Kelsey Yule
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Mail code: 4501Campus: Tempe
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As part of the Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (BioKIC), Dr. Kelsey Yule is the Senior Data Science Specialist for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biorepository at ASU. Here, she works to maximize the impact of NEON sample-associated data and contributes to the development of the NEON Biorepository data portal, using open-source Symbiota software. She also conducts and facilitates research using this unique resource to study biological responses to global change on long-term and continental scales.
Before coming to ASU, Dr. Yule was a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Integrative Biology at Michigan State University. There, she worked with Dr. Gideon Bradburd on the development of open source methods for describing the abiotic and biotic drivers of population genomic variation. As a graduate student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, Dr. Yule studied with Dr. Judie Bronstein. During this time, she researched the ecological mechanisms of host-associated genetic differentiation in a parasitic plant and developed mathematical models of the population dynamical and evolutionary consequences of mutualistic and antagonistic species interactions.
PhD, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2018
BSc, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, 2011
Dr. Yule works to understand the interplay between ecological processes and population genomic patterns. In particular, she is interested in how species interactions mediate gene flow to determine population structure over space and time. Empirically, she has primarily investigated parasitic desert mistletoe (Phoradendron californicum, Santalaceae) and its interactions with host trees, insect pollinators, and bird dispersers. Throughout her work, she has made field observations, conducted molecular studies, analyzed genomic data, developed population biological theory, and implemented novel statistical tools.
With the resources of the NEON Biorepository, her current research is moving towards understanding ecological and genomic responses to global change using archival specimens.
[16] Atkins, J, K Aho; X Chen, A Elmore, R Fiorella, W Luo, D Lombardozzi, C Lunch, L Manak, L de Pablo, A Myers-Pigg, S Record, T Qiu, S Reed, B Ruddell, B Strange, C Torrens, KM Yule, A Richardson. (In revision) Recommendations for developing, documenting, and distributing data products derived from NEON data. Ecosphere.
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