Michael Nachman
September 2023-present
I am a Professor of Integrative Biology and Director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. I am delighted to be spending the 2023-2024 academic year on sabbatical in the group of Josefa Gonzalez at IBE. My lab studies population, evolutionary, and ecological genetics and genomics. Most work is on mammals with particular emphasis on house mice.
I am broadly interested in the genetic basis of evolutionary change, including the genetics of adaptation and the genetic basis of speciation. For example, I am interested in uncovering signatures of selection in patterns of DNA sequence variation across the genome and in linking specific genetic changes to specific adaptive phenotypes.
My research utilizes a wide range of methods and approaches including field studies, genetic crosses in the laboratory, tools of molecular biology, genomics, and bioinformatics analyses of large datasets.