Lab overview: Researchers in my lab are engaged in a wide variety of projects that implement molecular genetic techniques in the study of ecological and evolutionary questions in marine environments. My research program is presently organized around several themes, including dispersal and connectivity in marine environments, the evolution of marine biodiversity, and marine conservation. A key aspect of our lab is scientific capacity building in the Coral Triangle, particular Indonesia. Visit the Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center to learn more about these efforts

Paul Barber
Associate Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
paulbarber@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-5349
Fax: 310-206-3987

Mailing Address:
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
621 Charles E. Young Dr. South
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Latests Lab News...

April 2012. Allison Fritts-Penniman and Abril Iñiguez receive Lemelson Grant to conduct field studies in Indonesia.

April 2012. Sara Simmonds gets grant from American Society of Concologists for field research in Hawaii.

April 2012. Sara Simmonds and Allison Fritts-Penniman receive Sigma Xi grants to study ecological speciation in marine environments.

April 2012. Samantha Cheng and Hayley Nuetzel receive grants from The Explorers Club to conduct field research in Indonesia in summer 2012.

April 2012. Diversity Project 2010 alum Kadeem Gilbert gets accepted to Ph.D. program at Harvard University in Organismal and Evolutionary Biology. 2009 Diversity Project alumn, Sonia Ibarra, gets accepted to Ph.D. program at University of Alaska and is awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

April 2012. Sara Simmonds passes her Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Exam.

March 2012. Rita Rachmawati passes her Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Exam. Selamat Ibu Rita!

March 2012. Rita Rachmawati receives scholarship from the Women Divers Hall of Fame.

March 2012. Diversity Project alum Jeremy Rude receives a fellowship to conduct his master's thesis research in Indonesia.

February 2012. Danielle De Macedo (Texas A&M), Leina'ala Hall (U. Hawaii, Hilo), Chloe Henderson (Brown), and Akela Kuwahara (Humoldt State) are selected for The Diversity Project, 2012.

February 2012. Elizabeth Jones begins a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.

January 2012. Elizabeth Jones finishes her Ph.D. thesis at Boston University.

January 2012. Rita Rachmawati is awarded the Women's Diver Hall of Fame Scholarship. Congratulations Rita.

September 2011.Lab Alumnus, Craig Starger, starts a AAAS Science Policy Fellowship with USAID in Washington D.C.

August 2011.Allen Rodrigo, David Swofford, and Peter Unmack from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center teach a Phylogenetic Analysis course at the IBRC.

July 2011.Smithsonian scientists Chris Meyer, Nancy Knowlton, and Allen Collins lead a Marine Biodiversity Inventories course at the IBRC.

June 2011. The Diversity Project begins another summer at the Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center. Diversity Project Alumni, Robert Lasley, FINALLY joins the lab in Indonesia. Selamat Datang semuanya di Bali!

April 2011. Current students Samantha Cheng and Abril Iñiguez as well as Diversity Project Alumni Jeremy Rude and Krystle Chavarria receive the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!

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