The California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP) is a unique, critically important step forward in the use of comprehensive landscape genetic data to modernize natural resource management at a regional scale. This dedicated issue of...
The article authored by postdoc Zac MacDonald concludes that ecologically mediated selection is contributing to variation within forest tent caterpillars (M. disstria), and that divergent adaptation related to both environmental conditions and host association should...
Brad Shaffer has been chosen to join the External Expert Advisory Board (EEAB) of the Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) Project (https://biodiversitygenomics.eu). BGE is a multi-partner international project co-funded by the European Union, the UK...
A study by Robert Cooper and Brad Shaffer is featured in a News & Opinion piece in The Scientist describing how researchers scramble to adapt as bouts of severe heat and aridity increasingly become...
The California Conservation Genomics Project, led by UCLA La Kretz Center director Brad Shaffer, is highlighted as a unique, coordinated effort to help avert climate-related extinctions across the state. The article also discusses Shaffer’s...
We are rolling out (literally!) our new project led by postdoctoral researcher Robert Cooper to breed, raise and release genetically variable tiger salamanders to reverse inbreeding depression in the federally endangered Santa Barbara distinct...
Brad Shaffer, director of the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was interviewed for a recent article in the LA Times,...
Since taking a field herpetology course with Brad in 2016, Yara has continued to work on herps and she’s currently studying wood frog freeze tolerance and phylogeography for her PhD at Yale University in...
UCSC scholars join researchers statewide on a massive genomic study of California’s biodiversity The state-funded genomics project aims to be a lasting resource for shaping conservation policy “We are generating very high quality data...
By Stuart Wolpert Bradley Shaffer, professor of ecology and evolution and the director of the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, is an expert on evolutionary biology, ecology and the conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles....
