Using genomics to resolve the mechanisms that underlie divergent patterns of speciation

Dr. Barley completed a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas in the Biodiversity Institute and a postdoctoral research position at the University of Hawai’i. Barley is interested in many aspects of evolutionary biology and conservation in reptiles and amphibians.

After joining curator Rafe Brown’s lab at the University Kansas, Barley became interested in understanding how evolutionary processes generate different speciation patterns in evolutionary radiations, a question he began to address using a group of Southeast Asian lizards. His dissertation research has focused on species limits, biogeography and landscape genetics in Philippine sun skinks. As a graduate student, Barley performed fieldwork in the Philippines, Mexico and in the Mojave Desert
in California.