Liz Scordato, PI
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Liz is an evolutionary biologist interested in the causes of large-scale phenotypic and genomic variation, and the consequences of this variation for population divergence and speciation. She is particularly interested in how mate choice, migratory behavior, and anthropogenic landscape modification shape gene flow and reproductive isolation among populations. Liz received her B.Sc. from Duke University, where she did her Honors thesis on olfactory communication in ringtailed lemurs with Dr. Christine Drea. She did her Ph.D. in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago with Dr. Trevor Price, where she studied interactions between sexual selection and ecology during population divergence in greenish warblers. She then did a postdoc on speciation genomics in barn swallows in Dr. Rebecca Safran's lab in in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado. She joined the Biological Sciences faculty at Cal Poly Pomona in 2018. |
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Graduate students
Samantha SudokoSam is first-year Master's student at Cal Poly Pomona. Currently, she is studying population genetics of Oceanic swallows, with a focus on detecting evidence for recent selection and adaptation. Sam has a passion for fly fishing and being in the outdoors.
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Christian Cormier
Christian is a second-year Master's student at Cal Poly Pomona. He is studying the functional ecology of bird communities in different habitats of the Santa Clara River Valley in Ventura County.
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Alexis GarvinAlexis is first-year Master's student at Cal Poly Pomona. She is an outdoor enthusiast and loves to rock climb and trail run. Alexis is using joint species distribution modeling to study the impacts of human landscape modification on the assembly of aerial insectivore communities in Southeast Asia.
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Lab Alumni (gone but never forgotten!)
Brian Myers (Postdoc 2020-2023)- now an assistant professor at Eastern Oregon University
Betty Wong (BSc '22)- now a Master's student in Rachel Blakey's lab at CPP
Rachel Bockrath (MSc '23)- now a Ph.D. student at North Dakota State University
Brenda Ramirez (MSc '22)- now running the urban parrot project at Occidental College
Grant Broyles (MSc '22)- now an avian crew lead with the Western Sustainable Forestry Program
Noel Martinez (BSc '20)- now a PhD student at Lehigh University
Thilini Thakshila (BSc University of Colombo '20)- now a Masters student at the University of Lethbridge
Cathy Trejo (BSc '20)- now pursuing GIS training
Aurora Williamsen (BSc '20)- now doing environmental quality testing
Brian Myers (Postdoc 2020-2023)- now an assistant professor at Eastern Oregon University
Betty Wong (BSc '22)- now a Master's student in Rachel Blakey's lab at CPP
Rachel Bockrath (MSc '23)- now a Ph.D. student at North Dakota State University
Brenda Ramirez (MSc '22)- now running the urban parrot project at Occidental College
Grant Broyles (MSc '22)- now an avian crew lead with the Western Sustainable Forestry Program
Noel Martinez (BSc '20)- now a PhD student at Lehigh University
Thilini Thakshila (BSc University of Colombo '20)- now a Masters student at the University of Lethbridge
Cathy Trejo (BSc '20)- now pursuing GIS training
Aurora Williamsen (BSc '20)- now doing environmental quality testing
Are you interested in joining the lab? We're usually recruiting undergraduate and graduate students! Contact Liz at escordato[at]cpp[dot]edu