Studying diversification using genomic data.

The Smith lab is in the Biology Department at Mississippi State University.

Interested in joining? We are looking for graduate students to join the lab!

Our research focuses on developing methods for analyzing genomic data in an evolutionary context, and applies these methods to the study of terrestrial mollusks.

We evaluate existing methods and develop novel methods (including machine learning methods) for analyzing genomic data to answer questions about species diversification.

We combine field, lab, and computational work to study diversification in terrestrial snails and slugs.