Ellie Armstrong

Ellie is a postdoctoral fellow with the Washington Research Foundation at Washington State University and the University of California, Santa Cruz with Joanna Kelley. As a PhD student in the Petrov and Hadly Labs (2016-2021), Ellie worked on population and comparative genomics of large carnivores, including lions, tigers, and African wild dogs. She built the first de novo genome assemblies for many of these species and examined the population structure and demographics of captive and wild lions and tigers. Previously, Ellie worked on Drosophila and spiders endemic to the Hawaiian Islands with Don Price at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Ellie completed her undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley where she worked with Rosemary Gillespie on Hawaiian crab spiders and their kin.