2018 Rising Star in Evolutionary Biology, Atwood Colloquium Molly Schumer is an American scientist who studies evolution, hybridization, and population genetics.
[2][3] Schumer completed her Bachelor of Arts in 2009 at Reed College, earning Phi Beta Kappa.
[4][5] She went on to pursue her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University (jointly supervised by Peter Andolfatto and Gil Rosenthal), finishing in February 2016.
Model organisms used in the lab are primarily fish and include the Gila topminnow, Xiphophorus (swordtail), and Julidochromis.
[10] As of January 2021, these include: Schumer won a 2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator award from the Genetics Society of America and was named the 2018 Rising Star in Evolutionary Biology by the Atwood colloquium.