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

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

Yun Ding
Assistant Professor
221 Leidy Laboratory

Aman Husbands
Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Assistant Professor of Biology
Lynch 103B Laboratory

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

Michael Lampson
Professor of Biology
lampson@sas.upenn.edu215-746-3040
204I Lynch Laboratory

Mia Levine
Associate Professor of Biology Associate Chair of Biology
m.levine@sas.upenn.edu215-573-9709
204B Lynch Laboratory

Joshua B. Plotkin
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor of the Natural Sciences
219 Lynch Laboratory

David S. Roos
E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology
droos@sas.upenn.edu215-898-2118
304J Lynch Laboratory

Andrew Santiago-Frangos
M. Jane Williams and Valerie Vargo Presidential Assistant Professor of Biology Assistant Professor of Biology
305 Leidy Laboratory

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

Sarah Tishkoff
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor Departments of Genetics and Biology
tishkoff@pennmedicine.upenn.edu215-746-2670

Corlett Wood
Assistant Professor of Biology
Lynch 103D Laboratory