Meet the SCORE team!
Patrick Phillips
pphil@uoregon.edu
Patrick Phillips is a professor in the Department of Biology, member of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, a member of the NIH Center for excellence in systems biology, META, and Provost of University of Oregon. He has formerly held positions as the director of the Institute for Ecology and Evolution, the head of the Department of Biology, and associate vice president for research. A nationally recognized expert in ecology and evolution, Phillips’ research focuses on the biology of aging, genomics, and the genetics of complex traits. He has helped to pioneer our understanding of how complex genetic interactions shape the way that organisms develop, behave, and evolve. He is now applying these approaches toward discovering how to increase people’s health spans and decrease the impacts of environmental stress over the lifetime of an individual.
Provost Phillips received a BA from Reed College in biology, an MS and PhD from University of Chicago in evolutionary biology, and did his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of James F. Crow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Nadia Singh
nsingh@uoregon.edu
Nadia Singh is an associate professor in the Department of Biology and a member of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon. She came to UO in 2017 after seven years as a faculty member in the Departments of Genetics and Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University. Nadia earned a BA from Harvard University in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, a PhD in Biological Sciences from Stanford University under the mentorship of Dmitri Petrov, and did her postdoctoral training at Cornell University with Drs. Andrew Clark and Charles Aquadro.
The Singh lab focuses largely on genetic recombination, with specific interest in identifying triggers of recombination rate variation and determining the significance of this variation for evolution. The ultimate goal of the research in this area is to understand the generation and maintenance of variation in recombination rate within and between species. In the longer term the Singh lab expects to investigate causes and consequences of mutation rate variation as well. Work in the Singh lab addresses a basic need in modern biology: deciphering genome-level patterns of genetic change. The Singh lab uses a combination of experimental, bioinformatic, and computational tools to investigate these and related questions.