Mohamed A. F. Noor

Professor of Biology

Office:

130 Science Drive, Room 137, Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708

Campus Box:

Duke Box 90338, Biology Department, Durham, NC 27708-4129

Phone:

(919) 613-8156

Email:

noor@duke.edu

http://sites.google.com/site/noorlabduke/

Research in my laboratory strives to understand what genetic changes contribute to the formation of new species, and how the process of genetic recombination affects both species formation and molecular evolution. I've been fascinated at how often genetic recombination plays a major role in any evolutionary genetic question I seek to pursue, so understanding its causes and effects has become a thread uniting the dissertations of most people in the laboratory. Our approaches combine classical genetic, molecular genetic, and genomic/ bioinformatic analyses, along with occasional forays into areas like animal behavior (in relation to speciation). I am also very interested in helping develop educational activities (K-12 or college) in genetics and evolution. See my lab webpage for more detailed information: https://sites.google.com/site/noorlabduke/

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago 1996
B.S., College of William and Mary 1992

Noor, MAF. You're Hired! Now What?. Sinauer Associates Incorporated, January 1, 2012.

McDermott, S, and Noor, M. "Hybrid Sterility." In Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics: Second Edition, 579-581. February 27, 2013. Full Text

Korunes, KL, and Noor, MAF. "Pervasive Gene Conversion in Chromosomal Inversion Heterozygotes." Molecular Ecology (November 2, 2018). Full Text

Ballinger, MA, and Noor, MAF. "Are Lethal Alleles Too Abundant in Humans?." Trends in Genetics : Tig 34, no. 2 (February 2018): 87-89. Full Text

Ravinet, M, Faria, R, Butlin, RK, Galindo, J, Bierne, N, Rafajlović, M, Noor, MAF, Mehlig, B, and Westram, AM. "Interpreting the genomic landscape of speciation: a road map for finding barriers to gene flow." Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30, no. 8 (August 2017): 1450-1477. (Review) Full Text

Ritz, KR, Noor, MAF, and Singh, ND. "Variation in Recombination Rate: Adaptive or Not?." Trends in Genetics : Tig 33, no. 5 (May 2017): 364-374. (Review) Full Text

Manzano-Winkler, B, Hish, AJ, Aarons, EK, and Noor, MAF. "Reproductive interference by male Drosophila subobscura on female D. persimilis: A laboratory experiment." Ecology and Evolution 7, no. 7 (April 2017): 2268-2272. Full Text

Korunes, KL, and Noor, MAF. "Gene conversion and linkage: effects on genome evolution and speciation." Molecular ecology 26, no. 1 (January 2017): 351-364. Full Text

Mittleman, BE, Manzano-Winkler, B, Hall, JB, Korunes, KL, and Noor, MAF. "The large X-effect on secondary sexual characters and the genetics of variation in sex comb tooth number in Drosophila subobscura." Ecology and Evolution 7, no. 2 (January 2017): 533-540. Full Text

Noor, MAF. "The (R)Evolution is here!." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 71, no. 1 (January 2017): 4-5. Full Text

Ritz, KR, and Noor, MAF. "Mistaken Identity: Another Bias in the Use of Relative Genetic Divergence Measures for Detecting Interspecies Introgression." PloS one 11, no. 10 (January 2016): e0165032-. Full Text Open Access Copy

Smukowski Heil, CS, Ellison, C, Dubin, M, and Noor, MAF. "Recombining without Hotspots: A Comprehensive Evolutionary Portrait of Recombination in Two Closely Related Species of Drosophila." Genome Biology and Evolution 7, no. 10 (October 2015): 2829-2842. Full Text