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Dr. Jae Young Choi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on evolutionary genomics, adaptive radiation, and telomere evolution, using plants as model systems. He integrates genomic technologies with field and lab phenotypic data to study evolutionary mechanisms driving biodiversity.
Education: B.S. in Cell and Systems Biology (University of Toronto, 2010), Ph.D. in Population Genetics (Cornell University, 2015).
Research interests include plant adaptation through genomic analysis, telomere biology, and domestication history. The lab develops tools like Topsicle for telomere length estimation using long-read sequencing.
Recent grants include an NIH R35 Award for telomere variation studies. Advising involves graduate students (e.g., Surbhi, Khan, Linh) and undergraduate researchers (Audrey). The lab actively participates in conferences like MWPG2024 and publishes in journals like PNAS, Plant Cell, and Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Labs/Teams: Choi Lab at KU, focusing on evolutionary genomics and computational tools development.
