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Deren Eaton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His institutional affiliations include:
- Computing Systems for Data-Driven Science Center (Affiliated Member)
- Foundations of Data Science Center (Affiliated Member)
As an evolutionary biologist and botanist, Eaton's research spans plant biodiversity from global community assembly patterns to speciation and intraspecific genetic variation. His fieldwork focuses on the Tibetan plateau and Central/South American cloud forests, combining organismal biology with computational innovation. A core theme involves developing reproducible genomic analysis tools, including ipyrad for assembly, ipyrad-analysis toolkit for evolutionary studies, and toytree for phylogenetic visualization.
Deren leads the Eaton Lab (eaton-lab.org), which pioneers open-source software solutions for evolutionary genomics. The lab emphasizes methodological rigor and accessibility in handling comparative genomic datasets.
No scientific awards were specified in available materials. While advising activities in the Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology program are implied through his faculty role, specific student names and grant details were not provided in the source text.
