Organic evolution is concerned with the processes that have given rise to the great diversity of life on earth. Evolutionary processes include both neutral processes - those that occur due to chance events - and selective processes - those that favor the survival and perpetuation of a specific genotype within a population over other variants.
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Erol Akçay
Associate Professor of Biology
236 Lynch Laboratory
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Dustin Brisson
Professor of Biology Director - Evolution and Ecology of Disease Systems Laboratory, Director - Biology Master's Program
dbrisson@sas.upenn.edu215-746-1731
209 Leidy Laboratory
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Yun Ding
Assistant Professor
221 Leidy Laboratory
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Aman Husbands
Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Assistant Professor of Biology
Lynch 103B Laboratory
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Junhyong Kim
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Biology Co-Director, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology, Secondary Professor, Computer and Information Science
junhyong@sas.upenn.edu215-746-5187
304G Lynch Laboratory
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Michael Lampson
Professor of Biology
lampson@sas.upenn.edu215-746-3040
204I Lynch Laboratory
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Mia Levine
Associate Professor of Biology Associate Chair of Biology
m.levine@sas.upenn.edu215-573-9709
204B Lynch Laboratory
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Joshua B. Plotkin
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor of the Natural Sciences (sabbatical leave Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
219 Lynch Laboratory
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David S. Roos
E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology
droos@sas.upenn.edu215-898-2118
304J Lynch Laboratory
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Andrew Santiago-Frangos
M. Jane Williams and Valerie Vargo Presidential Assistant Professor of Biology Assistant Professor of Biology
305 Leidy Laboratory
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Paul Schmidt
Patricia M. Williams Term Professor of Biology Undergraduate Chair (on sabbatical 2024-2025; please contact Scott Poethig)
schmidtp@sas.upenn.edu215-898-8289
225 Leidy Laboratory
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Paul Sniegowski
Professor of Biology Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
paulsnie@sas.upenn.edu215-573-4085
213 Leidy Laboratory
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Sarah Tishkoff
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor Departments of Genetics and Biology
tishkoff@pennmedicine.upenn.edu215-746-2670
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Corlett Wood
Assistant Professor of Biology
Lynch 103D Laboratory