Kelly R Zamudio

Kelly Zamudio is an evolutionary biologist who focuses on the microevolutionary processes leading to the origin and maintenance of diversification in vertebrates, especially New World reptiles and amphibians, as well as the role of disease in affecting survival at the population, species and clade level. Her work has been at the forefront of understanding how chytrid fungus has affected frog populations both now and in the past. In addition, her integrative studies of amphibian diversification, incorporating phylogeographic, genomic, bioinformatic, ecological and geological data, have become a model of how evolutionary diversification is studied on landscape scales. She integrates field research in population biology, demography, and landscape/habitat change with laboratory research on the genomic underpinnings of population diversification, speciation, and conservation genetics.