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Kelly R. Zamudio is a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin and holds the Doherty Regents Chair in Molecular Biology. She received her B.A. in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1996. Following her doctoral work, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Museum of Vertebrate Biology at UC Berkeley from 1997 to 1999. Zamudio worked at Cornell University from 1999 to 2021, where she received tenure and was recognized as a Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on the origin and maintenance of vertebrate biodiversity, especially among reptiles and amphibians. She integrates field research with population biology and demography, studying habitat change along with genomic underpinnings of population diversification, speciation, and conservation genetics.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology.
Cornell University •
Tenured faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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