Meet the team
The barn swallow project is based at the University of Colorado, but involves collaboration between scientists from all over the world. Here are some of the people working on data collection and analysis.
Dr. Rebecca Safran, Principal Investigator
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Dr. Elizabeth Scordato, Assistant Professor
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Dr. Nolan Kane, genomics collaborator
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Dr. Liu Yu, Collaborator
Beijing Normal University, China Liu Yu was a Ph.D. student at Queen Mary University, London and conducted his dissertation work on sexual selection in northern Chinese population of barn swallows. He accompanied Liz on the 2014 and 2015 field seasons in China, and also worked with Becca and Sheela in the field during the 2017 field season. Liu Yu is conducing population studies in his hometown of Shuangyashan to try and determine what traits are targets of female preferences in the H. r. gutturalis subspecies. |
Dr. Georgy Semenov, Postdoctoral Fellow
The University of Colorado Georgy is a Russian collaborator who worked on the trans-Siberian trip in 2013 and Mongolia in 2014. Georgy's own research is focused on causes and consequences of hybridization between members of the white wagtail subspecies complex, and he visited Colorado in the fall of 2014 to learn genomics analysis for his research on this system. He has recently joined our lab as a postdoc working on both wagtails and barn swallows! Read more about Georgy here. |
Dr. Matthew Wilkins, postdoctoral fellow
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