JOAQUIN NUNEZ, Sc.M, Evolutionary Biologist
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).
My research studies how evolution shapes functional genetic variation in natural populations living in highly variable environments. I seek to build an integrative view of the role of selection in nature from single mutations to complex phenotypes. My research is conducted in the laboratory of David M. Rand at Brown.
SELECTED RESEARCH ARTICLES
Footprints of natural selection at the mannose-6-phosphate isomerase locus in barnacles
Nunez JCB, Flight PA, Neil KB, Rong S, Eriksson LA, Ferranti DA, Rosenblad MA, Blomberg A, and Rand DM. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; 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)
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NSF Highlights (NSF Youtube channel)
Nunez JCB, Elyanow RG, Ferranti DA, and Rand DM (2018)
In Population Genomics: Marine Organisms Series, edited by Marjorie Oleksiak and Om Rajora, Springer, Cham.
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