Dr.Joshua Peñalba er/ihn

My research focuses on understanding the evolutionary mechanisms underlying population divergence and speciation. I am broadly interested in the role of geography and the genome in shaping divergence and gene flow during the speciation process. Using a comparative approach, I study multiple hybrid zones between populations at different stages of speciation to get a broader perspective of the speciation process. The main themes of my research group include speciation, population genomics, biogeography, genome evolution, and hybridization. Additionally, my position at the CIBD focuses on molecular method development and optimization in museomics and high-throughput sequencing for various taxonomic groups. With this, we aim to leverage the genomic information locked in museum specimens for various research questions in taxonomy, ecology and evolution.