Melissa Wilson
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Phone: 480-727-6366
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Mail code: 4501Campus: Tempe
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Melissa Wilson is a computational evolutionary biologist whose main research interests include sex-biased biology. She studies the evolution of sex chromosomes (X and Y in mammals), why mutation rates differ between males and females, and how changes in population history affect the sex chromosomes differently than the non-sex chromosomes. Generally she studies mammals, but is also curious about the sex-biased biology of flies, worms and plants.
Professor Wilson is also active in public science engagement and outreach. She routinely teaches in K-12 classrooms, and regularly engages the public in discussions about the difference between sex and gender, the importance (or not) of genetic inheritance, and understanding evolution.
She teaches evolution and computational biology.
- Ph.D. Integrative Biology - Bioinformatics and Genomics, Pennsylvania State University
- B.Math. Medical Mathematics, Creighton University
