Lindsay Miles

I look through the lens of population genetics and molecular evolution to understand how urbanization impacts organisms. I am co-founder of the urban evolution blog that summarizes urban evolutionary research for the public. I am also part of the Urban Eco-Evo Network, a group of collaborative scientists that are integrating our fields of research to understand the eco-evolutionary dynamics of urbanization. I am currently studying how urbanization and pesticide use can influence genomic evolution in bed bugs.

I received my PhD in Integrative Life Science at Virginia Commonwealth University in Dr. Brian Verrelli's Lab, studying how urbanization influences molecular evolution in the Western black widow spider. I found that urbanization facilitates gene flow both within and between cities for black widow spiders. My first postdoc was in Dr. Marc Johnson's lab at University of Toronto Mississauga where I studied how urbanization influences the eco-evolutionary dynamics of milkweed specialist insects.