
Department of Biology
N425 Life Science Laboratories
240 Thatcher Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9292
(413) 545-0975
caicedo@umass.edu
www.umass.edu/biology/about/directory/ana-l-caicedo
Caicedo Lab
Professor of Biology
Research areas include evolution, population genetics, genomics, and next-generation sequencing.
Current Research
Our research team is broadly interested in the genetic bases of adaptation and the population and genomic context in which adaptive evolution occurs. We focus much of our research on plant species evolving in agricultural environments and on their close relatives. These novel and highly modified environments have provided the setting for drastic evolutionary change in many plant groups.
We ask questions about the origins and evolution of agricultural weeds, the genetic processes underlying crop domestication, and the mechanisms of trait evolution in crop wild relatives. To address these topics, we use tools from the fields of comparative genomics, population genetics, evolutionary ecology, and molecular biology.
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Academic Background
- BS Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 1996
- PhD Washington University in St. Louis, 2003
- Postdoctoral Training North Carolina Sate University 2003-2006