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Lauren Frankel
Postdoctoral Scholar
Advisor:
laufran@uw.edu

I’m an evolutionary biologist studying the inference of hybridization in evolutionary histories. Particularly, I’m interested in illuminating assumptions of inference methods and their performances when broken, developing useful tools and documentation, and testing these in empirical systems. I have a particular fondness for Andean angiosperm radiations -- studying the evolution of their floral morphologies, pollination systems, and biogeography.

I received my Ph.D. in Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Dr. Cécile Ané's lab. There, I studied the accuracy of hybridization inference methods, and applied these to understand hybridization and trait evolution in the Neotropical bellflowers (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae). I was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Previously, I was a research technician at the University of Maryland, College Park with Dr. Anahí Espíndola. I completed my Bachelor of Arts in Biology with Honors at Grinnell College.

Summary tests of introgression are highly sensitive to rate variation across lineages, Frankel, Lauren E., and Ané Cécile , Systematic Biology, Volume 72, p.1357–1369, (2023)
Biogeography and ecological drivers of evolution in the Andes: resolving the phylogenetic backbone for Calceolaria (Calceolariaceae), Frankel, Lauren, Murúa Maureen, and Espíndola Anahí , Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 199, p.76–92, (2022)
Increased resolution in the face of conflict: phylogenomics of the Neotropical bellflowers (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae), a rapid plant radiation, Lagomarsino, Laura P., Frankel Lauren, Uribe-Convers Simon, Antonelli Alexandre, and Muchhala Nathan , Annals of Botany, Volume 129, p.723–736, (2022)