Dr. Pamela Yeh

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Pamela Yeh is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Her research focuses on understanding how ecological evolutionary trajectories of populations are shaped by novel environments, particularly when faced with multiple disturbances or stressors. Yeh's work combines field studies, laboratory experiments, and theoretical models to investigate these dynamics. Her lab specifically studies microbial evolution, including how bacteria respond to various stressors such as antibiotic exposure, and avian urban ecology, examining how species like dark-eyed juncos and house sparrows adapt to urban landscapes and the unique stressors they encounter there. Yeh has published extensively on various topics, including the interactions between environmental stressors and their effects on population-level fitness, antibiotic resistance, and phenotypic plasticity in urban birds. Her scholarly contributions include key papers in prestigious journals such as Ecology Letters, Proceedings of the Royal Society, and Msystems. She is committed to advancing our understanding of evolutionary processes in the context of changing environments.

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