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Dr. Briscoe is an
internationally recognized expert in the biology and evolution of color vision
in butterflies. Her research areas
include photoreceptor cell evolution, rhodopsin physiology, color and
polarization vision, molecular evolution, functional genomics and behavior. She earned a B.S. in biological
sciences with honors and a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy with honors from
Stanford
University
in 1993, and a Ph.D. in biology from
Harvard
University in 1999 supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral
Fellowship. She was a Ford
Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center. She joined the Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University
of California, Irvine in 2002 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with early tenure in
2007.
Dr. Briscoe has authored 28 publications and serves as Associate Editor to Molecular Biology and Evolution, Oxford University Press, and ad hoc reviewer for numerous other journals and scientific review groups. She has given over 40 invited lectures. Her research has attracted significant attention. Several of her papers were reviewed in the Faculty of 1000 Biology, with others receiving commentaries in the scientific and/or lay press including features in The Scientist, a research profile in Science in 2005, coverage by The Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio and television news stations. Her paper on the evolution of the visual system of lycaenid butterflies was selected as paper of the year in 2006 by the Journal of Experimental Biology. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation.
Photo credit: Mindy Schauer,
The Orange County Register.
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