Dr. Genevieve Kozak

Assistant Professor of Biology

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Education

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010

BS, Cornell University, 2004

Biography

Genevieve (Genny) Kozak received her BS from Cornell University and her
PhD from the University of Wisconsin. She was postdoc at  Tufts University and University of Illinois before she started her lab at UMass-Dartmouth. Her research on speciation integrates behavior, evolution, and genomic studies. She is an Associate Editor at Evolutionary Ecology.

Teaching

Fall 2020: Conservation Genetics

The goal of this course is to learn the concepts of population genetics and how to apply these principles to issues in conservation. By the end of this course students will
•    be able to understand what contributes to natural variation in populations
•    be able to analyze and interpret population genetic data
•    be able to understand contributing factors to extinction and conservation
•    be able to evaluate the ways in which genetic information can be employed to conserve threatened species

Textbook: Conservation and the Genetics of Populations by Allendorf et al. (2012)

Spring 2019-20: Biostatistics
Jupyter Notebooks I developed for learning R basic statistics are available in github: https://github.com/gmkozak

Fall 2018-19: Introduction to Biology Laboratory