USC College Department of Biology

Faculty

Biological Sciences has more than 60 full-time faculty members, as well as more than 20 faculty with joint appointments and 15 visiting or adjunct professors. Among its many distinctions and honors, the Ph.D. program faculty includes two members of the National Academy of Sciences, four members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 18 holders of endowed chairs and professorships.

Suzanne Edmands

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Contact Information
E-mail: sedmands@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-5548
Office: AHF 316

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Education

B.A. Biology, Carleton College, Minnesota, 6/1987
Ph.D. Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 3/1994

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 08/16/2005-
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 09/01/1998-08/16/2005
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, 09/01/1996-08/31/1998
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 03/15/1994-06/30/1996

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Professor Edmands studies conservation and evolutionary genetics of marine populations using a combination of fieldwork, molecular genetic analyses and controlled breeding programs. Much of our current work involves using the tidepool copepod Tigriopus californicus as a model for studies of speciation genetics and evolutionary ecotoxicology. Other projects include studies of genetic structure in striped marlin and in kelp bass.

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions

USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies,http://wrigley.usc.edu/
The Edmands Lab,http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/biosci/edmands/

Publications

Journal Article

Edmands, S. (2007). Between a rock and a hard place: Evaluating the relative risks of inbreeding and outbreeding for conservation and management. Molecular Ecology. Vol. 16, pp. 463-475.
Hedgecock, D., Barber, P. H., Edmands, S. (2007). Genetic approaches to measuring connectivity. Oceanography. Vol. 20 (3), pp. 70-79.
Vogel, A. B., Tenggardjaja, K., Edmands, S., Halbert, N. D., Derr, J. N., Hedgecock, D. (2007). Detection of domestic cattle mtDNA in bison on Santa Catalina Island. Animal Genetics. Vol. 38, pp. 410-412.
Harrison, J. S., Edmands, S. (2006). The chromosomal basis of viability differences in Tigriopus californicus interpopulation hybrids. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Vol. 19(6), pp. 2040-2051.
Edmands, S., Feaman, H. V., Harrison, J. S., Timmerman, C. C. (2005). Genetic consequences of many generation of hybridization between divergent copepod populations. Journal of Heredity. Vol. 96(2), pp. 114-123.
Edmands, S., Deimler, J. K. (2004). Local adaptation, intrinsic coadaptation and the effects of environmental stress on interpopulation hybrids in the copepod Tigriopus californicus. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. Vol. 303 (2), pp. 183-196.
Edmands, S., Timmerman, C. C. (2003). Modeling factors affecting the severity of outbreeding depression. Conservation Biology. Vol. 17(3), pp. 883-392.
Edmands, S., Harrison, J. S. (2003). Molecular and quantitative trait variation within and among populations of the intertidal copepod Tigriopus californicus. Evolution. Vol. 57(10), pp. 2277-2285.