CARSTENSLAB

biodiversity evolutionary biology

machine learning



FUNDING

Ongoing research in the Carstens lab is made possible by grants from the National Science Foundation.

We're affiliated with the NSF-funded Imageomics Institute devoted to the AI-assisted extraction of data from biological images.

OSC

Computational work in the Carstens lab is made possible by generous allocations from the Ohio Supercomputer Center.

Visit phylogatR to learn about one collaborative project with OSC.

ORCID

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Check out the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists to learn about a journal that we recently launched.



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RESEARCH IN THE CARSTENS LAB

Research in our lab seeks to understand how biological diversity is generated. We investigate empirical systems by identifying the limits of evolutionary lineages in order to evaluate the relative contributions of evolutionary processes and infer the ecological and environmental forces that have contributed to the formation of population genetic structure. Our goal is to generate realistic models of the historical demography in the focal species, and quantify the probability of these models given the genomic data that we collect. This evaluation provides a context for understanding how the evolutionary forces that act within or between populations (e.g., selection, drift, and gene flow) act to produce macro-evolutionary patterns.



WE ARE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGISTS.

We make inferences about the history of species and ecological communities using genetic, environmental and morphological data. We conduct investigations in a range of organisms: bats, carnivorous plants, frogs, insects, lizards, salamanders, shrews, slugs, snails, spiders, voles, and willows.

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