Prashant P. Sharma
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: prashant.sharma@wisc.edu
Address:
Integrative Biology
Developmental genetics; evolution of developmental mechanisms; phylogenomics; molecular evolution
- Address
- 442 Birge Hall
- Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University, Postdoc at National Science Foundation American Museum of Natural History
- Website
- http://www.sharmalabuw.org/
- Department
- Integrative Biology
- Research Interests
- Developmental genetics; evolution of developmental mechanisms; phylogenomics; molecular evolution
- Research Fields
- Development, Evolutionary and Population Genetics, Gene Expression
Research Description:
Our research broadly addresses macroevolution of non-model invertebrates through the lenses of phylogenetics, genomics, and comparative development.
Representative Publications:
Ballesteros, J.A., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Baker, C.M., Benavides, L.R., Cunha, T.J., Gainett, G., Ontano, A.Z., Setton, E.V.W., Arango, C.P., Gavish-Regev, E., Harvey, M.S., Wheeler, W.C., Hormiga, G., Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P. (2022) Comprehensive species sampling and sophisticated algorithmic approaches refute the monophyly of Arachnida. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39(2):msac021
Gainett, G., González, V.L., Ballesteros, J.A., Setton, E.V.W., Baker, C.M., Barolo Gargiulo, L., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Coddington, J.A., Sharma, P.P. (2021) The genome of a daddy-long-legs (Opiliones) illuminates the evolution of arachnid appendages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288:20211168
*Gainett, G., *Ballesteros, J.A., Kanzler, C.R., ^Zehms, J.T., ^Zern, J.M., Aharon, S., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2020) Systemic paralogy and function of retinal determination network homologs in arachnids. (*Equal author contribution) BMC Genomics 21:811