Christopher J. Fiscus, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California, Irvine

About me

I am an evolutionary geneticist and postdoctoral researcher in the Gaut lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Irvine.

My research interests include plant genome evolution, the genetic basis of complex traits, and comparative genomics. My current projects are focused on studying the evolution of grape crop wild relatives.

I did my PhD in the Koenig lab in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at UC Riverside.

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Interests

Evolutionary genomics
Population genetics
Bioinformatics

Education

PhD in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics, 2022
University of California, Riverside
BSc in Biotechnology, 2015
University of California, Davis

Publications

Fiscus CJ, Herniter IA, Tchamba M, Paliwal R, Muñoz-Amatriaín M, Roberts PA, Abberton M, Alaba O, Close TJ, Oyatomi O, Koenig D (2024). The pattern of genetic variability in a core collection of 2,021 cowpea accessions. G3.

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Landis JB, Guercio AM, Brown KE, Fiscus CJ, Morrell PL, Koenig D (2023). Natural selection drives emergent genetic homogeneity in a century-scale experiment with barley. bioRxiv.

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Martinez SE, Conn CE, Guercio AM, Sepulveda C, Fiscus CJ, Koenig D, Shabek N, Nelson DC (2022). A KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE2 paralog in lettuce mediates highly sensitive germination responses to karrikinolide. Plant Physiol.

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