American Shad Museomics

January 1, 2024 · 1 min read
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I am working with a variety of museums to leverage historical tissue samples of American shad to study the how standing variation and population bottlenecks may have affected the tempo and trajectory of evolutionary change in invasive lineages.

Azwad Iqbal
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Population Geneticist & Evolutionary Biologist
I am a PhD candidate at Cornell studying rapid evolution and the conservation of wild species. My research leverages cutting‑edge genomic techniques, bioinformatics, and fieldwork to understand the evolutionary consequences of anthropogenic change.