Liberal Arts and Sciences
Braun Lab
Led by Edward Braun · Biology
What we study
The Braun Lab studies how genomes and species change over time by comparing DNA sequences and building evolutionary trees. They use computer programs and math to look for patterns of gene duplication, loss, and other changes across many organisms.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Reading, writing & theory
- Yeast
- Wild animals
- Plants
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Early Bird project
Reconstructs the evolutionary history of birds using genome data.
UF portion of the crocodilian genome project
Generates and analyzes genome sequences from crocodilian species.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- The Phylogenetic Position of the Extinct Hawaiian Honeyeaters: Overcoming the Limitations of Historical DNA
2026 · Zoologica Scripta
Studies the evolutionary history of extinct Hawaiian birds using old DNA samples.
- Founder effects drive high mitochondrial dN/dS in island rails
2026 · Evolution
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- Recombination and Incomplete Lineage Sorting Resolve the Enigma of Lysozyme Evolution
2026 · Journal of Molecular Evolution
- Phlag: scalable detection of genomics regions with unexplained phylogenetic heterogeneity
2026 · Bioinformatics
Builds a tool to find parts of genomes with different evolutionary histories.
- Efficient Inference of Macrophylogenies: Insights from the Avian Tree of Life
2025 · Systematic Biology
Tests methods to combine many small bird studies into one big evolutionary tree.
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How to reach out
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