L. Lacey Knowles

University of Michigan

Full Professor(heuristic)

Genetic diversity and population structure · Genetics

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h-index58
i10-index134
Publications210
Citations14,562

Grants

16 total · 1 active

NSF #2114070

Collaborative Research: Testing Hypotheses about Rates of Diversification & Controls on Diversification related to the Opportunities for Speciation vs Fate of Incipient Divergences

Expiring Soon
Amount
$800K–$900K
Period
2021-09-01 → 2026-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #2101345

Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: Extending Anthophila research through image and trait digitization (Big-Bee)

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2021-09-15 → 2025-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #1655607

A Bayesian statistical approach to determine whether genetic data delimits species versus populations

Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2017-05-01 → 2023-04-30
PIs
3

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

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All Grants

16 total · 1 active

NSF #2114070

Collaborative Research: Testing Hypotheses about Rates of Diversification & Controls on Diversification related to the Opportunities for Speciation vs Fate of Incipient Divergences

Expiring Soon
Amount
$800K–$900K
Period
2021-09-01 → 2026-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #2101345

Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: Extending Anthophila research through image and trait digitization (Big-Bee)

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2021-09-15 → 2025-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #1655607

A Bayesian statistical approach to determine whether genetic data delimits species versus populations

Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2017-05-01 → 2023-04-30
PIs
3

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #1601260

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Can the degree of mimicry predict levels of genetic structure among populations? A test using mimetic ground beetles

Amount
<$100K
Period
2016-06-01 → 2018-05-31
PIs
2

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #1601389

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Speciation, niche divergence, and character displacement at multiple scales in Lasiopogon robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae)

Amount
<$100K
Period
2016-06-01 → 2018-05-31
PIs
2

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #1501301

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Riverscape genetics: testing the role of river properties with population-genetic models in Neotropical freshwater fishes

Amount
<$100K
Period
2015-04-01 → 2018-03-31
PIs
2

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #1501462

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The species versus subspecies conundrum: quantitative assessment from integrating multiple data types under a single Bayesian framework in Hercules beetles

Amount
<$100K
Period
2015-05-01 → 2017-04-30
PIs
2

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #1309072

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Tests of parallel divergence processes in montane plants: links between population differentiation and species diversity patterns

Amount
<$100K
Period
2013-06-01 → 2016-05-31
PIs
2

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #1118815

Identifying the Utility of Species-Tree Approaches for Deep Radiations

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2011-07-01 → 2015-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #1210359

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Adaptive divergence in Anopheles gambiae (with gene flow): facilitation via chromosomal inversions

Amount
<$100K
Period
2012-06-01 → 2015-05-31
PIs
2

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #0918218

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Estimating Species Trees with Population Genetic Approaches: Working Towards a New Phylogenetic Paradigm for 21st Century Phylogenetics

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2009-07-15 → 2013-06-30
PIs
2

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #0715487

Population Genetics of Species Delimitation: Methodology & Application of a Unified Approach to Inferring Species Boundaries

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2007-09-01 → 2012-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #0447224

Testing Speciation Hypotheses with Genomic Analyses in Montane Grasshoppers

Amount
—
Period
2005-05-01 → 2010-05-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #0709908

Dissertation Research: Overdominance and the Maintenance of Genetic Variation for Fitness

Amount
<$100K
Period
2007-06-01 → 2009-11-30
PIs
1

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #0901930

Workshop on Estimating Species Trees: Practical and Theoretical Aspects of a New Paradigm in Molecular Systematics, Winter, '08-'09

Amount
<$100K
Period
2009-02-01 → 2009-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

NSF #0608147

Dissertation Research: An integrative Approach to the Conservation of Panamanian Golden Frogs

Amount
<$100K
Period
2006-07-01 → 2008-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Recent Public Signals

  1. New paper: Natural selection preserves trans-specific chloroplast diversity in a Mediterranean evergreen oak (Journal of Evolutionary Biology)2025-10-15
  2. New NSF award: Collaborative Research: Testing Hypotheses about Rates of Diversification & Controls on Diversification related to the Opportunities for Speciation vs Fate of Incipient Divergences2021-09-01

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