Emily Kopania - Evolutionary Genomics

I will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Florida State University in Fall 2026! Please email me if you are interested in joining the lab.

I am an evolutionary biologist seeking to understand how selective pressures interact with developmental and functional constraints. I primarily do this by studying two different biological systems: (1) The evolution of the vertebrate retina and (2) The evolution of reproduction in rodents. My work integrates cutting-edge genomics and transcriptomics techniques with phylogenetic comparative approaches to understand molecular and trait evolution. See my Research page to find out more, and check out my publications here.

I am currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Nathan Clark's lab at the University of Pittsburgh. I did my Ph.D. with Jeff Good at the University of Montana and worked in Matt Dean's lab at the University of Southern California as an undergraduate and master's student.

You can email me here. I am also on GitHub and Google Scholar.