Emily Josephs
Associate Professor
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Josephs is an evolutionary geneticist and Associate Professor in the Plant Biology department at Michigan State University with 11 years of research and academic experience. She studies evolutionary genetics, bridging fieldwork and genomic analysis to address questions about plant evolution and adaptation, and leads the Josephs Lab (josephslab.github.io) where her group shares data and tools. Trained with a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Toronto and a BA in Human Biology from Brown, she progressed from postdoctoral work at UC Davis to a tenure-track faculty career at MSU. Known for combining rigorous evolutionary theory with modern genomic methods, she often translates complex population-genetic insights into accessible resources for the community.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Human Biology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Human Biology at Brown UniversityPhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Toronto
Github Skills (18)
nmf9
genetics9
population-genetics9
rstudio7
development-environment7
ide6
ecology4
statement4
computational-biology4
editor4
sbml3
commons3
biology3
evolutionary3
java3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
emjosephs/qpc-maize
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:66 commits, 26 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
josephslab/josephslab.github.io
Oct 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:19 PRs, 314 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
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