Douglas L Crawford

The research in my laboratory investigates the functional importance of natural variation; specifically the variation in gene expression,the molecular mechanisms that affect the variation in expression and the physiological consequences of this variation.

My academic interests are to understand the basic properties of adaptation (e.g., the importance of standing genetic variation, are many of loci involved in adaptation, are there conserved pathways to resolve specific selective pressures, etc.).

My primary interest is investigating the evolution of biologically important phenotypic variation.