Sam Bogan is an evolutionary biologist whose research integrates physiology and genomics to uncover the drivers and limits of environmental adaptation and acclimation. He investigates how genome and epigenome structure influence adaptive evolution and phenotypic plasticity, working across molecular, organismal, and population levels. His research primarily focuses on marine animals, including polar ectotherms, coastal invertebrates, and deep‑sea fishes.

As a postdoctoral researcher in the Kelley Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Sam studies the evolution of antifreeze proteins in polar fishes through the lens of structural genomic variation. He earned his PhD at UC Santa Barbara, where he examined the evolution and regulation of thermal acclimation. He continues to explore how phenotypic plasticity evolves and shapes responses to natural selection, with his background in marine ecology guiding his approach to physiological and molecular evolution.

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