Sam Yeaman
Associate Editor in the Theoretical Population and Evolutionary Genetics section

Sam Yeaman is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary studying the evolutionary genetics of adaptation. His work explores how the assumptions we make about genetics affect the predictions we make about evolution and uses genomic data to test these predictions. He is particularly interested in how constraints that arise from the mapping of genotype to phenotype to fitness affect the process of adaptation and resulting patterns of genetic diversity. His empirical work focuses on comparative studies of genomic signatures of adaptation to environment across multiple plant species, using observations of repeated patterns to learn about these constraints. His lab also explores fine-scale patterns of local adaptation and introgression in the white/Engelmann spruce hybrid zone in the Rocky mountains. He did his Bachelor of Science at Trent University and his PhD at the University of British Columbia.

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