Through fieldwork and specimen collection, my research program focuses on one of the greatest overarching questions in ecology and evolutionary biology, “what generates and maintains biodiversity”? I address this question by scaling from the organization of a single organism’s genome to community level processes with a focus on species and phenotypic diversity within reptiles and amphibians. Thus, I draw from numerous fields within the biological sciences; for example my work spans population genetics, phylogenomics, and comparative genomics. Natural history museum collections-based studies are central to my research program and my current projects span multiple zoogeographic regions, with a strong focus on the Western Hemisphere.

Contact info: myerse@si.edu or eddie.a.myers@gmail.com