Ryan Baugh
Associate Editor

Ryan Baugh is a developmental geneticist who uses the roundworm C. elegans to study nutritional control of development and organismal physiology. He completed his PhD at Harvard University with Craig Hunter, where he did pioneering work in genomic analysis of embryogenesis. He completed a postdoc at California Institute of Technology with Paul Sternberg, where he began studying nutritional control of development using L1 arrest and recovery as a model. He is a professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University, and his lab uses primarily genetic and genomic approaches to study how developing worms adapt to starvation. His work has defined the critical role of insulin/IGF signaling in governing developmental arrest and starvation resistance and it has revealed long-term consequences of nutrient stress, including effects of early life starvation on adult phenotype, maternal effects, and transgenerational effects. His more recent work includes statistical genetics of starvation resistance in wild strains.

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