Samridhi Chaturvedi

Assistant Professor

(504) 862-8294
Office Address
424 Boggs
School of Science & Engineering
Dr. Samridhi Chaturvedi

Biography

Samridhi is an evolutionary biologist interested in studying the genomic basis of evolutionary change in nature. Her research integrates evolutionary biology, ecology, genomics, and interspecific interactions to characterize the evolutionary processes shaping patterns of variation across the genome through space and time. Samridhi earned her Ph.D. with Dr. Zach Gompert at Utah State University. Then she did a postdoc with Dr. Robin Hopkins at Harvard University and Dr. Noah Whiteman at UC Berkeley before moving to New Orleans as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Samridhi also serves as an Associate Editor for Molecular Ecology.

Research

Evolutionary biology, population genetics, plant-insect interactions and genomics.