Andersen Lab

Discovering the molecular mechanisms of evolutionary change

We study the molecular mechanisms that underlie natural phenotypic differences.

Learn more about our research.
Visit the Caenorhabditis natural diversity resource CaeNDR

All of our data, software, and protocols are available. Reagents are available on request.

Learn about how you can help us!

Learn about positions for undergrads, graduate students, and post-docs.

Nikita joins us as a post-doc. She will focus on C. briggsae population genomics and improving reference genomes and gene models for this species.

Bowen joins us as a post-doc. He will focus on C. tropicalis population genomics and metagenomics sampling of wild nematode populations.

Ayeh joins us as a lab volunteer and masters student to collect DNA for long-read sequencing.

After 10 years at Northwestern, the Andersen lab is moving to Johns Hopkins!

Lauren accepted a position as a teacher, starting this fall in her dream job. Congrats!

Faruk started as a visiting graduate student in the lab.