Dr. Suzanne Edmands

Biography

Suzanne Edmands is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California. She earned her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in March 1994 and a B.A. in Biology from Carleton College, Minnesota in June 1987. Edmands's research focuses on conservation, population evolutionary genetics, and includes the use of fieldwork and molecular genetic analyses. Her laboratory studies the copepod Tigriopus californicus to understand the genetic basis of fundamental biological processes such as reproductive isolation and environmental stress tolerance. Edmands also investigates the temporal and spatial genetic variation of organisms of concern for conservation management, particularly focusing on the genetics and evolution of the island fox. She has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Oregon and at Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1994 to 1998, and she has been a part of USC since 2005. Her scholarship includes numerous journal articles addressing genetic recovery in wildlife populations, the effects of mitochondrial function on fertility, and biodiversity in ecological contexts.

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