Molly Schumer

Molly Schumer
EducationReed College
Princeton University
Known forBiological hybrids
Awards2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator, Genetics Society of America

2018 Rising Star in Evolutionary Biology, Atwood Colloquium

2017 Women in Science Fellow, L'Oréal USA
Scientific career
FieldsEcology, Evolution
Websitehttps://schumerlab.com/

Molly Schumer is an American scientist who studies evolution, hybridization, and population genetics. She is an assistant professor of biology at Stanford University. She is a member of Stanford Bio-X and a Hannah H. Grey Fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Education

Schumer completed her Bachelor of Arts in 2009 at Reed College, earning Phi Beta Kappa. She went on to pursue her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University (jointly supervised by Peter Andolfatto and Gil Rosenthal), finishing in February 2016.

After her PhD, Schumer worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University with Molly Przeworski before joining the Harvard Society of Fellows in July 2016, where she worked in the lab of David Reich. She became a Hanna H. Grey Fellow at HHMI in 2017, and was hired for her current assistant professorship at Stanford University in 2019.

Research

Schumer's lab investigates biological hybrids and population genetics. Model organisms used in the lab are primarily fish and include the Gila topminnow, Xiphophorus (swordtail), and Julidochromis.

Key Publications

Schumer has authored or co-authored multiple publications that have been cited 100 or more times. As of January 2021, these include:

Awards, fellowships, and grants

Schumer won a 2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator award from the Genetics Society of America and was named the 2018 Rising Star in Evolutionary Biology by the Atwood colloquium. She has received many other awards and honors, including:

References

  1. ↑ "Molly Schumer's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  2. ↑ University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305 (2019-09-10). "Molly Schumer - Assistant Professor of Biology". Welcome to Bio-X. Retrieved 2021-01-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. 1 2 "HHMI Selects 15 Hanna Gray Fellows to Support Diversity in Science". HHMI.org. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  4. ↑ "REED COLLEGE Renn lab members". www.reed.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  5. ↑ alan. "Alumni News from Reed Magazine, June '11 | Chemistry News". Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  6. ↑ ORCID. "Molly Schumer (0000-0002-2075-5668)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  7. 1 2 "Hybrids, Hybrids Everywhere". hms.harvard.edu. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  8. 1 2 "Dobzhansky Prize". www.evolutionsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  9. ↑ "Publications". Schumer lab. 2018-01-12. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
  10. ↑ "Molly Schumer". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
  11. ↑ Schumer, Molly; Rosenthal, Gil G.; Andolfatto, Peter (2014-04-13). "How Common is Homoploid Hybrid Speciation?". Evolution. 68 (6): 1553–1560. Bibcode:2014Evolu..68.1553S. doi:10.1111/evo.12399. ISSN 0014-3820. PMID 24620775.
  12. ↑ Zhen, Y.; Aardema, M. L.; Medina, E. M.; Schumer, M.; Andolfatto, P. (2012-09-28). "Parallel Molecular Evolution in an Herbivore Community". Science. 337 (6102): 1634–1637. Bibcode:2012Sci...337.1634Z. doi:10.1126/science.1226630. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 3770729. PMID 23019645.
  13. ↑ Cui, Rongfeng; Schumer, Molly; Kruesi, Karla; Walter, Ronald; Andolfatto, Peter; Rosenthal, Gil G. (2013-04-04). "Phylogenomics Reveals Extensive Reticulate Evolution Inxiphophorusfishes". Evolution. 67 (8): 2166–2179. Bibcode:2013Evolu..67.2166C. doi:10.1111/evo.12099. ISSN 0014-3820. PMID 23888843.
  14. ↑ Schumer, Molly; Xu, Chenling; Powell, Daniel L.; Durvasula, Arun; Skov, Laurits; Holland, Chris; Sankararaman, Sriram; Andolfatto, Peter; Rosenthal, Gil G. (2018). "Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes". Science. 360 (6389): 656–660. Bibcode:2018Sci...360..656S. bioRxiv 10.1101/212407. doi:10.1126/science.aar3684. PMC 6069607. PMID 29674434.
  15. ↑ Spengler, Mary L.; Kuropatwinski, Karen K.; Schumer, Molly; Antoch, Marina (2009-12-15). "A serine cluster mediates BMAL1-dependent CLOCK phosphorylation and degradation". Cell Cycle. 8 (24): 4138–4146. doi:10.4161/cc.8.24.10273. ISSN 1538-4101. PMC 4073639. PMID 19946213.
  16. ↑ "2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award Winners Announced". Genes to Genomes. 2019-10-10. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  17. ↑ "EEB Annual Atwood Colloquium". Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  18. ↑ Schumer, Molly; Rosenthal, Gil G.; Andolfatto, Peter (April 2018). "What do we mean when we talk about hybrid speciation?". Heredity. 120 (4): 379–382. Bibcode:2018Hered.120..379S. doi:10.1038/s41437-017-0036-z. ISSN 0018-067X. PMC 5842215. PMID 29302049.
  19. ↑ "Awards & Recognition: November 2017". hms.harvard.edu. 22 November 2017. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  20. ↑ "Five Female Biologists, Engineers and Physicists Receive L'Oréal Fellowships | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  21. ↑ "Four Graduate Students Receive PEI Walbridge Fund Awards". High Meadows Environmental Institute. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  22. ↑ "2007 Scholars List | Barry Goldwater". goldwater.scholarsapply.org. Retrieved 2021-01-11.