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Charles Feigin

Postdoctoral Fellow in Genomics and Evolution, The University of Melbourne

Postdoctoral Fellow in Genomics and Evolution, The University of Melbourne My research seeks to understand how biodiversity arises through evolutionary modification of animal development. I use diverse experimental approaches ranging from computational genomics to molecular biology and morphometrics. I primarily work with non-traditional model species and have a special emphasis on marsupials. My recent projects focus on the evolutionary origins of mammalian skin and skeletal adaptations and the use of genomics in conservation. I have a BSc from the University of Connecticut, where I majored in Molecular in Cell Biology and minored in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. I completed my PhD in BioSciences at the University of Melbourne in 2018, focusing on comparative genomics. I then worked for ~5 years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and NIH NRSA Fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, where I studied developmental gene regulatory networks underlying adaptive traits. I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow and Genomics Pod Leader in the evolution and conservation focused TIGRR lab at UniMelb.