W. Bryan Jennings

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Ph.D. Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior, University of Texas at Austin, 2002
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, 2002-04
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 2004-05
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 2005-06
Assistant Professor of Biology, Humboldt State University, 2006-10
Visiting Professor, National Museum of Brazil and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2010-18
Senior Research Associate, National Museum of Brazil and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2018-Present
Associate Professional Researcher and Principal Investigator, University of California at Riverside, 2020-Present

Biodiversity Biogeography Bioinformatics Conservation Biology Ecology Environmental Sciences Evolutionary Studies Genetics Genomics Population Biology Taxonomy Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

University of California, Riverside

Work details

Associate Professional Researcher and Principal Investigator

University of California, Riverside

February 2020

Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology

My research program covers two areas. First, my students and I use genomic data to conduct phylogeographic studies of vertebrate speciation and conservation genomics in the world's biodiversity hotspot regions. Recent and on-going research has focused on species complexes in California Redwood Forests and desert southwest, Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, and southwestern Australia. The second line of research in my lab concerns the development of bioinformatics tools to assist researchers with the acquisition and analysis of phylogenomics datasets. My lab has already produced the first automated software for exhaustively mining targeted loci (e.g., anonymous loci, UCEs, etc.) from full genome datasets and we are developing other genome-based software tools useful for phylogenomics researchers. I've also conducted research on the diversification of Australian lizards and birds. As a professor, I taught a variety of courses such as phylogeography, biogeography, bioinformatics, genetics laboratory, and introductory biology for non-majors. I’ve also mentored two Ph.D. students and three masters students, all of whom completed their programs of study. I am the author of the book "Phylogenomic Data Acquisition: Principles and Practice" published in 2016 by Taylor & Francis.

Identities

@wb_jennings

Websites

Researchgate

PeerJ Contributions

Articles 1

June 29, 2021

Evolutionary relationships among the snakelike pygopodid lizards: a review of phylogenetic studies of an enigmatic Australian adaptive radiation

W. Bryan Jennings

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11502 PubMed 34249485