Natalia Rivera Rincón

PhD Student

E-mail: nzr0037@auburn.edu

B.S., Universidad del Quindío, Colombia.

Research

Rapid changes in environmental factors have been one of the principal variables driving genetic diversity. Due to climate change, the response of the species to these changes could be beneficial or detrimental. I am interested on understand how climate change has impact the frequencies of chromosomal inversions in natural populations, and the effect of this changes as stressors (i.e. temperature, hypoxia) on structural variation in chromosomes (e.g. chromosomal inversions) and the temporal variation on recombination rates, using Drosophila (D. pseudoobscura and D. robusta) as model species.