Christopher J. Fiscus, PhD

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

(2024). The pattern of genetic variability in a core collection of 2,021 cowpea accessions. G3.

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(2023). Natural selection drives emergent genetic homogeneity in a century-scale experiment with barley. bioRxiv.

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(2022). A KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE2 paralog in lettuce mediates highly sensitive germination responses to karrikinolide. Plant Physiol.

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