Kenneth Petren

Associate Professor | Evolutionary Ecology
Environmental Studies - Affiliate Faculty
Philosophy - Affiliate Faculty
Biological Sciences - Tenure-Track Faculty
802 Rieveschl Hall
513-556-9719
ken.petren@uc.edu

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Education

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1994.

Research Interests

Ken’s lab uses a broad range of approaches to understand speciation, population divergence, dispersal and species interactions in natural populations of vertebrates. His major contributions stem from what he has termed comparative landscape genetics and the behavioral mechanisms of ecological interactions. Research areas include evolution and adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches and the negative effects of invasive species using tropical gecko lizards as a model system. The Petren lab combines molecular genetic techniques such as DNA sequencing, microsatellite genotyping, AFLP's, SNP's and genomic library screening. Field and laboratory experiments are used to understand ecological species interactions such as competition in terms of the behavior of individuals. Field research is conducted on the remote islands of the Galápagos archipelago, South America, the tropical Pacific and the southeast US. Visit the Petren Lab homepage.

Ken is part of the growing Integrative Behavior group within Biological Sciences.

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