common Garden Studies of Local Adaptation in Valley Oak
Alexander Goetz, Postdoc, UCLA
Jessica W. Wright, US Forest Service
Applied conservation genomics of California Oaks
Ryan Buck, Postdoc, UCLA
The Nature Conservancy
Elizabeth Hiroyasu
Jeannette K. Howard
John Knapp
Scott Butterfield
Zackary Principles
Molecular and Evolutionary Genomics
Lily Peck, Postdoc, UCLA
Bob Schmitz, University of Georgia
Kirk Lohmueller, UCLA
Recent members
Marissa Ochoa
PhD, 2024
Diego Zapata
Masters of Science, 2024
Scott O’Donnell
PhD, 2024
Alayna Mead
PhD, 2024
Luke Browne
Postdoc
Paul Gugger
Postdoc
Rachel Meyer
Postdoc
Former collaborators
Aleksey Zimin
John Hopkins University
Daniela Puiu
John Hopkins University
Matteo Pellegrini
Department of Life Sciences, UCLA
Shawn Cokus
Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, UCLA
Steven Salzberg
John Hopkins University
Sorel Fitz-Gibbon
Bioinformatician