Dr. Iris Segura García

Iris joined our lab in April 2020. As a postdoctoral fellow, she integrated traditional genetics (neutral markers, DNA barcoding, etc.), and novel genomic methods (next generation sequencing) to investigate population identity (genetic diversity and structure), population dynamics (recruitment and connectivity), and biodiversity of marine sponges. She finished her appointment in May 2022.
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Her research has been focused lately on economically important species, but she has research experience with a wide diversity of marine taxa ranging from mammals, large crustaceans (highly harvested omnivores), fishes and recently with sponges and stony-corals. She has conducted research in several geographic locations including the Mesoamerican Reef System, Florida Keys, Gulf of California, and Myanmar in Southeast Asia.
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