Sonal Singhal

Sonal Singhal is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, affiliated with the College of Natural & Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Biology. She earned her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley, and completed postdoctoral work at Columbia University and the University of Michigan.

• Research Focus: Uncovering species evolution through genetics, studying lizards/snakes in Australia/Brazil, and desert flowers in Mexico using genomic tools and computational approaches.
• Key Research Areas: Population-level processes and biodiversity patterns, parthenogenesis in lizards, ecology/historical factors in plant hybridization.
• Teaching: General biology, evolution, bioinformatics, with emphasis on analyzing big datasets in courses like Bio 124, Bio 125, and Bio 340.
• Labs: Singhal Lab (focuses on computational genomics and evolutionary studies).