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Kelly Zamudio is the Doherty Chair in Molecular Biology in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas Austin. She was formerly the Goldwin Smith Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University and Curator of Herpetology at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates.

Education

Zamudio completed a B.A. in Biology at University of California Berkeley in 1991. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1996.

Research

The Zamudio lab, also known as KZ lab, supports research in the origin and maintenance of biodiversity in reptiles and amphibians. Zamudio, her students, and collaborators have been instrumental in understanding population decline faced by amphibians, with a particular focus on the roles played by disease resistance and the toll of human activity on the landscape. Zamudio's academic interests lie in the fields of population biology, population genetics, systematics, and the genetics of conservation, where she is particularly interested in the links between patterns of geographic genetic differentiation and attributes of the ecology and life history of organisms such as mating systems, dispersal, and demography. She was also an early adopter at Cornell in the Active Learning Initiative which improved student outcomes for members of underrepresented groups. As of April 2020, Zamudio has published over 150 papers which have together received over 9,000 citations.

Awards and honors

• 2019 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• 2018 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University.
• 2017 Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Cornell University.

References

1. "Cornell Museum of Vertebrates Homepage". Retrieved 2020-04-21.
2. ^ "Cornell Faculty Profile". Retrieved 2020-04-21.
3. "Study finds key to closing achievement gap in biology education". Cornell Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2019-10-06. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
4. "Google Scholar Page". Retrieved 2020-04-21.
5. "Ceci, Zamudio elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". Retrieved 2020-04-21.
6. "Eight faculty honored with Weiss teaching awards". Retrieved 2020-04-21.
7. "Zamudio to study effects of active learning as Menschel Teaching Fellow". Retrieved 2020-04-21.

External links

• Lab Website
• Kelly Zamudio publications indexed by Google Scholar

• 21st-century American biologists
• American women zoologists
• American women evolutionary biologists
• Living people
• American evolutionary biologists
• Cornell University faculty