Current members

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Victoria L. Sork

Principal investigator

Email: vlsork[at]ucla.edu

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Dr. Lily D. Peck

Postdoctoral scholar

Epigenetics of valley oak

Email: ldpeck[at]ucla.edu

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Dr. Ryan Buck

Postdoctoral scholar

Conservation genomics of oaks

Email: rcbuck[at]ucla.edu

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Dr. Alexander R. B. Goetz

Postdoctoral scholar

Demography of valley oak

Email: arbgoetz[at]ucla.edu

Marissa Ochoa





Marissa Ochoa

PhD candidate

Physiology and plasticity in California oaks

Email: mochoa23[at]ucla.edu

Berenice Badillo





Berenice Badillo

PhD candidate

Plasticity and adaptation in phenotypic variation

Email: bbadillo[at]ucla.edu

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Heidi Yang

PhD student

Genomic structural variation in valley oak

Email: hyangg[at]ucla.edu

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Diego Zapata

Masters student

Landscape genetics of California walnut

Email: djzapata[at]ucla.edu

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Jacqueline Holmes

PhD student

Landscape genomics of scrub oaks

Email: jacqholmes[at]ucla.edu

Former members

Sorel Fitz-Gibbon

Bioinformatician

Alayna Mead

Graduate student

Scott O’Donnell

Graduate student

Laurel Thomas

Undergraduate

Luke Browne

Postdoc

Paul Gugger

Postdoc

Rachel Meyer

Postdoc

Collaborators

Matteo Pellegrini

Department of Life Sciences, UCLA

Shawn Cokus

Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, UCLA

Steven Salzberg

John Hopkins University

Daniela Puiu

John Hopkins University

Aleksey Zimin

John Hopkins University