BRYAN K. EPPERSON

Bryan K. Epperson
Professor of Genetics

Department of Forestry
114 Natural Resources Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824

Phone: (517) 355-9597
Fax: (517) 353-5174
E-mail: bryan@alpha.for.msu.edu

EDUCATION:

B.S., Biology of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley, 1979
Ph.D., Genetics, University of California, Davis, 1983

Joined Dept: September 1, 1994
Appointment: 80% Research 20% Teaching

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

We conduct a variety of experimental and theoretical work in population genetics, evolutionary biology, and on the ecological genetic basis of traits in the structure and function of natural populations.

Theoretical work includes spatial statistics and space-time migration models, and isolation by distance and coalescence models of geographical genetics.

Experimental studies presently include the genetics and breeding of forest tree species using microsatellites and other genetic markers; and the distribution and function of genetic variation in Michigan pines (germplasm collections and in situ stands).

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Epperson, B.K. 2003. Geographical Genetics. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey (in press).
Epperson, B.K., M. G. Chung, and F.W. Telewski. Spatial pattern of allozyme variation in a contact zone of Pinus ponderosa and P. arizonica (Pinaceae). American Journal of Botany (in press).
Chung, M.Y., B.K. Epperson, and M.G. Chung. Genetic structure of age classes in Camellia japonica (Theaceae). Evolution (in press).
Epperson, B.K. 2002. Spatial-temporal properties of gene genealogies in geographically structured populations. Pages 165-182, in M. Slatkin and M. Veuille, eds., Modern Developments in Theoretical Populations Genetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Walter, R., and B. K. Epperson. 2001. Geographic pattern of genetic variation in Pinus resinosa: area of greatest diversity is not the origin of postglacial populations. Molecular Ecology 10:103-111.
Epperson, B.K. 2000. Spatial and space-time correlations in ecological models. Ecological Modelling 132:63-67.
Chung, M.G., and B.K. Epperson. 1999. Spatial genetic structure of clonal and sexual reproduction in populations of Adenophora grandiflora (Campanularceae). Evolution 53:1068-1078.
Epperson, B.K. 1999. Gene genealogies in geographically structured populations. Genetics 152:797-806.
Epperson, B.K., Z. Huang, and T. Q. Li. 1999. Measures of spatial structure in samples of genotypes for multiallelic loci. Genetical Research Cambridge 73:251.261.

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