Nadia Singh

Nadia is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Biology at the University of Oregon. She was a graduate student in the Petrov Lab from 2001-2006. Nadia did her undergraduate work at the University of Chicago and Harvard. Prior to joining the lab, she was working as a research technician in the Program for Population Genetics at the Harvard School of Public Health. Nadia's research in the Petrov lab focused on molecular evolutionary genomics in Drosophila. In particular, Nadia investigated variation in single nucleotide substitutional patterns both within and between species, and the implications of this variation for genome evolution. After receiving her Ph.D. from Stanford, Nadia did a postdoc with Andy Clark and Chip Aquadro at Cornell University in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. Nadia joined the faculty of the Department of Genetics at North Carolina State University in 2010 as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences with tenure in 2016. She joined the faculty at the University of Oregon in 2017 as an Associate Professor. Her research continues to focus on the joint and individual roles of non-selective evolutionary forces to genome evolution in Drosophila, with a particular interest on recombination rate variation. You can learn more about Nadia's current research here.