Liz Kierepka

Bio

I am a population genomicist who is broadly interested in how environmental heterogeneity impacts genomic variation in wildlife. My interests intersect with Global One Health due to my interests in how wildlife adapt as reservoirs to disease. Diseases such as rabies and SARS-Cov-2 can have dramatic impacts on wildlife, domestic animals, and humans, so my research aims to understand genomic mechanisms that allow wildlife to become reservoirs and maintain disease in wild populations.