Brant C Faircloth

ORCID: 0000-0002-1943-0217

Summary

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University and Research Associate as the LSU Museum of Natural Sciences. Research interests include population and evolutionary genomics of non-model organisms; community genomics; genotype-phenotype interactions; (immuno-)genetic basis of mate choice; mating behavior; social behavior; and natural history.

Biodiversity Biogeography Bioinformatics Computational Biology Evolutionary Studies Genomics Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

Work details

Assistant Professor

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

August 2014

Department of Biological Sciences

My research group is interested in understanding the evolutionary history of communities, species, populations, and individuals; the effects of genetic diversity on community structure; and the effects of variable genotypes on phenotypes under strong selection. To address questions in each of these areas, we generally use non-model organisms because their biology offers elegant tests of the hypotheses in which we're interested. Because we often work with non-model species, we also develop and use genomic and computational tools to facilitate our work with these organisms, and much of our work is "integrative" or "cross-disciplinary" - we use theory and tools from the fields of evolutionary biology, computational biology, molecular biology, organismal biology, genetics (few genetic regions), and genomics (many/all genetic regions) to help us address our questions.

Websites

PeerJ Contributions

October 11, 2019

Adapterama III: Quadruple-indexed, double/triple-enzyme RADseq libraries (2RAD/3RAD)

4 citations

471 downloads

2,002 views

Natalia J. Bayona-Vásquez, Travis C. Glenn, Troy J. Kieran, Todd W. Pierson, Sandra L. Hoffberg, Peter A. Scott, Kerin E. Bentley, John W. Finger, Swarnali Louha, Nicholas Troendle, Pindaro Diaz-Jaimes, Rodney Mauricio, Brant C. Faircloth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7724 PubMed 31616583

October 11, 2019

Adapterama I: universal stubs and primers for 384 unique dual-indexed or 147,456 combinatorially-indexed Illumina libraries (iTru & iNext)

14 citations

527 downloads

2,337 views

Travis C. Glenn, Roger A. Nilsen, Troy J. Kieran, Jon G. Sanders, Natalia J. Bayona-Vásquez, John W. Finger, Todd W. Pierson, Kerin E. Bentley, Sandra L. Hoffberg, Swarnali Louha, Francisco J. Garcia-De Leon, Miguel Angel del Rio Portilla, Kurt D. Reed, Jennifer L. Anderson, Jennifer K. Meece, Samuel E. Aggrey, Romdhane Rekaya, Magdy Alabady, Myriam Belanger, Kevin Winker, Brant C. Faircloth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7755 PubMed 31616586

October 11, 2019

Adapterama II: universal amplicon sequencing on Illumina platforms (TaggiMatrix)

4 citations

403 downloads

1,651 views

Travis C. Glenn, Todd W. Pierson, Natalia J. Bayona-Vásquez, Troy J. Kieran, Sandra L. Hoffberg, Jesse C. Thomas IV, Daniel E. Lefever, John W. Finger, Bei Gao, Xiaoming Bian, Swarnali Louha, Ramya T. Kolli, Kerin E. Bentley, Julie Rushmore, Kelvin Wong, Timothy I. Shaw, Michael J. Rothrock Jr, Anna M. McKee, Tai L. Guo, Rodney Mauricio, Marirosa Molina, Brian S. Cummings, Lawrence H. Lash, Kun Lu, Gregory S. Gilbert, Stephen P. Hubbell, Brant C. Faircloth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7786 PubMed 31616589

October 5, 2018

Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) illuminate the population genomics of a recent, high-latitude avian speciation event

8 citations

391 downloads

1,784 views

Kevin Winker, Travis C. Glenn, Brant C. Faircloth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5735 PubMed 30310754

July 13, 2018 - Version: 1

Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) illuminate the population genomics of a recent, high-latitude avian speciation event

600 downloads

919 views