Biology Department Faculty

Jeffrey DaCosta

Associate Professor of the Practice

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Jeffrey DaCosta

Ph.D.

Contact

Higgins Hall 568

Telephone: 617-552-8945

Email: jeffrey.dacosta@bc.edu

ORCID

Education

  • B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • M.S., University of Nevada Las Vegas
  • Ph.D., 艾可直播 University

Research Interests

Evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, phylogenetics, ornithology

Curriculum Vitae

Department

Biology

Teaching and Research

The field of evolutionary biology is in an exciting period of transformation, as cutting-edge laboratory protocols and analytical methods provide unprecedented power to study processes of evolution. My research uses these modern methods, and focuses on advancing our understanding of the generation and maintenance of biodiversity by using聽DNA sequence data to reconstruct the history of species and populations.聽This research has聽questions covering a wide range of topics (e.g., speciation, adaptation, biogeography,听comparative analyses) and time scales.

I teach the foundational course聽Ecology and Evolution,听Biostatistics, and upper-level organismal (e.g., Ornithology) and genomics (e.g., Research in Evolutionary Genomics) courses. Students that are enrolled in my advanced experience labs or mentored in undergraduate research projects gain hands-on research experience in these fields.

Selected Publications

  • 顿补颁辞蝉迟补听闯惭, Miller MJ, Mortensen JL, Reed JM, Curry RL, Sorenson MD. 2019.聽. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 136: 196-205.
  • Feng F鈥� (>100 authors)... DaCosta JM鈥� Zhang G. 2020. . Nature. 587: 252-257..
  • Peters JL, Lavretsky P,听顿补颁辞蝉迟补听闯惭, Bielefeld RR, Feddersen JC, Sorenson MD. 2016.聽. Biological Conservation. 203: 272-281.
  • 顿补颁辞蝉迟补听闯惭, Sorenson MD. 2016.聽. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94:122-135.
  • Lavretsky P,听顿补颁辞蝉迟补听闯惭, Hern谩ndez-Ba帽os B, Engilis A, Sorenson MD, Peters J. 2015.聽. Molecular Ecology. 24:5364鈥�5378.
  • 顿补颁辞蝉迟补听闯惭, Sorenson MD. 2014.聽. The Auk: Ornithological Advances. 131:549-558.
  • 顿补颁辞蝉迟补听闯惭, Sorenson MD. 2014.聽. PLoS聽ONE. 9:e106713.
  • 顿补颁辞蝉迟补听闯惭, Klicka J. 2008.聽. Molecular聽Ecology. 17:1328-1343.
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