Scott Travers, Ph.D.

Scott Travers, Ph.D., is an American evolutionary biologist and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Genetics at Rutgers University. He specializes in biodiversity, evolution, and genomics.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, where he studied phylogenomics and community assembly of Melanesian Island vertebrates. He holds an M.S. from Villanova University and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Florida. Before joining the Ellison lab at Rutgers, he was an NIH-IRACDA funded Postdoctoral Fellow at Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine.

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Research Focus & Projects

Scott is currently working on a range of projects at Rutgers University, including:

Evolutionary genomics of snake venoms.
Development of bioinformatic protocols for characterizing and curating transposable element families from genomic data.
Discovery and evolution of tropical Pacific Island biodiversity.

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