genetics. She has also publicly spoken out against the use of science to justify white supremacy and transphobia, and against the maltreatment of victims of sexual assault. Publications and awards Selected publications Selected awards 2019 Awardee, Mary Lyon Award, International Mammalian Genome Society 2018 Awardee, SMBE Allan Wilson Junior Award for Independent Research 2018 Awardee Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award, Arizona State University 2010 First Place Award, Genome Research poster competition at CSH: The Biology of Genomes 2008 Women In Science and Engineering Outstanding Service Award 2006 The Pennsylvania State University NSF GRFP Incentive Award 2005 Creighton University Outstanding Mathematician Award References Evolutionary biologists Arizona State University faculty Creighton University alumni Eberly College of Science alumni 21st-century American biologists Women evolutionary biologists Computational biologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Women computational biologists