Ryan Taylor

Ryan is currently the CEO of End2End Genomics but continues to collaborate with the Petrov Lab. He was a postdoctoral scholar in the Petrov Lab (2013-2017) and also served as the Associate Director of the Program for Conservation Genomics. His works focused on the development of genomics technology for the study of terrestrial animals in the field. During his PhD at Michigan State University he studied animal personality in a wild population of red squirrels that experience a temporally fluctuating environment. This research used a combination of quantitative genetic, selection and mate-choice analyses (with a lot of field work!) to investigate the importance of personality to red squirrel fitness and possible mechanisms that might maintain genetic variation in personality. More information about Ryan's research can be found on his website.