Biodiversity & Global Change Lab

Here at the Herp Biodiversity & Global Change Lab at the Illinois Natural History Survey we are interested in using approaches from population genomics, macroevolutionary biology and community ecology to understand species—and community—level resilience of reptiles and amphibians in our changing world. At the moment, we are exploring these topics using squamates and amphibians from Africa and adjacent islands and North America.

Creating and maintaining an inclusive lab environment is our highest priority. We believe that a collaborative and diverse community can best contribute to breaking down barriers while engaging in meaningful and rigorous science. As these efforts are ongoing, we are committed to reassessing this dialogue and the ways in which we integrate these aims into our work. Building capacity for STEM education with collections resources is as much a part of our journey as our investigations of evolutionary processes and species discovery.