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Erika R. Moore-Pollard, PhD
(she/her)
I am currently working on a collaborative NSF-funded project that integrates comparative genomic and transcriptomic approaches with evolutionary and functional analyses to decipher the molecular basis of the sunflower inflorescence across Asterales, Dipsacales, and Apiales.
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Additionally, I study a group in the sunflower family, Packera, that is complicated by polyploidy, hybridization, and introgression, allowing me to ask questions related to biological processes and phylogeny construction.
I am also involved in the conservation genetics of the endangered sunflower species, Helianthus verticillatus, phylogenomics and systematics of North American Astereae, developing methods to generate long-read, target-enrichment sequencing data from Oxford Nanopore technologies (MinION), plus much more!
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More information on the larger projects can be found in my Research tab!
Postdoctoral Researcher in Mandel Lab
University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA
phylogenomics • systematics • genomics • biogeography • plant genetics • climate change • evolution • bioinformatics • character trait evolution • polyploidy • conservation genetics • herbaria
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Contact Me
University of Memphis
3700 Walker Ave., Memphis, TN 38152
Ellington Hall, Room 331
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E-mail: moore[dot]erika[dot]r[at]gmail[dot]com