Biographical Sketch
Richard M. Kliman is an associate professor of biology at Cedar Crest College. He earned his Ph.D. in biology (quantitative genetics) from Wesleyan University in 1990, and carried out postdoctoral research in evolutionary genetics at Rutgers University and Harvard University. His research interests, supported by NIH and Conservation International, include population processes associated with speciation in Drosophila, influences on the evolution of codon usage bias in a wide variety of organisms, and ecological genetics of the queen conch. He is a co-organizer, with Scott Edwards of Harvard University, of "Undergraduate Diversity at SSE/SSB," an ongoing NSF-supported program that sends students to the annual Evolution meeting. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Molecular Evolution.
