Lisa Kent
CONTACT
INFORMATION.
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Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
333 Biosciences West
1041 E. Lowell
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: (520) 626-4747
FAX: (520) 621-9190
E-mail: likent@email.arizona.edu
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
I am generally interested in understanding the processes that produce DNA sequence differences within and between species. The historical data available for domesticated species provides a great deal more information than is available for wild species on demographic history and selection pressures. For this reason I plan to focus my research on understanding the basis for genetic changes observed in domesticates in order to gain insight into the evolution of wild species.
Kent, L. M. and Moran, N. A. 2006. Heat shock gene expression in symbionts of heat-tolerant and heat-intolerant aphid species. Genomics of Closely Related Organisms, University of Arizona (poster presentation)
NSF IGERT Genomics two-year fellowship, University of Arizona, 2005
Citation for outstanding performance in Biological Sciences, University of California at Davis, 2005
B.A.S., 2005, Biological Sciences and Philosophy, University of California at Davis