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Scott Rifkin received his PhD from Yale University and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and MIT. His laboratory studies how stochastic genetic and environmental variation, filtered through developmental physiology, produces phenotypic variation and how evolutionary forces shape this process. Research in his lab primarily focuses on gene expression at the level of individual transcripts, utilizing technologies that visualize gene expression dynamics at single-transcript resolution. Current projects include investigating the dynamics and robustness of genetic networks underlying sex determination and intestinal specification in nematodes, as well as examining how natural variation affects the dynamic properties of signaling and regulatory networks in yeasts. He joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the summer of 2009.
University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, CA
Scott Rifkin has been actively engaged in research and teaching at UCSD since joining the faculty, focusing on the intersection of genetics, development, and evolution.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).