Heath Blackmon - Associate Professor

Heath Blackmon

Associate Professor

College Station, Texas, United States

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Heath Blackmon is an Associate Professor and evolutionary biologist at Texas A&M with 12 years of research experience applying comparative and quantitative methods to genome evolution from nucleotides to chromosomes. A former coleopterist, he leverages the extraordinary diversity of beetles and large karyotype datasets—over 4,000 records collected during his PhD—to study sex chromosome dynamics, chromosome number evolution, and the consequences of polyploidy. His work blends field- and museum-derived cytogenetics with phylogenetic and Bayesian comparative approaches developed during postdoctoral and synthesis-center projects. Based in College Station, he brings rare expertise at the intersection of classical cytogenetics and modern genomics, translating deep taxon-specific knowledge into tools and insights that reveal broad patterns of genome change.

12 years of coding experience

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Quantitative Biology, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Quantitative Biology, 4.0 at The University of Texas at Arlington

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Environmental Science - Fish and Wildlife Management, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Environmental Science - Fish and Wildlife Management, Summa Cum Laude at Oregon State University

English

Github Skills (11)

evolutionary9

r-package9

biology8

knitr8

bioinformatics8

rmarkdown7

data-wrangling6

stable6

data-visualization4

data-visualisation4

Programming languages (2)

RTeX

Github contributions (5)

coleoguy/SAGA2

Nov 2016 - Jan 2023

Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch, 9 comments in 6 years 2 months

coleoguy/evobir

Oct 2013 - Jan 2023

Contributions:2 releases, 185 commits, 2 PRs in 9 years 4 months

r-packageevolutionary-biologybiologybioinformaticsevolutionary

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