Stories by Catherine Wagner

Catherine (Katie) Wagner is an evolutionary biologist who studies processes contributing to the origins and maintenance of earth's biodiversity. Her research uses genomic data to unravel details of evolutionary history, and ecological data to link evolutionary history with species diversity and function. She holds a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University, a BA in biology-geology from Whitman College, and spent her postdoctoral years working at Switzerland's Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG). She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming. Follow her on Twitter @cewagnerlab.