Principal Investigator
E139 Corson Hall
jeremy.searle@cornell.edu
Affiliations
- Curator of Mammals, Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
- Faculty Fellow, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability
- Faculty Fellow, Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics
- Faculty Fellow, Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics
Research Interests
I am interested in the construction of post-glacial small mammal communities and have studied the natural colonization history of European shrews, voles, mice and small carnivores, revealing a wide range of species- and lineage-specific responses in terms of source areas and pattern of spread. Unnatural colonization history (i.e. transport by humans) is also of interest to me, particularly the way that the phylogeography of small mammals transported by humans can inform about the history of the humans moving them.
Those separate lineages that make up a species and which are formed in different places and colonize in different ways, are genetically differentiated to various degrees and may become separate species themselves. I am interested in the speciation process and the analysis of hybrid zones to inform about that. I have, in particular, studied the origin of chromosomally distinctive lineages, and the hybrid zones between those lineages, using shrews and mice as models.
Brief CV
- 1978 – BA, Oxon
- 1983 – PhD, Aberdeen
- 1984 – Postdoc, University of Oxford
- 1985-1987 – Postdoc, University of East Anglia
- 1988-1992 – Royal Society URF, University f Oxford
- 1992-1994 – Royal Society URF, University of York
- 1994-2005 – Senior Lecturer/Reader, University of York
- 2005-2010 – Professor, University of York
- 2010-Present – Professor, Cornell University
- 2018- Affiliate Professor, University of Porto
- 2018-2021 Chair of Department, Cornell University
Courses Taught
- BIOEE 1780 – Introduction to Evolutionary Biology and Diversity
- BIOEE 4500 – Mammalogy, Lectures
- BIOEE 4501 – Mammalogy, Laboratory