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Deren Eaton is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. He is an evolutionary biologist and botanist with broad interests in plant biodiversity, community assembly, speciation, and genetic variation among species. His research is rooted in organismal biology and fieldwork, focusing on global patterns in biodiversity, including projects on the Tibetan plateau and cloud forests in Central South America. A common theme in his work is the development of new computational and statistical methods for analyzing comparative genomic data and promoting reproducible science. Deren has contributed to the development of software for genomic assembly (ipyrad), evolutionary analysis tools (the ipyrad-analysis toolkit), and tree visualization software (toytree), all designed to encourage reproducibility in evolutionary genomic analyses.
Department of Anthropology (GSAS)