Molly Schumer
Molly Schumer | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Reed College Princeton University |
Known for | Biological hybrids |
Awards | 2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator, Genetics Society of America 2018 Rising Star in Evolutionary Biology, Atwood Colloquium |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Ecology, Evolution |
Website | https://schumerlab.com/ |
Molly Schumer is an American scientist who studies evolution, hybridization, and population genetics. She is an assistant professor of biology at Stanford University.[1] She is a member of Stanford Bio-X and a Hannah H. Grey Fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[2][3]
Education
[edit]Schumer completed her Bachelor of Arts in 2009 at Reed College, earning Phi Beta Kappa.[4][5] She went on to pursue her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University (jointly supervised by Peter Andolfatto and Gil Rosenthal), finishing in February 2016.[6][7]
After her PhD, Schumer worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University with Molly Przeworski before joining the Harvard Society of Fellows in July 2016, where she worked in the lab of David Reich.[8][7] She became a Hanna H. Grey Fellow at HHMI in 2017, and was hired for her current assistant professorship at Stanford University in 2019.[3]
Research
[edit]Schumer's lab investigates biological hybrids and population genetics. Model organisms used in the lab are primarily fish and include the Gila topminnow, Xiphophorus (swordtail), and Julidochromis.[9]
Key Publications
[edit]Schumer has authored or co-authored multiple publications that have been cited 100 or more times.[10] As of January 2021, these include:
- "How common is homoploid hybrid speciation?" Evolution.[11]
- "Parallel molecular evolution in an herbivore community," Science.[12]
- "Phylogenomics reveals extensive reticulate evolution in Xiphophorus fishes," Evolution.[13]
- "Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes," Science.[14]
- "A serine cluster mediates BMAL1-dependent CLOCK phosphorylation and degradation," Cell Cycle.[15]
Awards, fellowships, and grants
[edit]Schumer won a 2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator award from the Genetics Society of America and was named the 2018 Rising Star in Evolutionary Biology by the Atwood colloquium.[16][17] She has received many other awards and honors, including:
- Milton Fund Awardee, Harvard University[18]
- Women in Science Fellow, L'Oréal USA (2017)[19][20]
- Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize, Society for the Study of Evolution (2017)[8]
- Walbridge Award, Princeton Environmental Institute (2013)[21]
- Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP), National Science Foundation (2011-2014)
- Goldwater Scholarship (2007)[22]
References
[edit]- ^ "Molly Schumer's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305 (2019-09-10). "Molly Schumer - Assistant Professor of Biology". Welcome to Bio-X. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "HHMI Selects 15 Hanna Gray Fellows to Support Diversity in Science". HHMI.org. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ "REED COLLEGE Renn lab members". www.reed.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ alan. "Alumni News from Reed Magazine, June '11 | Chemistry News". Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ ORCID. "Molly Schumer (0000-0002-2075-5668)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ a b "Hybrids, Hybrids Everywhere". hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ a b "Dobzhansky Prize". www.evolutionsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ "Publications". Schumer lab. 2018-01-12. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "Molly Schumer". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ Schumer, Molly; Rosenthal, Gil G.; Andolfatto, Peter (2014-04-13). "How Common is Homoploid Hybrid Speciation?". Evolution. 68 (6): 1553–1560. doi:10.1111/evo.12399. ISSN 0014-3820. PMID 24620775.
- ^ Zhen, Y.; Aardema, M. L.; Medina, E. M.; Schumer, M.; Andolfatto, P. (2012-09-28). "Parallel Molecular Evolution in an Herbivore Community". Science. 337 (6102): 1634–1637. doi:10.1126/science.1226630. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 3770729. PMID 23019645.
- ^ Cui, Rongfeng; Schumer, Molly; Kruesi, Karla; Walter, Ronald; Andolfatto, Peter; Rosenthal, Gil G. (2013-04-04). "Phylogenomics Reveals Extensive Reticulate Evolution Inxiphophorusfishes". Evolution. 67 (8): 2166–2179. doi:10.1111/evo.12099. ISSN 0014-3820. PMID 23888843.
- ^ Schumer, Molly; Xu, Chenling; Powell, Daniel L.; Durvasula, Arun; Skov, Laurits; Holland, Chris; Sankararaman, Sriram; Andolfatto, Peter; Rosenthal, Gil G. (2017-11-01). "Natural selection interacts with the local recombination rate to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes". doi:10.1101/212407. S2CID 89742595. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
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(help) - ^ Spengler, Mary L.; Kuropatwinski, Karen K.; Schumer, Molly; Antoch, Marina (2009-12-15). "A serine cluster mediates BMAL1-dependent CLOCK phosphorylation and degradation". Cell Cycle. 8 (24): 4138–4146. doi:10.4161/cc.8.24.10273. ISSN 1538-4101. PMC 4073639. PMID 19946213.
- ^ "2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award Winners Announced". Genes to Genomes. 2019-10-10. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ "EEB Annual Atwood Colloquium". Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ Schumer, Molly; Rosenthal, Gil G.; Andolfatto, Peter (April 2018). "What do we mean when we talk about hybrid speciation?". Heredity. 120 (4): 379–382. doi:10.1038/s41437-017-0036-z. ISSN 0018-067X. PMC 5842215. PMID 29302049.
- ^ "Awards & Recognition: November 2017". hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ "Five Female Biologists, Engineers and Physicists Receive L'Oréal Fellowships | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ "Four Graduate Students Receive PEI Walbridge Fund Awards". High Meadows Environmental Institute. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ "2007 Scholars List | Barry Goldwater". goldwater.scholarsapply.org. Retrieved 2021-01-11.