JOAQUIN NUNEZ, Sc.M.
Welcome to my personal website. I am a Ph.D. candidate, NSF-GRFP fellow, and IGERT Research Fellow at Brown University’s department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB).
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My research studies how evolution shapes functional genetic variation in natural populations living in highly variable marine environments. I work on various intertidal systems which are natural laboratories to study adaptation. I seek to build an integrative view of the role of selection in nature: from single mutations to complex phenotypes.
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My current work is directly supported by the following agencies:
SELECTED RESEARCH ARTICLES
Nunez JCB, Flight PA, Neil KB, Rong S, Eriksson LA, Ferranti DA, Rosenblad MA, Blomberg A, and Rand DM. (2020)
‘Footprints of natural selection at the mannose-6-phosphate isomerase locus in barnacles.’
Proceedings of the National Science Academy Feb;117(10).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918232117
Media Coverage:
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Brown University News: Barnacles offer genetic clues on how organisms adapt to changing environments (March 2020).
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Brown University Kudos: Sheltered in place (Feb 2020)
Nunez JCB, Biancani L, Flight PA, Rand DM, Crawford DL, and Oleksiak MF. (2018)
‘Stable genetic structure and connectivity in pollution-adapted and nearby pollution-sensitive populations of Fundulus heteroclitus.’
Royal Society Open Science(5): 171532.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESEARCH BOOKS
Nunez JCB, Elyanow RG, Ferranti DA, and Rand DM (2018)
‘Population Genomics and Biogeography of the Northern Acorn Barnacle (Semibalanus balanoides) using Pooled-Sequencing Approaches.’
In Population Genomics: Marine Organisms Series, edited by Marjorie Oleksiak and Om Rajora, Springer, Cham.