Stephen Keller
Associate Professor
Plant Biology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
BIO
Steve got his B.S. from Juniata College in Pennsylvania before working as a biologist for the National Park Service in Colorado. From there, he ventured northward to do a Master's in biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks with Kent Schwaegerle, where he studied breeding system evolution in arctic-alpine plants. Steve got his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia with Doug Taylor on the population genetics of invasive species, followed by post-doc research at the University of Minnesota in Peter Tiffin's lab working on population genomics in Populus. After 3 years (2011-2014) on the faculty at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Steve joined the Department of Plant Biology at ¶¶Òõ̽̽.
Area(s) of expertise
Ecological and population genomics, Landscape genetics, Molecular ecology and evolution, Plant population biology, Forest responses to climate change, Biological invasions, Applied conservation genetics
Bio
Steve got his B.S. from Juniata College in Pennsylvania before working as a biologist for the National Park Service in Colorado. From there, he ventured northward to do a Master's in biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks with Kent Schwaegerle, where he studied breeding system evolution in arctic-alpine plants. Steve got his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia with Doug Taylor on the population genetics of invasive species, followed by post-doc research at the University of Minnesota in Peter Tiffin's lab working on population genomics in Populus. After 3 years (2011-2014) on the faculty at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Steve joined the Department of Plant Biology at ¶¶Òõ̽̽.
Areas of Expertise
Ecological and population genomics, Landscape genetics, Molecular ecology and evolution, Plant population biology, Forest responses to climate change, Biological invasions, Applied conservation genetics