Erik Enbody

Erik D. Enbody is the Susan E. Lynch Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Biology. His research focuses on understanding the evolutionary processes that shape diversity in natural populations. Using birds and other wild populations, research in the Enbody Lab investigates the link between genotype and fitness, behavior and population-level process, and applications of genomic monitoring to contemporary issues in conservation and biodiversity science. 

He is currently working on projects investigating the genetic architecture of species success and species loss in the iconic adaptive radiation of Galápagos finches. Researchers in the Enbody Lab also work with collaborator’s worldwide to incorporate conservation indicators generated from population genomic data into conservation action. Much of this work involves leveraging large genomic datasets in non-model organisms. 

Research interests:

• Biodiversity Genomics
• Empirical Population Genomics
• Bioinformatics
• Evolutionary Biology
• Conservation Genomics
• Behavioral Ecology