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New
Faculty: Kevin Omland
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As
a new Biological Sciences faculty member, Dr. Kevin Omland is
pleased with the strong match between his research interests
and the Department’s emphasis on molecular and cell biology.
“I use DNA sequencing techniques to study evolution,”
said Omland, who earned his Ph.D. at State University of New
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Omland came to UMBC in
October after completing two postdoctoral fellowships. While at
the University of Minnesota, he worked on the evolutionary family
tree of the Baltimore oriole and its relatives. “Most recently,
I had a Smithsonian Molecular Evolution Fellowship at the National
Zoo where I did a genetic survey of common ravens from throughout
the world,” Omland says.
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on the phylogenetics of ravens was highlighted in January 2001 in
The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun and ScienceNOW, the online
news service of Science magazine. He will continue his research on
ravens and orioles at UMBC and has funding from the National Science
Foundation for a study of the evolution of migration in orioles. |
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