Sam Bogan

Biography

Sam started his PhD in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology in the Hofmann Lab during the Fall of 2018. Before coming to UCSB, he received his BSc from Dickinson College, PA, where he studied the responses of a marine gastropod across life history stages to combined ocean acidification and nutritional stress. He then completed a MSc at Sonoma State University, CA, where he investigated the evolution of gene regulatory elements underpinning physiological losses-of-function in Antarctic fishes and conducted field research at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Building off of these experiences, Sam’s research integrates evolutionary ecology, eco-physiology, and functional genomics to understand the processes that drive or limit capacities for adaptation and acclimatization to environmental change in populations of marine animals. He is also leading and engaged with projects that aim to improve resources for genomic research in non-model systems.